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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 phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.).
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16 7
10
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Famous tower of
antiquity
B-A city of Maryland
12-To hesitate
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
15
VERTICAL (Cont.) 39-To bind or obtain by 15-City on Niagara
promisa 42-9cepan of action
44-A republic of 8.
America...*•.
48-Cauterizom
14-Card gama for iwa 46-To attempt
perions
18-Man's name
18-Felled tree freed of
branche
19-Contralto
20-A crafty animal
21-A beverage 22-fd aat (abbr.) 23-A vacant space 24-8como of Christ's first miræcla 25-On account of 26-To put on 27-A mountain pass in Friday
29-A tribe of Isras! 30-A maatent note 31-Malo Zeer). A 32-Better R
33-To warbla
35-Vast time period
38-Girl's fame an
VERTICAL
1-A Sicilien secret so
claty 2-Depressed at the
poles (Room.)
3-A rodent
river, West New York
17-The highest part 20-At a distance 21-Pale
23-Obtained
24-To study with care 25-To weary oneself by
working
26-To obstruct, as a
river 28-Bhod for the stor
sge of airships
4-Vehlala on runners 29-To pat softly.
D-Bear surved in the 30-Tropical cilmbing.
spring 6-A Southern conatel
lation, 7-Capital of Garman
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plante 31-Appears 34-Fult of gas 36-Urges an 87-One of the Great.
Lakes
10-Translation (abbr) 40-Exis 11-Peronal pronoun 12-Famous national
cemetary Boar
Washington
41-Eye (6qot.)
42-9899 43-Enaigh (abbr.)
(The solution of the aboup orose-word puzzle will opzsRY IN lo-morrow's" issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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RADIO TOPICS
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,
The following progeminine will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. on 355
metres:-
Gp.m.-
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WIRELESS IMPIETIES.
The Voice of the Sluggard.
[By the Old Stager in London
Daily Telegraph.]
Well, yes (if you insist), I did the boat race by radiol
There would be no point at all in 6-7 p.n.-Programme of Vietor writing day after day over or under Records.
the Rom-de-plume of The Old Stager if it did not entitle one to attack and deride every stew invention or 6.08 p.-
fashion, to praise the old 'against all "Ah, Mnan uf my Delight"
comers, and to leap with rheumatic (Liza Lehmann). "Beloved it is Morn" (Emily Hickey-but fantastic toe over the mud walls
of every rising Rome.
"Semiramide"-Overture (Rossini),
Creatore and His Band.
Florence Aylward).
Richard Crook, Tenor with Orchestra.
6.16.- "Jacelyn Berceuse (Lullaby)"
(Godard),
"Evening Songa"
(Schumann. Op. 85, No. 12),
Pablo Casaule, Plano Accompaniment- Nicolai MednikoЛt.
6.94 p.- "She is my Daisy" (Harper Lauder). "When I Was Twenty-One"
(Lauder),
Sir Hary Lauder. Scotch Specialty,
8.32 p.199 "Country Dance No. 1" (Edward German),
i am too mature now to become 3 Bright Young Thing, and I shall continue to enjoy the privileges of midle-age. It follows naturally that when wireless first breathed o'er an astonished Eden, I was loud in my disapproval of the impious innovation. Time has softened the hard lines of my criticism. Some- thing of the same, sort happened when bridge and auction in turn came and conquered, when motoring and flying came to stay. I bowed down at last with many wiser men in the House of Rimmon, and began
"Pastoral Dance No. 2; The Merry. to enjoy the ceremony.
makers' Dance No. 3 (Edward German),
St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra,
6.40 p.m.- Traviata-Dei Miel Bollenti Spititi"
(Verdi). "Lucia-Tombe Degl' Avi Miei"
(Donizetti),
6.48
Beniamino Gigli, Tenor with Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra.
.
"Pomp and Circumstance--March"
(Elgar),
6.51 p.m.-
"By the Waters of Minnetonka"
(Thurlow Licurance), "Under the Leaves" (Thome),
Renee Chemet, Piano
Accompaniment
Anca Seldlova.
Draughts from the Siphon.
But what finally converted me to wireless was not so much change of mind as change of scene. I becam» a convert when I sold my London house and went to live in the coun- try. My indletment of the wireless habit was long and grave, and many of the points remain unanswered,
I am still convinced that the wire- less voice is the voice of the slug- gard, that the educational value of Royal Albert Hall Orchestra,wireless is ridiculously exaggerated, conducted by Sir E. and that wireless affords the most
Elgur, O.M.
dangerous and pernicious system of instruction ever devised. No educa- tion is worth a bean that is not won, by sweat of brow. No flower-bed is productive that is not dug deep and often. And I am still convinced that those who by choice or necessity live in great cities owe it to them selves, to their children, and to the world of art and science, to take their draughts direct from the source, and not from the siphon.
But for the countryman-your Old Stager is nothing if not egotis tical-I begin to find a dozen reasons for excusing, if not for approving, a judicious use of the wireless, albeit these ample reasons are sandwiched in between as many sharp criticisms of the B.B.C.'s present policy,'
7-7.30 p.m.-Final Lesson in Cantonese by Rev. H. R. Wells.
7.30 p.m.-Recorded Programme
continued
7.30 p.m.- "Traviata-Imponeto" (Verdi), "Traviata-Dite Alla Giovine"
(Verdi),
Amelita Galli-Curci-Giuseppe De Luen. 7.38 p.m.- "Poplar Songs of Yesterday" (Arraiged by Hugo Frey),
The Troubadours,
7.46 p.AL-
"La Capinera"
(Sir Julius Benedict), "La Palona" (Yradier),
Amelita Gaill-Curci. Soprano with Piano, 7.52 p.m.- Foust-Dio Possente" (Gounod), Traviata-Di Provenza Il Mar"
(Verdi).
Giuseppe De Luca. Baritone with Orchestra. 8 p.m.-Chinese Programme re- layed from Ko Shing Theatre
ntil end of play.
9 p.m.-Weather Report.
·
RADIO FOR VATICAN.
is music by string instruments growing week by week a more prized fixture in the evening's recreation.
I have come to bless the errant buzz-box which keeps the household cheerful in the dark days. The children "enjoy" a musical dinner hour; the servants sit through the funny numbers, and reluctantly con- cedo me 'my weather forecast, bring- Jag naxt day's surprise divine or trear, and my Brahms; and when I am gone to hed they carry off the box to the adjacent barn and dance to its hiccups t midnight.
When I réenil the albums and ramplers and Moore's melodies of randmamma's day, and the long winter evenings in attic and draw- Ing-room and basement in my own youth, I revise (as over) my first fine cureless captiousness of the last
new marvel of science.
TELEVISION.
Sound and Scene Broadcast.
Some twenty people in a darkened room at Hendon witnessed on March 31- the first demonstration that hna ever been made of the simultaneous broadcasting of sound and vision.
Speeches by Sir Ambrose Fleming and Lord Ampthill, and songs by Mine Annie Crofts and Miss Gracie Fields were transmitted from the Baird Television studio at Long Acre, and the voices of these ladies and gentlemen were supplemented by their appearance on the television
screen.
Commercial Prospects.
From the technical standpoint, this demonstration must be regarded a success, the more so as it was con- ducted without a previous rehearsal. The entertainment value of televi sion, with or without a sound accom. paniment, seems, however, still too limited to promise any considerable commercial prospects in the present The televi- stage of development. sion areen is very small, having a size of under 15 square inches, and the spectator is obliged to since stand almost directly in front, only a limited number of people can "see in" at a time. The image fs
also stil! far from being perfectly clear, while the orange tint has not yet been eliminated.
The reproduction of speech was far from perfect, the man's voices being characterised both by the undue sibilation "blast" and the which marked the earliest talking These defects may, however, films. be due to easily remediable technical of peculiarities, and it is worthy note that music "came across" much better,
Sets At 25 Guineas.
To take the last first, experience persuades me that there are certain things which have conclusively proved themselves. unsuitable for thia medium. Chief among these is humour in any form. Anyone who joke which repeats
was good enough when it was made, will agree that humour is so personal that it Cannot survive severance from the inspired it and atmosphere which gave it its savour-a transient cur- ront of human electricity which can- not be harnessed to official wave-switched out at will, and when the lengths.
Wirelessed Politics. Instruction or information, again, supplied through the loudspeaker, is quite unendurable when it is
The Baird Television system pro- Jects pictures at the rate of 12 a second, as compared with the standard of 16 with silent films and With the 24 in the case of talkies.
sound and vision set, combined
or picture may be either speech
market at
two are combined the synchronisa- tion appears excellent, so far as one can judge from the small size of the transmitted picture.
Sets are now being put on the World to Hear the Pope's sugar-coated with wit and humour.
25 guineas, but this Mr. Harold Nicholson may well be model was not used on this occasion, regarded #3
more live and its efficiency has thus still to ly,
and a neater.
more debe publicly demonstrated. flavoured licately
writer than Mr. Vernon Bartlett, but when they are imparting information by wireless Mr. Bartlett wins every
Voice.
Rome, April 10. Marchese Marconi continues his research work on board the Electra
#
time. For he sticks soberly to his brief, while Mr. Nicholson indulges
in a wit which emerges pale and aickly through the loud-speaker.
BROADCASTING IN SWITZERLAND.
We understand that a regional broadcasting system, ON similar
lines to that recently inaugurated in Britain, is shortly to be started The performance of "legitimate" in Switzerland. Three high-power or spoken drama, as opposed to stations for the German, French light operator musical plays, is an- and Italian speaking sections of the We have country are to be constructed, in other proved failure. learned from that failure the true addition to low-power relay stations Importance of the personal element in certain towns. Of the high- of the appeal to the eye in the auc-powered stations, one is to be erect- cess of a stage play. The performed at Munster, about 12 miles from ance of a classic play is valuable Lucerne, and the equipment for this only, as a reading of fine literature, has recently been ordered from and even in readings pure and Messrs. Marconi's Wireleas simple, such as from Dickens, we graph Company, Limited, Marcóni have discovered the extent to which House, Strand, W.c.2. the personality of the reader con- of that tributes to the success Victorian pastime.
Tele-
und in Italy, and has prepared wire- less plant which will allow the Pepe to give viva voice benediction to all the world, from Sydney to Alaska.
The Marchesa la controlling the final adjustments of the Vatican City transmission station, which has been constructed to his modél and under his personal supervision. Work at the Vatican being intensi- Red so that the installation will be complete before the end of the Pope's jubilee in July.
Marchese Marconi is being kept advised of the tests to date, and by consultation he has made disposi tions whereby on Sunday, June 29, on the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, Pepe XI. will be able to send
This station, which will deliver greetings to the Sovereigns
and
60-k.w. of energy to the aerial, will heads of States which have diplo-
serve the German-speaking section matic relations with the Holy See. Political speeches need no critic of the community, and will employ It la thereafter hoped that. His
a wavelength of 450 metres. Holiness will be able to transmit his Ism from me. They will die out
To provide for users of crystal voice in benediction to Catholic naturally, for politicians themselves missionaries who will go on pl-must already have begun to realise receiving sets, Marconi stations of the appalling damage which wire-500-watt aerial power are to be grimages to appropriate receiving lessed political oratory is doing to erected at Borne and Bale, and to station at Alaska, Tokyo and
their reputations. Without the casure a constant frequency, these Sydney.
magnellam or dramatic art of the stations, we will be crysta} control- speaker, the baldness, the triteness, led. The entire reorganisation of the hackneyed commonplace of the the Swiss broadcasting service is ex usual political speech screams aloud pected to be completed in 1981.-- its dreadful message of fatuity, On Engineering. the other hand, all efforts at music
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making succeed in pleasing some The Royal National Lifeboat sextion of the vast and varied at dience, and all serious (non humorous) attempts to impart In formation have limited recrea tional value, although educationally pernicious.
The Remorselese Buzz-Box. And for myself; living in the country, blissfully beyond the range
Institution has presented its thanks Inscribed on vellum to the 18t Battalion of the Oxford and Buck- Inghamshire Light Infantry for helping to refloat a motor-lifebent In the Isle of Wight.
The coal output at the mines in Great Britain for the weak ended
of the evening newspaper and the April 12 was: 5,206,100 tons, com- risks of turning out into the night pared with 6,089,200 the previous after a hurried dinner, the "Weather wosk, and the wage-earners 952,800. end News" and the performance of compared with 954,700,
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