1931-03-10 — Page 11

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1931.

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RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will bu broadcast to-day from the Bong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 Cietres:-

5-8 p.m.-European Programme of H.M.V. & Victor Records kind- ly supplied by Messrs. S. Moutrie & Co.

5.5.20 p.m. Children's gramme.

Orchestral-

In a Clock Store

(by Special Request),

Songs-

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New Light Symphony Orch. (1308).

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The Friend,

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The Engineer,

Songs-

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TOPICS

MONTHLY REPORT.

dark.

intervals of other people's conversa-

li

an average between twenty and superimposed effects.

It was all à thirty plays a work. Of this num-nort if mumbo-jumbo with which ber perhaps two por cont, could be the artistic mind, especially one seriously considered for a second which had no Inside knowledge of reading. A play written with a Savoy Hill, could not cope.

But 8-11.30 p.m.Ko Shing Theatre familiarity with the medium was real eye to the medium of the any dramatist who was affected by nchloved, it was as easy to listen to microphone was so rare that its ap- it was worrying himself needlessly. Relay.

9 p.m.-Weather Report, Local a play in a lighted room as in the pearance was hailed at Savoy Hill It was possible to write a good play almost with shouts of joy. Within for the microphone with no more Time, etc.

11.30 p.m.-Close Down.

If the listener thought that he the last two years only two comic technical knowledge than could be could follow the meaning and Inten- plays had been specially written acquired by steady listening for a And yet the period of a few months. Even tion of a broadcast play in the for broadcasting.

wireless dramatist had the biggest over the microphone the play's the tion; while doing his accounts; or audience in the world, an audience thing; and not all the studios nor while eating his supper he would be probably not achieved even by a six- all the effects ever invented, if

He disillusioned.

months' run of a play in the West- technically combined for a produc- A prevailing cri- tion, could make a bad play good. anippets and the result would be end of London. meaningless. By sending a play ticism of the dramatic work done If a play possessed a valuable con- into the home by wireless, the Savoy Hill was that they were tent, although technically imperfect, inclined towards the tragic and the deficiences of technique could B.B.C. was saving the listener good deal of trouble. He was saved oven the morbid. But most listen- be supplied; but the content had to

ora would agree that the ordinary be found from outaldo. transport difficulties and money. But the Corporation was not broad stage comedy or farce depended so rasting plays to save people trouble. much upon the visual that its trans- In order to enjoy a radio play ference to the medium of wireless steners must take the trouble to was either impossible or unsatis concentrate on an unfamiliar factory. medium and to listen to the play for its own sake and for the sake of what they could get out of it.

Actual hours of transmission in of which February totalled 240 140% were devoted to Europeon programmes and 99% to Chinese programmes, as follows:-

European Chinese Morning Transmis

sions including Commercial News and Church Relays 46% Evening Transmis-

sions

034

130%

38

014

Master Christopher Robin (2980).

Monthly Percentage 68.54

New licences issued February were. 48.

99% 41.40 during

Buckingham Palace,

The Three Foxes, Politeness,

Market Square,

The Christening,

Songs-

Brownic,

George Baker, Baritone (2221).

Lines & Squares,

Vespers ...George Baker, Baritone

(2222). 6.20-5.50 p.m. Variety. Orchestral-

Selections from "Good News".

Victor Arden-Phil Ohman

Their Orchestru

(15918).

tumorous Song-

Telephone

31-34, Wing Lok Building. Ist floor.

Thoughts of You,

Tel. Add.

Song

50780

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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

A Room with a View,

John Henry and Gladys Horridge (3278),

Organ Solo-

The King's Horses,

Song

High & Low

(from Here Comes the Bride),

Sylvia Ceeli, Soprano (3380). Humorous Song--

It's Unanimous Now,

Reginald Foort (3552).

Chorus

Little Cotton Dolly,

The Revellers (22219), 5.56-6.10 p.m. Instrumental Trios.

ELECTRICITY. -

LECTURE TO WIRELESS SOCIETY.

Mr. R. E. Earle, of the Singapore Harbour Board, gave the following lecture at the Wireless Society re- the form of a dialogus cently in which proved both amusing and ins structive.

The lecturer opened with "Why Gracie Fields (3178), do you need all these different

metres to measure one thing, Elec tricity?" "Because," said the GX- Noel Coward, Baritone (2719). | pert, "we meet with electricity in so many forms, in which it behaves differently." "But isn't all quite electricity the same?" "Yes," says the expert "we believe all electricity to be movement of electrons but it is far more convenient for even the expert to consider the various forms ns enilrely different kinds of poten tial and current, thus we know of direct current as the stuff we store Chick Endor (22161). in our car battery and take from the dry batteries In torches or wire less H. T. batteries. Then we have the 50 cycle alternating current in our houses which will work through ย transformer in our battery eliminator and which will not drive our old D.C. fans, than we have the speech frequencies which work our house and wireless telephones which current changes direction of flow 200 to 5,000 times a second, then the radio frequencies which will radiate through space and which change direction from 100,000 to 60 million times per second." "Yes" says the man in the street, "but why does this changing of direction Tannhauser March (Wagner),

The Regimental Band of make so much difference if it is all the same electricity?" "One of the biggest reasons, says the expert, "Is bound up in the effect of frequency on the flow of currents meeting with induction and capacity.

Mirage (Coates),

Zingari (Leoncavallo),

De Groot (Violin), David Bor (Piano), H. M. Calve (Cello) (3028), Londonderry Air (arr. Coleman), Lo Cygne (Saint Saens),

De Groot (Violin), David H. M. Calve Boro) (2943). 6.10-6.36 p.m.Operatic. Martha-Selections (Flotow),

The Regimental Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards (1458).

H.M. Coldstream Guards (1743).

Romeo & Juliette-Prologué

(Gounod), Sampion & Deliin-Dawn That Heralda

the Day (Saint-Saens),

Metropolitan Opera Chorus (4152). Aido-Introduction & Moorish Ballad

(Verdi)....Creatore's Band (1339) 6.36-7.25 p.m.--A Concert.

7 p.m.-Stock Quotations. Planoforte Solo-

The Wind in the Plain (Debussy), Minstrels (Debussy),

Ignace Jan Paderewski

(1499). Song-

Orpheus With His Lute (Sullivan), The Wren (Benedlet),

I

Mavis Bennet, Soprano (2702).

Pitch My Lonely Caravan Coates),

Where my Caravan Has Rested

(Lohr),

6

7 18 9 10

|Song-

FC

12

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15

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23

127

Walter Glynne, Tenor (3412), Violin Solo-

Rondino (Kreisler), Fair Rosemary (Kreisler),

Fritz Kreisler (1380).

Flower of the Desert (Lohr),

Percy Heming, Daritone (2763).

Song-

Violin Solo-

In a Japanese Garden (Higga),

Reginald Foort (3197), Pianoforte Solo-

The Prophet Bird (Schumann), By the Brookaido (Stojowski),

Ignace Jun Paderewski (1426).

Treca (Rasbach),

36

12.

44

45

Song-

247

48

53

56.

HORIZONTAL 1-Pertaining to the

earth's polos

·6-R country of Asla 11-An Island west of

England *14-Parforsning

15-Man's name (short)

18-Great snake

17-Urge on

HORIZONTAL (Comp.) |46-N. Cen. Stala

(abbr)

47-Pen for pigs

49-Time-period 50-Pala

$1-Fe in want of

VERTICAL (Cont.) 10-To have existance 21-Young salmon

before fret Joining ocean

25-Prefix of many

Scottish names

|53-To extend opposita 26-A stroke in tennis

to, as the chord of 27-A lizard an arg

29-Greatly malformed

18-8ymbol for tantalum 55-Muse of lyric poetry by being

19-A flying animat--

·20-Prefix=id form of adi

22-Musical nota,,

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60-Plural of asta:

VERTICAL

24-A' justico of the U. 1-Qns of Columbus's

8. Supreme Court:

26-A cleansing agent 2-Rodent 29-Pithy inteñas ply- Ing a guiding prio-

B-Bhort comedy 35-Possessive' profoun 54-A nying mammal $8-Prank or caper [35-Not larg#:

(42-Exlatai (

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ships 2-Mountain nymph 3-Want In front of 4-Suffix pertaining

.to. B-Mad 18-PEMost

: 7-Negative

·B-To" pass away! :9–One who le un-

grateful

[30-On the outside |31-To stumble and fall

85-8. American moun

tafri range 88-A river in France {37-A cape in Nová

Scotia 38-Pierson P 20-Personal pronoun. 140-Climbing plant of

tropical forest.

|41-Bandy rdőtok, in:

Ze, WA Franos 48-Island group,

pf.New Guinan 45-Yea 10-Mound of earthward 50-8oaked with water

(Rom. Antiq.) { <?}52–Delirium framená 12-And not.

· (abbr).

The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear to-morrow's issus along with, a pleso crois (bord SULE

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John Brownlee, Baritone (442). 7.25-8 p.m.-Orchestral. The Three Cornered Hat Sulte

(Da Falla),

New Light Symphony Orch. (2721-22), Waldteufel Memories (arr. Finck),

De Groot & His Orchestra (8084). Passion Rose (Lebar), __ Midnight Bells (Herberger),

Victor Novelty. Orchestra (22090).

a short The lecturer then gave but lucid explanation of inductance and capacity, how they are met with in wireless sets, and their effect on alternating currents.

Then followed, a simple descrip- tion of the various forms of elce- trical indicating metres in common

would hear

The development of the radio play in the long run depended upon three things: intelligent listening, in- formed criticism and good writing for the microphone.

It was one of his principal duties to read plays that were submitted He got on for possible broadcast.

He would like to be able

S. A. LISTENERS' TROUBLES.

Listeners in South Africa who

to persuade some ambitious author have to rely on BSW for British to consider the microphone serious programmes are having a bit of a ly as a medium for original drama-bother just now with, interference. tic work with a special eye to Its Some people think that this Inter- comic possibilities.

ference is deliberato. The jamming of the Chelmsford station which A good deal had been heard in re has been puzzling listeners In cent years about the technique of Capetown since the night following. the radio play, with its parapher- the Moscow propaganda broadcast nalia of control panels, multiple stiil continuos, It is suggested studios, Its jargon of "fading-in" that it is a case for International and "fading-out." flashing and action.-Popular Wireless.

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Following this a plan of a simple wireless receiver was drawn on the blackboard and the various tests that could be made with simple and cheap meters were explained.

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Dab

Dog Fish

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In a broadcast" talk"

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Few Halibut people had learnt to use their ears rus to the same extent as their eyes and

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Oysters caat play was meant to be a sub-

Parrot Fish atitute for the theatre. Listening Porch to a broadcast play was in reality a Pike different way of spending one's time. The first time that anyone Pomfret, White stened to a radio play, he would Pomfret, Black probably be bewildered, or disapprova pointed, or bored; not necessarily BAY ... because the play was dreary and Rock Fish

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