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RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

New Adjunct to Cinema. Production,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923.

Cinema directors give, thanks to radio for its help in directing some of their big scence. Instead of shouting himself boarse, the director speaks as he would to anyone nearby, while a radio microphone in front picks up his voice and bellows it out through radio èmplifiera to the throng of » actors in the field. Above, Mr. Wallace Worsley, Holly- wood director, is shown in front of a radio amplifier broadcasting directions for a big scene.

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"Wired wireless" has still to chief difficulty overcomo ond before it can be made practicable, That is the liability of being tuned in by others than those who pay for such service, The Pacific Gas and Electrio Company of California recently tried out this form of radio and found the "broadcast" from 'messages

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Their enjoyment will consist of radio at the beaches and other refreshing summer resorts, Port able sets will become popular, and radio on train, auto and boat will become the mode of the day, Thus, like portable phonograp radio instruments will be taken its hoadquartera along. electric lines

well into Bummer camps to keep the worked and

received efficient vacationists in touch with the ly. But the company was un-city's latest entertainments. able to confine the messages to its paid-up listeners. The reason being that radio-frequency cur- rent cannot as yet be wholly con- fined to wires: Place a wire parallel and close to another bear ing a "wired wireless" message, and the parallel wire will receive it by inductance. bo long as this is possible, it can be seen that wired wireless" would be im practicable as a money-making proposition.

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BASEBALL POINTS.

Möre Querles Answered,

QUESTIONS

One Is there a limitation ne to the length of the has, hall bat?

Two-What in the weight of the official,major league ball

Three-If the batter bit a ball | into fair-ground in front of the] plate, and before he moves out of his box, the ball rebounds and hits him, is it fair or foul

Four-If a pitcher delivers a badly discoloured ball to the bat- ter, what is the penalty?

Five-Is there a restriction on the size of the gloves that ona be worn by the players in the field?

ANSWERS.

One-The bat cannot be more than 42 inches in length. At the thickest part, it cannot be over two and three-fourths inches in dia nator.

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Two-The official ball... must weigh not less than five nor more than five and one quarter ounces.,

Three The batsman invariably stands in 'foùl territory when at the bat, therefore a ball that bits batsman before he leaves the box in always regarded as foul,

Four-the pitcher shall - b- automatically suspended fir se an off-nas or a period of 10 days.

Five-The catchor 'or first base- man may wear any siz, shape or weight gluve. The other player- cannot wear a glove within more than 10 ounces, or measur- ing over 14 inches around the palm.

THE NEW SERVANT CLASS.

With the idea that there are hundreds of formerly well-to-do people who would gladly tacÒrge servants if they could pocket their pride, Colonel Frank Hilder, M.P., Probably the widest publicity which will aim at making domes is organizing a society in London an exposition given to of the benefi's of life insurance to service a dignified profession resulted from the broadcasting, and one that no woman need be recently, from a radio station at Detroit of an address by Mr. is to institute an order of certi- £cated domestic servants on the James A. Grizzard, a well-known authority on the subject. The lines of the Red Cross, the order wave length of that station is such to be called the Gold Cross, whose that it reaches all parts of the members shall be drawn from the

new poor only. United States, Canada and Cuba, ranks of the and it is difficult to estimate how many thousands of people heard Mr. Grizzard's oration.

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ribe inside and out forme the return path for the magnetic field. An enterprising Bradford firm The internal ribs support the core offers free listening in to travellera and winding, and the box may be on their charabanca. The ap-filled with wax and provided with paratus employed wes constructed terminals and with lags for entirely by Mr. J. Dobson, a mem. sarewing down to a baseboard. ber of the local wireless society and consists of four valves 1 H.F. and 2 L.F., one of the latter being a "power" valve.

Scotland Yard's Wireless. Scotland Yard has installed wireless on one of their wagons which is said to be the only one in the world capable of telephon- ing while travelling at forly miles an hour.

British Thomsons Houston Co, Ltd.-H. F. Signalling OVET Maine.-H. F. currents are super- posed on power conductore and supplied to consumers, who, in order to hear newe, etc., merely connect to a lamp socket a system of condensers and inductance for blocking the power currents and

detector sad telephones for re- corrents. coiving the carrier Sep-down transformers may be provided between the feeders and Recent Developments.

the consumer's leade, and any Six broadcasting stations are consumer can be excluded by in- already in operation in the United serting choke coils. The syste Kingdom. The original plan con may further permit telephonic templated eight. Bournemouth communication between noneus has been selected as the site for ers.

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the seventh, and apparently the Soo, Anos. Pour L'Exploitation ides of a station in the North of Des Procedes M. Leblanc-vickera. Scotland, probably at Aberdeen, is-Valves Suficient gas is pre- to be carried out after all, It was sent to allow an ionic discharge, thought at one time that sufficient the cathode is maintained incan.. power could be developed at the descent, and a source of constant THE HUMAN 200 Glasgow station to serve the potential equal to that required whole of Scotland from one contre, to produce a discharge between but that sobeme failed to notice cathode and anode is placed be- the Grampian Mountains, which tween the grid and anode to apparently interfere with the re- maintain the grid relatively ception of signals on the North- negative. East coast of Scotland.

Western Electric Co., Ltd.- An important experiment was Generatore-A set for generating recently made in simultaneous stable oscillations without har broadcasting. Speech was trans.

monice comprises a back-coupled mitted by land lines to the var ious broadcasting stations, and generating valve and three am

phfiore. The back-coupling.circuit! then sent out in the ordinary contains a blocking condenser way. The experiment was byand variable resistance, whereby way of preparation for the trans

the operation of the generating mission to the whole of Great valve is confined to the straight Britain at onge of the speeches portion of its characteristic which were delivered by "the

curve, and over load prevented. Frince of Wales and Lord Hsis The flaments of the generator at the recent conference of the and first amplifier are British Legion in London. Thei

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plan fell through on account of eories and shunted by an equal the opposition of the licensees of Bistance so that the amplifier the hall in which the conference gird voltage is determined by the was held, but the experiment onerator filament potential.

N. R. Lines.-Regulating was sufficiently successful justify further attempts at sim-Switchen.-A pair of resistances ltaneous transmission. It can or impedance each have a ring of be readily seen that this may studs arranged in the usual man- prove one of the most important ner, and the switch of ons is dev-lopments in broadcasting in mounted upon a notched plate which is moved ono stop sach time years to come.

the switch of the second makes a complate revolution. The two may thus be suitably combined to

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A box of magnetic material form a unit capable of fine adjust-

having the sides stiffened, with mort,

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