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MAXIM GORKI, THE BITTER ONE,'| DEAD
AUTHOR RUSSIA
·EXILED-THEN FETED
London, June 19. One-time rag-picker, errand boy, tramp and dockhand. Maxim Gor- xi, famous Russian author, whe
became Poet Laureate of the So- viet after years of exile, died yes- terday after a fortnight's illness. He was sixty-eight.
He had been suffering heart and lung trouble.
Until four years ago he was re- volutionary, first against the Tsars
from
5.30 a..-Breakfast Hour of News and after them the Bolshevist re- and Music-English and Span-gime. His journal. "The New ish Current Events and Vaude- Life," was the last Sociallst paper A Light Concert
villa of the Air conducted by to be suppressed by the Bolshe- Planoforte Solos-Poissons D'Or
Don Alva. Morning Exercises vists, and as a protest he settled (Debussy).
by Prot. G.T. Suva, of the In-in Capri Scherzo (Borodin). —
sular Life Assurance Co. Vines.
7 a.m-Sign off. Songs-I Give my heart ("The 9.30 am-Nelson Financial.
Dubarry"), "
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prano):
Ricardo
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COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M
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FURNITURE
Comprising:-
But during his exile he became Chesterfield Suites, Black Wood converted to the Soviet ideal and ¦ Ware, Teak Bed Room and Dining Re-wrote D full and appreciative Room Furniture, Uffice Fumiture, biography of Lenin. In 1932 he Ornaments, Pictures, Gramophone was called home in state to the and Recorda, Glass and Porcelain 2.30 p.m-Nielson, Financial Review famous old town of Nini Novgored. Ware, Brass and E. P. Ware, Electric
and Musical Varieties.
where he was born, to hear it Table Lamps and Fans, Curtains," 3.45 p.m.-Sign Off
officially renamed "Gorki City." Liuen, etc., etc.
8 p.m.-"Melody Lane," featuring
Mario del Rio,
Songs Old Stay at Home.
Speed! Malcolm McEachern! 0.20 p.m.-Spanish Informational
(Bass).
Period.
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ON VIEW FROM THURSDAY,
THE 2ND JULY, 1986.
TAUGHT TO READ
Maxim Gorki's real name was Pyeshkov. He adopted the pen- name of Gorki ("The Bitter One") as a reflection on his early youth: His father, a poor itinerant up- the courtesy of Swan, Culbert-holsterer, died when he was five.
His mother marrying again, he TERMS:-UASH OF DELIVERY. son and Fritz.
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A Relay from Daventry
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From the Studio
"Book Reviews" by A.D.
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Period
8.35 p.m.-Stock quotations, through
p.m.-Edith Compton-Popular was left to the care of a maternal
grandfather. Songs
17.15 p.m.-Pro-Phy-Lac-Tic Perma- Grip presents "Vanities of the Air."
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Wea-7.30 p.r.-Philco-Frigidaire Pre- ther Report, Stock Quotations. sentation featuring "Tarzan of
the Apes."
and Announcements.
8.05 p.m.-
Nat Gonella and his Georgians Fux-Trot-New Orleans Twist. Fox-Trot-Chicago.
The Sheik of Araby. Ol' Men Mose.
I'm gonna clap my hands. Black Coffec. Lazy River, 8.30 p.m.-
Vocal Variety Items Duet-Nonny. Nonny No ("J1
Darling"-Louise Browne and John Mills.
י.
She's the Wealthiest Woman on
Earth-Kitty Masters.
Riding the Range in the Sky. Underneath a Western Sky.-The
Hill Billies.. Humpty Dumpty. Things
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are looking up-Cicely Courtneidge.
All Because of you.-Browning
and Star.
Moon for Sale.-Les Allen and his
Canadian Bachelors,
Listen to the German Band.—
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9 p.m.-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin and Announce- ments (Copyright by Reuter). 9.20 p.m-
7.45 p.m.-Elizalde y
Cia
Pro-
gramme.
8 p.m.-Hispania.
Finally he become a cook on a Volga steamer, where the head cook was the first to teach the young Gorki to read,
At twenty-three he had succeed-
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local market reports.
9 p.m.-Myrurgia Perfumes pre-
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OSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.87 m.). GEG 17.79 Me/s (18.86 m.).
7 pm-Big Ben. The Rutland Square and New Victoria Or- chestra, directed by Norman Austin. From the New Victoria Cinema, Edinburgh.
7.30 p.m.--The BBC Dance Orches-
tra, directed by Henry Hall.
3 p.m.--Around the Counties, No. 1. "Men of Kent and Kentish Men."
"O famous Kent,
tol. Chekhov advised him to write plays.
'"
He did. They were successes. but they were so bitter.
TELEVISION FOR TRAVELLERS
"Theatres At Two London Stations
MAY
BE OPENED THIS
AUTUMN
(Special Air Mau service)
London, June 13.
It is probable that, before the
What county hath this isle that end of the year, passengers wait- compare with thee?"
ing at the great London railway The programme devised and pro-
stations will be able to go into, a duced by William MacLurg.
Television Theatre on the plat- 8.35 pm-A Planoforte Interlude form.
by Cecil Dixon. Clair de Lune; Arabesque in E (Debussy).
Classical Programme Symphony No. 9 in D Minor ("Choral") (Beethoven, Op. 125) played by Felix Weingart- ΠΕΡ and the Vienna Phil-8.45 p.m.-"Club Room Conversa- monic Orchestra.
Vocal Duet-Yes. Tis you love
"The Mastersingers" (Wagner). Germaine Martinelli and Georges Thill
10.30 p.m.-Dance Music. 11 p.m.-Close down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
4.55 p.m.-Call DJQ, 'DJA, DJB
(German, English).
German Folk Song.
5 p.m.-Shortwave Amateurs'. Hour 8.15 p.m. Let us sing a Folk Song
together!
5.30 p.m.-News and Economi^ Re-
view in English.
5.45 p.m.-Military Concert, 6.45 p.m.-News and Economic Re-
view in German.
7 p.m.-Concert of Light Muade,
8 p.m.-News in English-Sign u
DJQ.
8.15 p.m.-Greetings to our laten-
ers in New Zealand.
8.20 p.m.-Little German Broad-
#casting ABC.
8.35 p.m.-Concert of Light Music
(continued).
9 pm. Sigu off DNA and DJB
(Germ., Engi).
tion."
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8 pm-Greenwich Time Signal.
p.m-The News and Announce-
ments.
9.20 p.m.-Tenl and the North Pier Orchestra, from the North Pier, Blackpool.
9.45 p.m.-Close down.
TRANSMISSION S Two of the following frequencies will be used:-
Both the Southern and the Great Western Railway Companies have obtained from the B.B.C. in-
formation about the establishment of television theatres in their main stadions.
Instructions from the Execu- tor of the Estate of the late Mr. F. C. JENKIN, deceased,
TO SELL BY
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TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936
CUXXENCING AT 10.30 AM.
AT No: 409, THE PEAK (SEVERN ROAD)
A' QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
*FURNITURE
Comprising:
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Carved Wooden Figures, etc., etc.
One Kelvinator
also
and
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A Quantity of Plants in Pote.
ON VIEW FROM MONDAY,
Tur 61 JULY, 1986.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS,
The television experts' told the
the companies that, fa
initial stages of television, the theatre should be very small and dimly lighted. Five rows, each contain- TERMS-CASH or DELIVERY. ing eight seats, were suggested as the best arrangement, the front row being 5ft from the picture.
The railway companies are now GSH 21,47 Mc/s (13.97 m.). "
carefully considering the question GSG 17.79 Mc/s (18.86 m.?
of constructing such theatres. GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.)
A regular service of television for commentaries by Colonel R. H. October.
Programmes may be broken into should begin about the middle of The first experimental Brand and Captain H. B. T. Wake-programmes will be sent out from lam on the All-England Lawn Ten- the television station at Alexandra nis Club Championship, from the Palace about the beginning of Centre Court, Wimbledon,
August, and from then until about
10 p.m.-Big Ben "Queue for mid-October will be the period of
Song," 2nd Edition. An Empire] promenade, presented by Re- ginald Smith.
10.40 p.m.-Musical Interlude. 10.45' p.m.-"Fire at Bea," by Jerry
Kunn
a prolonged dress rehearsal. This should yield good entertainment.
There will be three programmes daily:-
3.00– 4.00 p.m. 6.157.15 p.m. 9.30-18.30 0.00
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London, July 1. As from to-day, reductions look effect in the rates for radio tele- Krams through Rugby and through British post stations to and from British ships and some foreign ships.
The normal rates through Rugby kre reduced from 1/6 to 1/- per Word and to and from British past stations from lid. to 34 --
11 p.m.-The Hotel Victoria Or- thestrá; leader, A. Ross; un-
The television engineere calcu- der the direction of Emilio late that the present receivers will Colombo. From the Hotel Vic-be effective within 25 miles of the | British Wirelen, toria, London.
9.05 p.m. Call DJA, DJE DJN 1145 pm-Variety.
(Germ., Engl.)
German Folk Song.
9.10 p.m. Greetings to our Listen-
ers in the Dutch East Indies, 9.15 p.m.-News and Economic Re- view in German on DJA, DJB - DJN
of the 9.30 p.m.-Foundation
National Institute for German History.
A Talk with Prof. Walter Frank. 9.95 p.m-"Wie Melodien zieht
Songs by Johannes Brahms
11,53 p.m.-The News and An-
nouncements.
Midnight Greenwich Time Bignal 12.15 a.m.--The Serge Krish Septet. The Duchess of Chicago (Kal- man), The Star and the Rose (Echwartz). Daddy Long-Legs (Kenneth Wright), Waltz, Love and Life in Vienna (Homzak). Creen Lawns (Lewis)," Mol- davian Rhapsody (Krish). En- tr'acte (Carmen) (Bizet). In Old Budapest (Krish).
-Close down.
transmitting station In practice, however, the distance may be doubled.
The price of a receiving set is from £60 to £80, but it is expect ed that it may soon, be lower.
A moderátor of the Church of Scotland arrived at a country sta tion to catch a train, only to dis- cover that it had left five minutes earlier. Ke remonstrated with a. porter, and asked if it would not Some lay relatives were visit have been possible to inform in- ing a couple, and happened to tending passengers of the change. mention their dog, a big mongrel The porter, merely made reply: "He's just like one of there may be moderator, and. ge faintly," said the pup's proud may be a D. D, but if ye were a mistress.
can o' mulk the railway wad think "Which one?” siked the bikes, mair o' ye."
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