Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...
Novae, or new stars, are always happening along. They are new only from man's point of view, having existed long years before attaining the brightness which makes them visible through a telescope. But no other new star has behaved like Nova Pictoris. It may be that a terrific local explosion has occurred in part of the nebula making this area suddenly brilliant with a luminosity of its own, giving it the appearance of another star. Perhaps some dark invisible star has caromed into the gaseous globe, setting up a fiery fever at the place of injury...
...ones-and opera singers practically not at all. As conductor he is supreme, can vitalize well-worn music as no other of the day. With him the music is the thing. A dowager soprano once fussed "But, maestro, don't you realize that I'm a star...
...Wilson '27, star of last year's Hasty Pudding show "Gentlemen, the Queen", took to the boards again last night to replace C. H. Pforzheimer '28 in the role of Peritonita, Spanish dancing senorita in "Not Now--Later". Pforzheimer is ill, but will probably go on tour with the show when it leaves on Saturday. Wilson will take his place again this evening...
Musical comedy is rapidly becoming the most popular form of stage production, and this is one of its most successful years, according to Louise Groody, petite star of "Hit the Deck...