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THE TANGO.

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WILL IT CAPTURE

LONDON?

CONTAINING BRICKS AND STRAW.

With the now dance season Dotails are available of the Based upon a principle which revolutionized scientific thought, well under way, the, big charity amazing alleged swindle

of

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a device, which utilizes the e-balls planned, clubs, cabarets, Chinoso by foreigners who pro chanical power of light rays and and restaurants crowded with tended to sell them arins, purport- opens the way into air entirely dinner and after-theatre dancers, ed to be in cases which ware new field of development has been and scores of small private dances found to contain bricks and straw, made in the Resourch Laboratory arranged for the next two months, The cases are now in the hands. of the Westinghouse Electric and it is possible to survey the proof the police. reports the North- Manufacturing Company, Eastgress of the new tango and its China Daily News.

Pittsburgh, Pa.

The

| prospects, comments the dancing) It appears that at 5.30 on the The device is very simple. It correspondent of a London paper. evening of the 9th instant a lorry consists of a Fadio tube of a How has it been roccived? Island four coolies was ordered to highly special character, and or-it a suitable measure for English proceed to an address in North dinary door bell circuit, and anallrooms? Can the bands play Honan Road, Shanghai. automobile loadlight. The light the somewhat difficult music? Do lorry was met by a tall foreigner from the headlight is concentratod novices experience overwhelming and some Chiness standing on the upon the tube and under those difficulties? These are question footpath outside the house. From circumstances an electric current to which the maitres--who have the rear entrance of an alleyway Bows through the plate for tele- to translate the dance voguia into house near at hand the coplies phonel eircuit of the tube which tornis of profit and loss-have removed on to the lorry 12 wooden holds open a switch in the bell been seeking answers. And the casex. The coolios' servicos were circuit. With, however, the consensus of opinion to date is then dispensed with. elightest interference in the in- that with shrewd and patient The driver was told to go to Hero another tensity of the illumination of the guidance the tango will win a Haskell Road. tube, such as is caused by the place in the dance programma, foreigner, aged alunt 40 years, of shedow formed by a whiff of although it will be long before it small stature and with a moust- cigarette smoke, the current in filters into private hallrooms as a ache, got into a small covered the tube's plate circuit decreases, regular momber of the English car. The two vehicles, with the the switch closes, and the hell dance family.

lorry in front, drove off in the rings.

Was

The discovery of the principle on which this device is based one of the truly startling scientific events, since it altered prevailing ideas on the structure of matter and upset the classic wave theory of light,

It has not yet become alluring, direction of Jessfield railway- It does not yet intoxicate and station. When just past Nanyang fascinate, like the foxtrot-set University gate, the driver of the shoulders moving and toss tap-lorry was told to stop, while the ping to an inescapable rhythm motor-car went on, pulling up But, then, at first the foxtrol furthe down Siechwoi Road. music we used to call it juzz. At this point apparently all then, and rough stuff it was would have gone well had it not did not capture the million. It been for the loquacity of the Chi required gotting used to. The nose clients. The foreigner held

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It was found that when a ray of light falls upon certain metals aikali group such U sodium at aned respond casily. And it Evontually the driver was told and potassium, a stream of is the same with the tango, only to go on to Hungjao. As he was electrons is forced out. The more so. At first the music, with turning into Hungjas Road from electron stream, as everyone with its monotonous, steady rhythm, Avenue Haig, the foreign passon- a knowledge of radio engineer- is apparently unnecessary loud ger and his Chinese friends jump- ing knows, constitutes an electricness and unvarying timbre, only ed off the lorry. Whether they current. The current thus pro- bores, because the unaccustomed got into the motor-car "or were duced is very small, but by sult-muscles

instinctively chasing it," the lorry driver was able amplifying apparatus its translate it into terms of physical subsequently unable to say. The prosence can be demonstrated response.

lorry returned to its garage. through various laboratory experi-

When employoos of the garage opened the cargo it was found to consist of bricks and straw, tight- ly packed.

ments.

This "

photo-electric" effect, because of the minutoness of the current, has heretofore romained

cannot

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It is believed that when the foreigner on board the lorry jum ped off it he was endeavouring to escape to the car, in order that the Chinose might not ill-treat him on discovering that they had been swindled.

Foxtrot bands,seldom play the tango in such a manner as to alluro the dancers. The authentic tango instruments-guitar, man- a scientific curiosity, but through do lin, concertina, heavy violin- the invention of V. K. Zworykin are needed to distil the essential of the Westinghouse Electric tango atmosphere into the ball Research Laboratories, East room. They have found at the Pittsburgh, it has now become Savoy that the tango band. possible to apply it practically,

brought over from Paris and the Cannes and Deauville Casinos, IN PRACTICAL USE,

has increased the tango crowd Mr. Zworykin's invention con-

more than 100 per cent. in a sists in adding a photo-electric month. Most of the other fashion BIBLICAL PLAYS. BAN. element to what is practically able places either have their standard radio, tube. The tube,

tango bands now or are getting

is elongated. and the electron them over; and 1 have noticed a emitting motal, such as potas-marked increase in the number sium is coated on the inside of of tangoing couples on all the the bulb. When light falls upon floors where the tengo is a re- the sensitive coating, a flow of electrons is established, and this gular item in the dance pro-|

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Relaxation of the consorship

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H

this film the electrical barrier

not 10 have

the British Drama Leaguo; oven ofinstruction-must all

At the league's conforonce at By saitality selecting the have had an influence.

The various difficulties anti-this decision was reached, Mr. Birmingham recently, at which electrical characteristics of the

Necm cipated (tube and the accompanying A, B

Ahior, of Huddersfield, said an and C batteries. Mr. Zwerykin Between finished deftness and come of the performance of John materialised to any great extent, immense amount of good would produces a device in which no current will flow through the competent movement only there Masefields "Trial of Josus," Mr. is a great gulf; but, still, one sees Davis, of Grantham, said the tube's plate giruit when the sensitive metal film is in dark an astonishingly small number of censorship should be abolished, ness, but as soon as light strikes Atkinson, who won the world's Whitworth, said he imagined the awkward tangoers. Mr. Scott The chairman, Mr. Geoffrey preventing the flow of current is that the steps can be acpired in tion over blasphomies if relaxu tango championship, told me

censor would still have jurisdig- removed and the current will flow through the plate eircuit of the three minutes, but that it takestion were granted. One member tube in proportion to the

some little time to get into the 1- tensity of the light falling upon Nancy Bramall, who won the plays for 12 years.

swing of the tango rhythm. Miss said he had produced religious The conference decided to send In daylight or under an electric foxtrot championship, and may

company

Community of light the current flow thus pro-dancer's outlook on the new be said to represent the foxtrot

Players to tho New York duced is sufficient to operate a standard telegraph relay, which dance, opined that a season's amateur competition.

tango dancing should make the [11 turn cun bc arranged dance as easy and pleasant to {to control olectric or other

the apparatus to any desired ex-do, as natural indeed, as

foxtrot is now. Mr. Maxwell tent. By reversing connections the effect of the operation of the Stuart and Miss Barbara Miles, tube can be reversed, so that it the world's foxtrot champions, will produce current in darkness, who have been demonstrating But will prevent current flow the stops for the cinema, think that overything depends upon when fully illuminated.

the bands. There are very good tango pieces-most by Fronch composers.

it.

AS A FIRE 'ALARM,

When it came over here tenta-

The device is useful as a fire alarm in such places as the holds of ships, automatic unattended electrical stations, store rooms of tively in 1922 the now tango had buildings and other places: At fourteen stops. Those were cut the least suggestion of smoke, due at the beginning of this season to five; and now one, the lace to overheating from any causo, an alarm can be sent out by both step, has by general consent boen radic and wire to any desired cut out, leaving only the tange walk, the half-turn, the side pro- number of stations.

In addition, this same dovico menade, and the link stop. The can be used in connection with latter links on to the walk again, variations of light for any pur-so that a smooth, effortless, pro pose, such as the exact scientific gressive dance is effected, which matching of colours, the detection can be done just as comfortably of flaws in tinplato and textiles, in crowded ballrooms as the fox- the turning on of street lights at trot with its convenient stand- twilight and extinguishing them still stops. The whole four stops at dawn, and for innumerable of the tango can be done neatly in a line a foot wide and eight other applications.

The roaction of the Zworykin feet long, and pauses can be made tube to light variation is extra- at any stuge in a crush.

ordinarily rapid, being on the

order of one-hundred thousandth

of a second, and since, when in- new field. Scientists who aro corporated in a suitablo circuit, familiar with the tubo boliovo that it will send out radio impulsos of it will form the practical basis by any desired frequency in direct means of which the transmission proportion to the amount of light of actual scenes by moving falling upon it, it opens the way plotures by radio will eventually for developments into an entirely be possible.

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