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MAIL NEWS FROM HOME
London, Feb. 24, SHIPOWNERS TRIBUTE The prospects of British shipping developments. with particular re- ference to that thorny subject subsidised competition in the Paci- fc-are. I understand, to be re- v.awed by several speakers at the annual dinner of the Chamber of Shipping, to be held here on Apri This 2. writes a correspondent. was one of the many publle func- tions postponed from last month on account of the death of Kine George, and, though the period at publie mourning has expired, the Chumber is advising members and guests that black waistcoats will be worn with evening dress. This gesture typifies the respect of Br- merchant shipping for Lish
the late King, whose early profession was the sea, and whose special interest in all matters maritime was demonstrated in the creation of King Edward, when Prince of Wales, as Master of the Merenant Navy and Fishing Fleet.
A SCOTTISH PIANIST'S' JUBILEE Mr. Frederic Lamond, who gave 1 recital the Palladium this
15 arternoon, has been celebrating his artistic jubilee at Berlin, where ne
has lived for some time past. It
was there that he made his first public appearance in 1885 as a seventeen-year-old pupil of Liszi. The next year he played at Glas- zow, his birthplace, and also gave a recital at St James's Hall, Lon- don, in Liszt's presence. His Jubi- lee performances now in progress consist of seven historical recitals of plano music from Byrd and Bull to the late romantics he will have nothing to do with the moderns. He hopes to repeat the series in London as a fnul fare-
up to his career. Mr. Lamond is,
The King has occupied York House, St. James's Palace, for over 20 years and has made a num- ber of improvements there. In the main hall he has restored the pillars- to their former appearance, and in the reception-room an in- terior wall has been removed.
NOTABLE RESIDENTS
The present York House-for "York House" once meant the Lon- don Museum-bus had a number of notable residents.
EXPERIMENTS IN TELEVISION
EN
ALEXANDRA PALACE,
RESULTS
"Signal Strengths
London, Feb. 23. The television transmitters which are to be installed at the Alexandra Palace are now being For nearly a century, however.
tested. the only two were the Duchess of Listeners with receivers that can Cambridge and the Duke of Cum-be tuned down to the neighbour- berland, the former living there 38 and the latter 60 years until he became King of Hanover.
The next occupant was the Duke of Clarence, after whose death the late King, as Duke of York, lived there.
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER NOT
TO TAKE YORK HOUSE It was officially denied to-day that the. Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are to take over York House. St. James's Palace, which has been up to now occupied by the King.
There is zo intention at present of the Duke and Duchess securing a town house. They will remain at Royal Pavilion, Aldershot, for the rest of the year, using their sutte of apartments at Buckingham Pa- lace when they are in London." THE RUSSIAN MARSHAL'S VISIT Marshal Michael Tukhachevsky, Assistant Commissar of Defence of the Soviet Union, left. this, mora- ing for Russia absolutely satis- fed with the results of his visit, as he told his friends here on nis departure. During his visit he had
had long talks with the War Se cretary, the Air Minister. the First by the way, a Berlioz enthusiast
Lord of the Admiralty, and. the and has been greatly interested to
Dur- hear of the performances of Ber-chief of the Army Council. liez's operas in the past and the near future by the Glasgow Grand Opera Society.
PRINCESS LOUISE
Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll 18, I hear, planninz re spend her 88th birthday at her She returns beloved Rosneath. this week from Bath, where she is visiting her brother, the Duke of Connaught, and after a fort- night's stay in London she leaves for Scotland. Her birthday is on March 18, but the Princess inten "s. to remain for some time there after at her Clydeside castle. Her Royal Highness is still keenly in- terested in painting, being the pat- ron of various movements for the encouragement of competitive art among young people.
-
ing his visit, which lasted a fort- night, he saw many military and air establishments and visited the headquarters of many armament Arms
He came over with Mr. Litvinot
and represented his country at the funeral of King George. I am told that he was much impressed by the organisation of that ceremony; and, as it happens, he likes our climate and its humidity. HIS LAST VISIT IN AN AIR RAID
hood of seven metres have heard, during the evenings of the past reek, a curious bigh pitched whistle accompanied by rythmic thuds like a woodpecker drum- ming twenty-five times a second, "That is what your face" sounds like," as, Mr. J. L Baird used to say ten years ago when he demon- Etrated the first true television and let people hear as well as see the signals he was sending out.
The high-pitched whistle is the sound of the televised picture and the rhythmic thuds are the locking signals which keep the picture in These locking signals work, in an position on the viewing screen. electrical way, very much as the slots on the side of a cinema film act mechanically.
The B.B.C. has also been con- ducting tests during the past three er four weeks. These have been a map of the London plot un district the area that will be serv- ed by the Alexandra Palace sta
tion.
have
From the tali lattice masts on the top of Broadcasting House two unadvertised programmes been transmitted. The Regional programmes have gone out each day on 7.5
metres, and the Na- tional programmes occasionally on about 6.8 metres. Receiving vans have meanwhile toured all over the place and have measured the strength of the signals.
COM-
SOME CURIOUS RESULTS Curious results are obtained with these ultra-short wavelengths. Normally they disappear
some thirty or forty pletely ac miles. A bill will, however, make a shadow just as it would if the television waves came from the sun, or a searchlight, low down on the horizon.
serials Y
ROYAL NAVY
Devonport Commodore
London, Feb. 24.
Captain K. B. Davies, V.C., DS.O., A.F.C., has wis week as- sumed command of the RN. Bar-. racks, Devonport, with the rank of
Commodore, second clase.
He succeeds Rear-Admiral R. "H. O. Lane-Poole, O.B.E., who after two
ears in this post is to command the Australian Squadron, in suc- cession to Rear-Admiral W TR. Ford, C.B.
FILM THAT MAKES HISTORY
H. G. Wells's Things To Come
London, Feb. 21,
With "Things to Come," shown privately at the Leicester Square Theatre Inst night, Alexander Kor- da has once again made film his- tory.
Here Is England's first, million- dollar picture; it cost, to be pre- eise, £260,000; Its theme is the loftiest ever conceived by a pro- Commodore Davies recently re-
ducer: Its visions of a world des- 19- turned from the command of the cruiser Cornwall in China. Before troyed and then rebuilt are the War he was an air pilot of the tonishing in their immensity, pow- R.N.AS, as a lieutenant, R.N. Heer, and exciting beauty. Served with distinction in com- "Things to Come" makes such mand of aircraft units during the stories of the future as "Metropo War. but after the Armistice was is" look like a quota "quickie." among those who elected to return and the trick photography has to general naval service instead of given us spectacle after thrilling transferring to the Royal Air Force spectacle that must be seen to be
In believed. as did many other officers.
and aga'n In 1920-24, however. 1928-28, he was in charge of the Naval Air Section at the Admiral ty, and in 1931-33 was lent to the
master. Commander E. J. Night Air Ministry for stat duties. Pay- Ingale, who has been secretary to Rear-Admiral R. H. O. Lane-Foole, has been reappointed for duty with Commodore Davies. ...
But with it all there is a sug- gestion of ine class-room. Mr. Wells's moral lessons, instead of being implicit, are a shade too
affect the picture's chances at the thoroughly rubbed in, and this may
box-office. He and Mr. Korda have deliberately chosen problems few producers would have dared, or wanted, to tackle-the problems of war and peace, of man's relation to the State, of salvation through self-sacrifice dictated by science for the ultimate good of the species,
DIRECTOR OF PERSONAL
SERVICES Rear-Admiral, J. F Somerville, C.B., D.S.O., will relinquisti to-day the post of Director of Personal
A WORLD PESTILENCE Services at the Admiralty. which
The picture starts with Every- he has held since May, 1934. His tenure of the post has been an ac-town--the typical city of 1945, or, of to-day. that reasons, infor
matter, tive one for various cluding the increased entries of Through the Christmas rejoicings boys, the revised dis- come rumours of war, and then men and tribution of the Fleet, and the or- out of the sky the first swift, shat- ganization of Navy Week, which tering blow-an air raid, marvel- last year was placed under". the lously produced. That leaves the
city, like other cities, in ruins. direction of this Department...
Rear-Admiral Somerville is now leaving to command the destroyer flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet, with his flag in the new cruiser Galatea. Before taking up this
post he will attend a course at the Tactical School to which he is ap- pointed from to-morrow. His suc- cessor at the Admiralty is Rear- Admiral Geoffrey Layton, D.5.0.
from the command of Portsmouth Barracks, and formerly Chief of Staff on the China Station.
PAYMASTER REAR-ADMIKAL
the
WARD
The war drags on to 1955, 1985. Communication's break down, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride unchecked.
50
Just as the fourteenth-century world was ravaged by the Black Death,
19 the world Wander- now ravaged by the ing Bickness, which compels the stricken man or woman, like a sheep suffering from the gld, to rush out and spread the disease among others. The world is oc- communities cupled by isolated living primitive lives under war-
with
For this reason, places like, Red London must have been a great change to Marshal Tukhachevsky Hill and Reigate, immediately un- in contrast with his last visit. That aer the shadow of the Downs, will ne probably not be able to receive was in October, 1917, wher spent a few hours here on his way television at all, though people
Paymaster Captain C. A. Ward,hg chiefs. Civilisation is almost.
wiped out. back to Russia after escaping from. with houses on the top of the C.M.G., who has been placed on
Almost-but not quite. A few a German military prison. He was Downs, only a mile nearer London, the retired list, to date February captured in East Prussia, an of- may be able to receive the pictures 24, with
Tank of paymaster people-an airman here, a scien- Bcer in the Imperial Guards, in excellently, better in fact than ear-admiral, has been nearly 38 tist there have survived. They SCOTS ART COLLECTION
the early ages of the war. After those in a valley ten miles or so
years in the Navy In his early defeat the atavistic war lords and Pictures by D. Farquharson, who several efforts to escape ne, suc- heater to London.
service he was on the Staff of set to work to build the world had a big market for his work 30. ceeded in reaching Switzerland, The tests are being made from Admiral Sir John Fisher (Lord anew. years ago, have been rarities in 350 miles from his prison. He Broadcasting House because the Fisher) when Commander-in-Chief It is here that Mr. Wells and Mr. the sakroom of late, but Hive of hurried through Switzerland and Alexandra Palace station is not yet the Mediterranean. Throughout Kuran really let. themselves go. hi characteristic Scottish land- France aver to England to get ready. High in the air as the the late War he was secretary to They give us white cities built.
. underground-for scapes have just been sent to back to Russia from the north, Broadcasting House
Admiral Sir William Pakenham, in largely Christle's for the
hammer next
The few hours he spent a Lan- they are not nearly so high above the Third Cruiser Squadron and artificial sunshine there is no need month. These form part of a large don were exciting, for an air bon-sea level as those at Alexandra the Battle Cruiser Force.'on board for windows; skies in which hell- and valuable, selection of paintings bardment started and the railway Palace. Also, Broadcasting House the Antrim, Australia, New Zea- copters buzz ilke taxis; men look- from British and Continental stations were in darkness, so he s surrounded by steel-frame land. and Lion. It was for this E like something between Peri- schools, and of Chinese porcelain saw little of London that time. buildings, which are believed to War service that he was created
cles and a Boy Scout, with hugely removed from Ardmore House, the This time he was in London when absorti. ultra-short waves very
puffed epaulettes to balance the London realderce of prominent
Three-quarters of a million people quickly..
officer in wireless, dictaphone and such gad-" Scottish collector, the late Mr.
gets carried hidden in the sleeves. were standing in queues to pass
HM.B. Hood in 1927-29, and has Henry James Laird. Among the the catafalque of the dead King-
since served at Portsmouth Bar-
NOT SATISFIED six Richardson works 19 "The
people who had come from all!
racks and also as store acer and
But with it all people are not all Scottish Lowlands," exhibited at parts of the country,-even a lar-
cashier at Hastar Hospital.
satisfied. An artist clamours for a the Royal Academy in 1894 and at ger procession than had passed the
return to the old exciting world of the Franco-British Exhibition 14
tomb of Lent.
passion and imperfection, and ex-.. years later.
citing uncertainty. The leader has planned to shoot a young man and girl from a space gun to the Moon and back, and in this experiment the agitator sees his chance,
FRENCH HONOUR FOR JEAN BATTEN
Miss Jean Batten, the New Zea- land air-woman, will fly to Paris to-day and be officially entertain ed during the week-end by the Aero Club of France.
Miss Batten will travel by 01- dinary passenger aeroplane, and it is stated to be the first time since she was a pupil that she has been town,
THE KING KEPT BUSI State business keeps the King in his temporary office at Bucking- ham Palace many hours every day. Several times recently he has not even paused for lunch, but had a tray of sandwiches
and "tea brought to his desk instead.
The King is very roud of “fin. ger food, and I once heard hun discussing its variation with two well-known hostesses aa expertly as any professional chef.
was a blind man. The old which had troubled Jubilee during the week, was gone, and she was able to partake of the special birthday tare. She also received telegrams, letters, valentines, and gifts rang-
ing from a toothbrush and a pull-
over to a doll,
'SUDDEN ILLNESS OF MR. HIRAM MAXIM
C.M.G. in June, 1919. He was squadron accountant
NEW SCOTTISH JUDGY
Installation Of Lord
Robertson
He leads an attack on the Space Gun-the most tremendous spec- tacle of its kind ever screened--but is too late. The young couple have been fired into space, and the story
Mr. Hiram P. Maxim, the gun inventor and the son of the late Bir Hiram Maxim, of Maxim-gun
London, Feb. 19. fame, has been taken to hospital
The Installation of Mr. T. Gra- at La Junta (Colorado) sufferingham Robertson, KC, as a Senator ends in Mr. Wells's fiue phrase, on with throat trouble. His cond of the College of Justice to All tion is described as serious.
the vacancy caused by the re- Mr. Maxim was on his way to tirement of Lord Hunter, California
The
took
a note of interrogation among the stars.
INDIA'S CRICKET MANAGER and he was accompanied by the duction, Mr. Menzies
B
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Miss Batten in 1934 broke the
He prefers savoury fillings him-
How "Things to Come" will ap- woman's record for an England self, his favourite being Stitut Australia flight; made the first solo cheese spread with chopped celery;
from Connecticus bs place in the Division Courtroom peal to the masses remains to be train with his wife when he was of the Court of Session!.
seen,, but there is no questioning return flight by a woman in 1935; and he drinks weak tea without
taken 111
the brilliance of Mr. Korda's pro- broke the England-Brazil record,
Lord President presided,
direction, sugar four or five times a day. also in 1935; and made the South
fuil and the power of a great deal of Atlantic crossing in the record DUCHESS OF YORK TO STAY AT
Major J. Britain-Jones, who has Lord Justice-Clerk and
the acting. In a long cast. I can iime of 134 hours.
EASTBOURNĄ
been appointed manager of Lench of Judges, with the excep only mention Raymond Massey, YORK HOUSE'S NEXT OCCUPANT It was stated in Eastbourne to- dia's cricket team for England, 18tion of Lord Pitman. The court- Cedric Hardwicke, Margaretta AGAINST THEIR OWN MOTION day that the Duchess of York whit the present Comptroller of the room was crowded with members Scott and Ralph Richardson.
of the Senior and Junior. Bar, and Although it has, been suggested shortly pay a visit to Corapton. Viceroy's Household. that the Duke and Duchess of Place for a period of rest and re-
He is an officer of the Blackof, the various legal societies and York will move into York House, cuperation after her recent flness. Watch and went out to India, with the general public,
that the letter be Compton Place is the
Lady Robertson St. James's Palace when the King
house Lord Willingdon. As an athlete he
present, ship directed ranks with the best the Army bas and alco Dr. M. E. Robertson, read with all due, oyalty and re- takes up residence at Buckingham Which King George occupied a Palace, I understand it is more year ago when he had a winter ever produced, and his physique is London., and Mrs. Hoy, London, spect. Mr. Wiliam Mill. principal sisters at the new Judge; Mr. c'erk, having read the letter, the likely that the Duke and Duchess holiday. at Eastbourne. Improve- superb. of Gloucester will make their homements and alterations have been He was the Army heavy-weight Angus Robertson, his son; Mrs. new Judge took the oaths of alle. there,
carried out in the past few months.boxing champion, a good Rugger G. W. T. Robertson. Glasgow. his glance and service. Having been Their present sulte at Bucking-
player, and is still a plus golfter sister-in-law: and Mr. J. H. Men-robed. he was invited by the Lord JUBILEE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY ham Palace, given to them by the
and a more than useful cricketer, teith Robertson, Glasgow, his President to take his seat on the bench with the judicial title of lale King and Queen Mary, con-
At à party in honour of the first who captains. the Viceroy's side. nephew,
Ascending the only Jubilee, the
Mr. Graham Robertson handed Lord Robertson. Lord Willingdon will come home which were birthday of sists of the rooms unce the schoolrooms and private chimpanzee to be born in the Lon- in April, and Major Brittain-Jones to the Lord President the letter bench, Lord Robertson shook hands quarters of the Duke of York and don Zoo, on Saturday, 50 poor will therefore be free to take over under His Majesty's sign manual with the other Judges, and before their brothers before they set children from St. Pancras were the management of the Indian nominating him a Benator of the taking his sest bowed to up their own establishments. preacnt. One of the adult guests side.
College of Justice, and his Lord-Lordships and then to the Bar.
was
their