Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best shots: Chetoga's lonely vigil to appease the Manitou; the fall of a great pine, symbolizing Chetoga's death; un-faked closeups of deer, wolverines, 75,000 caribou; a bear and mountain lion fighting; the wolf pack trying to hamstring, then Baluk spearing, a bull moose...
...idea for an instrument which would dramatize astronomy, make it accessible to lay people, belongs to Professor Max Wolf, astronomer at Heidelberg University. His suggestion was executed by Carl Zeiss, Jena's great optical goods manufacturer. This original is now at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. All subsequent planetariums have been made by Zeiss. Most interesting of all is on top of the Hannoverischer Anzeiger's ten-story building at Hanover, built for publicity...
...Pennsylvania; John Francis Harding '30, of Pittsfield; David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Armistead Buckner Rood '31, of Concord; and Francis Beattie Thurber '30, of New York. These medals were also given to the manager, James Stanley Jennison '30, of Cambridge, and to his assistant Justin Robert Wolf '32, of Omaha, Nebraska...
...game hunting, a sport often overrated by the accounts of wealthy pilgrims to Africa and India, is also a profession. Until very lately, the State of California maintained a hunter whose whole duty was to hunt and kill mountain lions. There still are official wolf-killers in France (TIME, April 7). And from South America returned last week Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter, with photographs of the adventures out of which he has made his living in the state of Matto Grosso, Brazil...
...palliated for those who have seen him before by the knowledge that he is in private life a cabaret singer and master of ceremonies who must have picked up what he knows of the bad ways of the plains while appearing on the Palace circuit. A sheep in wolf's clothing, he sometimes retaliates for his discomfort by glossing his role with furtive mockery, quickly suppressed. Some of the photography is pretty and the theme song, "Under a Texas Moon," better than the average. Silliest shot: Fay eloping with Myrna Loy, when he might have had Armida or Raquel Torres...