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COUNTESS ON "THE ja Sunday League concert a few

HALLS

months ago.

She was asked by an inter- viewer at the time if she regarded Earl's Widow Make it as fair for titled people to enter

Debut as Singer.

into competition with professional singers, expecially when there is Catherine Countess of West- so

much unemployment in the -morland made her debut as a entertaining world.

singer on the music hall stage In her reply, Lady Westmorland recently.

made it, plain that titles do not refer first appearance in this always connote wealth in these role was at the Coliseum. She days, appeared on the programme as As a matter of fact. I have Catbreen Morland, and she had cow to watch every little ex- chosen old-world songs to sing penditure, ride in buses instead of on the occasion. She wore a taxis, and figure very carefully

period dress,

my little household's expanses," she said.

Since the death of her Husband, the thirteenth earl, in 1922, Lady

Lady Westmorland chose the career of a professional singer quite definitely when she sang at

'Phone 1030.

SATURDAY, JANUARY

RADIO NOTES AND

"Listening-In" Across The Atlantic.

Amongst the half million The La Presse station trans- owners of wireless sets in Great mits on a 430 metro-wave-length. Britain a large proportion find on Thursdays and Sundays the greatest interest and fascina Eastern Standard Time, or caus tion of "listening-in" is in the night to 3 &m. G.M.T. The best picking up of telephony long after reception in England has been the British Broadcasting Com-Tobtained between 1.30 am, and 3 pany's stations have closed down am. All announcements are for the night.

made in French as well as English.

WEATHER FORECASTS.

It is not oftan that one hears

are

There is a feeling of great satisfaction in the tuning in of one of the American stations, and Jone successful trial only serves of any, usa being made of she to encourage such attempts, and weather forecasts which increases the desire to add to the broadcast daily by wireless tele- list of'stations already heard.graphy from the Air Ministry as Bome. The man in the street Appreciating the great fascina-

does not take a great deal of tion of picking up transatlantic interest in the weather forecasts stations, Mr. W. S. Stephenson, which appear regularly in the the managing director of the daily Press. In fact, he looks General Radio Company, Ltd.

arranged that a series of concerts upon weather forecasting more should be broadcast from the Laor less as a joke. If his eye should happen to catch the wea- Presse station for the benefit ofther forecast in his newspapar, he Istenemin in England. The first only reads it to see how far it is of these concerts took place on September 29th, and the second on November 2nd, and results have been so satisfactory that the series will be continued through fout the winter.

wrong.

many

This same indifference to thei work of "The Clerk of the Weather" is prevalent amongst those whose chief hobby is wire

The less.

interesting The programme for the last

weather Inessages which are concert was arranged and per-transmitted by British and Cop- formed by the concert quintestetinental stations pass by in the and dance band of the White Star Dominion liner J.S." Regina," by kind permission of the directory majority of those who

Morse. of the White Star Dominion The same can be said Lines. The concert was broad-

Amateurs in Hongkong. rast from the broadcasting studio of the La Presse Newspaper Montreal.

the ether unheeded by

great read

of

Possibly if the general public realised the extent of the meteor-| fological organisations of our own and other European countries, far more interest would be taken fin weather and weather fore

our

OF

The study is equipped with the very latest apparatus and designed with due regard to the peculiar acoustic properties re- quited for a broadcasting studio. caste, says. a Home writer. lo the Air islands OWT The drapings of ceilings and Ministry maintains some twenty walls have been carefully carried

thirty weather observing out, even the doors and win- dows being covered with car-stations. Most of these stations tains. A unique feature is the are situated on the coasts. One or

two of them are inland stations.]; ribbed effect the ceiling There is a coastal station at drapings. This is done to pre- Falmouth, and an inland station vent a deadening effect on the

at Kew Observatory. Any one of voire, and also to improve the the Air Ministry stations is well. appearance of the studio, the

worth a visit should one happen latter having a marked effect upon to be in the vicinity,

Each the artistes.

'station has a number of trained observers, and observations are taken at i am., 7 am, 1 p.m., and 6 p.m.

Telegraphic reports are sent to the Air Ministry im- mediately after the observations have been made.

.

EUROPEAN OBSERVATIONS

It is a peculiar fact that the broadcasting studia with its ecrie silence. has quite ab effect upon the newcomer to broadcasting. and every endeavour has been: made In

this effect, THOVE jand make the artistes feel that

they

only in Bre

"or- Perhaps the most interesting dinary room, singing to a few feature of this weather work in friends. To heighten this effect,

is Europe the international the microphones themselves are supported on dainty standards, entente which exists between the and are screened by shades weather offices of the varions similar to lamp shades which yountries Observations are con- tinually being exchanged between | have the advantage of preventing the different countries. For

ang een from microphone,

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ACOUSTICS OF THE STADIUM.

by Mr. Lloyd George in Canada recently, when addressing a buge! crowd, and similar to that used; by President Wilson for address-

Experiments with Micro-ing crowds of twenty thousand.

phone and Amplifier.

The test was with a view to ital adoption to enable the words of Gargantuan voice, which the King and others at the Ex- hibition this year to reach a might have belonged to one of Westmorland has lived in a flat Mr. Wells's Martias, was heard packed Stadium. The full band in Great Portland-street. Before booming over the whole of the of the Military School of Music her marriage she Wak Miss Stadium at the British Empire at Kneller Hall played excerpts Catherine Louise Geale, and her Exhibition, at Wembley. Natur. from Wagner., and the scouts. father was the late Rev. John S. ally, the voice was that of Sir under the direction of Sir Wal- Geale, a Baptist minister of Travers Clarke, deputy chairman ford Davier, sang a hymn and the National Anthem. The object Brighton and Herne Bay. She of the board, who addressed a

was to test the acoustic powers of was for some years governess to choir of over a thousand Boy the Stadium, in connection with Lady Gloria Fane. second Scouts and an informal audience

the military hands concerts to daughter of the late esri.

in the stand by speaking into a small pedestal microphone. From be given there during the great GENERAL MALCOLM SUCCESSOR an amplifier, in a lorry near by. Pageant in July and August.-Ex. here the voice was carried through Sunday. May 25, and the Imperial Thanksgiving Service on Empire

The officer to succeed Major and from there back to a series of General Sir Neill Malcolm, when loud speakers," mounted on a

SCOTT MSS. FOR BOOTS he retires from the command of scaffold above his head. Despite

The original manuscript of the Straits Settlements early in the reverberation caused by the the year, is General James Ronald empty terraces, the voice was Scott's" Redgauntlet," which was Edmonston Charles, Royal easily audible from all parts.sold recently at Sotheby Lagineers, CP, CMG ESO. The apparatus was that of the been presented to the prospec He – Fublic Addcms” system, used. National Library of Scotland. says,a Singapore paper.

Telephone 1877.

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