Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1933 — Page 13

SEPT. 8, 1933

—Dietz on Science — PRODUCTION OF COLD LIGHT IS SAVANTS’GOAL Secret Held by Nature Sought by Engineers ? Over World. BV DAVID DIETZ Mitor The production of cold light—light without heat—long has been a dream of the engineering world. It* accomplishment may lie in the *olution of any one of three problem* now being studied by scientist* in America and Europe. All present methods of producing light are inefficient because of the large amount of energy which goes into heat. We can not call the sun inefficient, because we need its heat as well as its light. But when the electric light bulb grows hot as well as bright, the heat is just Waste. Nature apparently knows the trick of producing cold light even if man doesn't. The aurora borealis or northern lights occur high in the polar skies where the temperature is far below zero. Comet's Tail Mystery Likewise, there is reason to believe that the temperature in the tail of a eomet or in a distant nebula is several hundred degrees below r zero. These three constitute the baffling problems before scientists. Lord Rayleigh, famous British savant, spent the better part of an hour during a recent address telling of the mysteries in them yet to be solved. No one knows yet what lights up the tail of a comet. When a comet is first puked up with a telescope, it has no tail. The tail begins to grow as the comet approaches the sun and it always points away from the sun. irrespective of the direction in which the comet is moving. There aiso is excellent reason for believing that the tail of a comet consists of extremely thin gaseous material. It is believed that the density within the tail of a comet is about* the same as the slight residue of gases within the vacuum lube used in a radio set. Absorbs Suns Energy It has been thought that in some wav the comet’s tail absorbs the energy of sunlight and then becomes phosphorescent. But there is no satisfactory explanation of how this happens. Moreover, when the light of the comet's tail is examined with a spectroscope, additional difficulties present themselves. Every one knows that a prism will divide sunlight into a rainbow of colors. The spectroscope is a series of prisms attached to a telescope. Experience has shown that the resulting rainbows or spectra, as they are known technically, are crossed with little black lines. Laboratory * experiments have shown that these lines are due to the elements present in the celestial object under observation, their temperature. pressure, electrical conditions and so on. But the spectra of comets con'ain lines for the formation of which no explanation is now known. It may be that the explanation would point the way to cold light. VALUABLE LIBRARY IS PRESENTED TO CULVER Columbia City Man’s Collection Consists of 5,000 Volumes. />’/ I'nitrd Prr** CULVER CITY. Sept. B—The private library of the late Henry MoLallen of Columbia City, consisting of approximately 5.000 volumes, has been presented to Culver Military Academy, it was announced today by General L. R. Gurnilliat. superintendent. The donors were E. 1,. McLalten. Orlando. Fla . and Walter F. MeLaJlen. Las Vegas. N. M.„ sons, and Mrs. H. Dewitt McLallen, Calion, Ark., a daughter-in-law of the original owner. Five of Henry McLallen's descendants have been students in Culver and the formal presentation was made bv his 12-year-old great grandson, E. Lyman McLallen IV. Memphis. Tenn.. who was a student in the Culver summer schools last summer.

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Arliss Gives Screen One More Famous Character Great Star Plays Role of Voltaire in His Latest Warner Brothers Release Which Opens Today at the Circle. KV WALTER D. HICKMAN AGEORGF ARLISS opening on thf> screen these days is Just as an important as a legitimate stage opening. Today at the Circle. George Arliss opens a week engagement in “The Affairs of Voltaire.’’ a story of the court of Louis XV. Once more, just a.s he did with Disraeli. Mr. Arliss brings another famous character to the talking screen. Manager Baker of the Circle has given me the following data on this movie: The picture is an elaborately mounted production of the gay court life in the Palace of Versailles where Voltaire was a frequent visitor dur-

ing the time of Louis XV. Becau.se of the wealth of material afforded by records of the life of the great French poet-philosopher, only one incident in his career was used as a basts for the movie. That is the famous Calas rase. Covetous of the riches of one M Calas, Sarnac. minister of finance to Louis XV. accuses Calsa of treason. Voltaire, knowing his innocence. pleads with the king to free him, but Sarnac succeeds in having him executed, whereupon he Confiscates Calas' property and puts a price on the head of the daughter. Nanette. The. efforts of Voltaire to save Nanette, and the ruses he employes to do so form the plot of the film. The picture is lavishly produced and the sets are magnificent. The elaborate costumes of the gay court of Louis XV are carried out to the smallest detail. Dons Kenyon plays the part of Mme. Pompadour and Margaret Lindsay, Nanette. Others are Theodore Newton. Reginald Ow r en. Alan Nowbray, and David Torrence. The late John Adolfi directed. # a a NEW SHOW * OPENS AT INDIANA The Indiana theater will offer as its second week attraction after its gala opening last Friday, another combination stage and screen offering. The movie, opening today, is Paramount's "One Sunday Afternoon" with Gary Cooper in the starring role, and Fay Wray, Neil Hamilton. Frances Fuller and Roscoe Karns in the featured cast. The film, adapted from the Broadway stage hit of the same It revolves around a smail town name, was written by James Hagan, dentist, who has spent a life-time yearning for a former sweetheart who married another. However, after twenty years, the clinging vine beauty reappears in the town where Gary is a successful dentist. What happens then, and how through her returning

Gary is made to realize the fine I qualities of his own pretty wife. j gives a splendid, heart-touching fin- | ish to the picture. Williams Slavens McNutt and j Grover Jones, who have written I some of Paramount's most success- j ful hits, did the screen play, j Stephen Roberts directed the picture. On the stage today is an array of j famous stage talent in a musical j revue titled “Antics of 1933.“ They j include Bob Hope, John and Edna j Torrence. Fritz an dJean Hubert, i Viola Carlson, the Abbott Ballen and many others. You Forbes and his music which j made such a hit with last week | crowds is seen and heard again pre- j senting Radio Theme Songs. Lee Mason will be heard singing with the band. n n it Other theaters today offer: Ronald Colman in “The Masquerader,’’ “Paddy, The Next Best Thing," second week, at the Apollo, “Storm At Daybreak," at the Ambassador, and, burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial. OE PINEDO'S DEATH SEEN IN NEWS REEL Tragedy Is Vividly Shown by Universal Film. Extraordinary pictures of the tra- j gic death of General Francesco De ; Pinedo, as his plane overturns and j burns at the start of his projected j trans-Atlantic hop to Bagdad from Floyd Bennett field, are to be seen ! in the current issue of the Indian- j apolis Tiqjes-Universal Newsreel, j Graham McNamee. noted radio announcer and the screen's talking re- j porter, describes these and the other j important events in the reel. Other events reported by McNa- j mee include exciting scenes at Ma- 1 rine City, Mich., as Gar Wood defeats Hubert Scott Paine's Miss Britain 111 in the Harmsworth trophy | race, and impressive scenes at Glen- ; view, 111., where balloons of five nations take off in the classic James ; Gordon Bennett cup race. BUTLER EXTENSION TO OFFER 26 COURSES Business Men Expected to Take Economics Instruction. Twenty-six business and economic courses will be offered by the Butler university evening and extension division when the fall semester opens Sept. 21 and 22. Practical business methods will be considered in the courses and it is expected that a number of local business men will take advantage of the classes, according to department heads. Several professors of the Butler faculty, among them Professor C. B. Camp, will head the classes. Other special instructors include J. R. Townsend, insurance; C. W. Price, salesmanship: R. S. Trent, salesmanship; E. L. Goldsmith, business law; C. E. Stevens, accounting; William Baum, industrial engineering; W. S. Barnhart, commercial subjects. and J. S. Lloyd, accounting. GIRL, 5, HURT BY AUTO Child Runs in Path of Car cn May to Grocery. Running from a grocery store across the street at St. Clair and East streets, Virginia Chadwick. 5. of 820 North East street, was knocked to the pavement today by a motor car driven by Melvin Ross. 34. of 1718 Ashland avenue. The child was taken to the city hospital and was treated for bruises* and lacerations of the mouth, suffered from having several teeth knocked out. She was taken to her home. Ross was not held. To combat the destruction | wrought by caterpillars in German : forests, officials use a corps of ten j airplanes to spread insecticide dust in caterpillar season.

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