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CURRENT RADIO TOPICS.

NOTES AND NEWS-LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1927.

Rolling up

a record run

ENGLISH MINSTRELS

POPULAR SINGERS OF RADIOLAND,

BEAM RADIO.

SUCCESS OF SHORT WAVE EXPERIMENTS,

Mrs. F., S. Coolidge, one of the Opening of Marconi's beam syk- Armest friends of chamber müsletem of radio telegraphy between in America, matle her coup d'etat England and Canada is only the in 1925 when she introduced to first slep in the production of a these shores that admirable group world-wide commercial wireless of vocalists, known as the English chain, Singers. This year they have re-

Even that, when completed, may turned for the purpose of provid- ing New York a more abundant be only part of a much larger chance to revel in their art-forceme involving a system of cle- art they possess with a capital phoning direct over land and sea and going well on toward tho goat of ruinsmitting sight of ac- Those who approached their túa) evecis arross great distances. programine on madrigals and Elizabethan folksongs hesitating: ly and apprehensively last year, have returned to roar themselves as hoarse with approval for this Philadelphia Orchestra anong vocal group.

Concert

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the by

It may be a wild dream, all this, but it has been suggested by no

an authority than Senator William Margoni himself.

"The success of our experiments with the short-wave beam system English of wireless telegraphy," he tells Singura is not a concert. They me, "brings within measurable dis- can, by their informality, by their tance of Lime the epoch when a table on transatlantic wireless telephony singing seated about

the platform, take 20th century Will be an everyday occurrence, aglitors back og years with more

edae than could have been imagin

ed prior to their advent to"the new i world.

» ENGLISH MUSIC: BEÄTTIES.

They bring home-these six nen

WE'LL TALK TO EUROPE.

"That will mean that some day

in the not very, distant future your chief in America will pick up the telephone in the ordinary way, but through a call to your London)

and women--the beauties of the home and taik business mutters

golden age of English music. with you.

They are the musician's singers)

and the public's as well. Nuance,"

"Only," he added laconically,

ghading, dynamics--all are theirs it's a horrifying thought. They

in prefligate profusion. Precision may forget that when it's nine of atluck and release as has never o'clock at night over

way past midnight in

there, it's

England,

been Egard in New York from anal will be rousing you cup of a body of viralists is theirs.

sutad sleep."

Musicians who have delved trep

However, the prospects of the into the writings of Englishmen of the 16th and 17th centuries were beam system of ruggio transmission astonished that an entire pro-are just beginning to appear. gramme of this music could be so With the Canada, link completed, enchantingly performed in such Margoni reports the next link will variety and so abundantly reward-reach directly to South Africa, Then will go a stretch to Australia, ed with unbounded enthusiasm. --

and lastly connection with the

Those who squawk about noth-New York beam station that is ing hew under the musical sun and even now being built by the Radio rant that originality, versatility Corporation of America. and artistry, coupled with perfec- tion in performance are ignored by the concert goers of Americi, haven't tried to procure standing room for the English Singers,

RADIO'S NEW USES.

HELPING TO MAKE BETTER PICTURES,

ازه

Radio, in recent months, has come to play an almost indispen- sable part in movie-fuking at Hollywood.

Radio engineers are now part of the technical staff in every big film studio and arg constantly

for evolving new ses

radio science in picture making.

Our experiments with the. short-wave beam' telegraph sys- tem," Marcon says, "have been crowned with success and we now are able to link-up the world in a way that will annihilate and space.

BETTER AND CHEAPER. *.

time

The system, which supersedes our old mathod, has three tee:nen:

| deus advantages:

"First, it costs less to build, the

plants.

"Second, it gives the fastest transmission system in the world.

Third; it practically makes non- existent the present interferences from atmospheric disturbances."

Besides, it is further explained, the beam system makes for sed- recy, it uses less power with short Since Fred Niblo first employed waves and is freer from fading the microphone to about his orders through the use of reflectors and to a mob of several thousand ex- the emergency application tras in the filming of the chariot

races in "Ben Hur", it has become

a current practice among directors

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longer waves.

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"As for broadcasting, I believe

A portable microphone is at the it will result in enabling pro- consthal dispoal of the director, grammes and speeches to be trans- and in the big scenes with the mitted to large portions of the South componics scattered in half, a do-United States, Canada, zen places, there are loud speakers | Africa and Australia with much all on the same hookup which con- greater strength and necuracy vey the director's orders to the than is possible by the prevailing players.

methods."

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COMING WEDDINGS.

BRIDES FROM HOME.

The following weddings are an- nounced:

of London,

INTERESTING LECTURE.

REY. KNIGHT ANSTEY ON INDIA.

India was such a

various times during the long re- DEATH OF PROFESSOR sidence in the country.

HIRTH.

FORMER OLD RESIDENT

OF CHINA.

Munich, Jan. 13.

LORD WILLINGDON.

MAY. SETTLE IN CANADA.

Montreal-At ค banquet in

The death has occurred of Pro-honour of the visit of Lord Will-

lasting friend-

Pictures of the fauna and fora of India were most interesting more particularly was the elide of the banyan tree, which the speaker informed his audience, A very interesting lecture on the grew up and down the palm tree Mr. William Alistair Donaldson modes and customs of the Indiana, and eventually grew around the fessor Friedrich Hirth the Sino-ingdon, the Governor-General of RADIO SAVES MONEY.

of the Hongkong Daily Press, to was given in the St. Andrew's trunk of the latter tree, the seed logist. who spent 27 years in the Canada, and Lady Willingdon to Miss Marguerite de Dibon Feber Church Hall yesterday evening by being sown in cavities of the palm Chinese Customs service, and eab- Quebec, the Premier, Mr. Tas- James Cruze used the rådib in

sequently occupied the chair of chereau, said: "The Empire to the Rev. J. & Knight Anstey, of tree by birds, filming the battle scenes of the ers while the cameras are grind-

Speaking of a small hill on the Chinese Language and Literature, day in a great and powerful society the Wanchai Wesleyan Methodist Mr. Vivian Petherick, chief Church, who has for 28 years been Deccan the lecturer said that the In Columbia University-Reater, of great and powerful nationa sea spectacle, "Old Ironsides," iux, Niblo has the technielana tune officer, marine service, Hongkong, a missionary teacher on the plains hill with the exception of the side. [Professor. Hirth was born in united not by golden links but by saving the Paramount Company in on various musical programmes to Miss Cissie Lilian Mary Hast, of the Deccan in Southern India. was one huge boulder but a most thousands of dollars in overhead that are being broadcasted. As Cox's Path, Kowloon.

wonderful wonderful feature of it was that Cermany in 1846, and was in the mutual trust, common interest 'expenses. Cecil D. DeMille is using portable receiving outfit is main-

Mr. Frank Burrington, school- the microphone to good advantage tained on the set, and the "radiomaster, Public School for Chinese. Place; the more one lived in the on the top of the rock was a well. Chinese Customs from 1870 toland sincere and

country the more one wanted to Where the water eminated from 1897, serving in various ports of ship." in filming his biblical spectacle, man" of the company, having in Shanghai, to Miss Kathleen Agnes learn about it. The Deccan, ac was a mystery to the inhabitants. the country. His publications, in-

Lord Willingdon, replying to n "The King of Kings", and in prac-vestigated the programme in ad- Bent who is on her way to the Farcording to the speaker, was 80 India was a very religious coun- cluded works, on Chinese porce- tically all of the many war plays vance, obtains from the air the East in the a.s, Patroclus.

like unto the veld of Africa, in try, said the speaker, everything lain, of which he made etill being photographed in the type of music desired by the" Mr. Frederick William Ribeiro, physical features that many be- was linked up with religion as was collection, and he was a former speech by Mr. Taschereau, the studios, the directors employ the director for his performers. merchant of Hano! Road, to Miss lieved that at one time the Deccan shown by one picture wherein the president of the China branch Premier, said that he knew no radio, particularly for the big bat-

Adeline Maria Farias, 812 Nathan and the veldt formed one plain Rev. Knight Anstey himself could of the Royal Asiatic Society, at more loyal people in the British A novel use of the radio has Road..

streching over that part of the be seen offering a prayer of thanks- Shanghai. He was married in Empire than the Canadians, and tle scenos.

been devised by the John Barry- Mr. John Fraser, overacer, globe.

giving on the opening of a well Hongkong in 1871, to Fraulein Niblo has inaugurated another more Company. Between scenes, Hongkong, to Mise Helen Clark

which had yielded clean water to Hermine Schnare. He appoint when his term as Governor-Gener To give the audience П ruorc the poople. use for the radio in his current to relieve the tension of the play Shepherd, teacher, of Aberdeen, vivid description of the

ment to Columbia University was al expired he would ask the Pre- mier to "give me a little corner of filming of "Camille," with Norma ers, the radio man" tunes in on Scotland."

nerlems of the people and tho At the conclusion of his brief in 1902.]

of land, so that I may live among Talmadge. Instead of using the popular musical programmes and Mr. Henry John Pearce, civil numerous picturesque sights, the talk which was necessarily cur

his happy people.". studio orchestra to supply emo- the company dance or listen engineer, Hongkong, to Miss Mary lecturer illustrated his talk by a talled on account of some defect offered a vote of thanks to the Rev.

Elizabeth Leckie of Hankow. number of lantern slides taken at in the lantern, the Rev. Mr. Lindsay Knight Anstey," tional encouragement for his play-in as a means of relaxation..

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