Show AAA WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By Lemuel F. F Parton Parlon YV TV NEW V YORK If If a prisoner hadn't jumped out of a two two- story window and escaped years rears ago newspapers rs today wouldn't be front front- Biggest Star paging the d de- de Traced raced to 10 of the Story 2 Leap biggest star In the universe e 30 0 0 times larger than the sun IUD They hould should have named the star Napoleon Napoleon Napo- Napo leon on instead of Epsilon ills HII Is was the touch oil of events terl ter ter- which finally ranged out light Ight years yean and brought news newl of the giant lant star Itar Chronologically al as the astronomers would put It it it was like this FrIederich Georg Wilhelm was ras a studious German youth who wanted anted to be an astronomer but lacked opportunity for study Forno For Forno no 0 apparent reason realon a ranging band of Napoleons Napoleon's scouts seized him and locked eked him in a prison on the banks of 1 the River Elbe lie He timed his hll high window dive to the passing of a queer looking ship I made a long hazardous swim and andas I Iwas was as pulled aboard The ship was homeward bound to Russia The czar zar was a patron of astronomy i iThe The young man was encouraged I and nd became not only director of the observatory of the University of Dor Dorpat pat but one of the founders of if modern astronomy with Herschel and nd BisseL BIsset His 1111 sons Ions and grandsons became famous amous astronomers and it is il his great grandson Dr Otto who with his hIl assistants at Yerkes Yerke I observatory of the University of ChIcago Chicago Chiago Chi ChI- cago ago at Williams Bay Day Wis ers era rs the facts about Epsilon lie He is director of the observatory Jle He Ie arrived here in 1821 1921 after fightIng fighting fight fight- ing bag with the white armies in Russia and nd fleeing to Turkey with their col col- lapse He lie became director of Yerkes observatory five years rears ago agot ago at t the age of thirty four e e s sIN IN TN THE TIlE new movie Hollywood Hotel Bennie Dennie Goodman trumpeter trumpeter trump- trump eter ter and again demon demon- strates that he be gets all aU the college trade The boys bOYI Grunt irons whinny with e ex- ex Music Makes Make at Mr Kid Kids Whinny c Goodman Goodmans most off hand toot Expeditions EX Ex- sent lent by this thIl department Into the far tar domain of youth routh say lay its t's that way all aU over the country particularly among the collegians The Dossier says he does doe it with his bis gut bucket house barrel-house ball screw and iron grunt-iron music Be that as it may it nets him a year 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 lie was the eighth of eleven children of a tailor who earned 20 a week He lie bought a mall mail order clarinet on the Installment plan and by the time he was thirteen was Wal a full-fledged full journeyman musician musician mu mu- but still in short pants He first got out in front in California California Cali Call fornia running his hIl first tInt band in 1931 He slumped doW down to 40 a week In 1934 moved in with Billy Rose bithis hit bit his hll stride again and via radio is a recent arrival in the top-money top brackets He is 11 twenty seven tall dark athletic athletic athletic ath ath- ath- ath letic looking good with rimless octagonal octagonal octagonal oc oc- oc- oc glasses glassel and the more savage savage savage sav sav- age his hIl music the more money he be makes makel S e FRANKLIN f MOTT GUNTHER American minister to Rumania decorously and quite unofficially he says laYl challenges the new anti anti- Semitism In m Ru- Ru Mr Gunther mania He lie is II a Created Big suave a eer dip dip- New News in 1914 lw lomat t ho once pulled headlines as 81 big as 81 a Rumania war would get today That was In m 1914 when there was less leu news lie He was a guest ruest on a yacht anchored anchored anchored an an- in harbor The harbor master told him that spot had been saved for Kaiser WI Wilhelm's Wilhelms Wil Wil- helms helm's yacht There was an argument and the harbor master said Mr Gunther had cUpped clipped the cap eap oft oil his hll head and wouldn't pick It up It boiled up Into In m. to a big international story but Mr Gunther came through it nicely to continue representing his country inmany Inmany in inmany many foreign ports President Coolidge made him minIster minister min mm ister aster to Egypt in m 1928 He lie is isa s a a native native na na- tive of New York two fifty years old an alumnus of Harvard C 0 Consolidated New Features Service |