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AIR WOMAN'S ROMANCE
Miss Amelia Earhart, who re- cently added the first solo Pacific fight to her other air records, is a romantic figure.
There is, however, one romance of her life her marriage to Mr.
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TELEVISION COMES NEARER
DIFFICULTIES YET TO
BE OVERCOME
HOW
WE SHALL "LOOK-IN" IN THE FUTURE
(By A. T. Luscombe Whyte)
George Palmer Putnam-which has THE Post Office Committee on will serve the main city populations, never been fully told.
Television, which has been But what are they going to trans The story begins with her hus-sitting for some months, presented mit?“ sp hand, who is a nephew of the fam its report to the Postmaster-General Technical barriers prevent en+ ous Major Eutnam, the publisher. Just a month ago.
gineers from putting on a show in,
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As a publisher George Putnam foresaw the romance of the air.
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George Putnam was a delicate i It probably contains a recommen-jaay, London, and sending it over boy who had to be sent out West for dation in favour of the establish land line to each relay station. his: health
ment of a regular service in Eng. The landlines will not transmit the He went to Bend, in Oregon, and. If it does, the manufacturers stuff. And obviously each one of made a fortune in land, ran a news-
the scores of stations cannot aff paper, and became mayor of the are ready for it.
For television has-technically-to put on its own programme. city.
arrived. Given sufficient money, " Another Way His health was restored, and he and an adequate system of control. The only way out, according to went back to New York and to
excellent television programmes most experts, is a marriage of tele publishing.
could be broadcast within a month vision and the film. or two, and received on sets with a
It is quite easy to televise a film, BOOSTING LINDBERGH
clarity and entertainment value and equally easy to distribute copies to any number of equal, at least, to that of the cinema. of the film
Unfortunately, the technical is stations. The main television pro- When Lindbergh flew the Atlan- one of the least problems to be over-gramme of the future will probably tie Putnams secured his book by come before you and I shall be able first be filmed, and then distributed cable. To save time everything to "look in" to first-class programmes to each of the stations which wish was to be made easy for Lindbergh, on a moderately priced set in any to send it out.
In other words, the Television: whose capacities as a writer were part of the country,
I have spent days picking the Authority must go in for film pro- then unknown. A mass of material was prepared to be ready for him brains of television experts in an duction in quite a big, way and, if effort to paint a picture of television they are to put out even a three- on his return to New York,
When Lindbergh arrived, he look-jas it will be in two or three years' hour programme daily, produce the
Different brains have pro- equivalent of two feature films ed at the material. This is to be time. my book?" he asked. "Then I willvided startlingly various-forecasts, day. Costly.
but here is an attempt at an average. The transmitters serving really, write it myself."
crowded areas, such as London, George Putnam chafed at the The Main Difficulty delay. Then he had an idea, Every I suppose most people know that which could afford to put over reat: pondence between the Home day in Putnams window in New each scene has to be televised in studio broadcasts each night, might Country and the Dominion has York he exhibited. Lindbergh's sections. The original picture is follow the German plan and equip for two or three years consisted manuscript fresh from the author's "scanned" by the transmitting ap-travelling television vans to visit of protests against restrictions pen. which seem to be based on the Absurd prejudice that a country cess.
the components of any picture, to serve mast stations it will pro is injured by receiving what it
These are transisted into varia-bably be necessary to film news wants to buy. If it were merely FINDING AMELIA'
tions of electricity, which are broad-events, and rush coples by plane to The recent declaration of the grain and meat and dairy pro Prime Minister of the Common-duce that was in question, the George Putnam then began to cast, picked up by the receiver, andjeach area.
A national television service will' be very expensive, not only in tech- wealth of Australia in favour of loss would have been inconveni- look for another air book. He turned back into the original lines
of light,': the scrapping of all existing ent in the consumer, but not wanted in airwoman this timel
The finished picture on your tele-nical outlay, but in the provision of trade agreements, and starting irremediable, What was far! A friend told him that there was! afresh on the principle of remore serious was that Australia, a girl working in a Boston Toynbee visor screen is composed of a num-first-rate actors. For television ciprocity comes rather late in the which has been wont to supply Hall. She was said to look like ber of these lines of light, placed audiences will be very critical fairly close together. These, view. And where will the actors come I doubt if the cinema or day. The trouble in all these almost exclusively the mills of Lindbergh.
ed from a distance, blend together from? questions of tariffs and exchange Bradford with its requirements George Putnam met her and ar-
They will with varying success to suggest a stage will lead them, " is that while almost every of raw wool, found that Japan ranged for her to fly the Atlantic as Government seems to be willing was establishing a wool industry the first woman passenger. He did solid image, much as the tiny dots have to be discovered and, built up's 2. Who is to pay for this? Suppose two Governments are willing at any rate the result, would be to married her, and gave up publish-gether. to do something reasonable, no the ultimate aim of which, or at more. He fell in love with her, in a newspaper photograph blend to specially for television.
To obtain the effect of movement that the television public of the the same time.
put Bradford on half time, just ing.
Then came Amelia's turn. She a complete picture must be built up fairly immediate future numbers For many years Australia had as the cotton industry had
pay £2 yearly for a licence. a free market for all her pro already put Manchester on half had tasted the fruits of adventure in this way about 25 times every 500,000, and that each is asked to television One million a year. Hardly ducts in Great Britain, and seem-time. Once established such a and popularity. She wanted more: second."
The present B.B.C. ed to think very little of it. So trade is not likely to be divert-She would fy the Atlantic not as a long as the world was working ed, for all the well-known ad-passenger but as a pilot-and alone, broadcasts use only 30 lines to make enough."
To But assume for a moment that. on the system that was a very vantages of the shorter sen pas To-day both husband and wife up the picture, so that the result is! real plan of co-operation-the sage and the cheaper labour will appreciate the value of publicity. coarse and lacking in detail. payment of accounts by means have as much force as they have Their home life, however, is a thing obtain anything like fair entertain- these problems have been overcome, of the draft on London, which had in the cotton trade, and of apart. They have the same simplement at least 180 lines must be used. What will the ordinary man's tele
And there lies the rub. The laws vision programme, be like? meant that the only thing to be course the immense mills now tastes. The marriage has been a
His set will more or less resemble- of radio are pernickety things. considered for national solvency being built in Japan are being great success.
They demand that the more detail an ordinary radiogram, except that' was the nett balance of the trade fitted with the most modern
and therefore lines--you put in part of It will be composed of a
Hong Kong, Friday, February 22, 1985
Australian Trade
paratus in, a number of lines of topical events nearby, and relay back: The book was an immense suc-varying light and shade which are the scenes for transmission. But
Vision Of Futurs
of a nation with the trade of the machines. It is quite common to Your Daily Smile! your transmission, the more room it screen formed (almost certainly) of
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is going to take up on the wave the flat end of a glass "cathode-ray" length scale.
valve. They state quite bluntly that ir
(Continued on Page 10). you wish to put over a good 180- line transmission on the ordinary! * EUROPEAN FINED broadcast wavelengths you will havej keep to swamp the entire 300-500 metre Fleading guilty to a charge, of" fet, waveband which has to accommo-driving private car No. 186, without:
date most of Europe's broadcasting a red rear lamp, Mr.-J. B. Gardi stations,
her, of Harbour View Hotel, was
whole of the outside world, any hear people say that Japan will
itself some day fight Australia for the People We Meet disequilibrium adjusted automatically by a gradual vast empty Northern Terri
The woman with a past. change in the exchange rate, tories; but in this generation
The man with a present, with an ultimate demand for the struggle is far more likely gold as a final check on over-to be by commercial infiltration,
Sales Nearer spending. The later plan of The tactics of trade war are so
Some women get fur coats to Imperial Preference was to some
well understood, and the efficiency them warm some to keep them extent a limitation of the free of manufacture has been so and natural exchange of goods, increased that military, expres A Wonder He Survives but its effect was more or less sions are the most natural words
An Australian visitor says it is
Short Wave Solution? fined $5 by Mr. A. W. G.. H. Grant- negligible so long as
the to describe the struggle of any the luxurious cars that strike him exchange of money remained on one centre of production against most about modern London... Well, There is a way out; but the way ham at the Kowloon Magistracy this a free basis, for while one coun-the other centres that are able he does seem to be having an un-out opens up yet another set of pro-morning. Defendant had several try might be selling to England to produce the same article. lucky time. more than it bought another. The infinence however does j****
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would be reversing the process not all flow in one direction; nor Matrimonial Murmur.
blems.
The way out is to televise only
previous convictions.
on the ultra-short wavelengths, CANTON ATHLETIC ON MAY 4.
and bringing the balance equal. is there a complete lack of an "My wife doesn't know what she round about seven or eight metres, Even after gold had been aban-occasional voice crying in the wants
doned as a means of settling wilderness. It does not require "You're lucky. Mine does. balances the warnings that re-any very exceptional insight to liance on national credit ungup-destry where these currents of
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for in this region the "spread" of Canton, to day It was decided your transmissions is far less, so by the Provincial Athletic Commis that two stations may work on wavesion at Its regular meeting held on lengths only half a metre apart. Tuesday that the thirteenth pro
The snag is a diffkult one. Vincial athletic meet will be open
ported by any generally accepted competition are leading. One of international medium would the voices is the Japanese re-organisation; and he aims at Stations of this sort have omly a on May 4, and will last 10 days. gradually lead to a condition in former, Dr. Kagawa, whose visit securing by international agree- very short range, Smail wave-Central Freas. which each individual country to Hongkong some months ago ment an organisation of the lengths are temperamental They would have to make
exact will
be remembered. Dr. trade between various countries transmit adequately in a radius of balance with each other country Kagawa gave several addresses that will cut out the cutthroat about 20 miles or what is called were disregarded, partly because which were much appreciated; element, and put the general "visibility" range--and then they trade tends to follow any well but unfortunately in his first wellbeing in its place as a cri- skip off the curve of the earth to worn channel rather than make a meeting he expressed views terion for just trading.
turn up again In Calcutta or Con new passage for itself, and part-about England in India which The Australian Government has necticut, leaving a silent No Man's ly because the immense Invest-were racially and nationalistical-recognised the value of his work Land-batween. ments of England, particularly ly Japanese, and which detract- and his ideas, and has officially But television must have short in the Dominions, enabled aed from the warmth of his recep-invited him to tour Australia waves, short waves have short balance still to be cast financial-tion. India, of course, on the and explain not only his "farm-rangos; and, therefore to cover the ly in disregard of the trade political side, is "not his pidgin." ing co-operatives," but his wider country properly we must have s Agures. But just as in spite of We ought not to let that inter-Ideals, and how he would achieve great number of stations all difficulties water tends to fere with our readiness to learn them. On his way he is to visit One expert told me that he reckoni find its own level, so trade be- what we can about the subjects Hong Kong, and will give at least 200 stations would be neces- came increasingly difficult on a that he has made his own. He another address at the Cathedral sary to supply the thickly populated one-sided arrangement. Aus- stands for a wide programme of Hall this afternoon. We ought areas with programines. tralia dealt with the situation by industrial regulation which is by not to allow divergence of opinion atraction would run up. imposing prohibitive duties on no means confined to the retell on extraneous matters to pre-about £5,000,000, English exports, and after a not distribution schemes that we ventus hearing with good will a Possibly the next; very long interval, Mr. Elliot, the usually connect with the Idea of man who has much of interest see the preliminary English Minister, of Agriculture, "co-operation." In that special to say about the great bleni some scores of 'f retorted by protecting the home line, he has had wonderful suc which most of our ow farm produce, Australia soon cess, but he has also done much man have almply, given up felt the pinch, and the corres for agriculture: and factory insoluble
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