COMEDIAN’S FIND
WHITE SPOT ON SATURN LONDON, August 17. Will Hay, famous comedian, familiar in music halls in Great Britain, where as a grey-wigged, mortar-boarded schoolmaster he was flouted twice nightly by “ boys,” is now even better known as William Thompson Hay, F.R.A.S., discoverer of the white spot ou the planet Saturn. Hay’s hobby was unknown until American astronomers announced that they had found the spot, whereupon Hay told the newspapers that he bad already informed the British Astronomical Association of the discovery two days previously. Hay, residing at Norhury, a London suburb, filled a tiny garden with two telescopes, one of 12*in, and is installing a third and larger instrument. Ho built his own observatories. “ I got. home from the theatre and thought I would take a look at -the stars, as I often do,” he said, “ because I am doing research for Ihe Astronomical Association.
“I turned to Saturn, which is always interesting, and saw the spot. 1 rang an astronomer friend, and we studied it together. “1 have always been interested in stars since I looked at an eclipse through smoked glass. lam now writing a book, ‘ My Friends the Stars, to introduce the man in the street to my absorbing passion, although I suppose people will only buy the book because they will think it is about George Robey
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Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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223COMEDIAN’S FIND Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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