Show AA A AA A k 1111 VV rl NEWS MEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton EW YORK II if a prisoner NEW jumped out ol of a two story window and escaped years ago newspapers today w ou be front biggest star p paging aging the de traced to ot of the 2 story leap biggest star in the universe 3 0 0 0 times larger than the sun they should have named the star napoleon lapoleon instead of epsilon Auri gae his was the touch off of events ter bestial which finally ranged out light years and brought news of the giant star chronologically as the astronomers would put it it was line like this friederich georg wilhelm was a studious german youth who wanted to be an astronomer but lacked opportunity for study for no apparent reason a ranging band of napoleons scouts seized him and locked him in a prison on the banks of the river elbe re he timed his high window dive to he passing issing ps of a queer looking ship made a long hazardous swim and was pulled aboard the ship was homeward bound to russia the czar was a patron of astronomy the young man was encouraged and became not only director of the observatory of the university of dorpat but one of the founders of modern astronomy with herschel and bissel his sons and grandsons became famous astronomers and it is his great grandson dr otto who with his assistants at yerkes observatory of the university of chicago at williams bay wis dincov ers the facts about epsilon he is director of the observatory he arrived here in 1921 after fight ang uig with the white armies in russia and fleeing to turkey with their collapse he became director ol of yerkes observatory five years ago at the age of thirty four N THE new movie hollywood IN hotel bennie goodman trump eter and sw ingster again demon strates that he gets all the college trade the boys grunt iron whinny with ex music makes cit ement at mr goodmans goldmans Good mans most kids whinny offhand off hand toot expeditions ions sent by this department into the tar far domain of youth bay its that way all over the country particularly among the collegians the dossier says he be does it with his gut bucket barrel house screwball screw ball and grunt iron music be that as it may it nets him a year at the age of ten he was a semipro vaudeville musician earning around 2 a week in Chi cagos ghetto he was the eighth of eleven children of a tailor who earned 20 a week he bought a mail order clarinet on the installment plan and by the time he was thirteen was a full fledged journeyman mu hician but still in short pants he first got out in front in cali fornia running his first band in 1931 he slumped down to 40 a week in 1934 moved in with billy rose hit hi his stride again and via radio is a recent arrival in the top money brackets he is twenty seven tall dark ath letic good looking with rimless octagonal glassb glasses and the more savage his music the more money he makes MOTT GUNTHER FA FRANKLIN american merican minister to rumania decorously and quite unofficially he says challenges the new antl and semitism in ru mr guiher mania he is a created big suave career dip news in in 1914 who once pulled headlines as big as a rumania war would get today that was in 1914 when there was less news he fie was a guest on a yacht anchored in harbor the harbor master told him that spot had been saved for kaiser wilhelms yacht there was an argument and the harbor master said mr gunther had clipped the cap off his head and pick it up it boiled up into a big international story but mr gunther came through it nicely to continue representing his country in many foreign ports president coolidge made him minister to egypt in he is a native ot of new york fifty two years old an alumnus of harvard sf 0 consolidated news features service |