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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1923.

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width, the member of the audience miles away from bis fellow listener on either side. | Imagine an audience of business men, of factory workers; of pro- fessional" men, of farmers, of grand mothare and granddaugh- tors; some in vigorous health; some confined to their beds by illness; some dressed for the cold of an arctic winter; others for the beat of a tropical night-in short,

The parts have been studied, however, with the greatest care, and are carefully telparsed before the actual presentation takes

that in broadcasting a drama the actore must rely upon the voice alone to convey the impression they wish to create. Exceptional skill in-olosuljen je demanded. therefore, for clear enunciation and careful modulation, are the means by which emotions mut be expressed.

The practice of reading the because it is easier than commit playiTM is not followed merely! a cross section of the cosmopoliting the parts to memory, but for tan strata that is America, all the smoothness and promptness listening simultaneously to one it allows. There are no breaks in dramalle production: If you can the slowness in responding to visualize this picture, then you

have a picture of the theatre cues, no forgetting of parts of which even the best managed invisible which radio broadcasting has created for the United States, devold. It is interesting to note stage productions are seldom and & conception of the manner that the paper on which the in which radio has reversed

2. Ever since rádio: became popu-

Shakespeare's observation and parts are written is of such s bae made all the world an audi-quality that rustling is eliminated, lar, enthusiasts with bobbies have enco, or if not all the world for even the slightest sound lebeen designing the "smallest then a considerable part of it. transmitted to the unseen audi-sets in the world. But they were

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all crystal se . Here is another smallest" set and its faventor, Since only sound enters Into Mr. Roslyn Russel of Niagara the microphone, the" Properties Falls, but this one is a regenera- The great popularity of these are only those required to makeative set, aaya Mr. Ruseel. It fite broadcast dramas brings rejoicing sound. For example, a ecene sup

La a case that measures 31-2 to there to whom the apparent posed to take place in a railway inches by 3 1-4 inches by 2 12 decadence of the spoken drama station W16 "given a touch inches and includes a peanut brought alarm. Many actors and of realism by the accompani-tube, spider web coil and all the producers of the spoken drama ment of a ticking telegraph other necessary parts for such ast now Ree a promise of its restora- key. The entrance of exit of the ranges in wavelengths from 200 tion to the popular favour that it setor is indicated by the sound of to 600 meters and, according to enjoyed before silent drama of this closing or opening door. Telo Mr. Russel, it has ploked up motion picture disputed its supre- phone conversations are heralded:

macy.

by the ringing of a telephone bell.messages eant from stations as Some ingenuity is required infar as 800 miles away.. more difficult situations.

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In some rrepects, the possibili. ties of dramatic radio broadcast. ing are vastly greater than those Does someone say, "It meatre;

"WOMEN" "TAXICAB DRIVERS- of either the legitimate stage or quire much imagination to get

Women chauffeura are being the motion picture. The cinema any sense of realism from] = and the stage must always be dramatic production which ap actively engaged in New York. limited by the necessity of provid-peals only to the ears? No more The idea was started to cater ing elaborate and expensive necessarily, than that demanded especially for female patronage of accommodations for their audi. by a motion picture in which the the city, which hesitates to use ences, costumes and scenery and actors must express everything taxicabs driven by men unless general staging to appeal to the by pantomime, and the universal accompanied by an escort, accord- eye as well as to the ear. The popularity of the cinema, ia ing to the president of a taxi broadcast drama is free from either proof that drama appealing to company,

of these its accommodations sre one sense only, is practical unlimited and its production, is

comparatively simple.

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have heard a broadoast drama

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For who have thought about the broadcast not long ago from The Questions Answered. subject wonder just "bow these WGY, the studio of the General playa are staged and pro-Electric Company in Schenecta duced. Do the players appear dy, New York, a policeman in ja costume? Do they commit Pittsfield, Massachusetts, some their parts to memory? Are forty miles away, heard shrieks the scenes acted as on a real stagefissuing from a house he was

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passing, Upon investigating to his chagrin he found that the cries which bad at tracted him were actually u tered in the studio of the distant city and reproduced throuzh radio by a loud-speaker in the house which he had entered

One-If in trying to dodge a badly pitched ball, said ball comes into contact with the bat and fails safe, is it regarded as a hit or is! the ball dead 21

Two--When a bateman crou ches as ball is pitched, how do umpires gauge the distance be- tween shoulder and knee?

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These questions are natural, and they are easily answered. None of these ibings are done, and for excellent reasons. For instance, were the play to be actually acted,

Three-When does the batsman scene

by scene, there would be

Four Two are out, batter many times when the faces of the Radio broadcasting does invoke actually became a base runner ? the imagination; for that matter actors would be necessarily turn so does the motion picture and triples, scoring router who was ed away from the transmitting Apparatus and in consequence even the staged drame. What first. Runner on first fails to their voices would not be beard indeed, is all dramatic art, bow. touch second on his way to plate. as distinctly.

ever expressed, but an appeal to How is the play scored and ruled The stage in thin theatre invis

the imagination

on the ballbing held on second hase and an appeal made to the THE The growing audience of this umpire? fble is the broadcasting audio, an huge theatre invisible and its Five. A bass runner slides in- apartment so thickly carpeted rapidly increasing popularity is to a base, reaching it in safety, and draped that there is no uciec proof that it is a factor to he only to have it detached from its of moving feet or any possibility reckoned with by competing forms fastenings. Can be be touched of an echo. The actors who are of amusement...

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out with the ball if he fails to fol low the base? 1 ANSWERS

One In trying to dodge a wildly pitched ball and it hits the bat, whatever happens is legal, the ball being regarded in play an on any other batted ball: |4-Two-lf the crouch is the ra

gular batting position of the player, that fact is taken into consideration. If the batsmað arouches merely to fool the um- pire, the judge of play rules on the pitch as if the batter was standing erect beste

Three-The moment he bits the hall regardless of whether it is caught or not.

Four-Bailure to touch second makes a foros out at that basel retiring the side. The run does not count. Incidentally the bats man who made the triple is de prived of a hit becapee it in Jo possible to score a hit on a play. where the third out is a force play.

Rive It is not necessary to follow the bare if it breaks loose. If the funner is declared safe and the Laso broaks loose he cannot be touched out

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