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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES
11-11.30 4.17. Stock Quotations,
Selected London and New York) Stock quotations, Weather Re-
port, etc.
11.30 a.m. Chinese recorded pro-
gramme.
12.30 p.m. European programme of Columbia and Regal records. 1 p.m. Local Time and Weather
Report. 1.15 p.m. A relay of the Houg Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy of the Management (During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio).
1.30 p.m. Rugby Press News, etc. 2.15 p.m. Close Down.
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PROGRESS OF TELEVISION
U.S. BASEBALL
The Removal of "Flicker"
BROADCAST ON SHORT WAVE
Important developments are tak
place in television which may improve beyond recognition the present standard of reception.
greater
FRIDAY'S GAMES -
Saturday's baseball games result-
ed as follows:-
National League.
Pittsburg Boston
St. Louis
New York
R.
H. E.
3 8
3 8.
8 14
7 10 1
(Ott homered for New York.
Cincinnati Philadelphia
In combination they may be ex-There were ten innings), pected to provide pictures showing loss detail and with flicker," and to remove the diffi culty at present experienced in keeping the picture steady on the receiving, screen.
Two far-reaching advances are be- ing demonstrated for the first time in this country at the Television Society's exhibition at the Imperial College of Science and Technology," London, and behind the other important moves are being made in the research laboratories of manufacturing firms.
scenes
Talk from the Studio Tonight. 6-8 p.m. European programme. 6-8.20 p.m.
A Concert, Song-Love, the Pediar (Bat
and tersby
German)...Doris Vane (Soprano). 9828.
There is new form of reception Octet-Second. Movement from in which all mechanical movement, "Symphonie Pathetique" (Toften a serious source of distur chaikowsky).
bance,
is completely eliminated. Octet--Scene de Ballet (de Be-In this system the picture is con riot, arr. Sear)...J. H. Squire veyed to the screen before the obser Celeste Octet. 9825.
ver by a beam of electrons, the Song Roll On, Thou Deep and smallest particles known, which
Dark-Blue-Ocean. (Dale) and
are so light that they respond in tantly to every variation in the (Bel-transmitting apparatus.
Petric). Song-Simon the Cellarer
lamy
and Hatton)...Normaa Allin (Bass). 0807. Violin Solo-Alegrian Scent
(Ketelbey). Violin Solo-The Phanton Melo-
dy (Ketelbey)...Albert Sand
This development, it is claimed, will completely remove the diffi culty of keeping the transmitter and receiver in step "the cause of violent movements of the image on the receiving serren-and it was described to a representative of the "Morning Post" by Professor F. J. Cheshire, one of the judges in The Bronze Horse (Auber)...Sira competition" organised by the
Dan Godfrey conducting the society, as in his opinion the proba Bournemouth Municipal Or-ble future of television. chestra. DX69..
ler. 0563.
Band and Orchestral Music,
Commencing Thursday 6.20 6.50 p.m.
25th May. FOUR STARS
in a smash-
ing melo.
drama of the
African Gold
Coast.
Here is
ACTIONI CONFLICTI
ROMANCE!
A PASSPORT TO HELL
Elena
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Paul
LANDI · LUKAS
WARNER OLAND ALEXANDER KIRKLAND
Story By Harry Harvey
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Petticoat Lane (Arr. Parry), Russian Fantasy (arr. Lange and Somers). Debroy Somers
Band. 9830.
8 9 15. 0
Klein homered for Philadelphia-" Chicago . Brooklyn game was postponed on account of rain.
American League.
Washington Chicago
1 6
1
10 17
3
Philadelphia Cleveland
4
13
2
寫
2
Boston Detroit
3 10
New York. St. Louis
6
8
"0
6
1
(Games homèred for St. Louis Brenan pitching for the Yankees, struck out twelve men, while Dickey anal Chapman homered for New York).
SALE OF CHINESE CERAMICS
WINKWORTH COLLECTION
TREASURES
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, May 2. Expectations were fully realised at Sotheby's yesterday when, at the end of a four days' sale, the Stephen Winkworth collections of Chinese pottery and porcelain and English furniture had yielded a total of £19,334.
The highest prios in the porce-
The second advance shown at the exhibition was the reception of an experimental television broadcast on 3 short wave-length (7.75) metres. The results were far from The Merry Brothers (Gennin); perfect, but, in the opinion, of the Echoes of the Valley (Gennin)... British Broadcasting Corporation, lain section, £350, was paid by Sir Dan Godfrey conducting they pave the way for broadcasts the old professional collector, the the Bournemouth Municipal giving a finer texture.' of relate Capt. John Sparks, for a Orchestra. 9821..
production, ♫ sufficiently wide largo Ming patiche of the Cheng. Que-wave-band for this purpose boing Te period, and his chief opponents, only available at wave-lengtha be Mesars, Bluett and Bons, low those normally used for broad- £30 for a very fine Lang Tao bot- casting purposes.
tle-shaped vase of the K'ang Hsi period.
7 p.m. (Closing Local Stock
tations, etc.)
6.50-7.45 p.m.
Variety.
Orchestral Sweetheart...Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotéi Orpheans. CB688,
Behind the Scenes,
One of the moves now being made Organ Solos-Song Hits (1932-behind the scenes, is the develop Medley.. Reginald Foort. ment of apparatus which will give DB762 this finer texture, by splitting pie Orchestral
Moon Song....The tures into a large number of strips B.B.C. Dance Orchestra, CB385. before transmission, Orchestral-Put a Little Spring- Time The B.B.C. Dance Or
chestra, CB586.
MR874.
Kave
Mr. Frank Partridge paid £210 for a pair of sixteenth century vases, with figures approaching the Heavenly Pavilion, and among the acquisiton for the Hague Museum was a Cheng Te bowl, costing £170..
The rare Chippendale, mahogany clothes press, mentioned in The Daily Telegraphy Feb. 28, brought £200, and among the fine lacquer pieces was an early eighteenth- and if these three lines of advancs century bureau bookcase, which
£950 (Cameron). can be successfully brought together Charles Huggins gave £175 for the the result should be television last lot in the sale, a very rare which is a real entertainment at Adam mahogany pier table. any rate within. visual range of the transmitting station.
Attempts are also being made to combine this method of transmitting greater detail with the new system Band-The Little Sentry Box....of reception already referred to,
Billy Cotton and His Band. Chorus-Sylvia...The Paromount
Master. Singers. MR873. Orchestral-Let's All Sing Like
One O'Clock...The Masquera ders. CB428. Vocal Quartet-Let Bygones be Bygones...The Four Musketeers. DB1078:
Orchestral-Pale Volga Moon Carroll Gibbsons and The 8 voy Hotel Orpheans. CB588. Orchestral Twenty Million Peo-,
ple....The B.B.C. Dance Orches tra. CB55. 7.43-8 p.m.
Other efforts are concentrated on a further new system in which all mechanical devices are eliminated from transmission as well as from reception-an advance which in the opinion of Professor Cheshire, re presents a' further step towards the ideal of perfect television.
Attention is also being given to the possibility of using somewhat, longer wave-lengths for broadcast- From the Studio.
ing than the 7.73 metres demons- A talk on the British Empire trated yesterday. The effect of this Exhibition by the Representa would be to increase the distance tives of China for British In- from the transmitting station at dustries Mr. S. W. Bowell, which the programmes could be re- 8. p.m. Local Time and Weatherceived.
Report.
At the Exhibition the Marconi
8.30-11.30 p.m. Relay from the Company are showing transmitting
Ko Shing Theatre..
and receiving apparatus which
10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press splits up the picture into as many as
News...
11.30 p.m. Close Don.
50 strips and gives steady raproduc tion and remarkably clear detail; All records in the above Euro-as well as a simpler system for pean programmes are kindly sup- nowa transmission,, in which a typ- plied by Messrs. Anderson Music ed message is reproduced so as to move, greatly magnified, aCTOSS =
Co."
HM.S. KENT CONCERT
PARTY
1
screen measuring 7ft. by ft.
DOES WELL IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai.-An excellent variety entertainment was presented at the British Women's Association by the Invicta (H.M.S. Kent) Concert Party. In a number of highly amusing and tuneful numbers, the men gave a performance which was worthy of a for larger audience than that which turned up to sup. port their efforts.
70,000 AIR PASSENGERS
LAST YEAR'S TRAFFIC AT LE BOURGET
(Special Air-Mail Service)
Paris, May 2. The steady increase in the popu larity of air transport in clearly indicated by the traffic returns from La Bourget airport for 1832.
More than 70,000 passengers, 20,000 more than in 1931, left or arrived at the airport. Although the economic depression caused a considerable drop in the volume of goods traffic (1,500 metric tons, as against over 2,000 metric tons in 1931), a great improvement, which has continued in the current year, showed itself in the latter months of 1932
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It was obvious that the names. appearing on the programme were not the real names of the men, for there was "Miss Jane," who sang in Spanish and wore a dazding shawl draped round her brawny shoulders, and "Miss Mary," who sang Then Kiss Me," likewise at tired in feminine costume. Several other members of the troupe were seen in skirts, and seemed to be revelling in the unwonted attire.
The Paris-London services, Altogether the music and singing might be expected, drew the great- wore of a high order, "Bammy ost, number of passengers (60 per; Mr. Pharoah' in particular cent, of them British), but the lines possessing particularly pleasing connecting Paris with the various voices. Some amusing sketches were Continental cities all showed la also given, in which there was creased traffic. The Paris-Mar- effective opportunity for imper-seilles service in particular has sonations, and an Apache, Dance proved so popular that it is likely which was realistically carried out to be augmented", and accelerated to a startling accompaniment. in the near futute.
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