Word: novaes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hercules, far below the range of naked-eye visibility, was observed in the midst of a flaring explosion which in nine days increased the intensity of its radiation 200,000 times and placed it among the twelve brightest stars in the sky (TIME Dec 31). Only last fortnight did Nova Herculis 1934, on the downgrade to its onetime obscurity, become again too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers do not know why occasional stars blow up, venture only the vaguest guesses. But in recent years no less than 65 novae have been discovered on photographic plates...
Meanwhile in St. Louis last week, 32 boxers scuffled, danced, staggered through the last night of another A. A. U. tournament. Another Louis, Louis Nova of San Francisco, won the amateur heavyweight championship for 1935 by thrashing Joe Malinsky of Cleveland. Successor to Joe Louis, as light-heavyweight champion, was a Cleveland welder named Joe Bauer. Of the eight title-winners, four-Dave Clark (160 lb.), Al Netlow (126 lb.), Troy Bellini (118 lb.) and Bauer-were members of Chicago's Golden Gloves team (TIME, April...
Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...
...Nova is almost continuously before the camera, yet in only one scene is she possibly open to the charge of over-acting. She contemplates suicide and stares somewhat calf-eyed for just a moment too long at the pictures of her parents. However, in the only scene in which she is allowed to raise her delightful voice, a scene in which it is possible to imagine the most mature actresses losing control, she performs with such success that tingles race up and down the spine, and emotional people weep...
...dramatic tension and prepare for the next scene. Excellent photography characterizes the piece. In fact, the photography and incidental music both are patterns which Hollywood well might emulate. All in all, it is a work of art in typical British-Gaumont goed taste. Directed by Berthold Viertel, Miss Nova Pilbeam reaches dramatic heights which merit the attention of every movie-goer. Whether or not you'll love her, as we do, you'll appreciate...