TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932,
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
We beg to announce to
our many clients that
we have removed to 18, D'Aguilar Street.
We have also just re- ceived a new assort- ment of
·SUMMER SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
18, D'Aguilar Street. Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist, lat door, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
Successors to
the late SIEN TING.
14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
BRITISH RADIO
TRIUMPHS
TENTH BIRTHDAY OF BRITISH
BROADCASTING,
This Year's Celebration.
THE CHINA MAIL.
oval in
The structure is mainly shape, so that the end view from Regent Street-has-been-compar to the stern of a ship.
The mo interesting point about the ne building is, however, the arrange- ment of the 20 studios-which range in size from a concert hall to seat an audience of a thousand to tiny rooms for talks. To in-
The tenth birthday of British, last was established in an effort sulate these studios from noise broadcasting will be celebrated this to produce a British combination they have been built into a central year, for it was in November, 1922, which would bear comparison with brick tower, which is the core of that the infant 2LO, operating from the world-famous orchestras of New the building.
seems to know no limit. point
It's here
studios resembles 籍
can be accom-
the con-
no
Marconi, House, London, first came York and Berlin, Though as yet The studios naturally have no on the air. Now, ten years later, we have no Furtwangler, it is gen-windows but an elaborate and up- the youthful prodigy has developed erally admitted that the orchestra to-date system of ventilation has beyond the wildest expectations of has done a great deal to restore the been installed, so that the tempera- ture and atmosphere will be kept its parents. It is the bald 'truth' international balance, that broadcasting in Britain is now A third outstanding achievement perfectly normal. Another develop- of the as we know it in ment is that at least one the greatest single force, for good of broadcasting or evil, in the country. The total 1932 is in the cementing of inter- vaudeville number of receiving licences in national relations, Slowly Europe miniature theatre, with a gallery in issue was this month returned at is becoming linked by a reliable which an audience
a stage, and arrange- 4,444,820, plus 29,972 issued free land-line aystem, which enables modated. NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
to blind persons.
The size of the simultaneous broadcasting to be ments for spotlights.
on an amazing scale. Other important develpoments in LAU PAK-WAL, DENTIST, has re-invisible radio audience, estimating carried out moved his Hong Kong Office to five listeners to a set, is therefore At the same time, the parallel im- British broadcasting are GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Ped-over 20,000,000, or. roughly, half provement of intelligibility on the struction of the new Empire short. der St. (New Building next to Hong the population-leaving out of con- Atlantic 'phone has still further ex-wave transmitter at Daventry, and Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488. alderation altogether the "pirate" tended the network, The credit the removal of the present long and steners of whom there must be affor these developments must, of medium wave stations at Daventry TANG YUK, Dentist.
fair number. This immense grow-course, be widely distributed, but to Droitwich, perhaps a more cen- In the midst of all these ing, total has been one of the con-Britain has always played a leading tral aite. stant surprises of radio in Britain.part. The achievements creep expensive developments it is some- Saturation point has In past years upon us unobserved, but behind each what surprising to hear the B.B.C. been variously fixed by wiseacres at fresh advance there is a story of pleading poverty, yet it is a fact that two, three, and four millions. They patient research, long negotiation, certain niggling economies in pro- Then we gramme material and other direc- ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS. have all in turn proved wrong; radio and prodigious effort.
A curious awake one day-18 a short time tions are made. The reason, is that, whereas the ago and find that our broadcasting] doubt, is to avoid an appearance of upward growth slow and programme Includes a relay from excessive opulence, for
WEB steady a year ΟΙ two ago, Beyreuth, the Mecca of all lovers of substantial contributions recently the figures have soar-Wagner. on the occasion of the ready made to the Treasury under ed. Fundamentally this mustfamous festival there. All Europe the system of semi-State control, a Chancellor might turn be ascribed to ever increasing popu- is listening to "Tristan and Isolde," harassed Jarity: practically it is due to a played in Wagner's own theatre, the envious eyes at the B.B.C.'s growing campaign of the Post Office (the Festspielhaus, under the direction pile. collecting authority) to round up of Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler. A
But it is a highly significant fact "pirates,"
something-for-no-! giant network sprawls ACTORS that when "change and decay in all thing persons who seek to dodge the dozen countries from distant Poland around we see," broadcasting in ten shillings annual fee.
to the British Isles-Germans, Britain has never looked back, and Ten years ago we saw broadcast-Frenchmen, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, bears every promise of attaining a ing as an interesting novelty as and people of half a dozen other na-lposition of still greater importance we twiddled that exasperating cat's tionalities are all under the spell in British life in the future. The whisker and marvelled when we of "Tristan and Isolde." I for one B.B.C. is still playing with televi- heard anything.. No we see it be-shall never get used to the miracle. ision. A certain regular time is striding the narrow world like a And the quality, if not equal to now devoted to it in the programme Colossus, and we petty men walk that of local broadcast, is at any on the Baird system. Though the under its huge legs and peep about rate excellent.
Image transmitted is very small, -to adopt a remark of the envious!
hard to hold, and often hard to re- Cassius, In 1926, during the gen- An even more remarkable develop-cognise from the whirling mass of eral strike, it was first realised that ment of the international broadcast-light and shade, J. L. Baird, the in- Por radio was a valuable substitute for ing network becomes possible when ventor, has in private made interest- the printed word, and might hold the Atlantic 'phone system is used ing progress, and has at least now the nation steady 48
rock as a link. American "auditors" gained the confidence of the B.B.C.
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HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
53. Queen's Road Central.
SHOES.
Black or Brow Shoes from $6.00. Binck or Brown Boots from $8.00, Children's Boota or Shoes from $2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a speciality WONG BIU WOON 21. Pottinger St.
Phone 21474.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
· Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES.
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order la Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel No. 23459,
26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Hoa
ALEXANDER INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
Phone 25169. Fedder Building
(1st Floor)
Opposite Entrance to
Hong Kong Hotel.
the
*
American. Auditors.
although
are
COMING SHORTLY
al.
in ย time of stress. That now regard it as a perfectly normal This alone may be taken as an particular political lesson was incident to hear broadcast speeches augury of frst importance for the Įrubbed 'home recently at the general by great men addressing the micro-future.
election. Party leaders, consider phone in s London studio. British ing significant facts, have been listeners are not quite so used to appalled at the overwhelming the reversa process, but recently power of radio to sway the elec- have had two full programmes from torate. The Opposition have been New York included as an integral panic-stricken by the disorder and part of the home transmission. rout into which they were thrown, These concerts were also carried on and ascribe it freely to radio, and by land-line to the Continent, and {speculate anxiously as to the pos- seventeen countries listened to one sibilities of capturing this wonder of them. The degree of intelll- working machine.
gibility attained is truly amazing,
During the election campaign and if the quality to the musical there were ten speeches by wireless reproduction is not so good as that six for the National Government of speech, it is at any rate good and four for the Opposition. But enough for the "boop-o-doop" croon- the National leaders had the first ers who appear to have a monoply The and last word, were the more experi- of American broadcasting. enced broadcasters, and the more most important features of these Intimate speakers. The persuasive transmissions are the reliability of eloquence of Sir John Simon, reception and the fact that the old Snowden, and MacDonald worked trouble of "fading" has been com- miracles at the fireside. The net pletely eliminated.
Musical Leadership.
result was that the National party; Apart from the conspicuous was swept into power by an unpre- triumphs of broadcasting, there is cedented majority, the Opposition ample evidence of steady develop annihilated. This, then, is the ment and growth. The B.B.C. Is first triumph of radio on the eve; this year moving its headquarters of its tenth birthday-supremacy from Savoy Hill, off the Strand, to in the political field.
ja gigantic new building in Port- land-place, at the north end of Regent Street. Broadcasting House The second triumph of British is London's first palace of radio, broadcasting is one of older stand-¡built from ita lowest basement to its ing, namely, leadership in matters aerial mast solely for the office musical. This is not hailed as and studio headquarters of the an undiluted boon and blessing to, B.B.C. A great deal could be writ- men, for there are those who think ten on the subject of this new the B.B.C.'s musical monopolies a building alone, but within the limits bad influence. The complaint is of this article a few facts must: orchestra suffice. There are thres floors be-
Latrons Oil Fermanent Hair Wave made that no first-class wilch are Large, Soft and Natural, Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oli can exist outside the influence of low ground level and eight above, Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack the B.B.C. All the best performers giving a height from the basement (any calour), Hair Cutting and Mam-go over to broadcasting; people to the highest point of 200 feet. eure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Com now stay at home and Haten scientions, Artistic Work by Europian
Expert, Mr. Alexander,
CHARGES MODERATE.
to
radio, where." formerly attended concerts.
they
All
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU. this, it is contended, reduces the
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
ATE CROGE, OBE,
"W. LUHANDYSIDE?
field of employment for musicans, teaches people to like a new kind of mechanised music, and to listen rather than to learn to play az in- strument for themselves What ever, the truth of these contentions the fact remains that the B.B.C. has been a kind of benevolent octopus in the musical orld It has bolstered tip opera, the famo
the
over
TO THE KING'S.
A was bit of Scotch...but simply
Delicious
JANET
GAYNOR
CHARLES
FARRELL
EL BRENDEL
Porozez GERSHWIN.
A POX PICTURE Directed by David Butter
POP -It Might Require A Machine Gun.
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THE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GANGSTER.
been Expert detectives have baffed by the wifès of a gangster aged seven, says Kenter's Belgrade ecrrespondent...
His name is Pepek. He has been well-known to the police for over, two years, but so great is his know-
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1ledge of police agents that he is his merchandise" to the front
hardly ever caught at work.
door, telling long stories of his slek The police, however, are cer-mother and thawing the hardest tain that Pepek and his sister housewife's heart, his sister rum- Ruzhitza, who is six, are the maged the back of the house and directors of a whole gang of beg the outbuildings for any oddments
that might be worth stealing. gars and thieves, and
One of Pepek's favourite tricks was selling sand.
The stolen articles were taken to
a big sandbank in a deserted part
The police say that while he took of the town and stored there, ....
TO WAKE
THE AUDIENCE
AND KNOW
By J. MILLAR WATT.