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The revised rules of Auction Bridge were to come into force)
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1924.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
A Retrospect of Home Broadcasting. Recently the BBC celebrated the programme which was dus to a appear in the morrow'a papara.
the
as the Portland Club on the 1st its first anniversary, when of January, and will replace special programme, reminiscent How could it well be otherwise, those of 1914. There are, how of the old days before the incep when not only the staff was
amerging from aver, very few drastic changes,tion of broadcasting, was transĮ barely
vital, artistes, and the majority of the altera mitted from 2 LO. That pro-chrysalis stage, but, what was tions are merely verbal. The mast gramme brought back the days perhaps more
when LO was non-existent, and speakers, and instrumentalists importans are the following:-
when the few wireless enthusiasts were as yet "microphoneshy,” real experimenters-feverishy and in some canas may be not
impressed with looked forward to the weekly fully
1. Passing is now to rank as
a bid.
The Revoke penalty reduced from 150 points to
3. A penalty of 30 points, above the line, for looking at a turned and quitted trick,
the half hour's transmission from enormous potentialities of wire- is Writtle. Since then broadcast-less. Such a state of affairs so 100.ing has made tremendous strides, short time aga does but accentuate eight stations have been erected, the vastness of the progress which and listeners all over the country has been made in organisation, emphasises the innate are able to tune in to a complete and programme from one or other of wisdom which has been displayed the transmissions every evening "by so many performers in realis rites Ralph Wade in Popular ing so speedily that they were not dealing with a "here to-day and gone to-morrow" phase orj passing whim.
4. In cutting, equal cards follow their suit values, "Clubs being lowest and Spades highest.
5, Illegal bids are clearly defined.
6. A how clause is added
the penalty for an under call.
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**The man in the street is apt to read casual press references to the remarkable progress of broad- casting and yet not fully, nor even partially, absorb the trus significance of what he reads. Many new listeners may even hardly realise that progress has been made in the last nine, or eveo six or three months.
By way of contrast, one has only to remember that to-day the current week's programmes are cut and dried four or five weeks before performance, and whereas,
in
the late spring or early summer two or three talks were broadcast weekly, at the present moment speakers are al- ready fixed at the rate of two per night well into the New Year.
When one takes up a now hobby one often accepts it simply as one finds it and many persons do not
STAGES OF PROGRESS. bother to inquire whether the
The appreciation which has state of perfection or otherwise. they fine is a matter of years generally greeted simultaneous standing or only days. As an broadcasting, and the successful of Sir Ernest example of what I mean, take a transmission perfectly non-technical man who Rutherford's speech some few weeks back, have added another had a wireless set installed say a week after simultaneous broad-distinct milestone on the road of casting started; it is quite possible progress. The possibilities in this that he knew nothing whatever direction are so rast that it is of broadcasting before he decided futile to hazard even a guess 23 to have a set, and be accepts to what the future may hold.
The remarkable case with simultaneous broadcasting as an element of his new amusement, which General Smuts' speech noither caring, nor bothering to was heard all over the country is care, that had he had his a weer but another instance of advance- been ment, and the thrill of hearing so earlier he would have
far distant as London or South without S.B.”
Wales, the pipers' inspiring It is mainly for newcomers'
played xway music that I am writing, but it may Aberdeen, and this with the aid possibly interest also those who only of a crystal set, is one of have watched the growth to be the many advantages which may reminded of milestones, and for be off-set against some of the others to remember at which stage known defects of simultaneous they joined the merry throng. transmissions. It should be re-
I personally, cannot claim to be membered that progress such a hoary-headed veteran at experiment are brothers, one
almost
twin the game, but it is just the very might
gay | which I have
amount of progress brothers, and the defects of all compensated for me realise things.
by the brinäce - athar, It seems strange to consider as Military bands, which are now real veteran those who can speak such a popular feature in the with authority of the actual |B.B.C. programmes, have only birthday of the B.B.C.. when one been rendered possible by the remembers that that officist date adequate studio accommodation of birth is but Novembers 14th. which progress has afforded. 1922!
Those must have been hectic days, and I can well picture the difficulties the B.B.C. staff must have had to cope with at Magnet House when practically the whole of them worked in one room, including typewriters busi- ly clicking, and possibly two or more "Uncles" each striving to out-broadcast the other on their respective telephone extension with perhaps the chief engineer "blasting" on his in another cor- ner all at the same time. A kind of advance simultaneous broad- casting in fact!
up
io
and
One must also not forget the excellence of the land line trans- missions which are such a essential part of simultaneous broadcasting, and of the broad- casting of speechas at notable functions.
of
Each increase public facilities which advance- ment provides, introduces the danger of familiarity breeding contempt of those elements which go to make up the new "stant,"
themselves but which in wonderful achievements.
These few remarks of mine to many may seem commonplace, and to ardent veterans in wire-
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past event and thinks to one- It is probably not realised by self, "I wish I had taken more one quarter of those who broad-notice of this or that," and one cast for the first time nowadays strives to remember details of that it was really only a matter things in which one's interest is of a few months since the micro-awakened late. In broadcasting| phone rested 00 those oft-things are happening thick and mentioned, yet very actual, soap fast, years are crowded into days boxes. Somehow soap boxes do as it were, and it is "not" "a biti | not sound quite in keeping with necessary to be technical to be" the present London studio.
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MELBA CONCERTS IN AUSTRALIA
Early in 1924 Dame Nellie
One speaks and thinks now of the Studio as if there had never been any other, but not one of the least interesting features of being
on the spot" was to watch the Melba will direct a season_of construction of this remarkable room, to see the innumerable skelton frames each covered with sacking stretched tight, afid each in their turn affixed to the walls
rand opera in Australia. The art director, Mr. Henry Russell, who has engaged all the young. women of the Melba opera class
or ceiling in order to produce the in Melbourne, said that he was not only extremely pleased ocholess effect which is such a
with, but very surprised at, feature of the broadcasting chan- the excellence of the voices ber. Here again is an instance which he heard They were, of the acceptance of the "fait
in fact,
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with little or no fully fresh that be had ever thought by the casual visitor of heard in his life, and Signor the steps leading thereto.
Armaldo Schiavoni, the second It is giving away no state secret conductor, who listened to the to divulge that in those com-class at the same time, had -ex- paratvely recent days program pressed an opinion similar to mes were almost hand to mouth his. The voices are as fine as affairs, perhaps mid-day one day any Italian chorus that I have would only see the completion of heard ” added Mr. Russell
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