1931-04-23 — Page 3

CENTRAL

THEATRE

To-day to Saturday

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

Every girl in love -- Every love lorn youth Every man and woman

will want to see this startling revelation of the love intrigues of the beautiful ladies of the most romantic court of Europc.

The

BOUDOIR DIPLOMAT

with

Betty Compson Ian Keith

Mary Duncan Jeanette Loff

THE BOATRACE

"O.B."

***Two frail craft, sixteen strain- ing athletes, a yelling/crowd, and a listening world! These few words

s express in some small men. sure end of the most ainazing und popular athletic events of the year. The boata we know, the parsmen. we know, the crowd wo know, but what of the listening world? How can the world listen to a close and intimate description of a swiftly moving event such as this, taking pilier, as it, doen, over more than four miles of tortuous river 1

The resoures of the B.B.C. is well- known, as is that of the Outsidó

Broadenst Department, and there' fare few people who do not know that the Bont Bars brondcast is effected by the wireless launch Magician. That, however, appears) to be the sum total of the general knowledge. Just how this broad- cust is worked" is not, perhaps, so well known as it might be.

A Portable Broadcasting Station,

Briefly, a motor launch is equip. pod with a "mobile" transmitter; that is, a dort of portable broad easting station. This, along with commentator and microphone, follows closely behind the

rival crews. The commentator's descrip

tion of the race is broadenst from

the launch on "short" ware

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30.

JACKIE COOGAN MITZI GREEN

America's Carourite yogaper totors making the most of the laughs and thrills in Mari Twain's Joyous Comedy.

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THE WORLD'S GREATEST JUNIOR STAR!

TOM SAWYER"

A story unsurpusaed

in all fiction for heart-

Jackie Coogan, "The Kid," grows up! Now he talks for the first time!

And the most popular Pert girl on the screen. and pretty, Mitzie Green.

Mark Twain's immortal classic for the first time on

felt human drama and

(Garamount) Picture

the screen.

light-hearted fun)

length (of the order of 100 metres, or so), ind is picked up on two receiving sets situated at different points along the course. Both these points are in direct "Inud-line " communication with Savoy Hill, where a 'control room engineer re- ceives hy line, the amplified outputs of the two receivers. These le mixes.at his discretion, the re- sult being that a "constant level " signal is fed to the different sta- tions taking the broadenst. That, quite roughly, is what happens. If

aerial. Modulation is determined RESISTANCES IN YOUR SET, it were found to be as easy and by runnig the modulator' just on simple in practice as it appaers on

the point of grid current. Thus by paper, the proportion of grey-hair- ed OB. engineers would be less the modulator grid circuit just on keeping the galvano-meter needle in Unfortunately, stunts like these are the move, a constant maximum per. apt to be uncomfortably complicat-missible modulation is effected.

Booking at Theatre, Phones; 25313, 25330.

Lionel Belmore Lawrence Granto, especially during the initial

The Spicy Affairs of

A Master Lover.

It's a 1931 Paramount

Attraction.

Sunday April 26.

5. S. Van Dino's Most Daring Fhilo Vasco Thrill-Mystery.

Murder dose before your pyest - Vance right on the words ]' Fire

suspèsia deig you te plek

the Fullty

That's

percon!

THE BENSON MURDER CASE

with William Powell

a'

Gurcunut Picture

WILLIAM POWELL...

as PHILO VANCE

Booking at Anderson's and

the Theatre (Tel. 23720).

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detectors,

A small checking receiver is used preparation, and the Boat Ract O.B. is no exception. Like many

on the boat, consisting of an anade others of the annual O.B.'s, it is for relaying the transmission are bend detector. The receivers used

now more or less cut-and-dríed |

Reinartz single-valve The trouble experienced, however, during the first tests were enough coupled to B.B.C. standard type 1 amplifiers. The type amplifier to have materially shortened the lives of those concerned and there'

resistance capacity coupled) embodies a tone control. are no doubt, some vivid memorias.

This is necessary hers, as wind and nolor roises produce interference at very low, frequencies. This may bs aliminated by adjustment of the tono control.

!

(four valve

When the transmitter, is assem

A day or two before the boat- race, three engineers go down to Richmond, where the launch is moored. They take with them completo broadenst transmitter, in- cluding all power units, and a full receiving equipment. All the trans-bled, the two receiving stations are milting gear is got aboard, and manned, and a test is made. It is the erection proceeded with at once. always found essential to enclose The transmitter itself is split up the microphones in a box, and to into two portions, each of which is speak very close to them. This is enclosed in a large wooden ense necessary to cut down motor noise. One is the modulator panel, and In the original tests, the receiving

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Fixed Condensers.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY ZB.W. ON 335 METRES.

CONCERT.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

" WHOOPEE,”

Although technicoleur has receiv ed the praise of millions of screen enthusiasts all. over

the world, and

some famous artists have addend their panus to the swelling chorus." it is doubtful whether technicolour has over received any praise. more antisfactory than that accorded by Florenz Ziegfeld, the noted produ cer of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Ziegfeld, in association with Samuel Goldwyn, produced "Whoo. po" completely in technicalour; now on view at the Queen's Theatre,

After the completion of "Whoo- pee," Mr Ziegfeld wired to; Dr. Herbert T. Kalaus, President of the Technicolour Corporation, us follows;

"Whoopee" is the first of my musical comedies to appear upon the screen as it appeared on the stage. It will engle the entire world to see a production for which seats cost 80.60 for less than dol lar. Technicolour enables 113 to transfer to the screen the marvelous stage colouring, losing none of its Beauty."

"BILLY THE 'KID."

Even picking dogs for these "period" pictures isn't so enes. When King Vidor came to the planning of his scenes for "Billy the Kid," which will open on Sun- day at the Queen's Theatre, le found that the question of appro priate canines was indeed an un- portant one.

"Billy the Kid" is an historic recital of the life of the Wild West's most famous character. It deals largely with the town of Lincoln, New Mexico, and the famous cattlemen's "war" which took place there,

Therefore "Lincoln," when re produced, had to be accurate in every particular.

And the dogs couldn't be wire haired fox terriera or German police dogs or water spaniels. Vidor's choice, in fact, was limited to mongrels of uncertain breed, shepherds, greyhounds or collies,

John Mack Brown, Wallace Beary, Kay Johnson "and". Karl- Dane head a large cast in the

tion.

So you can say that the grid leak is a very bad conductor of RELAY OF ST. GEORGE'S DAY | now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produc current, though not so bad that it exters into the "insulator" class. But a fixed condenser is supposed 11 to 11.30 2.m.-Stock quotations.

11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme, to be a well-insulated device. Con- 12.30 p.m.-European programme, nect a battery across its two ter. 1 p.m.-Weather report, local time. minals and completely negligible1.20 p.m.-Rugby Press news, etc. current should pass.

p.m.-Close down. 5.30 to 8.30 p.m.-Chinese studio,

But one often meets grid conden-.

concert.

ctc.

7 p.m.-Stock quotations, material whose resistances actually sere of shoddy construction made of 9 p.m.-Weather report, local time,

the average grid leak. Such a cou-.) Lest out at figures below that of

denser ceases to be purely a con- denser, and sets itself to do work similar to that of the grid leak (which does not want help). The results may be a distinct upset, in the operation of the receiver.

And because a substance looks black and has the general appear.

Ances of ebonite, it does not follow that it necessarily has the insulat

the other the drive and H.F. magni. points reported interference froming properties of a proper rubber- fier. The input from the micro- the magneto. This could not be phone amplified (standard B.1.C. beard on the checking perriver en was eventually Type 5" amplifier), is taken, the launch, and two H.F. chokes and, an input traced to ineffective earthing ar transformer, to the grid of the rangements. The earth," which is sub-modulator, which is resistance-moi important, was connected to capacity coupled to the modulator, the engine. This was removed, and A master oscillator is used to drive connected to a bolt in the bottom

All the

connection was

sulphur combination. Of course, there are many

"synthetic "in- sulators composed from tar extraets and so on that are quite good, ex- cept that they frequently tend to be over brittle.

the

Not a Success.

the H.F. magnifer, which is modu- of the boat, and the intereference A valve holder on Д teat lated direct by the modulator,

Another curious point on vensed.

bench readily passed! "choke control" and "hughpower noticed was that a direct external current betweeen its varions ter- modulation" being used..

necessary between minals through the black composi valves in the set are Mullard the negative terminal; of the IT. tion comprising its min moulding. M/130's, which require 16.5 volts accumulator, and the warth wire, It conducted as readily as a solid at nment. 33 amperas on the ala-notwithstanding the fact that this lump of metal, but it would have connection was already made inside; made a passable anode resistance, the eel. Until this was done, it the more knowledgeable of you will f was impossible to increase the radiation above 2 ampere.”

mont,

The Transmitter,

A possible weak link in the chain

gather that as a valve holder it couldn't be regarded as a parti- oularly bright success

There is provision for two sopa rato H.T. supplies, one' 'for each unit. Originally, it was intended may be found in the landlines be- On the other side of the picture' to us two Mortley H.T. generators tween the receiving points and fixed condensers embody almost for this purpose, but it was found Savoy. Hill... These, are standard miraculously good insulation, in- subsequently that by shorting the P.O., tolephone lines, and although sulation so closely approaching per- two H.T.+terminals, one machine they have been known to be noisy foclion that one cannot fail to pay could be run without overload, leau- during the tests, they have always tribute to the British manufactur- ing the accoud na'a standby. The bohared themselves during the ers concerned,

The electrical re- generators are run from-m: 24-volts actual rate.

Bisiánco constituted between “the input (accumulators), and are cap.

terininals' of these condensers is so s able of an output of "1,500 volts at

terrific that they will hold charges 1 75 in. In practic, thay are run and the local check rrosiver, is of electricity for days at a stretch. giving an output of 1,000 to 1,100 duplicated na usunt, change-over Connect one across the mains for wavelength used is about 105 metres, switches being used to bring spares a second and you could post an and unpere is obtained in the into circuit....:

electric shock to a friend in it!

(volts at about 100 to 110 mm. The

All the équipment, with, the ex- ception of two transmitter panels

8.30 to 10.45 p.m. (approximate- ly)-Relay of St. George's concert from the, Lee Theatre.

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CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE BOUDOIR DIPLOMAT."

All the splendor of European ert life is shown in a number of colourful scenes of ""The Boudoir Diplomat," the daring Univerani successful engagement at the Cen- comedy which is now enjoying a

tral Theatre.

These brilliant scenes represent the terrace outside the royal palace of the kingdom of Lavaria during a state ball, and the majority of mon in attendance are dressed in the gorgeous uniforms of their various military units. Helmeted guards stand at attention before the great doors, and beautiful wo men in court dress throng the torrach

The gigantic setting for these scones was created on the lot" ne Univeran City, California. In these seenos appeared all the principal players of "The Boudoir Diplo nat including Betty Compson, Ian Keith. Mary Duncan,.Jeanette Loff, Lawrence Grant, Lionel Bejj more and Andro Beranger, Mal. colm St. Clair directed,

KING'S THEATRE.

TOM SAWYER."

Hundreds of children, and hun.. dreds more who, have not forgotten their childhood, will enjoy the adventures of Tom Sawyer Huck, Becky, Aunt Polly and Injun Joe, at the King's Theatre to-day when Tom Sawyer," Mark Twain's classic of childhood is unrolled upon the screen:

Tom Sawyer in the kind of material which is admirably suited to talking pictures, and the big porta are in the hands of very capable young players, Jackie "Coogan, Mitzi Green and Junior Durkin, Jackie Coogan, in losing bis little boyhood, has lost nothing

AFTER YOU GO AWAY of his charm or of his histrionie

and you will certainly want to know what le happening. Bond-an order for the Weekly Press-to-be-send-to-you We, at 11, IceHones Strest, will do the rest.

gifts. He makes an admirable Toi Sawyer. His is a more faithful interpretation probably than any. English lnd could give, for Mark Twain wrote of the American boy as, he know and understood him, and Master Cogan for all his Irish name, is an "100 per cent. Ameri-

Tom Sawyer has received ex- ecllent Press notices and-we-bèliëre- that if you fail to see it you will be missing one of (tlie/mast enjoy. able shows which the talking, screen has had to offer.

MOVIELAND

FOR

THE WEEK

QUEEN'S

SHOWING TO-DAY AT, 2.30, 5:10, 7:15 & 9.20.

Marvellous Snappy Gay

SOKAZ ZEGSFELD

EDDIE

CANTOR

Whoot

Gina by

"GUE KAHN From the Hurt Card TILAJ AKIVOR BLADE

DW TECHNICOLOR

Ziegfeld has outdone himself

in this, the most gorgeous of all spectacles l

"UNITED"ALTISTS_RC1

Added 'Attraction "AN IRISH

FANTASY

UNITED ARTISTS'

SPECIALETTE.

NEXT CHANGE"

KING

VIDOR

who made 'The Big Pa rade," now - brings the talkie's mightiest drama 1.

BILLY the KID

with John Mack BROWN Wallace BEERY Kay Johnson Karl Dane

COMING SHORTLY

WARRIA

SHOW

SHOW