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...spring evening in 1913 the intelligentsia of pre-war Paris gathered at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to see & hear a sensational new ballet. The ballet, put on by famed Russian Impresario Serge Diaghilev, was something to see: Diaghilev's idea of how primitive man got ritually excited, come springtime. The accompanying music, a boisterous, tom-tomming, banshee-wailing symphonic hullabaloo by Music's No. 1 Bad Boy, Igor Stravinsky, had even more oomph than the ballet...
...Curie began her two-month talking tour across the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 12), her good friend, hawk-nosed, witty Dueler and Playwright Henry Bernstein put on a new show, the first gala opening Paris had seen since the start of World War II, in the newly-decorated Théâtre des Ambassadeurs, across the street from the U. S. Embassy. For his latest play, Elvire, Bernstein had remodeled the theatre at great personal expense. "If Paris is not bombarded," said he, "I will have the most beautiful theatre in the world. And if Paris is destroyed, what does...
Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
That night, at the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem, Jim Farley gave the people of No'th Ca'lina and the nation something to talk about-his first personal political speech since he left the New York State Legislature 17 years ago. Jim Farley's 7¼-size hat was in the ring. But which ring? Was Jim Farley a candidate for the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, or what...
...interferometer (a light splitter). The beams were at right angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag should perceptibly slow up one of the beams. But the two beams finished th-e race practically neck & neck. This looked like a mortal wallop for the ether theory. Einstein's Relativity theories (1905-15) seemed another deadly stroke, for they dispensed with the ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view there is no such thing as absolute motion, therefore no need...