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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 occasionu! - phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow; and altho.)
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HORIZONTAL
1-Headland
STHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 44-Fortelt
5-Receive as a reward 48-Office worker
Withdraw
11-Harvesting machine
13-Reduce
14-Whole
10-Skillful
17-Barren plains of
...Russia
13 Lively 20-Posture on horseback 22-To treat with
oppression 23-High slik hat (slang) 24-Successors 26-Heavy weight 27-Flat-bottomed boats 23-Small placem 10-Marine food fish 31-Transported 32-Buliding for grale
storage
33-Shabby
36-Turnstile
35-Chagrin
10-Ask as a favor
42-Exhausted
47-Food starch 48-Part of verb to ba |49-Martners
51-Consanguinity 62-Crabs wille
shedding their _shello 54–Lying in ambush 66-Wood nymphs 57-Like alt 58-Girls' schools
(abbr)
50-Extended
VERTICAL
1-Inevitable
2-Part of a play A leguma (pl.) 4-Makea ravision of 5-Renovate -Corrodes 7-Wild animal B-Fastening with
woodian pins -Coin of Indlic^(pl.) 10-Choice
11-To mature
VERTICAL (CLE
12-Rent estata
| 18-Ready monty
16-Plants closely allied
to wheat
18-Stay
21-Anclant warship 23-Root vegetable (pl.) 26-Garden tool
27-Haven
29-Detect 90-Step (Franoh) 33-Propped
84-Church festival (pl.) 85-To lean on one side {87-Admitting water
through a bola 88-Locomotiva 39-Hit
40-Happiness
41-Ingratzen
43-Grapple for oysters |45-Gardboarda
|46-Catfie-pen (B. Afr.) |40-Line of Junction (50-Storage place for
fadder 69-Soap Ingredient, 155-Fusible metal
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will sppear in to-morrow's issus along with a new cross-word prezzie.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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I'LL BET IT'S AN
"OAKLAND"
THE CHINA MAIL,
RADIO TOPICS
JAVA-HOLLAND
SUCCESS OF 'PHONE SERVICE
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS
TO-DAY'S RADIO
BROADCAST BY
Z. B. W.
ON 850 METRES
5.30-6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chinese Music.
7.48 p.m. Evening Weather Report
WIRELESS DRAMA
NEEDS OF A NEW FORM OF ART
FILM INSPIRATION -
Experts were recently appointed by the B.B.C. to study the develop- ment of wireless drama, and it is now possible to reveal the lines along which this new form of art will be developed in England writes a correspondent of the
Sunday Times."
The Dutch engineers at Ban-
The following programme will doeng are carrying out some very he broadcast to-day from the Gov ernment Broadcasting Station interesting exporiments in extend-Z.R.W. on 350 metres. ing the time limits of the Java- Holland wireless phone service. As the ratio of darkness and day light between Bandoong and
8. p.m.-Evening programme of In a conversation with Mr. Val Kootwik varies, so must the ware-
H.M.V. and Vieter Records,
Gielgud, Director of Productions, length vary to get the best results
9.15 p.m. "The Melodians"I gathered that the new art has with a minimum of fading. Last
Dance Orchestra of H.M.S. more in common with the cinema Monday evening, says a report "Titania" relayed from the Restaur- than the theatre.
Just as in the hand in the "Singapore Free
ant of Messrs. Lane, Crawford by cinema' the audience can be taken Press," Bandoeng went down as low as 12.5 metres, and transmit-kind permission of Commander quickly from place to place, and
Lockhart, D.S.C., R.N.
given varied aspects of an event by ted a few test musical numbers.
visual impressions, so the unique Apparently Kootwik wasn't quite
dramatic control panel enables the satisfied. for telephone purposes,
listener to be treated in the same for Bandoeng went up to 14.5
The way by aural Impressions. metres, and the service proceeded
control panel operates nine merrily, with sons and fathers and
different studies which can be of much laterference switched on or off at will. complained which, on investigation, has been even possible to present memory traced to a new electrical massage or subjective perceptions of an apparatus being used in the im actor speaking in one scene by al- mediate neighbourhood of the lowing to be heard faintly from an- broadcasting station.
So many other studio samo previous words been it. complaints have
received or actions of his life. This is a that the broadcasting company has similar technique to that of the appealed to the Government for as-cinema.
mothers and daughters greeting cach other excitedly overseas, and giving all the family gossip at ten guilders per minute. -But while it lasted, the music on 12.5 metres was a treat-just pure music, and net a single atmos- pheric disturbanes to marr Some day, all broadcasting will be that low down, even probably
down to below 5 metres.
10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
BEAUTY AND WIRELESS
Listeners to the broadcast pro grammes in Vienna have recently
sistance.
Few Narrative Links
It is
An Appeal To Patrons
It is even hoped, Mr. Gielgud The massage apparatus intells me, to reduce the narrative question is operated from the links in telling a dramatic story ordinary lighting and power sup by wireless to barest "captions." ply, and the Minister of Trade That Is to say, instead of angan- is now
considering whether the nouncer informing the listeners- Government can legally prohibit that the scene now changes to the use of the household electric Timbuctoo-described in detail—— supply for purposes other than and that the hero has killed four- lighting, heating, etc.
teen lions, and conquered several drama will
In the meantime the broad-native tribes, the casting company has appealed to suffice, as at present rare captions patrons of the massage establish- are the ideal of the film producer. ment not to subject themselves This method is to be tried shortly in a version of "The Prisoner of during massage treatment broadcasting hours.
Zenda," adapted by Mr. Holt Mar- vell.
Those who were up early last Tuesday morning and listened to 5 SW from 5 o'clock onwards beard one of the best programmes from London that has been re- ceived in Malaya for some weeks. The 2LO programme consisted of a concert by Sir Henry. Wood's orchestra in an hour's exposition of Viennese folk music, and from 6 a.m. till 7 am the orchestra from the Ambassadora' Club renfor dered dance numbers which made fana feel like taking the first steamer Home. The pianist at the Ambassadors' is a brilliant player. his
classical improvisations of numbers into dance time being wonderfully given. Incidentally, a new announcer at 2 L O made the programme an interesting one, as his voice was particularly clear and cheerful, and he did not leave listeners guessing as to what the musie was for long periods. At 7 a.m. Big Ben boomed midnight, and sent me to my breakfast.
the
Atmosphere
One of the difficulties in a wire- less drama is indicating the pass- produced which the ordinary meage of time.
drama, In a new chanical phonographs fail to bring "Tho Squirrel's Cage," by Mr. out. Take, for instance, Pual Tyrone Guthrie, an expressionist Whiteman's rendering of The play on the black coated worker, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. the use of a bell, followed by a long Here we have a record which alren, will seek to denote time features the trap-drums, these passing quickly. The use of musical themes is another device. giving the whole rhythm to piece.
The ordinary mica sound- already in use to suggest alteration box however, actually buries the of scene.. drums to a mere beating of noise which
cannot be distinguished For atmosphere, the subtleties from the chug of a two-cylinder of noise are in continual investiga- engine to a horses' hoofs. But tion. The grading of echoes to I have received several enquiries the electrical pick-up gives the indicate whether the speakers are regarding the use of the new faithful roll and echo of the drums. in the open air, in a small or large pentode valve. The main question Similarly, the difference between room, is but one achievement. seems to be the amount of anode the Waltz, played by the Philadel-
→ Thus, the studio is gradually voltage to get the best results. Iphia Philharmonic Orchestra is so shaking itself free of the theatre, am using a P.M. 22, and the best obvious that the advantages of and, at the same time, of the early plate voltages seem to be 90 volts, electric reproduction are at once prejudice against broadcast drama. and 120 volts. This is used in a apparent. My correspondent is The old school of thought was re- cfreult using a P.M. 12 screened-quite correct in his contention that presented by the idea that during a rid stage, and the voltages will some recorde are better than broadcast the actors should be vary as to the combination of others, and the buyer's own ear dressed for their parts, and should tubes used. I find a series of must be his own judge.
perform them before ал au- valves as follows the best for eco-
dience, which would Bit on nomical operation; P.M. 12 Screen- Ped Grid, P.M. 1 H F
the other side of a glass wall
and P.M. 22
other far-distant stations.
some
The same correspordent asks if
needle
the theatre into the studio. But
seriously.
for the pentode. This combina-it is possible to altogether eliminate of the studio-an attempt to get tion works a loud speaker com- the reproduction of the fortably on 5 SW, PC J, and scratch, which is amplified just as the new school of thought is for mach as the recorded sound-waves. complete independence. The actor, the cinema, will have no My advice is to choose records as in which the manufacturers declare contact with his audience.
As in the case of its parallel- ascratchless. This designa- Another inquiry regarding the tion, however, da somewhat a fal- the cinema-authors are at last erectrical reproduction of records lacy, because after the records beginning to take wireless drama Mr. Ashley Dukes has comes in this week's mail. F.M.J. have been played a dozen or so (Ipoh) asks if it is not a fact that times, the usual grating of the specially written "The Dumb Wife The employment of Cheapside," which will soon be records reproduce better needle occurs, than others with the use of an ele of a scratch filter, to the sacrifice performed; Mr. William Gerhardi is trical pick-up. This is quite true. of a little volume, helps a lot. engaged on a play; and Mr. Comp I have found that a well-balanced This filter may consist of a fixed to Mackenzie has another in con- templation. Negotiations with orchestra, that is, an orchestra condenser, varying in capacity where the high and low notes are from 01 mfd to .06 mfd placed Mr. Shaw are expected to result in equally diffused, reproduce with cross the terminals of the pick-the adaptation of some of his much greater fidelity than
one up.
If this is found insufficient, where the high or low notes as would be the case with records
The accentuated.
main played over a series of months, scripts reach the studio, but the particular tenique does not ap- pleasure to be gained. from the terminals of a 25,000 ohm re- electrical reproduction is from the niatance should also be shunted pear to be sufficiently understood,
and most of them are worthless. faithfulness in which sounds are across the pick-up terminals.
arc
Lois Moran and Neil Hamilton in "Don't Marry" Fox Picture
at the Queen's Theatre, April 2 and 3.
I have just received word from that famous American wireless man, Mat Hanson, chief radio operator of Commander Byrd's ex-. pedition to the Antarctic, that all the apparatus which he chose to communicate with the outside world during their long sojourn in the South, is behaving well. Han- Bon is on the steamer "City of New York, which is Byrd's main supply ship, and which will be located for the next year and a half at the Bay of Whales, Antarctica. Ever since the vessel left New York last September, Hanson and his as- sociates have not failed one day to. communicate with New York by short-wave radio, Those en- thusiasts in Malays who under- stand Morse Code can get a real thrill by fishing for the call of the Byrd expedition, WT, tranamit- ting to the United States naval station at Arlington, or to the "New York Timea station 2 NUO, on Wave-length of 30.4 metres. Byrd has two
on which
he intends to reconnoltre the South Polar regions, and both are fitted with short-wave wirel phone and telegraph.
works.
Every week scores of
manu-
It should be added that England is the pioneer country in radio drama American and German efforts are still theatre-ridden, ponderous, or dull.
Hylla Haver who is engaged to
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