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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional r phonetic spellings, such as karbor, plow, and altho.)
1
10
112
117
18
19
20
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Aware
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23
24
26 27
23
30
33
34
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37 138
The letter he received from the B.B.C. ran:
39
42
43
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195
46
47
148
50
152
53
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When asked why they paid such
Str H, Walford Davies, who is pre-eminent among wireless talkers
A professional singer who ap During the lifetime of the Bri- and famous in the musical world,
the effect plied to the British Broadcasting tlah Broadcasting Company we discussed with
engagement were content to admire the un-of Avo years' broadcasting on Corporation for doubted success with which this music and musical appreciation. writes to "The Daily Mail":
Are As doubtless you been new and untried venture was Various suggestions have
is considerablo distress One is there handled and to overlook the many made on this subject. pointa in which its practice seem that Histening to wireless or the among singers through unemploy- ed open to objection, writes Mr. gramophone is not encouraging ment at the present time, and this Otho W. Nicholson, M.P., in the people to learn to sing and play to my mind makes the sending of "Daily Mail." We hoped that themselves; another that "me the enclosed letter from the B.B.C. when stability was secure the de- chanised" music is undesirable. to professionals all the more amaz- fects would be amended.
We came to the conclusion in this Ing:
was not When at last the company went conversation that there down, to rise again as the British necessarily any direct relation be-
We can offer you an opportunity Broadcasting Corporation, it seem-tween listening and performing, ed that the time had come when, any more than there 1s between to sing in the male voice choir of freed from the necessity of feeling novel reading and novel writing, the national chorus in the per- its way and of satisfying the re- Thousands of people might read formance of Schonberg's "Gurrelle- quiremonts laid on a private con- a certain book without being in- der," which is to be broadcast from cern, it could devote itself to sup- fluenced for or against novel the Queen's Hall on January 27, plying the service for which that writing. Similary, if wireless For this performance and the, re- public osks and pays.
and the gramophone had "mehearsals we can offer an inclusive There can be scarcely any dis- chanised" music, then printing fee of £2. pute that it is for the listening must surely have "mechanised" The singer is required to attend public to decide what the pro-writing. To pursue the analogy eight rehearsals, making in all 22 grammes shall be. The only diff a little further, after the arrival hours.
"mechanical reproductions, čulty which should exist is in de of
a further choice, A small fee, an official of the termining their desire. To assist people had in this determination "The Daily whether, for instance, they would B.B.C. stated that. artists who to assist in an aug Mail" conducted a ballot which prefer to read an article by Mua- are taken resulted in the tabulation of the aolini or prefer to hear his own mented' chorus are counted as votes of more than one and a quar-voice uttering the same words, amateurs, and the £2 they are given a fee, but ex- ter million listeners, a very use-It might be urged that wireless or is not meant to be ful Indication for the guidance of the gramophone had the advantage, penses to cover their atendance at A supplier anxious to give satisfac-since printed words are capable rehearsals. "Anybody, who writes sometimes of different interpreta- to the B.B.C. is given an audition," How small has been the attempt tions, whereas the inflexion of the added the official, "and those that to follow the wishes of the gen- voice often clears up any ambig- are considered good enough are In this argu- given an opportunity to sing in eral public is abundantly clear. uities of context.
1101 an augmented chorus." Not one person in ten has any ment, however, the sine qua
On a
Songs of Gurra. thing but disapproval for the pro- is perfect reproduction..
one of In the current issue of the "Radio grammes, and an analysis of them recent occasion I heard
appears the following shows how utterly they disregard the B.B.C. sets recommended for Times" the general wish as expressed by the reception of educational broad- paragraph:
The Gurrelieder, or songs the "Daily Mail" ballot. I have casts, and. It approaches very near taken three issues of the "Radio the ideal. Listeners, I am afraid, Gurra, which is to be broadcast on Times" at random and analysed are often too much inclined to January 27, has never been given the London programmes.
judge the quality of transmission to a British audience owing to resources needed and Comparison with the ballot re-by the performance of their own the huge
expense. the consequent sult is illuminating. Whereas the expressed desire of the ballot plac- The broadcasting of music has only the B.B.C., with its almost un- It has limited public, that could afford ed talks of various kinds fifth and achieved one great thing. eleventh on the list, with an al brought the best music performed to give such a performance. lowance of 11 per cent. in all of by the best artists into millions of A high standard of per- the total, the analysis shows that homes. talks stand easily first in point of formance has therefore been set,
but
do I
not
why time occupied, with 23 per cent.
should discourage sing- The discrepancy is further ac-. that
On the con- centuated when it is noticed that ing and playing. almost all the dance music, which trary, it is stood fourth on the ballot, is now broadcast between 10 p.m. and midnight, and that if the hours in which the general listener has most interest, from 6.30 p.m. to 10
tion.
p.m.,
circuits and loud speakers.
все
TONE QUALITY.
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How It Is Attained.
HORIZONTAL
1-Invoka
7-Ere
13-Decorated
16-Unruly crowd
14-Come
16-Spry
JB-Kn-ek
19-Wishin
20-Indentations 21-Accomplish $2-Remaindor" 25-Pen
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neighbor
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36-Verity
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40-Took possession 42-Dry
of
It is
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LATHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.)
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47-Berpent
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65-Pered with
measured steps
Co-Remitter
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Teward a higher
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24-Bolief
25-Wide-mouthed
pitchers
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34-Kind of apple 35-falsteraua
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etate
38-Girl's namo <0-Store
141-Tours
44-Renrad
46-Angry
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in tara to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
To fully realise the shortcom-
It is very often said by people ings of one's own set it is only to be hoped that when discussing radio that a crys- necessary to listen in to high grade as the musical audience has grown tal set is far better than a valve set for about half an hour, and from thousands to millions with the set, from a standpoint of quality note the differences in the repro coming of wireless, so the ranks of tone and reproduction. Taking duction. Note the low boom-boom of players will be swelled in the this statement broadly, it is cor- of the big drum and the high, rect in that the owner of the aver shrill, clear notes of the violin, same proportion.
age crystal set gets rather better Note also how clear and pure are No strain clarity than the average user of a the announcements. valve.
whatever is necessary to catch the Because this is so must not be words of the announcer.
re-
How can you improve your celver to come up to this standard of prefection? you ask.
The only satisfactory way is to
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Jong time. To combat. It at first, what is known as push pull, am-
The music department at Savoy are considered, practically one-third is devoted to talks, Hill takes infinite pains over the If this unfortunate position preparation of its musical pro- could be regarded as the result of grammes, and the task of catering misunderstanding it would be bad for its enormous audience is a imagined that the valve set is in- Con- capable of reproducing a musical, enough. But clearly it is due to source of no little anxiety.
moreover, or, for that matter, any programme. mistaken views as to the duties of structive criticism is,
welcomed. The difficulties of the While it is a fact that the re- the corporation. Its attitude sug- gests that it has a mission to edu- situation can be put to a personal production of a crystal set varies discard those old radio transform cate and uplift the poor unen-test by anybody. Ask two or three with the quality of the parts used, era, and replace them with those lightened masses who know no bet-friends what items they like beat, it is hardly noticeable on account of a later type.
Overloading, ter than to desire music and and they will probadly give en of this small amount of volume de-
That livered into the receiver. On the It will probably have been notic-plification was resorted to. Brief- amusement, and that it is for the tirely conflicting answers. corporation to dispense to them is only on the question of music; other hand, the differences are amed by owners of radio seta with ly, this meant that two valves were coupled amplifiers, placed side by side at the end of such small portions of this inferior on the rival claims of talks and plified many times in the valve set, transformer
is an even greater and are therefore much more that only two stages of amplifica the set so that they could take the enjoyment as it shall decide are music there
cleavage of opinion. "Daily Tele- noticeable, being represented by tion are employed. The reason of load together. Recently, however, sufficient.
distortions and noise. Yet an this is that more would tend to the power valve has come into be- Any criticism would probably be graph" Correspondent.
ather cause of distortion comes make badly distorted signals, ing, and, it is now a simple matter met by an answer amounting to an
from the tendency of the average Even with only two valves, and to insure the set against overload- expression of this opinion, bolster-
owner to overdrive his set in, and very good transformers, it is easi-ing, so that now by the use of endeavour to get five-valve ly possible to overload the set so better transformers and a power Avalve, it is possible to get any strength out of a three-valve unit. that the signals are blurred.
tune in the broadcast as faithfully and as From these facts, then, poor re-good test of this is production in a valve act is first of set to Brisbane, and then tune in clearly as that claimed by the most all due to poor parts, or to the to a Southern station, such as inveterate crystal users.
Yet another point that is over- parts being used beyond their de-Farmers, or 3LO. In most cases
the difference in the quality of the looked is that the quality as well signed capacity.
Apart from the overloading that reception will be found to be very as the sensitivity of a receiver are a set is subjected to in the ordin- much more clearer than our local also dependent on the adjustment The majority of set of the filament rheostats. The de- ary course of events, the quality of broadcast.
ed perhaps by expressions of ap-matter that will appear in these proval received concerning the papers? Why persistently urge talks.
the necessity of early application The corporation forgets that for the latest publication? minorities are always vocal, and "Zeal, Mr. Simple, all zeal? that the most vocal of all are fear not. Profit, I am afraid, is minorities of cranka. Not that I nearer the mark. So far has the would suggest that admirers of corporation travelled from the taiks are necessarily cranks, but an proper conception of Ite duties examination of the subjects and that it is no longer concerned THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. the experience of a regular listen- with pleasing its employers. It is
er show that even were talks the no longer even particularly inter- the reproduction depends on the owners are prone to put this down tector and H.F. rheos need special general desire the wrong kind are ested in educating them. Its main quality of the audio transformers, to faulty transmission on the part care in their adjustment, and, gen- being given.
concern has grown to be the pro- and, of course, on the quality and of our station, but the real fact is erally speaking, they should be Printers.
If, therefore, neither the amuse-duction of a .profit for its own tonal purity of the loud speaker. that, owing to the extra power re- kept as low as possible, as this will good receiver is "THE CHINA MAIL," Generalment nor the true education of the publications. Any talk which will Transformers that in the old days ceived from local broadcast the set invariably improve the quality of
were looked on as the best, lacked is overloaded, and consequently tone. Many a Printers.
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For proof of this one spoiled by the improper regulation. Publishers and Bookbinders. ed we naturally look for some for an article likely to sell the the ability to faithfully reproduce. distorts.
the whole has only to go to Sydney or Mel of the detector valve. Likewise, if more cogent principle that may be "Radio Times," any opera that will muste or voice over
where bourne, and listen to the com- the H.F. valves are burning too actuating those responsible for the justify the publication of a libretto, range of frequencies, and
of brightly the valves tend to block conduct of the service. By what and particularly anything likely to they are used it will be noticed plaints about the mushiness touchstone is the suitability of pos-prove a bait for advertisements, is that the low notes and the very their local transmission, and the the musfe instead of amplifying it,
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