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TELEVISION MAKES
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America's jukebox addicts switch their custom--and juke firms turn their eyes to the English market
BY EVELYN
WEBBER
is
NEW YORK, May 25, install it free. The inducement
NCE, 60 years ago in the absence of any oullay er main-
site tenance costs for the
owner America, there was who stands at the same time to jukebox. Taller than a make a good portion of her rent man, made of brilliant painted from the machine. wood and shiny steel, and de New York's Jukeboxes earn about ench. Of this the corated with coloured lights, it £30 a week
operate gets about two-thirds and was an automatic gramophone, out of it he
buys new records at which played a record every 2. 34. ench. (The average retall time. someone put a nickel price of records here is 3. d.). playings Each record lasts for 200 (threepence) in the slot. People or more, carning at least 276. 9d. flocked to hear it play.
ever its purchase price. Each Juke. box holds 12 to 24 records. Soon there were other juke-
As the records become worn they boxes. Nearly four hundred are transferred to less busy locations thousand of them in fact; one on the operator's "route" of about 30 'machines, When they are useful or more to every three hundred no more he sells them to a second- and fifty people in the country, hand five shillings each. They blared hit tunes in the res- taurants, and in the
bars,
NEAR PANIC
and at the corner drug-stores; D' ISCOUNTING the wages of his
never
the stream of nickels stopped.
Now television has challenged dve shillings each. the jukebox-free television; and the jukebox boom has
assistant (if he has one) the weekly cost to on operator! of servicing his Jukeboxes is about
broken.
Of 286,000 television sets now in use in the United States, nearly a quarter are in public places. In New York cafes and bars there are already 10,000 of them, compared with 30,000 jukeboxes, and television is only in its infancy,
IT'S FREE
"With television jeopardising this morey-making proposition you can't wonder at the near panic in the business," one manufaturer's agent told me. "But we were due for a depression. The teen-agers don't use the boxes much, except in Hollywood films; they the money. There's about all round."
haven't got less money
Laughing uncasily he added: "Of course,
It's only a temporary setback. When the novelty of television wears off. people will return to the jukeboxes, Menn- while we won't make as many new ones us before. We used to
Now we'll
second-hand ones.
INSTEAD of putting a nickel sell a thousand new and second-
in the jukebox slot, customers hand machines a year, now enjoy a free look at sports concentrate on events or other televised high. It all cula costs." spot while they sip their beer or milk, or eat their sandwich, Against this completion, juke men admit their business is "off."
The juke men are trying overy- thing to stave off ruin. Strong corps of salesmen are being sent out to induce restaurant owners to install Jukeboxes instead of, or in addition to, television.
"You see," one of them toki Where
television is advertised me, "while there is nothing outside the bars owners are cultural about the jukebox, it implored to add the words
"Jukebox, certainly was profitable.”
too." And jukeboxes
hils
He was right. Before tele are leaving the assembly line with more coloured lights, brighter vision came the people of plastic, shinier steel and completely America were feeding 960,000,- visible operation, all to attract fun 000 nickels (£12,000,000) a year customer's attention-and
nickel. into the jukeboxes. Yet the biggest costs only £250.
There is even talk of doubling the threepenny charge to hear à The jukebox is bought by an record, and reducing its playing "operator" who premades a cafe or time of three minutes to two or bar owner to permit him to less in busy spots. Or enlisting the
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ONE WORD-COST TWO SHIPS
Typist wrote 'empty' instead of 'plenty'
by W. A. CRUMLEY
ECAUSE a young sailor nilsheard one word and wrote
B down "empty" instead of "plenty" of ammunition,
the destroyers Kelly and Kashmir were lost in the Crete disaster seven years ago,
In the secrets of this tragedy, disclosed in Admiralty despatches, reference is made to a "calligraphic error."
The writer of the confession on what went wrong in the Battle of Crete is Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham-now Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope.
He told me: "Calligraphic is not the word. It was really a phonetic error, It happened at my end. When the signal was being transeribed and typewritten the young chap mis- heard the word 'plenty' and wrote down 'empty.'
"I had intended to take the Battle Flect out to meet the enemy convoy at dawn. That signal made it impos- sible."
Then he said: "I shall always be convinced that had it not been for that phonetic error, that one word, we should never have lost the two destroyers." The Kelly was com- manded by Lord Mountbatten.
In language worthy of Nelson, Admiral Cunningham - tella in his despatch of other errors, and punctuates his cold. appraisal with criticisms of an admiral more biting than in any previous account of a wartime action. May 22, 1941: "The rear- admiral commanding the 15th Cruiser Squadron was present-
A new tone-nrm has been devised to reduce record weared with a unique opportunity of
5000 permitling
playings in- Etend of 200, thus substantially reducing the chief operating cost.
destroying the lurge German senborne invasion force.
"Unfortunately, in the face "And," said A manufacturer, of heavy air attacks and with "there is always England. Our ack-nck ammunition stocks be- jukeboxes would go well there, ginning to run low, he decided con't you think? Thirty per cent that he would not have been of our
sales are made abroad-justified in pressing on to the
n Jukebox Kolng to here's
easily alter attack, and gave the order to Casablance. We can
withdraw. the mechanism to take pennies in the slot.
More ill-fuck
By heavens, it was difficult
said Admiral King to
Vincent Evans
T
TTEN miles from where tho battleship Worspite lics derelict on the Comish "The situation "You don't think people in Britain
Was ull rocks, dapper little Admiral King would want to put 3d. in to hear, a doubtedly difficult for him, as told me at his cottage of "the 25. 38. record play for three minutes? this attack was certainly on a ghastly decision I had to make on They wouldn't like to inflet their majestic scale. But it appears that dreadful day. May 22, 1941." own choice of music upon other that no diminution of risk people in a restaurant? And you don't could have been achieved by think your Government would let retirement and that, in fact, us have dollars for our Jukeboxes anyway? Oh!"
Information box-- MOST SACKED
CITY
Terusalem, over which the shadow of Mohammed hangs once again, is the most-sacked city of the
world
Fron the time about 1400 B.C.—when the Israelites wrested the place from the Jebusitrs, the Holy City has hac few pencetul years.
It was the scene of great bloodshed when the split eare between the tribe of Judah and other tribes, and Icans of Israr) entered the city.
GBG B.C. Nebuchad- nezzar of Babylon sacked Jerus lem and took Judah into captivity.
In 332 B.C. Alexander the Great entered the cly pence- fully. but ten years later Ptolemy of Envol smashed
through way
the defences
Then camo Pompey In 65 B.C. Pompey beileged and took the city. Under Herod in 37, a great part of Jerusalein was rebuilt on Roman, lines, but in AD. 70, when the Jews revolted against the Romans, Titus inflicted great carnage on the inhabitants
In A.D). OK come Chros- roes of Persia, and the city Was again sacked, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre being badly damaged.
In G20 Herselius, defeated Chrosroes, and entered the
City
Romans ousted
Eight years later Omar ousted the Romans, bul did ttle damage in the elty, Ho bullt a wooden mosque,
1009; Crusaders entered Jerusalem.
11871 The City reconquered by Saladin.
1817: Selim I. of Turkey took Jerusalem from the Egyptians
1018:
Viscount Allenby wrested the City from the Turks,
the safest place for the squadron would have among the enemy ships."
been
"This is not a reply to. Cunning- ham. He is my friend. He must Gay what
he has to say."
The commander of the 15th Cruiser Squadron was the then Rear-Admiral Edward Leigh my
bombing
He threw away a cigarette and quickly it another. "The despatch describes
my decision as a difficult one-and by heavens it was. Have you ever seen a destroyer sunk? It breaks your heart,
I made But this is the thing.
an decision-after
hour of of my ship, the Nalad, at three bombs a minute, 180 in all- He and his ships were being and
made it to the best of my [dive-bombed_continuously for judgment. I did order the ships to
three and a half hours. The withdraw. despatch.continues:-
Stuart King.
had
"But as far as I now know, not
"In the meantime a further and of the troops in that German convoy got through to Crete. They unlucky decision
been turned back. If our object was to Des prevent them from getting to Crete,
we achieved it"
taken. Rear-Admiral,
troyers (I. G. Glennie) correct ly decided that the cruiser Dido must withdraw from the Ægean because of lack of ack-ack am- munition.
"But from very natural re- luctance to leave other ships of his squadron to face the music after he himself had retired, he took the cruisers Ajax and Orion with him. This decision, although such results could hardly have been forescen, de- prived the hard-pressed C.S.16 (Rear-Admiral King) of as- Histance.
'Burn the stools'
Admiral King then told me how, after 17 days at sea, destroyers out of fuel, he gave the order: "If you
have no fuel, burn the cabin stools." Patrolling near Crete in the early morning of May 22, the Perth, bls only fighting cruiser, was hit.
We went back in the Nelad to help her,"
he sald. "We got five miles behind our force. Thien they started to bomb us."
He picked up a copy of "Queen Victoria's Letter" with a three-inch bomb splinter still buried in its pages. That Is a
near miss," he sold to me, "which happened during that fateful hour." It was the Old "After the 180 bombs, we sighted Lady who saved me.
the German convoy and I had to the make my decision. I
engaged
five that the battleships Queen Elizabeth convoy from the Nalad, still
miles and Barham had no pom-pom am-
from bway munition loft.
Tho In fact they had force of holes in her below the
Nalad
Late that night a Most Immediate message was received by me from the rear-admiral commanding the Seventh Cruiser Squadron, from which it appeared, owing to a calil graphic error (explained above),
plenty."
nty).
couple
As a result the battleships were ordered back to Alexandrin, leaving
water.
my own.
had
"Warspite was hit by a 1,000-
Kasmir and Kelly to their fate. But pounder. We were both short of Cunningham gives praise, too
"On the credit side, the Navy's
ack-ack ammunition. That is why:
1.
gave my order."
duty
was achieved. No enemy ship
Two years later when King, at
or transport succeeded in reaching 55, was retired as a full admiral.. Creto.. "The losses sustained is wife died. He now lives alone should not blind one to the magni- in his whitewashed collage, growing: ficent courage and endurance that grapes and cabbages. was displayed throughout. I have never felt prouder of the Mediler- ranent Fleet than at the close of these operations."
Beliind him atretch the Goonhilly Downs-and In front of him the sca. and the relic of the Warsplio which.
rescued him,
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