TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930.
RADIO TOPICS
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,
The following programme will be broadcast to-day, from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.BW. on a wavelength of 356
metres:-
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casts of general interest, including speeches by The King and Mr.) Baldwin, a Swedish national pro- gramme, a Tchekov play, a radio version of Anatay's "The Brass number of attractive. Bottle," a looking talks, and, apparently, a quantity of vaudeville with well- known names in the casts.. Hardly
PLACE NAMES.
THE
LISTENERS SUPPLY THE "RIGHT" WAY.
CHINA
MAIL.
WIRELESS POLICE.
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EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHT PORTABLE SET.
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number of stations are being run at a loas.
A remedy has however been found by using specially designed "bottled" music. This in turn pro- vides a new field for Gramophone companies. Recorded programmes will be very popular besides being economical to the broadcasting company.
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London, August 21. Pulice forces in every country
The broadcast station far will probably be Interested in the announcement that experiments moved from sources of entertain- have now really been satisfactori- ment talent cannot hopa to com The B.B.C. has taken the step is concluded with the object of pole with large elty stations. But portable by using reborded programmez anything comparable to this list in of compiling a list of British equipping them with a
broadcasting outät.
listeners will be given entertain- 6. p.m. to 8.p.m.-European Pro- the way of enterprise or special place-name pronunciations.
These experiments are being ment of the finest talent. Another Rather, it has been forced to gramme of Records selected and agrumme-making had been ofter-
ed to the musical intelligence, exdo so, since the announcer is principally carried on at Brighton, advantage of recorded programmes supplied by Messrs. Aloutrie and, cept for the routine of Bach Can-faced every day with difficulties in Every policeman, therefore, with is that all mittakes are found and tatas and Foundations of Music enunciating names of places, and the device, will become a walking corrected before the discs are re- (for which, however, one is per indignant remonstrances by na- wireless set. It is light and easy leased. Rehearsals are carried out manently thankful). There was a tives and angry letters from ped- to carry, being no larger than a when performers are at their best. 'Stations; using this method need constant trickle of good music, butants follow in hot pursuit of every policeman's lamp, and it will have
a range of approximately eight not be worried by having special little in it that offered a new ex "slip." or variant. perience to the 'musical listener When an announcer was called miles. An electric buzzer fitted to Archer Gibson, Organist who was well up in the current reupon to summon an aunt to the the constable's tunic
(85999).
Co.
Zanipa--Overture (Herold),
(6085).
Victor Symphony Orchestra The Bells of St. Mary's, Old Trish' Air,
When Twilight Comes, I'm thinking
of you,
Calling me Back to You,
John McCormack, Tenor (1197). Dance of the Hours (Panekiell),
Victor Symphony Orchestra (33833). The Merry Widow-Potpourri
(Lebar)... Marek Weber and His
Orchestra (50007). Piet and Peasant Overture (Suppe),
Victor, Symphony Orchestra (35797).
pertury.
course,
This, as everyone will realize, will be invaluable in tracing motor-car thieves. Of there might be the danger of the criminals themselves, or other un- authorized people, "listening-In,"
£50,000 SCHEME.
RECONSTRUCTING THE MANSION HOUSE.
studios consequently employing. will warn much cheaper outfits. was being The Empire Broadcast station I say "little" because bedside of her sick "nephew in him that a message there were one or two wanderings Ynysddu, in Monmouthshire, he broadcast, and on applying a small when completed will find the from the beaten track. "Carse's might have been excused for earphone fitted to his helmet he method successful for a continuous third Symphony" (July 5) was being unaware that this bright will hear détails of the crime broadcast.-Singapore Free Press. presumably work by our old little village is pronounced which has been committed, and a friend Adam Carse, an authority Unnisthee (the as in then). But description of the criminal to bo on orchestration and the composer the new
booklet, "Broadcast caught, of several lively works; it was a English II," will initiate him into pity to miss his Symphony. Then the mysteries of such names be there was the Bax-Hely-Hutchin-
forehand. son-Goossens chamber concert, a
The work is remarkable inas- creditable effort for July. And it much as all the information has must be noted that when sym-been supplied by listeners. The Renee Chemet, Violinist phonies by Borodin and Glazounov key to it is found in the introduc-
were not the were chosen they
tory statement:- usual hackneyed pair but the former's third and the latter's fourth. Add the Wireless Singers, the English Singers, and Marcello Meyer playing the "Goyeaeas," and the current of musical affairs is at least kept going. But there ia nothing epoch-making in the list, and the B.B.C. can, if it likes, make
Do you know, my Garden? No one Knows,
Love's Old Sweet Song, Oh, Pronise Me.
(1270).
Victor Sulon Group (22051). finns from "Rose Marie", Gems from "No. No, Nannette",
Victor Light Opera Co. (35756). Wedding Dance-Waltz (Lincke), Blue Danube--Waltz (Strauss),
International Concert Orch. (35927).
was
A recommendation that the in-
but this would be counteracted by terior of the Mansion House, Lon- Very im-don, be reconstructed at a cost of a special police code. portant police forces would pro- about.£50,000 was strongly oppos bably have their own broadcasting ed when it was considered at a station which would use a special special meeting of the Court of wave length reserved for police Common Council recently.
The General Purposes Commit-
"What the B.B.C. has done is to try to find out how the people in the place wish the name to be pronounced when it use.
A Brighton police constable who tee, who made the recommenda has to be broadcast, so that' there shall be immediate recog-was specially commissioned by a tion, which would involve the clos- Chief Constable to carry out ex-ing of the building for about a nition."
periments, endeavoured, whilst year, submitted a report by Mr. Listeners familiar "wibh" names) walking alone in the country, to Sydney Tatchell, the consulting In a Persian Market (Ketelby), an epoch every fortnight. On July that were frequently mispro- pick up stray messages which were architect, on the problems involv- In a Chinese Temple Garden
16 "Antony and Cleopatra" *(Ketelby),
Nothing to be com-nounced, or with names so spelt broadcast from ships and neighed. International Concert Orch. brondenst.
pared with this has been done on that pronunciation was not obvi- bouring wireless stations, and it (35777). Trovatore Sélection (Verdi),
the musical side since the days outs, were asked to send in the of the "concert-season." If the "right" onc. This was checked effort of tuning the ear and mind by reference to a vicar or post to a tragedy by Shakespeare is master. possible late in July, cannot similar effort be within the scope of a musical intelligence with musical work?
Creatore's Band (35778). One with the Dance, La Paloma ....Stahl's Band (35880). Melody in F (Rubenstein), Traumerei (Schumann),
Pablo Catals /1178). Gonis from "the Desert Song", Gems from "Countess Maritza",
Victor Light Opera Co. (35800).
By the Waters of Minnetonka,
Under the Leaves,
י
introduced this year. Renee Chemet (Violinist)
Semper Fidelis March, American Patrol,
(1228).
Victor Military Hand (22061). Gems from "Follow Thru", Gems from "Hold Everything"
Victor Light Opera Group (06970).
Potile Suite (Bizét),
Victor Concert Orchestra (35758).
Kashmiri Sorup, Snillin' Through,
Reinald Werrenrath, Baritone (1427).
Tea for Two-Fox Trot,
i want to be happy-Fox Trot,
Waring's Pennsylvanians (22202).
Humouresque (Tschaikowsky), Albumblatt (Rachmaninoff),
Fritz Kreisler, Violinst (1170).
Songs my Mother taught me
(Dvorak). Slavonic Dance (Dvorak),
Fritz Kreisler, Violinst (414). Last Rose of Summer (Moore), Home Sweet Home,
Amelita Calli Curci, Soprano (1365).
8 pm-Relay from Ke Shing
Theatre.
9 p.m.-Weather Report., 11 p.m.-Close Down.
WIRELESS NOTES.
[By "Auribus."}
I
London, August 1. For the best of all reasons have done scarcely any listening since writing my last contribution. was my first holiday since
It
I became shamefully late,
Mr. H. E. Mathows said that the is largely due to his work that the scheme had been approved by the experiments have advanced so Court of Aldermen. There would rapidly. The original idea was for be a better Egyptian Hall with policemen to carry minute wire-more light and a gallery right Where there are alternative less sets in their helmets, but this round.
The Lord Mayor (Sir William pronunciations, the B.B.C. have had to be abandoned, and now the awisely refrained from deciding, experts have produced a set which Waterlow) said that he was sur
so they have given both-or more is only one-third as heavy as was prised to hear that the Court of The question was answered in Thus Cirencester may be pro- originally thought necessary. It is Aldermen had been consulted. He or Sisster probable that the system will be was not enlled to any such meat- the affirmative, in a way, by the nounced Syrencester
There is ing. B.B.C. itself, for on the evening with equally valid authority, but
always Bister. little doubt that the increasing Sir George Truscott explaited when "Antony and Cleopatra" was Bicester is broadcast the musicians of Hom Meopham, the scene of the recent amount of crime of all kinds that it was the General Purposes the country, with Committee of the Court of Alder- burg and Frankfurt came to the air disaster, is Meppam, with no throughout rescue of the British programmes alternative, but Sawbridgeworth, which the police seem powerless to men which was consulted.
be pronounced -the expression is not too strong | Herts, may
as deal,, will certainly be minimised of written or as Sapsworth, by the use of these portable wire- with their little festival
Cornwall, is British music. It was by a stroke Treryn,
Treen, less of luck that the foreigner was able and Ailsia, also
Cornwall, News. to step in and do what Savoy Hill is Aylia. Clapworthy, Devon, is
and has just at present determined not Clappery, to do for itself. The only criticism Cheshire, is Chomson. to be passed on this successful affair was that it was too short. From a half-heard announcement
China sets.-North
Dally
Cholmondeston, RADIO CONFERENCE.]
The Case of Slaithwaite.
Slaithwait, Yorks, which is
MANY CLAIMS FOR WAVELENGTH.
Not Urgent.
Mr. Speyer urged that this was not the time to spend so large a sum of money. The matter was not urgent.
Mr. Syrett moved the reference back. He said that the Court was not justified in spending £50,000 to bring the Mansion House up to date. The site was of enormous value, and the time, might come 900 when the Court would pull the Mansion House down and build elsewhere.
Mr. Giddens, seconding the re- ference back, said it was grossly unfair that a Court of Aldermen had considered the report in secret
at the beginning I judged that we allowed no fewer than four alter were given only a part of the connatives, is the subject of banter. cert, and that the oddity of Con- "So long as she looks like 'Slaith- stant Lambert going all that dis-waite," says Mr. A. Lloyd James, The Wireless Telegraph Con- tance and winning all that University Reader in Phonetics at vention that will be held at The publicity merely as a conductor the School of Oriental Studies, in Hague this month will be one of and arranger, and not as a com- his introduction, "she must be the most important ever held as poser; was apparent only in the content to be called something there will be many claims for British programme. Apart from a like it, and 'Slowit' will be a term wavelengths by different nations. and not let their brethren kaow few gallery noises from the ether of endearment restricted to her At the last convention nothing de anything about it. Lord Mayora and a steady hum that could be nearest and dearest, who may Enite was decided except the fix-in the past had stated that the heard only when the music W24 allent, the transmission was excel proudly proclaim their allegiance ing of wavelengths for broadcast- Mansion House was a very satis-
shortwaves and confining factory house in which to live. to her by addressing her as auch, ing on lent, and one could appreciate But so long as she masquerades as amateur wave bands to very nar
Mr. Stopher asked whether the fully the qualities of the playing Slaithwaite' then 'Slaithwaite' row limits.
views of ex-Lady Mayoressos had
Women been asked,
had to and of the orchestration. "Great stuff, this Boyca!" was the best she must be to the outside world, commentary on the first item. The and 'Slaithwaite' she will be to the sands of stations were built for Į various purposes working, on Bliss and the Bax, as it happened,
"Cirencester," he adds, "must wavelengths between 10-100 were not a good combination.
settle her own affairs and not ex metres. There does not seem to ba They wore more or less akin in their romantic feeling and colour-pect the B.B.C. to settle them for any arrangement as regards wave-
her."
lengths as each station starts. Ing, and one could not help com-
With regard to Marden, in The amateur band 20-21 and paring Bliss's difficulty with Bax's ease. These Symphonic Variations Kent (also the scene of a recent 40-42 metres is not even immune The of Bax's seem to grow bigger and air disaster), it is written: "The to commercial interference.
announcer will be criticised, how. broadenst band on shortwaves ap- better every time they are heard,
16.8 to and they are certainly the finest ever he pronounces the name, pears to be inadequate. work for pianoforte and orchestra written In this country.
The New London Trio played
announcer."?
Since then hundreds If not thou
manage a house whether it was a suburban villa, a mansion in Park Lane, or the Mansion House.
The Court agreed to the expen- diture.
STANDARD TIMES
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY.
he says Marden he will be told 18.9 is too Hmited especially when a wide band. Ta that it is the only local pronuncia-signals cover
Sunrise and Sunset In Hong tion; if he says Marden indignant make my meaning clear the last Kong for September (Standard time critics will tell him it is Marden; convention allotted 16.8 to 16.9 of the 120th Meridion, East of if he declares that he is really say- metres for broadcasting. Heizen Greenwich) are as follow:-
two accents."
Siam on 16.9. If all three stations Any reader who questions the worked at the same time as was
as I am now aware-a listener; very well on this afternoon. (It was and such is the hold that broad- a day of good thinge; Stefanssoning Marden, he will be told that was 16.88 right in the middle of casting can exercise on its de- on the Arctic was excellent just the place is never pronounced with the band. Bandoeng came on 16.8, votees, so familiar an Item does it before "Antony and Cleopatra"- become in the dally round, that I began). Thoir style, technique, was conscious of being to some and ensemble were nicely adjust Pronunciation in the booklet has often the case they were bound to extent "out of things."
ed, and their performances of only to send to the B.B.C. Ad overlap especially in telephony. Beethoven and Brahms thoroughlyvisory Committee on Spoken Eng. This is one of the problems to be enjoyable but for one thing. Belish a well-substantiated criti- decided in the convention. tween the movements they could cism, and the matter will be put other very annoying trouble is the be heard tuning up; and I noticed right in the second edition.
It was
similar to the feeling that comes over us when, as most of us do, we decide to abjure newspapers while
that the same Intrusive noises
away on our holidays; however de- termined we may be to persevere with the boycott, none of us can re-were allowed to interfere later on sist the temptation of an English when the Kutchor Quartet were
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practice of commercial stations of sending a series of V's followed by their call signs continuously. · Au example of this may be cited.
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newspaper lying in an hotel playing their Mozart "Founda BERLIN TO NANKING When KAIXR was broadcasting on
TRIAL TEST CLEARLY RECEIVED.
26 metres PLN used to be right on line as also was a French station thereby forcing 1XR to move off. Very nearly every station is being jxmined by others
It is therefore hoped that the Allotmenta. will remedy the chaos Nanking, Sept. 4. that exists at the moment. The
Is learned at the Ministry of broadcast band should be made a
lounge Possibly the things we tions.". Ever since stringed instru are missing, whether, they are ments were invented this has been printed or broadcast, are of little an unavoidable nuisance in coné importance to us, but there r cert performances. Many gonera. maine the knowledge that they are tions of concert-goers have writh belog shared by millions of oured when musical works continuous- fellow-citizens, and no doubt this ly thought out in an organized fact gives them on importance that key-system have been Interrupted they do not possess in themselves. by vague scrapings in G and C, In this respect broadcasting ranks In concert halls the players cannot Communications that the dret litle wider. Those stations with with newspaper reading as a bad walk out between movements and trial test of long-distance radio pure D.C. notes do not interfere so habit that is not easily thrown off, adjust their strings out by telephony between Berlin and the badly as they can be cut off easily carshot, but in broadcasting Capital was made yesterday after oven in a narrow band but Just As to the things missed in the they can, in effect, for the trans hoon when a message tramaniitted listen in and it will be found that present case, I was too well aware mission can be stopped while the to Nanking from the Berlin station the majority of stations have a of the character of B.B.C. music in tuping is going on. Why on earth was clearly received at the Minia very broad tuning the holiday months to fear any isn't this done? If one more dis try. Another test for the benefit The greatest difficulty experienc great sacrifice on that olde; and posed to moralize, this might be of the public, will be conducted ed in broadcasting especially by on my return a perdeal of three quoted as another instance of the shortly. We stations out here is that of a suit- numbers of the Radio Times show mechanical acceptance of evils and It may be recalled that somevable programme spart from using ed that, in fact little had been inhibitions and makeshifts that weeks ago tests for a Berlin-Nan-commercial gramophone records. lost to me by my absence. While belong to the previously existing king telephoto service were suc- Many stations again can hardly the non-musical folk had been world but have no place in broad cessfully carried out by the same afford to keep on hand a high class supplied almost daily with broadcasting Musical Times
experts of the Ministry-Kuo Min. orchestra. Even in Amerien a large
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