Show R A A A A WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK B By Lemuel F. F Parton EW YORK U If If a prisoner N NEW hadn't jumped out of a n two- two story window and escaped years ago newspapers today wouldn't be front- front Biggest Star paging the de- de Traced to of the biggest star In the ther 2 Stor Story 2 y Leap r universe 3 0 0 0 times tunes larger than the sun They They should have bave named the star Napoleon Napoleon Napo Napo- leon Instead of Epsilon His vas was the touch off of events terl ter- ter which finally ranged out light years and brought news of the giant star Chronologically as the astronomers would put it it was like this Friederich Georg Wilhelm was a studious German who wanted to be an astronomer but lacked opportunity for study For Forno Forno Forno no apparent reason a ranging band of Napoleons Napoleon's scouts seized him and locked him in a prison on the banks of the River Elbe He timed his high window dive to the passing of a queer-looking queer ship made a long hazardous swum 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 on only I director of the observatory of the University of Dorpat but one of the founders of modern astronomy with 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 cago at Williams Bay Wis discovers ers the facts about Epsilon He is director of the observatory He arrived here in 1921 after fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing with the white armies in Russia and fleeing to Turkey with their col col- col- col lapse He became director of Yerkes observatory five y years rs ago at the age of thirty thirty-o r. r IN TN N THE new movie Hollywood J- J Hotel Hote Bennie Goodman trumpeter trumpeter trumpeter trump trump- eter and again demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates demon demon- strates that he gets all the college trade The boys Iron Grunt f whinny with ex- ex Music Makes at Mr 1 Kids Whinny Goodmans Goodman's m most st off hand toot Ex Expeditions Ex- Ex sent by this department into the far domain of youth say its it's that way all all' allover over the country particularly among the collegians The Dossier says he does it with his gut bucket house barrelhouse screw ball and iron grunt ni music sic Be Bc that as as- asit it ma may it nets him h m mI I OOOO a ye At the age of ten he was a semipro semipro semi semi- pro vaudeville musician earning around 2 a week in Chicago's Ghetto He was the eighth of elev eleven n children of a tailor who earned 20 a week He bought a a. a mail order clarinet on the installment plan and by the time he was thirteen was a full fledged journeyman musician musician musician mu mu- but still in short pants He first got out in front In California California California Cali- Cali Cali Cali- fornia running his first band in 1931 He slumped down to 40 a week in 1934 moved in fn with Billy Rose hit hitI I his stride again and via radio is a recent arrival l in the top-money top brackets He is twenty-seven twenty tall dark ath athletic athletic letic looking good with rimless oc octagonal ocr oc- glasses and the more savage savage savage sav sav- age his music the more money he makes FRANKLIN MOTT GUNTHER F American minister to Rumania decorously and quite unofficially he says challenges the new anti- anti Semitism In Ru- Ru Mr Gunther m mania nia He is a Created Big suave v career dIp dip- News in 1914 1 lomat wh who once pulled headlines as big as a Rumania war would get today Th That t was in 1914 when there here was less news He was a guest on a yacht anchored anchored anchored an an- I In harbor The harbor master told him that spot had been saved for Kaiser Wilhelms Wilhelm's Wilhelm's Wilhelms Wil- Wil helms helm's yacht There was was an argument and the harbor master said Mr Gunther had clipped the cap off ofT his head and wouldn't pick It up It boiled up Into into into In in- to a big international story but Mr Gunther came through it nicely to continue representing his country in inmany inmany inmany many foreign ports President Coolidge mode made him minister minister minister min min- ister to Egypt In hi 1928 He is a native native native na na- na- na tive of New York two fifty-two years old an alumnus of Harvard e 6 Consolidated News Features Service |