Doubled Director

Two of Chicago's most popular scientific institutions were founded by philanthropic potentates of Sears, Roebuck & Co. While visiting Munich in 1920, the late Julius Rosenwald was stirred by his son William's extraordinary interest in the Deutsches

Museum, which is full of scientific and industrial exhibits in operation and which Bavarian schoolchildren are required by law to visit once a year. In 1926 Julius Rosenwald gave $3,000,000 to Chicago for the as yet incompleted Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry, patterned after the Deutsches.

A onetime professional musician, Max Adler joined Sears, Roebuck as a buyer of musical merchandise, became vice president before he retired in 1928. He also was stirred by something he saw in Munich--a planetarium. When he gazed at the great Zeiss projector with its twinkling knobs, and at the wheeling panorama of the skies on the vault overhead, he determined that Chicagoans should have access to the same experience, laid out $500,000 for the Adler Planetarium, first in the U. S. Mr. Adler still drops around frequently to see how things are going, is eminently pleased with the planetarium's indefatigable director, Professor Philip Fox.

Director Fox delivers nine of the 16 weekly lectures at the Adler Planetarium, has related "The Drama of the Heavens" to some 3,000,000 visitors. He was a star footballer at Kansas State College, went to Dartmouth to play more football, study astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double his duties and direct the Museum as well. He accepted the new post, vacant since Otto Theo Kreusser resigned last year.

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