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THE CHINA MAIL,
RADIO TOPICS
TO-DAY'S RADIO
Broadcast By Z.B.W.
ON 350 METRES
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W., on 350 metres:-
5.00-7.00 p.m.-General Pro- gramme (Victor and H.M.V. Re- corda by courtesy of Messrs. Moutrie & Company). "Merry Wives of Windsor-
Overture",
Victor Symphony Orchestra. "Goms From Dearest Enemy" "Gems From Frincess Flavia""
Victor Light Opera Company. "A Hunt in the Black Forest", "In a Clock-Store",
Victor Concert Orchestra. "Gems from The Mikado"
Victor Light Opera Company, "Life in Hungary-Funtasy",
GADGETS
Aid To Better Efficiency
we Are
The Prime Minister, in his talk on the Olympia Exhibition, made a point of the number of "gadgets" that were shown. The home of this particular type of wireless commodity. la undoubtedly tho Bulgin stand. For years the firm have specialised in these ingenioua aids to better efficiency, and the show is one of the most interesting in the Exhibition. If dubious about the condition of a certain valve in the set, here is a neat little Instrument that will give us the answer. It is of parti cular merit to the service man who Is continually testing sets.
An: other novelty indispensable for sereaned grid get is a shielded con- those who contemplate building a
nector for connecting to the anode of the S.G. valve. The connecting wire is Insulated, and then covered Wagner
with flexible wire, which may be The Ring of the Nibelungs
earthed to the adjoining screen, "The Rhinegold"
preventing capacity effects. The ....Arthur Fear: Fredrich semi-rigid effect of the connector ....Arthur Fear effectually proventa any chance of .Walter Widdop
a short-circuit, a fault very pre- .....Howard Fry valent with the usual type of con- Kentedy MacKenna nection. A new relay instrument London Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra.
enabling the listener to switch off "Siegfried"
the set in any part of the house ....Emil Schipper also includes a signalling device, Maria Olczewska and at 10s. 6d. is remarkably cheap. Rudolf Laubenthal
Frida Leider Neat wall jacks, in a variety of Vienna State Opera Orchestra patterns to harmonise with the Berlin State Opera Orchestra particular style of decoration, are Selected passages on eight double-shown. The set can be installed sided Black Label His Master's Voice Records.
Hungarian Rhapsody Orchestra. "Moraima-Spanish Caprice", "Dolores-Waltz" -Creatore's Band.
Wotan
Alberich
Loge Donner Froh
Wotan Erdo
Siegfried
Brunnhilde
Schorr
7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Re- port.
9.00-10.30 p.m.-Chinese General Programme.
10.30 p.m.--Cluse Down.
MICROPHONE FRIGHT
The strange panic that oc- casionally seizes people who come face to face with the microphone for the first time is one of those psychological effects which seem to trouble even the most hardened public speaker or artist.
I caune down in the train with In well-known British actor a day or (two ago says a Home writer. Ho had just returned from America and
in an out-of-the-way cupboard or store room, and the L.T. circuit can be switched on (or off) by Insertion of a plug
in the wall Jack, in any remote room.
THE OLYMPIA SHOW
The eighth annual Radio Ex- hibition comprised no fewer than 280. stands tenanted by British manufacturers. No effort W&3 spared to ensure that the 1929 show was the greatest over held, and the powerful aid of the Prime Minister was invoked to broadcast an Invita- tion everyone to visit the Ex-
hibition.
Passing through, turnstiles, the visitor was immediately attracted we had an interesting dis- by the beautiful blue
and gold cussion on this peculiar phenomen- colour scheme, the wide, spacious on. After some months work avenues, and the new central stair in Hollywood in connection with a case leading to the gallery exhibite.
"talkie" film, an experience which The new staircase was a great im- had not the slightest effect on his provement over the old method of nerves when in front of the mioro-reaching the gallery, but it was phone, he was asked to give a talk also successful in completely
SCHNEIDER TROPHY
The Most Impressive Broadcast Heard
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Saturday, September 7, will be recorded in wireless history the date of one of the most Im pressive broadcasts ever heard. A London writer says:-
A week before, on announcing my Intention to be present, pessimista held up their hands in diamay Over a million people will be there, they and, and if I esenpad being killed on the road,
of the seaplanes would probably break a wing, and hit the at 300 m.p.h. | Notwithstanding these fearsome possibilities, I decided to take the risk."
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Rising at 5 am. with the help of an enthusiastic young friend, the car was loaded with food and drink, binoculars and the WT. portable set. A hasty breakfast, and we were soon rolling along the road,
South of London we joined the long proccasion of cars and motor bikes, and aside from one hold-up
a farmer showed his contempt of the whole affair by driving a cow in the opposite direction-we ar rived within about five miles of the coast without accident. Here was indescribable confusion. Cars four abreast in the roadway, and each footpath. motor-bicycles on Movement was restricted to a few
inches, and after two hours' delay, WC eventually drove into Lee- on-Solent half an hour before the race began.
Calshot scaplane base, the sparkling Away on the right Was the
waves stretching before 19, the blazing sun overhead, and a won derful view of the westerly part of the course.
Then came the great moment- the start! A gun went off and almost immediately the S2 seaplane piloted by Waghorn left the water, rounded the East Cowes pylon and very soon a roar on the phones told us he had passed the starting point at Kyde pier.
SOUND V. WIRELESS
It is a well-known fact that the wireless listener actually hears a broadcast opera-to take a com. mon instance-before the spectator in the theatre. Take the case of a person sitting about 36 yards from the actor who is singing. second, and he vill hear the notes Sound travels at 1,100 feet a about a tenth of a second after they have been produced. If the from the actor, the electrical move- wireless listener is 200 miles away
ment caused by the sound waves on the stage microphone travels by
at one of the big American broad-hiding the large stand of the Mar-wire to the transmitting station casting stations. He arrived at coniphone Company. They were the studio on time. The an-unfortunate in the stand ballot; nouncer conducted him to his place and we wish them better luck next before the microphone, and after year. introducing him, walked away. Then the ordeal started.
and thence through the other at signal reaches the listener's re- 186,000 miles per second. The
ceiver (and his ear) in almost one thousandth part of a second sequently he actually hears
Con- the
spectator in Toice of the singer before the the theatre. So
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course, but П definite And one of the interesting features of the Schneider race to my mind was the demonstration of the extraordinary alowness of the sound wave travel
Monotony was avoided in allow ing individual taste to make the "I was to speak for 16.mintites. most of lighting and display effects The previous day I had prepared on the stands, and a tribute must and rehearsed the matter, and I be paid to the organising skill and would a listener in South Africa. attempted to talk into that silent the artistic ability that combined instrument. It was agony. My to make the whole exhibition such of voice sounded far away, and I mia-an effective and harmonious plc- Interval of time.. pronounced words, The ailence ture. and stillness seemed to accentuate As we indicated some weeks ago, my nervous condition, and If It had the principal development, was the not been for a glass of water, just prevalence of "all-electric" sets at my hand, I am sure I would have working direct from the mains in broken down. I would rather go houses where electric light is pear over Gosport, but the noise of The seaplane would suddenly ap through 20 first nights at the thea- available. These sets were more the exhaust would not be heard tre than do it again."
costly than those which require until it had covered a mile or so. He told me that
theone batteries for operation, but in the At first when we heard the roar of and only. Charlie Chaplin, was | long run they will be more an exhaust we would look in the
portons
who
ever came to accumulator charging.
once persuaded to broadcast. Ac- économical if one considers the direction where the sound came cording to the announcer, Charlle aaving in HT. replacements, and from. But no machine could be was one of the moat frightened the trouble and inconvenience of seen. Actually it was a mile or
so in advance of the sound point.
This sound, lag made hearing very difficult to large numbers of people who were relying on the loud speaker-installation.
If they
the studio 28 - most people know, before he went on the movies he was a music hall performer in Britain, and had many years' experience of theatre audiences. When Charlie Bat In front of the microphone he was like a child condemned to say his piece before the assembled relatives Ho continually mopped his brow, and at the end asked for a towel to remove the moisture that all the camerus in Hollywood could not bring out
This story may account for antipathy to the talking film. swears he will never make under any circumstances,"
his
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The B.B.C. have issued a pro- happened to be sitting between two gramme of talks and lectures cover-speakers, not equidistant, the near- ing the last three months of the est speaker would be heard just year. A new series at 10,45 am. slightly in advance of the other, includes talks on Common Sense in and this cross talk effect made the Household Work, which mr be of broadcast extremely interest to the good wife. Another follow. interesting departure blems of parents and, children, and on Wednesdaya throughout the session women M.P.'s will give talke
is on
GERMAN RECEPTION
Apart from this, the actual com- on "The Week in Parliament." mantary on the race was extremely Gardening, careers for boys and well done. To keep up a running girls, and other practical subjects talk for nearly two hours; together. are included among the afternoon with class and accurats description, talka at. 8.45 and 6.00 pan.
was a splendid feat of endurance,
In the Inte
such as Bernard be congratulated. As postcard Show, H. G. Wells, Dean Inge, Bit from a friend on holiday in Ger Oliver Lodge, and Professor J. B. 8. many says he heard the whole of Haldane appear, Thare is a Ilkall the race with perf t clarity, and he hood of frank and outspoken wishes to pay tribute to the en opinions, and in order that the gineers who made the marvellous distinguished speakers may be abls | broadcast possible.
famous names evening talke, and the two R.A.F. officers are to
to develop their arguments, a little longer than usual will be allotted to their talks, SN
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