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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1932.

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LISTENERS! DO YOU REMEMBER?

THOSE MAGIC NIGHTS "ON THE AIR-AND

WHAT NEXT?"

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LONDON, May (The British Brandcasting Corporation moved into its home at Broadcasting House at midnight. Here Mr. Macdonell," known to countless listeners us fuc," the originator of the papular "Surprise Item reoulls.some of the "must glories of the

·Saloy Hill studios,]

Woll, dear old Savoy Hill is gone, and a brooding silence hangs over these corridors and "studios that; until last night, know only the cat footed silence of our respect. ..

There are grens nights to corns ab the new Broadcasting House-with stars just as famous, and staffs just as bound in enmaraderie: hit Horne

how the momary will always be crowded with Savoy Hill occasions Charles the Seond used to live there, and his spirit will not be the only one to dink about the pre cincts.....

What a thrill for countless thousands, too, when they heard che bookmakers laying odds at Aintree, the cries of backers and the thund- or of hooves as the first broadenst Grand National was won and loxt. And the first Bont race, and Cup Final...

FEATURES

going on and on freshly, unfailing- Į Fly: Christopher Stone saying, "That

was Columbia DX 112,

The children of to-lay are tho listers of to-morrow. they al

WAYS

were! And how well they knew it, those stalwarte like the lave L. G. Mainland, Richard Hughes, Arthur Davenport, Stephen King-Hall, C. E. Hodges ("Peter") "and Alan Howland (Columbus").

And the London theatre nights a. the London contre

vinces, and the fine studiu produe tions

of Cecil Lewis, notably Hassan and Lord Jim." Remember, too, the Radio Rovues and the Dance Bande-all of them have shouldered the burdon ef) pleasure. Billy Mayer, Jack? Hykon, Jack Payue, Sidney Fir- man, Henry Hall. 2. 2

Religion has had its big place too. and all the world has listened for years to our Bunday evening broad casts, to say nothing of the cheer given to thousands of sick in the

anch morning, hospitals by those 15-minute services

Teb years of thrills. For the first time in their lives, the people of tireat Britain shared in the great national events-the Covent Gaiden

So we have journeyed back to festivals, the Queen's Hall Concerts.

Already warld the passing of Savoy Hill and lass the

night's good-byus.. good-bye to famous artists multiplied their an old home and good lack to the

new-Good Luck and Good Listen public by hundreds.

the Names that had been householding John Macdonnel in words up and down the land be-Sunday Dispatch, came real, became personified.

Last night they wound up in the old quarters with a programme of the fron memerice-high-lights brondents that have delighted is ¦

enova in the years gone by,

Inevitably, they missed something nut. There have been so many good ihings that merely to recall them would take a longer time than conid be afforded by the B.B.C.

Birth of the Great Idea.

"

Fat close your eyes, Listener, and think back, down these ten tremen dous years.

Does it all come back? And do you recall the dolight we had in Debroy Somers and his Savoy Cr pheans when we danced to real dance music for the Arst time

The Orpheans carried the atmos. phere of the West End into homes from Ecclefschan to Land's End, A. new instinct for "gaiety was given to Britons,

Think, too, of the Negro Odyssey of Paul Robeson, the close harmony of the Revellers, the fatuities "of

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GIRL GUIDES MOVEMENT COMES OF AGE.

(Coalmued from Pape 1.)

remarkable unanimity of spirit un- der the one ideal of good will and service. The numbers amount to:

British Guides, 726,620, and for- sign Guides, 387,767:

A total of 1,094,393.

Its increase this year on last thoushori more year's total was 147,000.

Or, make it twelve, and recaptura Tommy Handley, and Flotsam and the thrill that ran round the coun-Jetsam-and

try when we heard the golden voice of Melba singing "La Boheme "- from Chelmsford.

Do you remember}

Think back a year or two further to these feverish pre-war years whan the great idea was taking root in Oliver Lodge, the minds of man. Marenni-them were the scientists behind the revolution. Melba was the artist who put the coping-sions to their structure.

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things that gave listening-in a new magic.

The Girl Guide movement, which now comes of age, has attained its present standing in its first twenty Are you still with me? Then one years in spite of the initial Jear Donald Calthrop read his difficulties of organisation, in the speech of welcome when the King face of ridicule and misconception, returned to his subjects after his and under the set-back of the war.

illness.

The Revolution In Whitehall.

One may, therefore, look forwardi with confidence to what may be pos

HAVE YOU HEARD THESE? -

Here are sta of long-wave and short-wave stations which should be plaked up by, anyou in Hong Kong who has a mode- rately good set, suitable for r ceiving such signale. Success in ploking up these stations also depends very largely upon fav. ourable atmospheric conditions. Readers are invited to add to this should they succeed in ploking up any miation not in cluded in either of these lists.

LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

WIVE length

(Metres) Station

960 Manin

Call Alga EZLB 1,183

Ille-

yale

277 Shanghai K.A.M.S. 1,088 346 Tokyo

J.O.AK

333. Hiroshima J.O.F.E. 355 Hong Kong. 2.B.W, 357.1 Bombay 301 Sapporo 306 Keijo

370 Nagoy

370.4 Calcula

NA

·860

840

V.U.B. 840 J.O.LK. 6:30 J.O.D.I. 890 J.O.C.K 810 V.U.O 300. 750 J.O.EL.E. 770 J.Q.A.E. 760 J.O.B.K. 210

C.M.B. K.Z.R.M.

380 Kumamoto J.O.G.X.

.800 Sendai

396 Dairen

400 Osaka

410 Canton

480 Manija

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

Kito

TIMĖ (LONG Kona) OF WORKING

821

Mon Wed & Fri., 6 p.m. & 2 w m

7,14% Daily 8.80 p.m. & 11 pm.

7,310 Not regular

7,730 Daily 11 pm.

8,108 Tuce, & Fr., 9 p.m.-1 a.m1,

9,280 Not regular

9,608 Not.regular

W.2.X.A.F. 2,630, Daily 7

STATION

CALL BIGN

7.86 Dobiatz (Germany) 90 19

60.7

30.

A.F.K Khabarerak (Russia) A.07. Nauenw Монсо

4,434

4,990 | 0-10 pm.

A.G.J.

5,201 Not regular

B.F.N.

8,000 Tuos, Thur, Sat., 8 p.m.

43.h

Home

1.M.A.

6,888 Sunday midnight

49.

Forth

6.A.G.

41.3

Singapore

V.S.1.A.B.

38.5

Kootwijk (Holland)

P.C.L

37.

Bangkok (Siam)

B.S.4.2.J.

a5.2 Sydney

3.B.L.

81.65

Malbourne

3.1.0.

81.48 Schenectady

$1,00

Eindhoven (Holland) P.C.J.

32:29 Sydney

2.F.C.

31,

Nairobi (Kenya)

7.1.0.

28.0

Bydney

•

2.M.H.

$7.6

Bandeng

26.58

i

245 28.36 18.88

Maxilo

H.1.X.E.

Solanectady

W.2.1.0.

Bandoong

P.L.G.

18.4 17.4

Kootwijk (Holland)

P.C.L.

Bandoong

P.L.F.

18.9

Bangkok

ELS.1.P.J.

16.3

Kootwijk (Holland)

F.C.K.

15.74

Basdoeng.

PLE.

19,220 Daily 4,30–7 p.m.

Nancy (France)

[19,881] Daily 8 am,

13.25

Pittsborg

W¿LK.

|21,640 |. Not regniaz

155

P.LR Chakasford (England) 5.S.W.,

[Allowance must be made for

0,820 F 3 Am.. Bat, 3 am, & 10 .. 9,500 Not regaler

9,677 Midnight daily

10,528 Not regulir

11.020 Midnight-am, daily 11,761 7.80 p.m. a.m. dally, except

Saturday and Sunday

|12,240 | Nightly

12,860 am. Wed, Fri. Bat..

10102 Dally 6.30p.m. to midnight

16,804 Daily 7 p.m..

17.250 Daily 8 pm to midnight

17.731 Sundays 7p. & midnight

18,404 Each afternoon.

summer time" in most Euro- pean countries, which is one hour ahead of true time. 1

SOVIET WHEAT

MUDDLE.

Sovies Government of taking the figures of ita gold reserves.

According to the State Bank, the

sible to it in the coming, decade or PEASANTS FORCED TO KILL gold reserve increased last year

And the "voice of the Queen as two.

it came over the ether for the first Already there may be some two time as she unveiled the Tower Hill million young women in Britain those memorial. That moment brought who have gone, through the train- Do you remember, too, gonzing half-hours of talk and her Majesty closer to thousands of ing as Guides, and before many years are over there should at this music that Capt. Poter Eckersley people than 'she had ever been.

What a scnention Father Knox rate be many millions in the wo used to broadcast every week, and the demand we set up all over the caused when he described the manhood of the different nations, country that the Postmaster-General | revolution in Whitehall, and what all imbued with the same spirit of should regularise the service and let a flood of notes and telephone calls goodwill and co-operation, and re- came to Savoy Hill from, nervous cognising each other as members of listeners who did not realise that the same sisterhood. it was all a hoax! Thac affair taught us a lot more than we cared to admit at the time.

us have more of it?

The race was going to the swift when, by 1992, the old British Broadcasting Company was formed by six great wireless firms and, be fore another full year had passed, we had stations dotted all over.

The Upper Air hnd beer harness ed. Breathlessly, we wondered what

would come next..

WORLD BUREAU OF

GUIDING.

We have established До World

CATTLE.

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FACTORY FAILURES.

Geneva-Illuminating detail, of the breakdown of the Soviet Five Years Plan are given in a report issued by "the laternational En tents against the Third Interna tional," at Genova.

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the

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY 2.BW ON 355 METRES.

1 to 11.30 m.-Stock quotations. 11.30 .Chinese programms. 12.30 p.m.-European programme of

Victor recorda,

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fror 248,400,000 (par value) £63,500,000, in addition to export of about £13,000,000.

"As, however, Russia's annual gold production is only about £8,400,000," it is permissible to ask where the extra £28,400,000 came from.

Dumping"

Dealing with Russian "dumping, the report states that in March the "Despite the fact that the last Soviet sold to Belgium 100,000 tona harvest in Russia was extremely of manganese ore from the Cau- had in several districts, says the casus below market prices.

Turkey the Soviet have report, "the stocking of large quan

ities of cereals was ordersi, secured the cement and coal market

Je

Ten years of laughter, worries, thrills. Remember the night when Bureau of Caiding, under the Tallallah Bankhead collapsed at the direction of Dame Katharine Furse, microphone from sheer

mike "

G.B.E., through which all countries

The result wor a shortage to the detriment of Rumania and fright? And that other Sunday are in organised touch. This, more when Gracia Fields collected over, is not merely an official touch, throughout the south-eastern dia upo Slavin, while their great Move on to 1928 and the General hundred guineas for a 10 minutes but is further developed through the trict, where the peasants, instead textile depot at Constantinople has Strike. Do you remember bow" turn and then gave the whole interchange of visits between the of keeping supplies of grain for ruined competition throughout the

at girls of the various countries. Savoy Hill became the centre of the fee to Empire when all other communica-Peacehaven. tion was either broken down or un

her children's home

commer-

From Great Britain alone 2,000 spring sowing, were obliged to country. Persia's recent Natnes were made in night Guides visited their sister Guides consume all their stocks. In many cial agreement with the Soviet has safe? How we were held together Elale Otley stepped into the studio fabrda in 1831. Thus the girls of places cattle have had to be sent up imports of Russian metals by the bulletins that were issued and sang the lead in "Good Night, the different nations are finding killed for want of food."

from 17 per cent, to 85 per cent. ta the "detriment of England and throughout those heavy days!

Germany.

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1 p.m. -Local time and weather

report.

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, mail

notice, etc.

p.m.-Close down.

5 to 9 p.m.-European programime. to a p.m.A relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestru by courtesy of the Management. (During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio).

6 to 8 p.m.-A programme of Vic-

Tor records

e to 4,40 p.m.

Operatic.

Song "Tales of Hoffman-Doll

Song" (Offenbach).

Song" Mignon-I'm Fair Tita-

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Orchestral-" Tosca--Potpourri !! (Puccini-Tavan)-Marek Webor and his Orchestra.-68861. Chorus-** Samson et Dalila- Dawn Now Heralds the Day (Saint-Saens).

Chorus "Romed

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et Juliette-- (Gounod)-Métro- politan Opera Chorus-432. Orchestral Margarethe Pot- (Faust Belcetions) pourri " (Gounod-bearb, von Weber). Marek Weber and his Orches- tra.-68900.

Song" Trovatore-Ah,

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mio" (The Vows We Plighted). (Verdi).

Song-Marta- M'appari" Liko Dream) (Flotow):-Enrico Caruso (Tenor), -4002.

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7 p.m.-Stock quotations, mail

notice, etc.

6.40 to 7.15 p.m.---

"1812

Orchestral,

Overture" Tschaikow. aky). Leopold Stokowski and Orchestra.- the Philadelphia "7409/7500. "Hungarian Rhapsody No. " (Liszt). Philadelphia Sym- phony Orchestra, directed by Leopold Stokowski, 0652.

(a) Serenade" (Moazkowaki)

(b) Aubade" (Auber). "Liebeslied" (Love's Sorrow} (Kreisler). San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, directed' by Alfred Hertz.--6892

13 to 7.30 p.m.---

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HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hong Kong Observatory, June 22,

Previous On Date On Date

Day

st at at 4 p.m. 10 s.m. 4 Pet

Barometer.. 29.74 29.82 Temperature 88 8b Humidity 78 61 Wind

Direction SW AT Foroo... 3

29.76 B6

70

3

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CQ 0.08

0

0.00

"Spinning Song" (from "The

Flying Dutchman ") (Wagner-Weather Liszt)-Ignace Jan Paderew- Rais... aki.-1540.

Polonaise in E Major" (Liszt). -Sergei Rachmaninoff-0818.

1.30 to 8 p.m.-

Variety.

Orchestral The Wooden Sol-

dier and the China Dell." Orchestral. Rain on the Root." Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, 29005. Accordion Solo-"Accordionette," Accordion Solo-Accordionola."

--Piotro.-V-70. Instrumental "Kunia Med-

loy."

"Waonahele Medley Royal: Hawaiian *Trio, --20283. Orchestral-B Close to Mo." Orchestral Goodnight Sweet-

Instrumental

heart."-Wayne King and his Orchestra:-22825.

Instrumental-Love's Dream After the Ball.-Venetian Trio. -20201.

Vienna," at a moment's notice when themselves mutually in touch, not In the industrial domain condi Then was born the British Broad-the leading lady fell ill. She was only through their self-enrolment

a star text morning.

under a common ideal and common tions are just as bad. The fatious casting Corporation and a new era

Olive Groves, the soprano, and activities, but also because their motor-car factory at Nijni Nov Japan at least is "Sighting the was inaugurated. That gra closes now with the passing of Savoy Hill. Lilian Harrison, the actress, were strengthened by their coming more gorod, which was to turn out 80,000 dumping menade, and buyers of Savoy Hill is dead. Long Live unknown to thousands before they into personal touch and acquaint

ears a year, produced only 16 in broadenst. Now everybody knows fance 'with one another.: Broadcasting House!

them. Who could forget Lilise The Guides, coupled with the still February, and it is improbabic Harrison in "Nurse Henrietta" greater number of Scouts and ex that the enterprise will be able to

Scouts, cannot fail to supply & con continue working. siderable leavon in each country of

The now giant foundries for The soul-stirring relay from the people who understand and are in Menin dats... Memorial for Raympathy with their neighbouring coloured metals in the Urals are 101... what a sea of memories nations, and who thus have in them in a parious state, while the big divods the mind in this retrospect the spirit of goodwill which by zine works at Konstantinovke, in many is regarded as the only trus And the relay of the Cenotaph of the years.

Nor muss the old familiars be foundation on which the League of the Ukraine, which cost the State. year Germany must have obtained 11 Bm-Close down.

All records in the above European Service that, for the first time,

big transfers" of "gold from Mos programmes are supplied by Mesars, the cow."

Tanng Fook Piano Co. literally united the whole nation in forgotten the microphone persons Nations can effectively work in £1,000,000, have been closed. homage to the dead.

lities who have kept the programmes bringing about peace in the world.

Oroillating-It Isn't Donel Do you remember, too, these early programmes and the troubles we uned to have? How Peter Eckersley ploaded: "Please don't osciliate. It's not done!" (Hong Kong fani please note.)

Friends of the Children,

The report also acturer

Highest open-air Temperature, 31: 89 Lowest open-air Tamperature, 21. 8g-i

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B-Blue sky; O-Cloudy; D= Drisale; F-Fog; L-Lightning; M-Mist; O-Orerezat; P=Paning Showers; Q-Squalls; B-Bain; T- Thunder.

Days of

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.

Data of

Month.

Height

Height.

From June 23 to 20, 1983.

HIGH WATER,

LOW WATE

Hong

Hong

Kong

Kong

Standard

Blandard

Time.

Time.

b..m.

Thur. 28

02.00

2

08.12

2204171

1941

24

0234 43

06 10

12.40

1246 6 5

10 25

25

0735

21:00

25 Fun.

09 06

31 86

47

10 31

1452

-27 10

2 3

16 15:5

21.45

$19 52

port."' Russian goods are demanding or. 8 p.m.--Local time and weather re-

"8.03 to 9.30 p.m.-Chinese pro ders for an equivalent valus.

gramme, "Despite her enormous nancial 8.30 to 10 p.m-A relay of the band

of the 1st Butbn. Bouth Wales ri the obligations elsewhere," states

Borderera from. the Officers Bat Mess, Murray Barracks by report, "Germany continues to ne

courtesy of the Officer Com of all!

manding.

mid-day Press

Press Mon. 97 sume fresh commitments kinds with the Savict. The only 10 pm.-Hugby plausible explanation of this policy 10.05. is that at some time within the last

to 11 p.m.-Chinese pro-Ton 29 gramme.

Wed.

news.