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a world of catch phrases. This is the difficulty of trying latest arrival isDance it to |to put over a “gak”, or “Bne radio which has been added without expecting immediate 10. "Say it with music,” as applause."
the result of an enterprise by When the movies 'first came the management of the Marine into use, this was considered Gardens Ballroom in Portobello, quite a perplexing problem. It whereby radio dance music is to was difficult to get men and be utilised in addition to the ordin- woman to set before a camera as ary- orchestral music, saya an though they were performing Edinburgh paper. The primary before a yaat audience. Pan-attraction In this connection is tomime, in America, was' a new that the programme of the far art, and in ease of the movies the famed Savoy Band, London, factors had to go evan beyond pen- will be received at the ball room, tomime-they had to move their so that Edinburgh dancers may lips in conformance with words / danas to the identical jari strains. they were supposed to talk which float through the Savoy With the passaga of time Hotel in the Metropolis, simul and "experience, however, this tansonàly and in unison with difficulty has been practically London -" jazzers," It is also obliterated and acting before a hoped to "bring-in," some of the
of the British Broad-" camera is looked upon as sereneis." plums
and hopefully, by the accomplishexsting -Company's dance prom ed actor, as though the per-gramme, which may be broadcasti formance were being staged from one or other of the stations before an audience.
It is expected that a wireless.
Radio broadcasting, still in its receiver will be in operation experimental stages, has the within the month. At present by same problem to solve. Experi-means of a radio amplifying enced actors are stago-struckscheine, considerable improve when they face the microphone.ment has been made in "extend- Used as they are to appearing ing" the orchestra to the furthest before a large gathering, they parts of the hall. It has for long become almost speechless. and been a drawback 'that at the ex- lose their histrionie faculties for tremities of the floor area dancers the moment when they hats could hear little of the music, a nothing but a microphone in a fact which caused congestion at quiet room to speak to.
the centra, where the orchestra is stationed. This has now been overcome by the installation of what is termed "a focal micro- phone circuit," which consists of three microphones placed in a
Imagine a comedian trying to crack a joke to his broadcast audience. To get it over, he must put himself into the spirit of it, he must act the joke just as
he acts it on the stage. And the suitable position in front of the comedian's "acting of a joke is forchestra, a wire which runs -tô into just as important as the joke to the foot of the ball itself, in getting it over to the fan amplifier, and a loud speaker audience. Yet it would be to no from which the music is thrown avail if he had to send it across out in increased volume. This the air to his audience miles has been done at each end of the ballroom, and thus the large floor away.
Try as best he might to get space may be utilised to its full that joke across, he doesn't know extent. The apparatus whether he succeeded. There is assembled, tested, and finally no applause. Not even those installed by Messrs. J. G. Mac- few attendantrim the studio may kintosh, radio engineers. appland, because they might dis- This scheme of the local turb the broadcasting perform-microphone circuit will presently ance of bis success or intimation have an ingenious application at of failure.
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But, perhaps, this is only par-House. In this instance the queues allel to what the movie actors went of people who on occasion gather through in the primary stages of outside will be treated to the Perhaps radio music of the orchestra inside the that industry. actors will get used to this ball. Loud-speakers outside will, bothersome. nerve-wracking waft the music to the waiting silence which they get in reply to people, and speculation as to their work. Perhaps the mesh what they
playing notes and publicity the movie will be a pleasurable variation actors get now will be duplicated from temarks on the inclemency somewhat in the case of radio of the weather. actors.
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Or, perhaps, there will come a One result of the wireless craze time when sight will bo trans is that a great bush has fallen mitted by radio, just as there is upon suburban families, and many coming the day when sound will neighbour-annoying noises have be included with movie per-entirely ceased formances, when the voices will be heard while their actions are projected 00 the screen.
actors
Tais is no will fancy; because there is already talk of just such fact, Bome a possibility. In optimistic inventors are at work ob some sort of apparatus to effect this result.
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well fully as
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JOBY be Brranged so that the broadcast- ing actor might be able to see his multitudinous, scattered aud- swered by Dr. Ernst Foerster, The railroad systems of the ience, enjoy their beaming faces, who showed that to raise the United States have no train hear their applause and be speed of the Leviathan to 28.25 scheduled to run so fast; al-encouraged to
better perfor
It is almost too much to expect
You never can tell.
Once we made an awful ro%, but we seldom do it now:
The gramophone bas ceased to make a dig:
We never ping and peng, or lift our voica in song.
For we're always listening, listening listening-in.
Now we never dance a bit, and as quiet as mice we sit:
We biffed Annt Jane because she dropped a pin.
Father's put his clubs away. and at bridge we never play,
For all the family's listening, listening, in.
This rage for wireless waves quite a lot of worry saves..
For Mother the spring-cleaning won't begin :.
Mabel's givan or her knitting) and now her fiance's quitting.
Because she's always listening-
in.
When the wave is rather long and the current extra strong.
We hear the mark keep falling in Berlin.
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But the doctor's "in the place we've all caught broad- cast face."
Through listening, listening,
listening-in.
(R. H, Roberts, in the Windsor' Magazine.)
Į knots sea-speed would necessitate though the speed is approached mances, jan increase of her horse-pawer to daring the summer season be- 1185,000, and her length would tween Caniden and Atlantic City, but Our idea of what is rapiduning (have to be increased to about! It would be quite possible, with bas undergone many progressive 1,000 feet and her beam o 1 our more powerful engines, and
SUBSTITUTE FOR TELEPHONE. changes in a few generations. feet. He showed further that to in spite of our heavy trains, to Paris: A remedy for the in- The contemporaries of the firsflrecure a 33-knot vessel the length run trains at 60 miles an hour; tolerable shortcomings of the railway regarded a prediction of would have to be 1.120 feet, the but of late years it has been the French telephone service is sug 20 miles an hour as almost beam 147 feet, and the horse- policy of the management to regested by Professor Turpain, of blasphemous. An English tech-power 380,000. Hence it was con- dace the 'speeds of our fastest the Faculty of Science at Poitiers. nical work of reference, published cluded that if we wish to cross express trains.
He insists that wireless telephony less than a century ago, express the ocean at a speed of over 25.
has now been developed to such ed the opinion that no locomotive knots we must do so in a trans-i The writer travelled in the cab a point that it will very shortly engine would or could ever,exceed atlantic air liner.
of the New York Central's be possible to abolish all telep- A JAVA SENSATION.
On February 11th at Tangor- 30 miles per hour. Today the fast With regard to travel by rail, twentieth-century train for most bone exchanges and telephonists. express and the racing automobile the indications are that 60 miles of the distance from New York and secure inter-communicationsang, 20 miles from Batavia, have taught us that one is merely an hour will be the maximum to Chicago and back, and by of all kinds with absolute severe fighting occurred between idling along when he travels aspeed for many years to come careful stop watch timing secured certainty merely by utilising 41 native religious facatics and such rates, and now the aeroplane, The fastest train in the world to some remarkable records, includ- various modifications of wave-the police. The fanatics, armad with records rapidly approaching day, travelling on a regular ing four successive miles in the lengths, ranging from, say, one with native swords and kniyes, 300 miles an hour, has led us to schedule, was placed in service in Mohawk Valley at 83 miles an metre and a half to three or four declared that they wished to pro- claim a new kingdom at Mount expect almost anything. The July of this year on the Great hour and considerable stretches metres. Scientific American. says:- Western Railway. The new train of tangent down the Hudson "Each subscriber," Professor Gedeb. All of them wore amulets. The speed of travel in the im-runs between Cheltenham and River Division at a sustained Turpain states, would have a The native police under the direc mediate future is essentially a Paddington, and its maximum speed of 75 miles an hour. Com-sending apparatus which would tion of the Dutch police, tried to question of economics, for the speed is obtained between Swin pleting the run, the train left enable him to communicate with disarm the fanatics, after which cost rises rapidly, capecially in den and Paddington, a distance Albany 29 minutes, and in spite every other subscriber on his fighting ensued, resulting in one ocean travel, and there is a limit 7734 miles, which the time-table of numerous slowdowns made the system. On the other hand, he Dutch police officer and one native receiver that policeman being killed while 27 of to the price the public will pay. requires to be covered in 75 run of 131.73 miles from Albany would have a So far as ocean travel is concern- minutes, or at a speed of 61.8 to Spayten Dayvil, New York, in would be capable of receiving the fanatics were killed and a ed, the question has been so miles per hour.
131 minutes.
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