Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Starlight. Nothing is more tempting to most actresses than to vibrate in the role of a celebrated actress, perfumed with a past. Nothing is more likely to bark the temperamental shins. Actresses' lives are admittedly artificial. To paint them up additionally with wire-strung acting is to paint the lily. So, when Doris Keane, in Gladys Unger's play, essayed a role faintly redolent of Bernhardt, she invited the lightning...
...sparks that it struck off were only feeble glints of starlight. From a Montmartre dive in girlhood to stage triumphs, Actress Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
...camera that works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today, and can take pictures by starlight alone, is the invention of Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography...
...present," concluded Professor Stetson, "the theory satisfactorily accounts for the irregular processional motion of the orbit of Mercury, and for the displacement of starlight passing through the sun's magnetic field on its way to the earth. If the Einstein theory of relativity is conclusively established, as no doubt it will be, the change in human thinking caused will be as great as that upheaval caused by Copernicus in substituting the heliocentric for the geocentric system of planetary motion, or, in other words, in maintaining that the sun and not the earth is the center of the solar system...
Professor Harlow Shapley of the Astronomy Department will give the second of his eight lectures in the Lowell Institute series at Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject of his lecture will be "Space, Time and Starlight". The course will treat different phases of modern astronomy and will be open to the public free of charge. Tickets may be obtained at the Hall before the lecture this evening...