Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight. Old Vaudevillian Norman Frescott, who takes over from Allen July 6, claims that his program will be the most diverse and complicated ever. "The audience asks the announcer a question," facetiously says he, "the announcer puts a question to a guest star, who puts one to the band leader, who puts one to the soprano. And after the program, the sponsor puts...
...diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl is a diffraction effect, caused by numerous tiny grooves in the smooth surface of the shell. The making...
...irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry Brandt of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, Inc., who last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down the avenue: "It took a star like Valentino who has been dead twelve years to bring people to the box office...
Most of the planetary nebulae scattered across the sky are great shells of luminous gas. At the core is a star about 100 times as big as the sun. Last week Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple of Harvard Observatory reported that he had calculated the average lifetime of planetary nebulae at 30,000 years-in astronomical time, a split second...
After S. S. Mauretania was scrapped, Cunard White Star Ltd., to keep its right to the name, dubbed a Southampton paddle steamer Mauretania. Some time during the next few years the Methodist Episcopal Church, South will be scrapped, a majority of its membership having voted to join a new, nationwide Methodist Church (TIME, May 9). Last week, Attorney G. Seals Aiken of Atlanta, a lay leader in the fight against unification, went into court to salvage his church's name. He obtained a charter for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Inc., invited Southern Methodist individuals and congregations to join...