Evening star., 1935-11-15
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

ton EUening Star Information Bureau.
Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing
ton, D. c. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
@. Please give some information about
the educational broadcasting station in
Boston.-H. D.
A. WIKI, Boston, Mass, is supported
entirely without advertising as q nom
commercial station in the interest of
widespread education and enlightenment.
The programs are presented over the
facilities Of WIKI by the World Wide
BroadcaSting Foundation, non-prof1t
corporation. The academic series, on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, has been de-
veloped through the cooperation of the
Boston Center for Adult Education.
@. How old is the comic feature, "the
Gumps" by the late Sidney Smith,
j. K. F.
A. Mr.. Smith created "the 'Gumps"
in 1917. He Is said to have been the
first cartoonist to have one of his char
acters die and was the first to sign a
million-dollar contract.
@. What writer referred to New York
as Bagdad-on-the Subway?-E. H.
A. The expression originated in the
writings Of o. Henry.
O. When was the original prison Of
Sing Sing built?-A. j.
A. Construction was started in 1925
and the first cell block completed in
1880. The first contingent of prisoners
was moved into the present Sing Sing,
then called Mount Pleasant, in 1928,
when 100 prisoners under Capt Elam
Lynds arrived from Auburn Prison.
c. How old is the Statue of Liberty and
what part did the Masonic Order take
in the laying of the corner stone?-M. M.
A. The Statue of Liberty will celebrate
its Semi-centennial birthday, October %,
1886. 1t was on October %, 1886, that
the great monument was erected on its
pedestal on Bedloes Island. The corner
stone of the pedestal was laid August 5,
1885, by the Masonic Grand Lodge of
New York.
@. What are the married names of the
Langhorne SiSters?-B. N.
A. The three beautiful Langhorne sis
ters of Virginia are Lady Nancy Astor,
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson and Mrs.
Robert H. Brand.
Q. Who founded Mount Holyoke COL
lege?-W. j.
A. Mary Lyon Q797-1849) became in
terested in the higher education of wom-
en-, and her enthusiasm stimulated the
interest of several influential men to such
purpose that in 1887 Mount Holyoke
Female Seminary was opened in South
Hadley, Mass. For IL years she served
as its principal.
@. At what age was Mel OFT signed
by the Giants?-J. H.
A. Mel OFT was signed by the New
York Giants in 1925 when he was only
16 years old.
@. How many calories aue there in O
glass of skinned milk?-W. B.
A. There are approximately 80 calories
in a glass of SKINNED milk.
@. Please give biography of Queena
Mario Singer.-H. s.
A. Born in Akron, Ohio, she Is the
daughter Of James and Rose (Carewe)
Tnlotson. She was educated at the
Ogontz School and in 1925 married
Wilfred Pelletier. orchestra conductor.
Prima donna, Metropolitan Opera, and
voice teacher at the Curtis Institute Of
Music, she is also author of Murder
at the Opera" Her debut was in Tales
of Hoffman" as Antonia and she has
sung in leading Or houses in Europe
and America.
@. What is the Mazarin Bible and why
is it so called2-A. A.
A. The Mazarin Bible, by which title
the Gutenberg Bible of 1450 was known,
was so named on account of the first
copy being found in the library of Car
dinal Mazarin of France. 1t includes
the IA books of the Apocrypha, including
the Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesi-
asticus, or the Wisdom of Sirach.
@. Where is the Guadalupe River?
M B.
A. This river rises in the Edwards
Plateau, Tex, and flows 300 miles SOUTH
east to the San Antonio q few miles
above San Antonio Bay.
@. Who are the KurdS?-E. B.
A. They are a MoSlem people widely
scattered over large area of Southeast
Turkey. North Irak and West Persia.
There are approximately 100000 of
them and they are close ethnically to
the Persians. Both pastoral and agri-
cultural, they have gained an unenvi-
able reputation for their part, probably
greatly exaggerated, in the massacre of
Christians in Syria and Armenia.
@. What is Morris dance?-R. D.
A. This was grotesque dance, popular
in England in the fifteenth century and
later, in which the dancers usually repre-
sented characters from the Robin Hood
stories. 1t was brought from Spain in
the reign of Edward III and was origi-
nally a military dance of the Moors, or
MoriScoS, hence its name.
O. Are many of the pilots Of Army
airplaneS commissioned oficers?-L. P.
A. Probably IS per cent of Regular
Army pilots are commissioned officers.
There are two or three warrant officers
who hold pilots licenses.
Q. Is coral white. pink or red origi-
nally?-W. L. P.
A. The coral of commerce is of several
different types, having different colors
naturally. The coral used in jewelry and
for ornaments is not artificially COL
ored. Precious coral is found widespread
on the borders and around the islands
of the Mediterranean Sea. 1t differs
from the common coral by its red or
pink shade, ordinary coral being white.