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...Science this month Professor Einstein published a brief communication entitled "Lens-like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field." It appeared that a Bohemian-born dishwasher named Rudi Mandl had come to him with an idea which he wanted the good grey sage of Princeton to formulate in mathematical terms. The idea: that in a certain very special circumstance the space-curvature around a star would act like an optical lens on the light from an-other star. Einstein showed that if an observer viewed two stars, one much farther away than the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...down to make a wish. Martha (Janet Gaynor) wished for some one to love and look after. She was a little War-ruined Baroness who had learned to make a living selling neckties in the street and who also fed cabbage leaves to the experimental rabbits of Dr. Rudi Imre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Canadians. England threatened to withdraw. Hero of Germany's team was Jewish Rudi Ball who, recalled from self-exile just before the Games, skated so much faster and handled his stick so much better than his "Aryan" teammates that in the opening game of the week, Germany lost to the U. S. by only one point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Games at Garmisch | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Carla Constance Bennett Rudi Gilbert Roland Colonel Lieber Edward Ellis Erlich Lucien Percival...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Constance Bennett, as Carla, the alluring Russian spy, strives vainly to convince us that "Marx brothers hocus-pocus" was a thing of the past, specifically of the World War era. We can believe many things, but we cannot swallow this story. Carla passionately loves Rudi, who is in the intelligence department of Austria, and she pursues ugly pseudo-Gypsies so that she may give them important messages to take back to dear old Russia. She writes cryptic notes with invisible ink; she is always just about to cross the border; she sees the dirty fingernails of a Russian soldier with...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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