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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932.

FABIO

TRIALS AND TROUBLES IN 1922 STUDIOS

BROADCASTING HAS CHANGED A LOT

IN TEN YEARS.

BY GARRY ALLIOHAN.)

London, Ang. 15.--Ton years ago the first B.B.C. concert was broad During the next few days cast. the greatest Radio Exhibition the world has ever known will commem- orate that fact

It is only in the fitness of things that this should be so, because the organisers, the Radio Manufactur- ers' Association, are the direct suc cessors of those radio manufactur; ers, who, in 1922, contributed to common fund sufféient capital to begin British broadcasting. In that manner was the B.B.C. launched; it was the radio manufacturers who gave the B.B.C to the world and under their direction the first four pioneering years of B.B.C. pargrammes were conducted.

官

FEATURES

RADIO MESSAGES TO DETECT CRIME

NEW TRANSMITTER FOR

MOBILE POLICE

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Aug. There wore successful demonstra 11-to-11.30 am--Stock quotations, tions at the headquarters of the 11.30 a.m.-Chincse programme. eity police in Newcastle to-day of 12.30 p.m.-European programme of

Victor records. with a telephone so that he could a new radio transmitter for use in Fast mo- communicate with Peter Eckers-.the detection of crime. ley, the first Chief Engineer, who was in another room controlling the transmitters.

announcement

There was a strange defect in the microphone--a very tiny gap which caused it to be disconnected, Connection was made by dropping a coin in the operture. Very often, after Mr. Palmer had made his Mr. Eckersley would dash in from the other room and exclaim: "You'll have to say it all over again, Hex, you haven't put the penny in

They were jolly days and the joility got past the microphone. Veteran listeners still declare that they enjoyed those broadcasts bet- When the B.B.C. was first form. ter than the present ones because ed there were fewer than 20,000 of their informality and sense of listeners. During the present Radio Exhibition it is expected that the five millionth listener will he licensed. These two comparative facta provide merely one view of the marvellous achievement that Jas been accomplished in radia's

name:

殴

There are also the twin advances in sut manufacture-so that Bri- tish radio receivers, valves, batter ies, and other components are the best in the world-and in B.B.C broadcasting.

intimacy.

All the artista that were in those first B.B.C. programmes tell me of the crudities of thicrophone toon- que in those anys,

Norman Long recalls how, for his "Song, smite and piano "act, une microphone was placed in the piano, while Stanton Jeffries crou- ebes over him with another, which he held about four inches from the artiste's mouth. "As he turned his head the microphone followed.

tor-car and motor-cycle patrols are! to be used in conjunction with it The installation is one of the first to aid the police in their campaign against the modern mobile: cri- mical.

pim.-Local Time and Weather

Report.

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press News, etc.- 19 p.m.-Close down,

to 8 pm-European programine.

5 to 0 p.

When the transmitter begins to

A relay of the Hong Kong Hotel work radiated energy from the aerial excites a relay coil, which Orchestra, conducted by Mr. J. bulb in easy view of the driver.ment (during the intervals recorded in turn operates a small electric Futera, by courtesy of the Manage This indicates that message is about to be transmitted, and the music will be broadcast from the driver fits on headphones to listen. Studio).

The experiments have shown that to 8 p.m.-A programime of messages broadcast from the cen-

Victor records. tral police station have been re- ceived by motor-cycles in all parts 6 to 0.35 p.m. of the city. A receiver installed at Sanderland picked up a message quite clearly, and it is belioved that with further trials signals could be received within a radius of 28 miles.

Chief constables and police su perintendents from all over the North of England have been in-

vited to witness the tests. Cruis- ing motor-cars and motor-cycles on

radio instructions, and the general the outskirts of the city received standard of transmission and re-

ception was considered satisfactory.

SCOTTISH LETTER

(Continued from Pagé 1.)

on that

Violin

HAVE YOU

HEARD THESE?

Here are lista - of long-wavO and short-ways staiions which abould be picked up by anyone In Hong Kong who has a mode. rately good et suitable for re- ceiving such signals. Success in pleking up these stations also dependa very largely upon fav. ourable atmospheric conditions. Headers are invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in- cluded in either of these lists.

· LONG-WAVE `STATIONS.

Wave length

(Metres) Station

960 Manila 277 Shanghai 345 Tokyo

Call .aign ayola KZLB. 1,1 " K.B.M.S. 1,063 JO.A.E. STO

853 Hiroshima · J.O.P.E.. 150 -840 355 Hong Kong Z.B.W. V.U.B. 357.1 Bombay 361 Sapporo 3.0.LI. 890 368 Keijo -J.O.D.K.

J.O.C.X. AID V.U.C.2008.9

370 Nagoya 370.4 Calcutta

o

3.0.H.K. 7TO J.Q.A.K. 780 J.O.B.K. 750

C.M.B.

380 Kumamoto J.0.G.K. TID" 390 Sendai 395 Dairen 400 Osaka 410 Canton 480 Manila

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

"STATION

CALL SION

Bome 43,8

Perth

A Concert,

67.05 Solo" Slavonic Dance, 60,12

56.7 No. 1" (Dvorak-Kreisler).

150. Violin Solo Songs My Mother :

Taught Me" (Dvorak-Kreisler), 41.8 Fritz Kreidler-1414,

87. Song--"Benu Soir" (Evening 85.3

Fair) (Bourget Debussy).

31.56 31.48 Song- Clair de Lune" (The 81.20 Wistful Moon) (Verlaine-Szulc) 81.28 Mary Garden (Soprano)-1430, Piano Solo-" Album

(Oricg).

HS4PJ. 2.B..

K.Z.B.M. 625

TIME (HONG KONG)

OF WORKING

4,434-Mon., Wed.& Fri., 6 p.m. & 2 a,m

5,291 Not regular

6,000 Tue, Thurs., Sat., 6 p.m.

6,898 Sunday midnight

7,148 Daily 8.80 p.m. & 11 p.ui.

7,810 Not regular.

7,730 Daily 1 pm.

8,108 Tuos. & Fri., 0 p.m.-1 a.m.

9,330 Not regular

9,603 Not regular

9,6300) | Daily 7 s.m..

:

9,020 Fri, 8. Sat. 8 qm, & 10 am,

9,590 Not regular

0,677|| Midnight daily.''

11,020 Midnight-3 am, daily

A.P.K Debints (Germany) Khabarovsk (kusiía) {R.A.97. Nauenw

4,090 | 6–10 p.m.

A.G.J.

B.F.N.

1.M.A.

B.A.G.

Singapore

V.8.1.A.B.

28.8"

Kootwijk (Holland)

P.C.L

Bangkok (Blam)

Sydne

Melbourne

Schenectady

W.3.I.L.F.

Leaf" 25.88

81.. 28.5 $7.8

Nairobi (Kenya)

Eindhoven (Holland) P.U.J. Sydney

Bydney Bandoeng

2.F.C.

7.1.0.

| 2:M.E.

10,520 Not regular

P.LE

Chelmsford (England) [6.8.W.

Pinnie Bolo "Capriccio " (Brahms) Harold Bauer-1413.

18.4 Song" Lover Come Back to

Me” (Hammerstein Romberg). || 18.0 Song "A Garden in the Rain"

(Dyrenforth-Gibbons) John Mc 13.8 Cormack (Tenor)—1400. - 'Cello Solo" Intermezzo" (Vi.

valdi).

24.5

Manila

K.1.X.R.

12,240 Nightly

29.35

Schenectady

W.2.X.O.

12,660 4-. Wed., Fri., Hat.

15.88

Bandocut

P.L.G.

Kootwijk (Holland)

P.C.L

17.4

Bandoong!

P.LF.

Bangkok

1.6.1.P.J

18.8 15.76

Kootwijk (Holland)

P.C.K

Bandoung

PL 2

Nancy (France)

19,881 ↑ Daily 8 am.

13.98

Pittsburg

W.S.X.K.

|91,540 | Not regular

3

'Cello Solo Serenata Napole- tána " (Sgambati) Pablo Casals -1843.

Operatio,

distillers. There are 01: distilleries in Scotland, 78 of which belong to The worst experience seems to the above Association. A member, have been that which Middleton declared that warehouses were full I spent an exciting afternoon reWoods had. He broadcast during and there, was no alternative but cently, looking through the books a heat wave. Studios, in 1922, to close the distilleries of Scotland. of the B.B.C. and studying the were absolutely, airless; all win-; It costs about 3/6d to produce a programmes of ica years ago. Idows hind to be firmly scaled. A gallon of whisky, and found a document that will become full orchestra was crammed into gallon the Government extracte in 8.35 to 8.53 p.m.- historic the first B.D.C. pro- the studio, so that Mr. Woods had duty 12/6d. *F truly amazing gramme, broadcast in 1992, imme- to sing while wedged in between, a amount. In "ene little Burgh, diately after the Postmaster-gen- 'cello and a double-bass. The heat Rothes, Morayshire, there are in eral had given the British Broad- was so terrific that he, the orches- stock at least 2 million gallons, easting Co. Ltd. permission for do-tra, and the announcer took of which, if sold would bring in mestic broadcasting.

some of their clothes. The first item in the first B.B.C.

Studio arrangements and micro- concert WAS British- Elgar's phone technique have improved out "Pomp and Circumstance." The of all recognition since those days, first artists to be B.B.C. brond- There has been a steady and regu- casters wero Hida Searle, Helen lar progression of development, Mar, Peter Graham and Vivienne both with the B.B.C. and radio re- Chatterton; Stanton Jeffries was | celving apparatus.-

the accompanist on that notable Broadcasting House and Nadio occasion and flex Palmer, the flympia" unite to prove this joint

advance.

nuoncer.

2

That concert tasted from is p... to 10 p.m. and was evidently suc ocesful, because the next night the hours were increased,

Stanton Jeffries, who became the first musical director of the B.B.C., is still on the staff. He holds af important position în charge of “balance and control."

1

WEDDING IN LONDON

PRITCHARD-OZORIO,

Orchestral The Valkyrie,” Fire

Music (Wegner) Symphony Or chestra. conducted by Albert Coatex-9000, Orchestra" The Twilight of the Gods" Slegfried's "Journey to the Rhine (Wagner) Symphony Orchestra conducted by 'Albert Coates-9007,

p.m.-Stock quotations, eto,

£7,000,000 and in Speyside which is the principal whisky-producing centre, there is infinitely more.. A lending distiller said that in his opinion very little difference would by felt if America were to go. "wet"-certainly not for several years, the best of the whisky being 0.53 to 8 p ̧m- still obtainably over there. My solution" he said for the pro blem, which I think to be the quấy practical one, is to cut the duty by cue-half and give the public a whisky that i mách 13 reduced in strength."

Variety.

Vocal Trio San." Vocal. Trio“ Sweet

Georgin Brown The Pickens Sisters

11,751 7.30 pm, & Sa.m. dally, except

Saturday and Enonday

16,102 Daily 6.80 p.m. to midnight.

18,304|| Daily 7 p..

17.260 Daily 8 p.. to midnight

17,781 Sundays 7 pm & midnight

18,404 | Each afternoon.

19,220 Daily 6,30---7 pine

[Allowance must be made for "ammer-time" in most Euro- pësź countries, which is one hour shead of true time.]

GIRL'S FALL FROM

ROOF

**A PECULIAR STORY"

...

CORONER'S COMMENTS AT INQUEST

in

Witness in Tears. "You were going to take her without any clothes on, I suppose " asked the coroner. Good lord, no" replied Miss Stynn.

Coroner: Were you going to take a photograph of your sister in her dressing-gown-Yes"

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would have played tennis and had a good time generally,

On the morning of the fall, con- tinued Mrs. Styan, her daughter looked out of the window, and, being afraid she might become giddy, witness shouted Come here, you will fall!" Sylvia raced upstairs at a terrific pace, and, thinking her daughter was defying her, witness shonted at her.

She Frightened Me.” Coroner: Did you quarrel with her that morning1-I spoke rather crossly, and asked her to Come away from the window because she frightened me. She was so giddy. Why I can't think of the ac Mrs. Btyan went on to say that tual reason now, I suppose hei-as regarded photographs her daugh- ́-

was very down and crying on the

The following morning she came

What the coroner, Mr. Ingleby ther of us was thinking. She was ter had several taken in a bath- excited aver her holiday. --- ing costume at. Bournemouth. She Oddie, described as a peculiar. You know you are on your oath, story" was unfolded at Westmins don't you Yes,

Where was the camera found day before the tragedy, when she ter when the strange fate of a girlfterwards I had it in my hand. tucked her into bed and kissed her the day after her return from a "It sounds to me rather a pecu- good-night. holiday at the seaside, was investi- liar story," commented the coroner. "Peculiar queried Miss Styan, gated. Climbing, to the roof at her

Yes, it is peculiar," proceeded into witness's bedroom with her home South-West London, the coroner. Had you or your u toggy" bag, over which she was ostensibly to have her photograph sister had. any quarrel that morn- taken, the girl, who was in her ing"-Oh, no. She was so happy very thrilled, and asked if the It isn't peculiar that I had might go on the roof. Witness told gone and found my sister Rad, fd her abe, was not to go. dressing gown, fell to her death.

When the coroner muggested that len over the roof, is it Miss.

after she had beard Eileen say it was intended to snap the victim Styan further asked as she buretra, Styan further described how "The coroner replied that it weThere are no more films," she ran in the tragedy without any clo thes on, a sister, called as a wit peculiar that witness should have Go ness, made a strong denial. After gone on the roof to take her sister's into the basement in her dressing photograph in her dressing-gown gown, and looking up, saw Sylvid remarking that the evidence was when she had just returned from bounce down on the second roof Orchestra "Round My Heart" not quite clear," the coroner record holiday and had ample time to and into the next yard.

Coon-Sanders Orchestra 22972,

Will Always be Bông. We

Sweethearts." SongOne Hour with You" Jeannetto MacDonald (Soprano)

24025. Orchestral—” Downhearted.''· Orchestra My Mom George

Olsen and his Music-22907, Song" Goodnight, My Love." Song By t

the Fireside" Donald

„Orchestra- I Want to

Home

The Rugby Season: With seven-ide at Eariston the Scottish Rugby season opened on Saturday. In recent years some centricities have made their ap- pearance in the game and recently the International Board has op- pealed to play is to rid the game of these vagaries. It is contended should not be decided by leg twist that the scrummage for possession ing agility, which is not Rugby, but by good houret shoving. It will The bride, who travelled Engation has led to deterioration in

not be disputed that over-speciali land last Juny by the P. & O... forward play. In order that all Chitral, was given away by Sir members of a pack are competent Albert Pritchard, uncle of the to co-operate in skilled attacking

individual movements,

forwards

A very pretty wedding was cele brated in London on July 25 be

Novis (Tenor)-24020, tween Mr. Albert E. Pritchard,

His wife, Vivienne Chatterton, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. who sang in that first concert, in Pritchard of the Grange, Sutton still a regular broadcaster, while Coldfield, Warwickshire, and Miss Helen: Mar (who the type-written Ange Ozorio, joungest daughter of programme of that day said will fr, and Mrs, J. A. Özorio of tell some stories") broadcast fair. Swaton. ly recently, and is now playing in "Casanova."

ז

Weird Apparatus.^

In those first Marconi House bridegroom he wore an ivory should be trained in all phases of days the apparatus was wired and satin gown in early Victorian style the game, otherwise forwards are wonderful. Rex Palmer tells of and carried bouquet of white fated to remain as providers for

the back divisions, to which mo "one piece to catch the sounds carnations. The veil was trimmed dern tendencies have reduces them. from the piano,.. another for the with orange blossom. The wedding

cello, and so on.” He says that another early microphone consist

od of four heavy brass cases, with

was celebrated according to the rites of the Catholic Church

Sir Albert Pritchard, who was

let" Frank Urumit 22850 also "best man," proposed the 8 p.m.-Local Time and Weather

health of the bride at the subsequent Report adjustable thumb screws, in a soap reception which was largely attend 8.3 to 10.30 p.m. Chinese: Studio box and mounted on a trolley, ed by relatives and friends. The Concert.

Unclo Rex had to sit on's bagh presente from England and from 10.30 p.m.-Ragby Mid-day Prem

m_China-made in striking display. --- Newala, atoul to get level with After the reception the young 10.35 pm-Close down.

During these first broadcasts, couple left for, their honeyrogn All record to the above Buro Agnouncer, Palmer had to wear which took the form of a motor pean, programme ere supplied by headphones.THEA

tout-through-Eigi

Mosatu. Tiang Fook Ping Co.

24013.

into teara

have photographs taken there.

Miss Styan added that her sister brought back a novelty “doggy bag with her and she was very fond

I said to her, "Oh, darling

it is mummy, speak to me, but the

ed a verdict of "Accidental Death." was the day after she came home from a foliday at Bourne

Styan, with emotion. mouth that Sylvia Evelyn Styan, of it. She wanted it to appear in did not know me," added. Mre

a photograph with her. 17, telephonist, of Sussex Stroot, Coroner Had she any Pimlico, S.W., remarked her affair --She had a gentleman alster that she would like to havo her photograph taken on the roof

love

!

In his summing-up the coroner. remarked that the girl was evident. friend.

At Bournemouth-No, there was ly disappointed about having Vocal Dust Missouri Valley ”

nothing there. She just went for cut short her holiday. S

She either Bud and Jog Billinge. Vocal Trio In the Cumberland becalls" the sun was so nice up a rest with mother.

Had anything of an unpleasant fell over the parapes or jumped Mountains" Bad and Joe Bill there." The snapshot, however, nature happened between her and over. She was run down, and her inge and Carson Robison 22852 was never taken By the time the the gentleman friend-No, they nerves were in a bad state, Orchestra-"Ev'ry Time my Heart | sister arrived with the camera were frightfully happy

Baste,"

Mrs, Jessie Btyan, the mother, It was just possible that she com Orchestra My Lipe Want Sylvia had fallen to the ground, declared that her daughter Sylvia | mitted, suiejde, while on the

Kisses" Tod Black and his bort, below.

had suffered from nerves and was Orchestrt-220822

Evidence was given at the inquest very rundown. She was subject to hand, the suffered from giddinest Vocal Trio Too Many Tears."

attacks of giddiness, and was taken and might have fallen over. Vocal Trio Somebody Loves by Mike Kileen Siyan, a pretty,ill on her way back from Bourne Nobody oncluded the coron

You" The Pitch Sisters füirchaired girl,

mde ar, kanw her fall, I have tễ that when ahb-mouth. **22005.

reached her sister's do she just She was very depressed when she satisfy myself as to whether thi Humorous - Song ight-Meinurmured, “Oh, Kiloen 12 Miss returned home because she bad are li a case of suicide or an ocidental How to Play the Second Brah went on to say that both sheranged to go to the home of her death The pridence is not quite Fiddle.

and her sister were in their dreas young man's parents for a week, clear, but on the balance. I shall Humorous Song I'm à fpecia- ing gown when the suggestion re-but owing to some business reason record a verdict that this was an (Continued, oh Presious Volumi; | garding a photograph was made the arrangement fell through Bho decidental death,