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...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...
...instrument will reawaken interest in the subject. One: the Zeiss planetarium sells for $75,000. The building which houses the instrument costs much more. Chicago's cost Donor Adler about $600,000. The gift was prompted by the impression made upon him by a performance seen in Munich...
...Mary Magdalene. They did not choose Hansi Preisinger for the Virgin, for instance, because she is engaged to an engineer in Munich. Those who hurriedly enter her father's Hotel Alte Post after dark are apt to find Hansi embracing her young man in the shadowy taproom, and such actions would be frowned upon on the part of the chosen Virgin. But Hansi is a fresh, strapping brunette, popular, capable, so she was elected to play Mary Magdalene. Her mother and father, the latter somewhat weakened by a convivial life, display satisfaction in their daughter's success; Hansi...
Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich believes, he said, that fish can hear, have the ability to learn. He told how he had stood beside his small aquarium, blown a whistle, scattered food to the minnows. Soon, he said, they learned what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come...
...mistake of not practicing on shipboard. Philharmonic players intended to profit by that experience, practice daily that no brass-players may be handicapped by sore lips at the opening concert. In Paris, on May 3, the Orchestra was to play first, go thence to Zurich, Milan, Turin, Rome, Florence, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, London. Already houses are sold out all along the way but, regardless, it is estimated that before the tour is over the cost to Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay and other Philharmonic directors will be some...