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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY New York City...
...Michelson and Morley raced two beams of light against each other with an interferometer (a light splitter). The beams were at right angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag should perceptibly slow up one of the beams. But the two beams finished th-e race practically neck & neck. This looked like a mortal wallop for the ether theory. Einstein's Relativity theories (1905-15) seemed another deadly stroke, for they dispensed with the ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view...
Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of Cleveland was one of those who refused to give up his ether. He repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment with delicate interferometers floating on pools of mercury, got positive results which convinced him that the earth is in absolute motion, through an ether sea, at a speed of several hundred miles a second. But his findings were not generally accepted...
...Others: The Chicago Art Institute's Daniel Catton Rich, the (Manhattan) Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., the San Francisco Museum's Grace McCann Morley, the Los Angeles Museum's Roland J. McKinney...
Christopher Morley has again hit bestseller lists with "Kitty Foyle," a novel about a young lady in Philadelphia. It's off the beaten track of Morley novels, and therefore all the more welcome . . . Lloyd C. Douglas' "Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal" is another in the manner of "Green Light" and "White Banners." Others will presently be forthcoming, it is to be presumed . . . "Escape," by Ethel Vance, is a sensitive and moving story of he Nazi regime and of its victims . . . "Christmas Holiday" is a worthy addition to the list of books which have made W. Somerset Maugham...