1930-10-07 — Page 11

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930.

RADIO TOPICS

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will

(8033).

Humoreske (Dvorak).

Mischa Elman.. Violinist (6820).

Juscha Heifetz, Violinist (8691).

.ba broadcast to-day. from the Ava Maria (Schubort),

Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 865. metres:

5 p.m.-European Programme Adagio (Bach), of Recorded Music.

3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (Approx. Children's. Programme of Record- ed Music.

Dance of the Toy Regiment,

Victor Salon Orch. (19849). Songs for Children, Erva Gilea

Soprano (20212), Songs for Children, Alice Green-

Soprano (19830).

Wynken, Blyken and Ned, The Sugar Plum Tree,

Sally Hamlia-Reading with incidental music (203-10).

Three Billy Goats Gruff,

The Little Red Hen.

Georgene Faulkner-The Story

Lady (20074). 5.30 p.m. (Approx.)

Music.

The National Game-March, The Black Horse Troop,

Band

Stausa's Band (19741).

The Whistler and His Dog, The Warbler's Serenade,

Arthur Pryor's Band (18809).

Trovatore-Anvil Chorus (Verdi).

Forge in the Forest,

Arthur Pryor's Bund (1987).

Pageantry-March.

Colossus of Columbin-March,

1

Harmonious Blacksmith (Handel),

Alfred Cortot Pianist (6752), Tabia Casals, Violoncello

Solo (6635).. 7. p.m.-Operatic Gems. Rigoletto (Act 3).

Guiseppe De Lucu, Baritone (8161). Barbiere de Siviglia (Eossini),

Marion Talley, Soprano (6580). Bohemian Girl (Balle),

Clarence Whitefl, Baritone (6732). Carmen (Bizet),

"

Maria Jeritza with Chorus (8091). Carmen-Chanson du Toreador

(Bizet),

Lawrence Tibbett, Faritone

(8124).

8 pmChinese Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.

9 p.m.-Weather Report.

11 p.m.-Close Down.

"WOBBLY" SINGERS.

DRAWBACKS.

MORE NOISE THAN MUSIC.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

SCHOOLBOY

AUTO RADIO.

15 PART AND PARCEL OF GOOD THEORY THAT HE STUM

DARKNESS.

MOTORING.

The public 18 rapidly becoming The discovery of George Fra aware of the fact that auto radio Howard Guinness, a boy aged is a means through which one can of Shrewsbury School, lying dead- obtain a great deal of enjoyment with a gunshot wound in the head Vacation time is approaching and in a shed at his home in Chayne almost every motorist is consider-Walk, Chelsea, yas described at an ing the advisability of installing a inquest in London recently. radio aut in his car, The radio set | His mother, Mrs. Afthild Guin- Whereas radio engineers used to in the car offers a different type ness, said that her son had talked strive to get more and more Ben of enjoyment from the radio set in of doing some shooting, during a .sitivity in a receiver, the art has the home. The difference exista in holiday in Norway,

now progressed to the point where that in the automobile the Indivi- Dr. John Nigel Loring suggested they can got more sensitivity than dual is immediately, placed in athat the boy right have stumbled it is practical to use, according to small work by himselt, and music in the darkness of the shed, where the discussions on August 20, be- or reception coming in the car there was no window, and pulled fore the Institute of Radio En- gives one the impression that these the trigger of his gun as ho fell.. gineers in session at Toronto, programmes.are being played for Police-constable Stephens said there were pellets in the roof of the shed. The right-hand barrel had been discharged.

Ontario.

. Manufacturers who have turned out Buper-sensitive, receivers, thinking, they were giving the

Ringling Broa, and Barnum TEACHER'S COMPLAINT OF THE Public what it wants, found that

and Bailey's Band

(22-17).

It's a Long way to Tipperary,

Victor Novelty Band. (Approx.)-Vaudeville

The Brox Sisters (19921),

Then be Happy Are you Sorry, Jack Smith-

Whispering, Baritone (1986). I married the Bootlegger's Daughter, How's Your Folks and My Folks,

The Happiness-Boya Keep your Skirts down Mary Ann, If I had a Girl like You,

voice.

WIRELESS.

"You have only to listen to the wireless," he said, "to hear these wobby singers. One of the sad (1973)-things-is that people in outlying districts hear these wireless wob- blers and think it is the thing to do, so try and imitate them. They think it is emotion whereas, course, it is instability.

him alone.

"BLUFFED THEM."

AMERICAN GANG LEADER INTERVIEWED,

London, Sept. 1. Jack Diamond, King of the New York gangsters, embarked in the Belgenland and concealed his iden-i tity for two days, while his exploits were the talk of the ship. He then declared his identity.

Any device or design that would

A Typical Auto Set. "get more distance" was in the old

The Continental receiver has duya heralded as a sensational been designed to fit any car and The Coroner: From the fact of piece of news. To-day "more dis- can be installed in a very short the pellets being in the roof, It tance," which in a radio set means time. The dimensions are 17x6x5 seems to be clear that the gun was more sensitivity, means more noise inches. The sot employs the use fired with the butt towards the Seta can easily be of four screen-grid tubes. A 227 floor, apparently when it was being than music. made which theoretically will tube is used in the frat audio and carried.

A verdict of accidental death was reach out unbelievable distances, one audio tube is used in the but in practice the many electrical output stage. The mechanical con-returned. noises occurring between: the struction of the receiver is excep stations and the set prevent the tionally rigid, being made 80, in use of such receivers.

order to withstand the constant knocking which comes from riding. A neat arrangement has been de- signed for quick service and in- stallation. Removable cables golve same public turning on them and this problem. Those cablés make declaring their sets were "no good" it possible for one to

remove the because they were too noisy. Thus set from the car in five minutes. the practical side of set design An exceptional neat system of 6 p.m.

Mr. George Dodds, the New begins to deminate the purely remote control is supplied with the Music.

castle teacher of singing, continu- theoretical engineering considera-receiver. A flexible calling which Kentucky's Way of Sayin' Gooding his lectures at the summer tions in radio, which means the enables one to install the set in

Mornin',

course in music teaching at Ox-sets for the coming year will pro- any part of the car proper, which Interviewed, by the Daily Herald, Tie me to your Apron Strings Again,

ford, condemned the "wobbly" bably be less sensitive than some he may desire, is supplied. A num- he said he "guossed he bluffed them

produced last year.

ber of sets of his type have been all" by instructing "the boys" to Little Change In Design, installed in rumble seats with tell the authorities he was on the Another feature brought out in flexible cable leading underneath Baltic.

He would have liked to visit the discussion of the set design the car and up to the steering

This method of up the bar, so my boys crossed over papers August 20, was that little wheel on which the remote control England, "but apparently they put that is unusual or radical may be is mounted. expected in set design for several installation has always met with to the Continent and I'll meet them years since the engineers are work- the approval of the owners of the later.”

set has been "It has been a good trip over," ing on plans for, that far ahead. car in which the Better tone quality due to the pre-installed for oft-times it has been he stated, "but. say, some of you servation of sidebands is becoming impossible to install the set in people want to learn poker."

A fellow-passenger sald that Auto radio has also brought to when Diamond, inspired by vanity, generally recognized as desirable back of the dash board, practice.

To put it simply, the part of the light a number of supposed impos-declared his identity, he was be

The women made a-hero of radio receiver which tunes in a sibilities which to-day are actual sieged.

He slept in the mornings and set- station and tunes out an unwanted ones. Imagine driving along in an him. one is guilty in this process of also automobile and thousand miles slicing off some of the desirable away. The engineering effort re-tled down after dinner to gamble quired to perfect sets of this type at poker and cleaned up hundreds The more selective one's set, is tremendous, and auto radio to of pounds.

The news that Diamond was on that is, the more quickly a station day stands as another outstanding

of American en-the Belgenland was conveyed by comes in and goes out as you turn achievement your dial, the more likelihood is gineers. The installation on the the trans-Atlantic telephone to the there of tone distortion, or, as the automobile should not in any way New York police, who replied that engineers call it, "sideband cat hamper the driver or the comfort- there was no warrant for his arrest

able seating of the passengers. in the United States. ting."

Diamond subsequently landed in The use of what is called "band Everything required to produce re-.

con- the United States. filter tuning," or "flat top tuning," sulta is hidden except for the Germany, and was shipped back to gives the desired selectivity, but small Continental remote

unit. This

unit. or trol

tuning still retains the sidebands natural tones, and, while only has a small pilot light which IN RURAL ENGLAND! few sets used it last year, all the allows the operator to recognize better sets this coming season will what part of the broadcast band have this method of preserving his set is tuned to. The drain on natural tone embodied in their de the radio set on the automobile siga.

battery is very small and should at no time seriously effect a great discharge on the car battery.

Aileen Stanley-Billy Murray

(19795).

My man is on the Make, I've got It, Helen Kane-

Comedienne (22175). 6.30 p.m-Chamber Music. Quartettsatz in C Minor (Schubert),

Budapest String Quartet

(9273).

Chant D'Amour (Stofowski).

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

of

"I have even had some of these misguided listeners come and ask me to teach them to wobble like the singers on the wireless. Mr. Basil Allchin, professor at the Royal Jan Paderewski, Pianist College of Music, said that there was only one real study of music, and that was to make it oneself "I am quite sure," he said, "that the growing danger to-day is the fact that the wireless, gramophone, of and other mechanical means producing music, however. perfect, are the thing that ever happened to Britain if they are going to cause British people to make less music for themselves. That is a thing we have to guard against very strongly. The moment one begins

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to make music for oneself a very much higher mental and aural training is required."

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic epellings, such an harbor, plow, and altho.)

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13-Blood color

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15-Bame as manitou

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16-A seaside resort, B. 61-Evening (Post).

E.France

17-8kill

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320-Paradize

23-Drawing-room

28-Festival

27-Rustic

29-Profix-bad'

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64-Before

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able. 16-East Indian cedar

VERTICAL

VERTICAL (Cont). |21-Excavated

22-To seize suddenly. 24-Musical note. 25-Gmall fish 26-Fausot

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48-Showered -Posessiva "pronoun |49-To-melt and clarify,"

Ahelard 6-A nut. 7-Kind of chasse, die 81-Dne of the Great.

***Lakes', B-A-river of B. Cars

1-Long oranted wave 2-A Southern constei-

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tones of music.

NEW WONDER.

RADIO VALVE WITHOUT FILAMENT DISCOVERED.

SUPPLYING ELECTRICITY TO SCATTERED VILLAGES.

London, Aug. 22.

An important experiment in East Anglia, designed to prove that electricity can be economically sup- piled to scattered country farms and villages in rural areas, has been de- cided on by the Central Electricity Board.

Automatic Tone Control. Automatic volume control which cuts out the effect of fading or having music go in and out. in strength is also getting more at- tention. Laboratories are an- nouncing a new type of tube which makes for better automatic volume

In agreement with the Norwich control. These and less important The wireless valve without

Corporation an arrangement has details of set design were features filament as listeners. know it at been made for an electrified demon- of the discussions, showing de- present, has arrived. It requires stration aren of over 100 square finitely that radio is in the refine-neither an accumulator nor any miles in a district extending from ment stage for the present at least. other source of electrical energy, Aylsham to East Dereham and it is The annual banquet was given say a wireless correspondent of the claimed that the region will be the night of August 20 at the King Daily Mail.

In place of the filament the new placed at least five years ahead of Edward Hotel,, the chief speaker

the times. being Lieut.-Col. A. G. Lee of the invention contains what one may British Post Office Department, call the counterpart of the photo- vice-president of the institute, The electric cell used in television.

sented to Prof. P. O. Pederson, and emits

Power will be carried by over- head wires the initial cost of which

institute medal of honour was pre- This cell is sensitive to light, will be borne by the Board, who an electron stream hope to make the district a model and the Morris Liebman memorial (which is necessary for the opera- of industrialised agriculture. prize was presented to Dr. A. W. tion of all wireless valves) when- Hull. Both these prizes are given ever light falls upon it.

search.

Village streets and houses will be

it by electricity, and wherever pos-

for outstanding work in radlo re- At the Berlin Wireless Exhibi-sible poles and overhead wires will tion a receiver with valves of this fellow valleys and be 'screened by On August 21, the final day of type has been used and. has trees.

The variety of farm work en- the convention, the entire group given demonstrations, reproducing will visit the great Niagara hydro- broadcast programmes at loud countered in the area is expected to test the versatility of electrical ma electric generating plants where speaker strength.__

The present scheme is an advance

the greatest amounts of electricá! The valve ceases to function if chinery and its efficiency, when put power now generated will stand the room is darkened by pulling to a number of small scale uses. out in contrast to the minute down the blinds, but good resulta amount of electrical energy re- can be obtained again when the instalment of the Board's plans for the electrical development of East- ceived by a radio set.

electric light is switched on.

Apart from the great possibili-ern England and the adoption of a ties of this valve in the home, it regional scheme for this part of would be of inestimable value to the country means that plans for aeroplane equipments, where eo linking up electrically the whole of much depends upon dispensing England and Wales have now been AND "ON THE AIR AT SAME with every ounce of unnecessary drawn up.

"IN THE AIR.”

TIME:

Using a radiotelephone, Cap-

weight,

lain Lewis A: Yancey recently con- HONG KONG HEIGHTS versed with Madrid, Spain, from al 'plane 4,000 feet over Bueros Aires,

He is probably the first man ever to be up in the air in America. and "on the air" in Europe at the same time.

BIRDS DESTROY MAST

WIRELESS

Philadelphia. Broadcasting station WNBO was off the air for two days following the snapping of a 100-foot wireless mast three feet thick because & family of woodpeckers had drilled a hole through the big cedar polo.

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The presiding magistrate at the Borough Petty Sessions, being jeal ous of the dignity of the court,, sharply called to order the public, who were somewhat noially chatting in the gallery,

Silence, allence," he cried. I will have decorum in this court. I will have decorum,

The charge sergeant went to the door of the court and in a loud voice called: "Dick Oram, Dick Oram.**.*** After waiting a moment he re turned, and to the astonishment of the magistrate calmly said: "There's no reply, your Worship."

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