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...cool, thus make the spot look comparatively dark. Though no explanation of the cause of the disturbances has been confidently advanced, the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is possibly involved. Visible spots range in size from a few hundred to 50,000 mi. across. They wax & wane in cycles which average 11.2 years, although the last two cycles covered hardly more than ten years each. As a cycle progresses the sunspot zones migrate from 30° north and south latitude to 16° in mid-cycle; the last survivors hug the equator. What interests laymen most...
...Wax (by Julian Thompson, adapted from the German of Walter Hasenclever; Lee Shubert, producer). Behind Her Man of Wax is an idea as excellent as any that ever suffered mutilation at the hands of an adapter. Napoleon reappears in 1933. is hailed as a savior by a chaotic world until it is discovered that a 19th Century man cannot cope with 20th Century problems...
...this case the Corsican comes to life in a wax works under the torrid gaze of a film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this...
...wax poetical over your swell editorial on the Eliot House tutors' table...
That such an attitude should exist is due chiefly to the fact that it is admittedly difficult to wax as enthusiastic over the same lecture the tenth or even the fifth time as it was the first or second. But what no one except the student can understand is that for him it is the first time; he has never studied just this material, he has never read this book, he has never heard this lecturer, and he is making a sincere effort the first few weeks to enjoy it. For him there is everything to gain, and nothing...