HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN,
Stage Manager: "All ready, rua up the curtain.
Stage Hand: "What do you think
I am, a equirred
kis
"Oh, come on, May-give me a
"No. I've got scruples."
Will thon shave one side of my face for 'alf price, my laad""
"Certainly, sir."
"Reet! It's t'outside 'at wants doing."
What's a pedestr'an daddy!” "Why you know when you're
"Never mind-I've had them riding in daddy's car you some- twice."
times feel a big bump? Well, that's. a pedestrian.'
Algernon What would you ad- vise me to do in preparing for my
career da a post
Matter of Fact Friend: "First, practice fasting!"
Said she. "We met at Easter,
While bathing in the sesa' Quoth he, "Why, yes, of course we
did,
I thought I knew those knees." "How much to press a pair of
trousera
"One shilling."
■
Then press one leg for sixpence I am having my photograph taken side view."
An elderly. Negro was burning grass when a know-it-all" stopped and said: "You're foolish to do that, Uncle Eb; it will make the meadow as black as you are.
"Don't worry 'bout dat, sah," responded Uncle Eb. "Dat graag will grow out an' was green na you is,"
A motoring expert was giving
"As I look around," said the handsome curate in the course of his first sermon, "I see bright and shining faces..
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Forty-one powder puffs, imme diately came into action.
"I've got a lot of things I want to talk to you about, dear," said the wife
"That's good," answered the husband. You usually want to talk to me about a lot of things You haven't got."
He was an ardent lover, but a poor speller. He thought it safer to write to the girl's father for her her hand. His note ran: "I want your daughter-the flour of the family."
The flour of my family is good," replied her father. "Are you sure it isn't my dough you're alter?"
The man had just informed the agent that he wanted a Pullman borth.
"Upper or lower?" asked the
agent.
What's the difference" repli-"
a woman tuition in driving.
The hand lever," he said, "brakes the rear wheels only, and the footpedal brakes all four. Ised the other. that clear t
"yes," replied the woman, doubtfully, but I'd rather not have any of them breken."
י,
"Waiter," said the fussy diner, "I want some pysters, but they mustn't be too large or too small. and they mustn't be too salty. want them cold, and I want them in five minutes."
replied the waiter, "Yes, sir," who was under notice. "How will you have them-with or without pearls 7"
i "A difference of 50 cents in this "The lower ens" said the agent.
is higher than the upper. The higher price is for the lower. If you want it lower you'll have to go higher. In other words, the higher the lower. Most people don't like the upper, although it is lower on account of it being higher. When you occupy an up- per. you have to get up to go to bed, and get down when you get up. If you are willing to 8 higher it will be lower."
But the poor man had wilted!
ENTRAL THEATRE Paramounts Sound Pictures R Commencing SATURDAY, June 14th
FOR OUR GRAND OPENING We are pleased to announce the First Showing in South China
HEAR!
'Dream Lover"
"My Love Parade"
Paris. Stay the Same "Let's Be Common Nobody's Using It Now
Guramient Picture
TTERLY de-
Ulightful, en
See
trancing, en r'a p.. turing!" says The New York Daily
·News. Flear Che- valier sing. him make love. In. this mirthful mus ical romance of a beautiful queen.
MAURICE
CHEVALIER
The Love Parade
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
PRODUCTION
JEANETTE MACDONALD LUDING LAKE ULLIAN ROTH "
A SUPER-PRODUCTION AT POPULAR PRICES.
Ar. 2.15 P.M.
Time and Prices:
A5.16-&-7.15 PM
Ar 9.15' P.M
$1.00, 70 Crs & 50 Crs. Сто 81.20, 80 Cr. & 81.50, $1.00 £70.08.
SERVICEMEN: 50 UE TO SIAHLS TOK
Bookings at Anderson Music Store and at the Theatre (Telephone 25720).
YNDÁLE
WHEN YOUR HOST, APPARENTLY CON- FUSING THE DAILY AND SUNDAY TRAINS, LEAVES
YOU AT A SUBURBAN STATION HALF AN HOUR. AFTER THE LAST TRAIN HAS GONE, WITH
THE CHOICE OF WALKING BACK TO TOWN, HOPPING A FREIGHT, OR SLEEPING
ON THE STATION BENCH
NORWAY'S GIANT TRANSMITTER.
SIMILAR STATION FOR
NANKING.
The powerful voice of the new high-power transmitter in Oslo penetrates far beyond the bound- aries of Europe. Receiving stations all over the Continent are listening with the greatest interest, and all
the that agrec
elearness and modulation are exceptionally goed. A few short technical details will probably be of interest,
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicato, Inc.)
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. "ON
355 METRES.
11 to 11.30 ..-Commercial News. 11.30 am to 18.30 p.m.--Chinese
programme.
12.30 to 9p.m.-Programme of Victor records supplied by Messrs. Tsang Fook Piano Co. to 6.30 p.m.-Aunty Letty and Aunty Joy will entertain the children.
GUYAS WILLIAMS
MAGIC OF THE RADIOSTAT.
STATIONS MULTIPLIED
BY FIFTY.
The Stenode Radiostat, the won derful.new principle in radio com munication invented by Dr. James Robinson, D.Sc., Ph.D, M.I.E.E.. is a device which solves the hitherto insoluble problem of the congestion of the ether. Existing systems of
6.30 to 8 p.m.-Programme of Vic
tor records supplied by Messrs." transmission require such a space Tsang Fook Piano Co.:-
in the ether" round each carrier 6.30 p.n-Le Toust D'Omphale
that between Wave- (Saint Saens), Philharmonic frequency
lengths of 200 metres and: 600 Orchestra, New York.
p.m. From the Land of Sky- metres the normal medium broad- Blue Water; Little Grey Homecasting waveband-there are avail in the West, Mary Lewia
p.m.-Large (Handel), Archer alle only about one hundred chan- Gibson (Organ),
nels for undistorted transmission.
The transmitter, built by the Telefunken Company; les about 8.30 kilometres from Oslo, near Lam- berseter, and is connected with the studios in the city by an 8 kilo- metre special broadcasting con- munication cable. The T-form
aerials are supported by two in7 sulated iron skeleton masts with stays, 130 metres" high and, 230
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6.53 p.m.-El Capitan, Philadel
phia Orchestra
p.m.-Minstrel Show of 1989, Vic-
tor Minstrels.
7.09 p.m-Indian Love Cell, Jesse
Crawford,
Dr. Robinson, who was former- ly head of the Wireless Research Department of the Royal Air Force, discovered a new principle of tuning which obviates the need for these wide spaces between wave.
length, and multiplies by at least fifty, the number of transmissions which can be received individual.
metres apart. A network of buried.18 p.m.-I Love to Hear You Sing copper wire is used as earth. The
ing, McCormack. station is "fed" by three-phase 7.21 p.m.-Unrequited Love (Lincke) current of 5,000 volt tension and 30. cycles, which is transformed and 7:27 p.m.-The Rogue Song, Law-ly without interference. rectified by a high-vacuum rectifier." The beating of the valves is done.33
International Orchestra.
rence Tibbett (Baritone).
p..Naila Delibes), Willem Bachaus (Piano).
New Tests.
in London at the end of Novem
Since the public' demonstration by machinery. It is a 4-step trans-r.30 p.m.--The Little Silver Ring of his invention, which was given mitter, with water-cooled 20" KW Chaminade-McCormack). valves in the power-step, the out- put of the transmitter being 60 KW in the aerials.
7.45 p.m.-Ob Promise Me (Deber last, steady progress has been Koven), Renee Chemet (Violin) made in the development of this
new system, and a further illustra tion of practical results was given recently in London to a party of technical experts.
7.61 p.m.-Ville; I Love You So A
(Merry Widow), Hulda Lashan- ska.
This Oslo station, is one of the most powerful in Europe, and is very easy to pick up, as it lies just abcve Prague in the wave-length.. table.
7.37 p.m.--The Mill in the Forest (Ellenberg), Victor Concert
| 4
Band."
8 p.m.-Chinesa programme.
A similar station has, been order-10.30 p.m.-Close down.
ed by the Chinese Government, for No Broadcasting" on Sunday." Nanking, as recently reported is our.columns.
NEW RADIO MARVEL.
BROADCASTING ON 20- INCH AERIAL.
A riddle of the ether has been solved, says Dr. Esau, a German expert on the short-wave system.
Dr. Easu has been secretly work ing, in Saxony, on the problem of the present broadcasting chaos of competing wireless, stations:
One puzzle ja how to and room
in the ether for the broadcasting of tone films as well as other radio
transmission.
Dr. Esau has informed a Breslau 'audience that his secret station, on the roof of a high municipal build- ing, has been using waves of the extraordinarily short length of 3ft. to 10ft.
It is claimed that reception has been marvellously clear, the tone being much superior to the broad. casting on the larger waves.
These "ultra-short waves have attribute quite distinct from the longer, one happy result being that there is no air or local disturbance (Continued at foot of next column)
FANNIE
DRICE "BE YOURSELF
ROBERT ARMSTRONG
&HARRY GREEN
UNITED ARTISTE PICTURS.
NEWSREEL
INTERNATIONAL BUGGER
Singapore devil, charmers
Kaye Don's racer at Daytona.GREAT GOBS"
MUSICAL
VINCENT
LOPES,
AT THE
QUEEN'S
"AT THE
STAR
AL
COMEDY
CHARLIE CHASE
IY
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9 20,
LILLIAN GISH
in an EPIC of the WEST
THE
WIND
with MONTAGUE LOVE and LARS HANSON.
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY
At 6.80 & 9.20. A
JOLSON
IN
The JAZZ SINGER”
with MAY MCAVOY.
Greatest on the Stage-Now Greatest on the Screen!
AT THE
WORLD
PIGEON PLUCKING IN POPLAR.
EXPENSIVE PURSUIT FOR AH PING-LEE.
The apparatus used at this ga
Ab Ping-lee, a Chinese cook, op- thering "by Mr. Percy W. Harris,peared on remand at the Thames the demonstrator, was of a some Police Court on May 5 on the what more complicated character charge of conducting a gaming The public are notified that, in than that which it is hoped to house at High-street, Poplar, at order to carry out necessary repairs, to the transmitter, there will be no place on the British market in the which it was alleged the Chinese broadcasting from Z.B.W., the coming autumn. The main object game of Pink-a pa was played. Ah Hong Kong broadcasting station, on Sunday next, the 15th inst.
Z.B.W. will, therefore, close-down at.11.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 14th, until- Monday, the 16th, at 11 1.0."
Eren electric tramcars running outside the house, do not influence reception.
of the experiment was to show how Tong, another Chinese, who at the last hearing pleaded Guilty to completely the old system of trans charge of frequenting, also ap- mission has been eclipsed by this peared on remand. A third defen- new principle, and in this the de- dant was now placed in the dock- Lee Lin-sang-charged with assist monstration was completely success-ing Ah Ping-lee in managing the fur
...gaming business.
Mr. Knight asked the Magistrate Selectivity was brought to so fine a point that separate trane to consider the question of recom missions were brought within one-mending the accused for deporta- formerly required. Stations with teath of the condenser dial range tion tr
Mr Fail, solicitor, defending, closely approximating wave-lenths said that Ah Ping-lee had been in a trace of mutual interference. were completely separated without this country for 21 years, and up to 1920 was a quartermaster in the Royal Marines, serving during the War in that capacity. Ten years While the laboratory apparatus Age he married in English women is capable of increasing by fifty a widow with one child. He bad times the number of channels Chinese cases at that Court, and his frequently acted as interpreter in available for transmission, the services had been greatly appreciat radio enthusiast will be amplyed. He bore a good character: The satisfied by an instrument which only two things against him were These ultra-short-waves (it is increases the number of receivable that he had been fined for insulting added) give remarkably good re stations by ten times or even by behaviour and for failing, as a sults for television, and simplify five times.
lodginghouse keeper, to keep a
Dr. Esau's reception antenne are not more than 20 inches in length is also eliminated, since the ultra Overlapping with other stations
short-wave station is only heard within a limited area, despite the
better audibility within the zone In the tesis which have been car ried out the hearing was confined to the town area.
Short Wave Talkies,
Within a few months the equip meat of stations with ultra-short
Dr. Eeau), the wavelengths not exceeding 10 feet,
For Next Season.
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 2.30 & 7.15 Interpreter At 5.15 & 8.20 Orchestra.
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 &.9.20 p.m.. Charley's Dancing Daughter!
WARNER BROS, present
'Good Time
Charley
with
Helene Costello
Warner Oland
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Clyde Cook. Houdaga Lovelorne Jewkern Barnet in the array B DÁRKEL YRANCIS ZAMER
by Michael Curtiz.
Drama of Stageland
A WARNER BROS PRODUCTION
AT THE
MAJESTIC
the broadcasting of talking. That such a set as this can be register of aliens. He had previous- pictures.
devised and sold at a moderately been in several situations, and price is now beyond question. In had not been in trouble before. due course licences will be issued Ab Ping-lee was fined $50 and incorporate the Stenode Radiostat the alternative of three months' im- principle in their sets, and it is prisonment. Sang was fined £2, Nathan Road, Kowloon. "In a few years existing send not improbable that these will be with the alternative of a month's ing stations will only be museum ready for the next exhibition of imprisonment No recommendation Showing for the FIRST TIME relics, says the explorer of the the Radio Manufacturers Associs was made for deportation Ab Tong
Hong Kong. ultra-short-wave-system.
tion at Olympia.
was discharged.