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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925. (FEATURE SECTION).
RADIO NOTEN AND NEWS. Bernard Shaw On Broadcast Drama.
A permanent dramatic com- docay; I cannot be bothered to pany, trained sponlally for the write longhand, so I scribble down wireless broadcasting of plays, in the dialogue of a play in short tho idon Mr. George Bernard hand, just whorover I happen to Shaw suggests to the B.B.C. Hobo, on a bus, in a railway train, believes the invisible play could or in the strest. My socrotary offer scope to the old actor. deciphers the shorthand."
Mr. Shaw gave a reading of "O'Flaberty, V.C.," at 8.30 p.m. on November 20.
His opinions on broadcasting plays have boon given to the Balia Times.
SHORT CUTS.
Things to Know in a Receiver. You can put a satin finish on "I think you are on the wrong your newly drilled pinol by rub. tack about it," he told the B.B.C.bing machine oil on it with a fias "You want to broadcast plays grade of amory cloth, stool woul and, instead of recognising that or pumice. Rub only back and the invisible play is a now thing, forth and longth wise of the you persist in asking handsome panot. Remove the oil after the actresses and well-known plc-dosired finish is obtained. torial producers to get up ordinary Cut a hole in the large ond of a theatrical performances and allow long-necked gourd, tako out tho the public to overhear the dia-seeds, cut off the small and, insert a speaker unit and you have a loguo. That is absurd,
good loudspeaker.
What the B. B.C. have to do is to form a company of good drama- A small piece of vasolinod tic roadors, regardless of thoir Leard-board with a little powdorod ago, appearance, and memory, carbon sprinkled on it makes but very particular as to their an officiant grid leak. voices and powers of expression and characterisation, with a good ancle to read the necessary ox planations and directions, and koop this company as B per- manent dramatic staff.
"Many actors and actresses who have lost their place on the stage through losing their youth, their good looks and their mo Inury, could do admirablo' work for broadcasting," he says,
Diamond shaped dial markers can be cut from white celluloid and glued to the panel directly above the dial.
Test phonos by dragging the tipe over a tin can. If you hear a faint scratching noise, your phones are O. K.
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THANKS TO WIRELESS. Women have become more in- torostad in politics through the Queen Victoria had a beauti-influence of radio. This is tho ful voice and firal-rato dolisory conclusion made at Wgy, Schen- at an age when she could not ootady, from correspondence re- have played any part on the coived from thousands of sources stage presentably, except the
on this subject. Durso in Romeo and Juliet.
SUN IS BLAMED. The signals hoard in radio sets during the attempts to listan in on Mars wore caused by tho action of the sun's rays on the
"A woll-selected company. taking advantage of its own invisibility would soon develop a special art of broadcasting and enable you to do at least one play a wook botter for your purpose than you will ever got it earth, explains Abbo Moreux, the famous French scientist. Tho done by sending to the theatru disturbances might have been in- for a performance."
When be broadcasts, Mr. Shawcreased by the proximity of Mars. will read his play and explain the situations and the dialogue as be would to a company of actors who were going to produce the play.
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Speaking of his own method of writing plays, Mr. Shaw said "My writing shows signs of senilo
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