Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1931, Page 20

MISS SWOPE AIDS ASTRAL RESEARCH General Electric Head’s Daughter Finds More Than 400 Variable Stars. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 16.—Miss Henrletta Swope, who is the daughter of Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Co., and has a reputation of her own as an astronomer, lectured last night at the American Museum of Natural History on “Variable Stars in the Milky | ay. Miss Swope started working four years ago, a year after her graduation from | Barnard College, in the Harvard ob- servatory, under Dr. Harlow Shapley, its director. So far, she has to her credit the dis- of more than 400 variabl: stars— | astronom: Her disco apley to announce s in measuring the - ies cnabled D that the cer © been found to Finds Astronomy Interesting. ot made up her | astronomy as a ! she does find it intersting. | e within the milky way. | | e had always liked She majored in t Chicago Univer- turncd to astronomy ing in the Harvard observa- she took her master's degree in adcliffe | he milky way study. I also have ble stars which we study variable because they vary Some of them go through = of them keep expanding cting so that they are bright | You can get some idea of distance by light year measures done with camera plates. Every night, in Cambridge and | at an observatory in Africa, pictures are the sections of the milky way | n. We call it patrolling v way. Then we study the | plates. There are six of us at Harvard doing that work. “It’s pretly much of a routine job, but I like it.” And now and then, when you stand off and look at it, it's ex- tremely interesting. Nobody knows how many variable siars there are. More than 4,000 have beem discovered. And | n you stop to think that the vari- able stars, after ail, comprise only a very small percentage of the stars in the universe—well, it is interesting, isn't it? “Twenty or 30 years from now we'll be able to tell a lot more about those | variable stars. At least somebody wil 1 don't know whether I'll still ing for them or not, though. Miss Swope used lantern siides to ex- plain to members of the Amateur As- tronomers’ Association last night how one hunts for variable stars. “The whole thing is rather compli- cated,” she said today. “Without slides it is pretty hard to explatn.” be look- Service quite the best loo Particularly pleasing is the THE EVENING FORMER ARCHITECT TO CZAR, WHO ESCAPED DEATH, IS HERE Friend Warned R. F. Melzer Bolsheviki Had Ordered That He Be Shot. Career Ruined When He Was Past 50, Exile Fled Here to Begin Life Anew. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. | A dramatic story of an escape from Russia_shortly before the time at which | he was sentenced to die is only one of the extraordinary experiences recalled | by Roman F. Mizer, former interior | architect and decorator to the late Czar Nicholas of Russia, who is now at | the Mayflower Hotel on his first visit to Washington. | A distinguished looking, elderly gen tleman, Melzer was one of that great group of Russians whose homes, fortunes and carecrs were completely | imperial regime. The possessor of an| indomitable spirit, the fact that h!s‘ he | life's work was swept .away when had already passed the half century mark proved no deterrent to the archi- tect of the late Czar, who determined to start anew in another land. | Was Sentenced to Die. “I was helped to escape from Russia a ‘worker’ whom I had befriended before,” Mr. Melzer ex- Pl ed. e ceme to me one night to| tell me I had been sentenced to be shot the following morning. My home, my library of rare books and ail my valua- ble paintings had been destroyed by the Bolsheviki. { PLEASE SIR--J) It’s Thursday! 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Mr. Melzer was first appointed archi- tect and decorator to Czar Alexander III and was commissioned to do all the architectural designing of the electric lighting in the palace at Leningrad at the time the ancient candle-lighting of the palace gave way to the electric light. Later, after the death of Alexander, the young Czar Nicholas instructed the court architect to take entire charge of the interior designing of the home to which he was to take the new em- press, his bride. Was Sent to Expositions. | In 1894 Mr. Melzer was sent by the | Czar to attend the World Exposition in | Chicago, where he designed the Russian | pavillion and had charge of the exhibit | of his country. | " Later he traveled to Paris to construct | the Russian pavillion at the exposition | held in that city. “The soul of Russia still lives” he | said. “Eventually the people will find themselves. It may take many years— | Russia’s problem is not an easy one— but some day things will all turn out for the best.” Except in war devastated areas food { the universe had | destroved with the crumbling of the assisted me, with my son, to get on a |is plentiful and cheap in the Hankow district of China as the result of bum- WASHINGTON, D.- ¢ DEMPSEY DIVORGE BATTLE FORMING Wife’s Attorney Notifies Counsel of Ex-Pugilist of Plan to File Action. | By the Associated Press. | HOLLYWOOD, Calif, April 16— | with divorce proceedings seemingly in- | evitable and the seconds named, all |that_remained today for the staging of the court battle between Estelle Tayler of the movies and Jack Demp- sey, former world's heavyweight fistic | champion, was the fixing of the time and place. Miss_Taylor accepted Dempsey’s re- | cent challenge from Reno when her attorney, Joseph Scot last night tele- graphed her husband’s lawyer, Robert E. Burns, that she was prepared to file suit in Los Angeles. | title holder had announced that he was establishing residence in Nevada with a similar idea. The legal bout, if and when it is arranged, promises to be void of the | sensational. Neither participant THURSDAY, . APRIL 16, 1931, anxious. for that, they say, and the charges are expected to consist merely of mental cruelty. As matters stood today, it appeared that the legal set-to would take place in Los Angeles, provided Miss Taylor goes through with present plans, inas- much as Dempsey must establish residence in Nevada before he can suit there. Attorneys for the esf were expected to confer in the future. In the meantime Dempsey has been on a fishing trip and Miss Taylor has continued plans here for An’ operatic career. NEW ENGLAND POET DIES Dr. Edward A. Horton Once Called Unitarian Bishop. BOSTON, April 16 (#).—Word was recéived here today of the death in Toronto, Ontario, of Rev. 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