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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930.

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FEATURES

AVOIDING BROADCASTING “NERVES.”

EFFECT OF COSTUMES IN THE STUDIO.

An interesting broadcasting ex- periment is to be tried in London

at the B.B.C. Studio at Savoy

Hill. Artists in some musical pro

ductions will be made up for the ocession and will appear in stage cortumo as if they were in front of an audience.

"Like an Empty House." Constant appearances before a

big audience do not necessarily qualify anyone to appear before the microphone. There are favourites of the stage who fail completely to register in the broadcasting studio The plan is to reduce the effect the success that is theirs in the f microphone fright.

theatre,

Those who have broadcast, are "I have broadcast only once," a able to appreciate how extraordin-comeilian stated recently, "and nry can be the sensation of addres do not want to do so again. sing millions of people without be ing able to see them. No matter how great their confidence or their determination "to see the thing through," there comes inevitably the disturbing speculation of what the listener, are thinking about it

all..

..

But not the slightest indication comes, and they plod along hoping for the bast.

"Standing alone in the studio I Telt like one pill in a box and I was heartily relieved when my turn; was over. I missed the inces and the applause to which I have al

been accustomed, and it made to ill at ease and constrained. My virice sounded as if it were in an empty house."

Getting the Atmosphere. "It was a musical show with

which I was concerned," he said, "and everything seemed sumpic enough when I took the rehearsals in the studio. But what a change when the night of the performance camo! The only difference туда that the microphone was on. instend of off. Yet it made me as conscious as 'I would be if I went to bed in the middle of Piccadilly Circus."

Mr. Philip Ridgeway is in agreement with this view.

"You Ics the distinctive atmos- phere of the theatro when you broadcast," he said to me "and there is no doubt that at first many actors and actresses find it didicult to be themselves. In the autumn I intend to make ex- ¡perimente.

foot-

"I am convinced that this method will enable then much more easily

At Savoy Hill there is a full ap- "The artists will not appear in Realising this, it is perhaps surpreciation of difficulties of this the studio in ordinary dress, os at prising that the feeling of tension, kind, and every endeavour is made present. They will be made up and under which the broadcaster lab to combat them by solicitous offi-in stage clothing, just na if they

were appearing before the cials who welcome newcomers No cure, should not betray itself more to the listening public. For some doctor at a bedside could have a lights.

mannor more consoling. Let strange people, of course, an appearance tofore the microphone is too great fears assert themselves. ap, ardeal to be undertaken with any satisfaction, but this is usual-trical world once said that he ex- ly the case only with men or woperienced the greatest difficulty in men who would be similarly dis-necustoming himself to conditions stressed if they had to appear on a that were so strange to him after

a life on the stage. públic platform.

EVERYTHING.

A well-known figure in the then-to achieve success. They will feel moro at home. The unseen and unseeing audience will be none the wiser, but to the players the method will be important. It will ruable them to act much more effce- tively.

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PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.BW. ON

308 METRES.

11 to 11.30 am-Commercial nows 11,30 am-Chinese programme. 12.30 p.m.-European programmë. 1.30 p.m.--Weather Teport: 2 p.m.-Close down,

.m-European programane of

Columbia records selected and supplied by Mesers. Andoreon Music Co.

SOME USEFUL HINTS.

The following is a good test for fixed condensers: Connect the condenser to be tested momentarily ncross an H.T. battery of about 30 volts, and leave it two minutes. Then connect a pair of telephones across it, when you should bear a click, which will grow louder as the capacity of the condenser increases.

Condensers above 0.3 mfd, should not be discharged with telephones, as they hold a large enough charge to cause damage to the receivers. OPERATIC SELECTIONS-

All you need do with large-capacity "Paglisoci" (Leoncavallo). — New condensers is to short them after

Queen's Hall Orchestra.

the two minutes with a piece of "Rigoletto" (Verdi).-Maria Gen-wire. A spark, the size of which

tile, Soprano.

will vary with the capacity, will "Faust"-Vocal gems (Gounod).—| indicato if they are, in good order.

Chorus with orchestra. "Lucia di Lammermoor" (Doni- zetti).-A. Guglielmetti, Bo- .prano.

"Mignon" (Thomas).

Queen's Hall Orchestra. 5.45 p.m.

New

"Hungarian Rhapsody in F" (Liz) Budapest Philhar- monic Orchestra.

6 p.en. Children's programme.

MUSICAL COMEDY.

0.30 p.m. (approx.)— "Sunnyside Up "-Selection.-Jati

Payne and B.B.C. Orchestra. "Gold Diggers of Broadway "— Selection-Regal Cinema Orch. "Follow Thro-Vocal

Columbia Light Opera Co. "Bitter Sweet "--Vocal

gema.- Columbia Light Opera Co.

DAND AND ORCHESTRAL,

gems,-

7 p.m. (approx.)— "William Tell "-Overture (Ros- sini).-New Queen's Hall Orch. "The Damask Rose "Selection

(Chopin)Court Symphony Or chestra. "Claesien-Selection..

Solo, Quentin MacLean, Regimental Marches."-Nations]

Military Band. "Melodious Memories" (Fiačk).—

Regal Cinema Orchestra, (Oontinued on nent Column.)".

"I cannot see anything grotesque." Lin the idea it is an obvious way secure the right atmosphere. "After all in a musical comedy or romantic opera you are dealing. with a make-believe story, and it

is only fitting that you should be

Organ

Do not allow your set to repro- duce voices at the same volume as band music, etc., for the volume of sounds are so disproportionsts in the two cases that speech is bound to sound unnatural even if the set is not distorting.

It is a good plan to include a fash-lamp bulb in series with the condenser and laud-speaker of an output filter circuit, so that in the event of a condenser breakdown the amall lamp will act as a fuse.

Covered wire which is made to pass through small holes in a Beronning-box should not be relied. upou to give sufficient insulation iself, but should be provided with a wrapping of insulated tape.

When the axis of two coils are in line the coupling between them is at a maximura, but when the axis are at right angles it is at a minimum.

"Scent of the Jasmine" (Squire).

and "Song of the Waterfall" (Squire)-Squire Celeste Oc Letto.

"Nights of Fragrance" (Zichror).

-New Concert Orchestra,

8 p.m.-Chinese Studio Concert.

10.30 p.m.-Cloze.down.

dressed in keeping with it, whether HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?

the people see you or not, Ordin-

ary dress destroys the glamour of it for players. They fvo as the Lifeguards would do if suddenly they had to go on parade in civi- Han clothes instead of in their bright uniform. I think even the horses would be puzzled by, that incongruity.

"How can a King of Ruritania feel romantic if he is dressed in plus fours and his beautiful queen ia wandering about in a jumper and a short skirt?"

GERMAN RADIO CONCERT,

SOMETHING TO "REACH OUT" FOR.

On the night November 7-8 (0.30 to 1.30 Central European Time) the German short wave sender in Königswusterhausen, wave 31.38, will broadcast symphony concert. from the Central German Wireless Station in Leiprig...

Here are lists of long-wave and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode- rately good sat suitable for re- colving much signals, Buccess in - picking up these stations also depends very largely upon fav. ourable atmospheric conditions, Beaders are invited to add to this liat should they succood in picking up any station not in cluded in either of these lista.

LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

Call Kilo- Sigu cycle K.21.B. 1,153 K,8.M.8. 1,065 C.R.C. 1,070 K.I.C.. 967 G.O.P.K.

Wave length (Metres) Station

200 Manila 277 Shanghai 280 Tientsin 310 Shangbai 320 Peping 345 Tokyo 3.0.A.K. 870 353 Hiroshima J.O.F.E. 850 355 Hong Kong Z.B.W. 840

V.U.B 357 Bombay

331 Sapporo 360 Keljo

370 Nagoya *370.4 Calcutta

J.0.1.K.

945

840 830

KO.D.K. B20

800.9

790 JO.A.K. 770

J.0.0.K 830 V.U.C 380 Kumamoto J.O.G.K. 300 Sendai 365 Dairen 308 Rangoon 400 Osaka 410 Canton 413 Manila

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

**STATION

CALL BIGN

Nauon Moscow

|G7.65" Doblutz (Germany)

00.12 Ebabarovsk (Russia) 68.7 60.

A.E.K. | R.A:97. A.G.J.

49.5 42. 413 38.8

Bome.

Parth

Singapore

J.D.A.K. 760

V.U.R. 754 J.O.B.K. 750 C.M.B. 739 K.Z.B.M.

720

Tro (Hoan Hoan

OF WORKING

4424] Mon, Wed. & Fri, 6 p.m. & 2 am, 4,900 6-10 p.m.

6,201 Not regular

6,000 Tues, harm, Sat, 8 p.m.

6,800) Bunday midnight

7,142 Daily 8.80 p.m. & 11 p.m.

REN.. IMA 0.4.0. V.B.JA.B. 7,810) Not regular

7,760 Daily 11. p.m..

-F.C.L.

One of the most eminent. German' conductors, Mr. Fritz Busch, Dres. den, will conduct this concert in the studio of the Central Gorman Wireles, Station. The orchestra `is

KSLPJ. 17. this Dresden Stats Oreliestra, and

820 Bydooy

2.B.L the programme will compriso 21.68 Melbourns

0,603 Not regular › Wober's Oberon" Overture, Wag 31.48 Sohenectady

W.ZKA.F.)* 0,630 | Daily 7 KEL 31.0 Eindhoven (Holland) P.C.I... er's "Siegfried-Idyl," and Beeth

81:28 Sydney

2.9.0. oven's second Symphony.

Kootwijk (Holland) Bangkok (Siam)

4.0!

81. Nairobi (Kenya) 7.LO.

29.3

Sydney

27.8

2.M.E, Bandoong

PLE 25.63 Uhelmsford (England) 6.8.W.

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248 Manila

23.35 Schenectady

18.88 | Bandoenig,

18.6

The object of the night concerts given by German sending stations is to obtain information as to the transmission range and the pure- ness of reception of the broadenst ing. At the samo time the Gorman Wireless desires to proinoto intor national unity by the aid of ar- tistic performances accessible: to, And the property of, all. Also Germans abroad are to be given an opportunity to hear from their home country. This result will no too be welriored by thaLeipzig -Brandsdating-Esation, and thatconstr

ductorship of Fritz Busch, as well na the programmo, ensures perfect artistic attainment.

8,108 Tues, & Fri., p.1 s.in. 1,230 | Net.regular

9,020 FL 3, Sat. 3 am, & 10 am,

· 0,500 | Not regular,

0,077 Midnight dally.

20|10,520 | Not regular

11,020 | Midnight-1 am. dally 11,751 | 780 p.m. &.3 a.m, daily, except

Saturday and Sunday

13,8604 m. Wed., Fri, Sat.

K.1.X.R W.2X.0. P.LG

19,240 Nightly.

10.102 Daily 0.80 p.m. to midnight 10,004 Daily 7 p

PLE. 1.8.1.P.J. P.C.K. P.LE..

17,290 Dally 8 p.m. to midnight

17,751 Sundays 7 p.m. & midnight

| 19,381 | Daily & man, -

Kootwijk (Holland).P.C.L. 12.4

Randoeng. 10.3 Bangkok 16.a Kootwijk (Holland) 15,74 Bandoong 15.5 Nanay (France) 13.03 Pittsburg

Ma

18,404 Each afternoon

19220 Dally 4,30-7 p.

21,640 Not regular

[Allowance must be made for "summer-time in most Euro- pean countries, which is one hour ahead of true time.]

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Demonstration Hours:—

11-11.30 am. 12.30–1.30 p.m. 5-5.30 p.m.

During demonstration hours expert European advice is given on all Wireless matters.

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