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...scene of the first and third acts of the play is laid in the polar regions and gives an opportunity for effective stage settings, including icebergs, snow huts, reindeer, the aurora borealis and the midnight sun. The scene of the second act is laid at the Sheepshead Bay race track, a parody on Sheepshead...
...weeks there have been regular rehearsals. The principals and choruses have shown so much interest and ability in rendering the music, which is exceptionally good this year, that there is every indication of a well finished performance. The scenes of the first two acts of the play represent the Polar Regions, which gives an opportunity for effective stage settings, such as ice-bergs, snow-huts and reindeer. A feature of the first act is the Polar Bear Ballet by eight of the largest and most athletic members of the club. This ballet, if not especially musical, will be sufficiently lively...
...their full brilliancy almost immediately and gradually fade away -- lasting sometimes weeks and sometimes years. The Observatory's first trial shows its brightness to have greatly increased by Friday night over that announced by Dr. Anderson for the preceding evening until on Friday it was much brighter than the polar star. The exact position on three nights has been measured with the meridian circle and the spectrum has been founed by a photographic attachment to the telescope. This has been found to have changed -- a result also obtained by the Lick Observatory...
...secured thirty-six plates with the intramercurial apparatus and thirty-four with thirteen other cameras aided by nineteen assistants. The plates will be developed in the Cambridge Observatory. Visually with five-inch telescope, the corona resembled that of the '89 eclipse. Two large solar protuberances were noted. Our polar filaments six seconds in diameter traced the corona about one degree. The shadow of the moon on the sky and shadow bands were well seen. Venus and Mercury were conspicuous. The inner corona was visible in the telescope some seconds after totality was over. There was no dark band around...
...twenty-eight dogs, with provisions for the dogs for thirty days, and for themselves for one hundred days. When this stock was exhausted they lived on seal, walrus and bear meat, when they could get it. The account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell by the way, he was served as food for the survivors. Nor were the chances of death by starvation the only perils to face. As a little side issue of the story Nausen relates that on one occasion...