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London Express Service

TV For The Midlands

HOW IT'S DONE.

THE 750ft, mast for the Sutton Cold- fold television transmitter, which will radiato programmes throughout the Midlands, is almost complete. Already the mobile transmitter for testing has started sending out signals from various parts of the area. It is expected that the BBC's Midland Regional Television Station at Sutton Coldfield will be oponed in November.

Enquiries throughout the area reveal that although interests in television is growing, not nearly as many sota as was expected at this time-havo beon' sold. High costs and reduced spending power have helped prevent'a rush, but people in the main scem to be waiting until television is actually operating before buying a set.. Most of the sets sold so far have been to fout-and-out enthusiasts; the bulk of pros- pective purchasers scem content to walt until there is a wider selec- [tion of models, or until the next door neighbour has "had a go"

COME ON ENGLAND, GOING AGAIN!

GET

By

JOHN GORDON

doubt but that they could kick

And although Americans But

whatever it

is,

the

With prices ranging between £40 and close on £200, ne- cording to the quality of the set, buyers are also faced with n heavy initial outlay. The nertals already erected. m the Midlands Dvcro thirteen quincas cach and licences cost an extra £1 annually above rodios. Insurance for maintenance costs about 26.10 a year, but this covers replacement of cathode ray tubes: £12 each and guaranteed for only six months. their country buck into its old may not be as aware of it spirit of adventure and glory greatness In double quick time. n they should be, it Was has Konc out of English life, TGNORANCE of technical They have pride in their na- English experiments at Cam- and unless it can be restored problems and how to choose tion and confidence in them bridge which took us into the the outlook La pretty black the best, type of set is worrying selves.

atomle age..

whatever the orators of West- many potential buyers, but re- England The Irish, too, seem to me

taught the world minster may say,

putable dealers hope finally to to be pretty good at the ma- the science of agriculture, al- I do not blame the rot en offset this drag on sales by a

ment,

they The way

are though that is An Ironic Urely on the peculiar brand

to recommend a ret twisting the old tion's tail

Crippslan Is thought today when it has be- of

totalitarianism plan

condition that it will be re- the only country which is being sold to us un-placed it unsatisfactory. evidence of that.

come about Uncle Sam Iwo toaves

doesn't seem We may not like what they that

to under- der the name of Socialism. bread to add to one

It we may not stand how to feed itself.

is true

men that bad and

A general decline in the sale are doing,

it It is nn equally

been ironie have agree with it, but at least

responsible

radlo for of top-class

sets is re- holding in her hands.

Underneath. it was proudly is evidence of a virile na thought that one of its most much of the mental decay by ported from many parts of the

two out of Honal spirit which is es- celebrated inventions

Un

was the preaching for years the falce Midlands, although come smaller every three tonvesse ale-last tential of greatness.

income tax which today plays but pleasant delusion that the types are being sold, and dealers 10 large a part in our decay. only thing in life that matters explain this as due to people year were paid for by Amerien.

That picture, shaming as I

As a Scot, I am proud of a to live in a state of doped buying a cheaper wireless co think it is,

from the cradle to stater accurately the condition to which we have one.

THEN it was decided to end the Berlin Blockade,

how was the ending arranged?

An American mét a Russian. When; between them, they had, it all nicely tied up, Britain was invited in to sign on the dotted line almost'ns a formality.

That is what Britain has come to in world stature.

Some months ago, the

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murdered 42 British sailors moving down the Yangtse in British warships.

When we protested they re- piled with Insolence, "Take alt your ships out of China waters Or we shall do the sume to

them as we have done to the Amethyst."

That again-

is what Britain has conta to in world stature.

CHARITY BOYS

**

055 she was

Now : vint is the matter with us? Why

are we coll-

tent to be a tin can tied to the tail of another nation? Why we content to be the charity boys and girls of the world?

But

HER GENIUS

of the great Scot- security

and divisions. the grave.

bur-

OTHER CAUSES

>]:

on

that they can save

for television-third-class radio for first-class television

Blow

come

does television about? In a studlo there are four

the deerts ALTHOUGH, as a Scot, ish regimenta I am very conscious and Irishmen are equally proud of

proud very

of the part my theirs.

of our Own fighting

BUT there have been in erent think country has played

other causes as well.

cameras focussed on the set. ing the modern world and in men, by far the greater

over Hollywood Blms

the Lighting is more on building the British Empire is; den of all the fighting: In all

we have fought as years have, I think, dong Eng principle followed in a n vital force in it, I am not the wors foolish enough to blind myself the United Kingdom has fallen fand tremendous harm by de- studio with

projection mostly to the fact, that England play on the English.

ed an even greater part.

tory.

the

Alm

And great as the Scols and stroying the pride of her youth from top, rear and skies of the given the scene in order to create depth

in the picture.

in their country. Hollywood hús

halt English, hal American,

contains

I am a Scotsman. I must, with all other Sebts, take my

Irish have been, there are share of the blame for the de-

After all, there are plorable drop in the self-res-

many English battallons and divi-

a peculiar mongrel mentality, people and in millions more Englishmen, and sions that have been just as WHILE 7 reflected over pect of British

Hot Indeed somo which lite of Britain in the it would be fofly to underrate great, it

the sterile the

mule TACH_camora contains a pick- prestige there happenings, I re-

world.

or disparage their tremendous times greater.

has nelifier

pride of ancestry up tube, or emitron, which ceived one of those remarkable

has shaped his

nor hope of posterity.

д specially formed I am going to retort by genius which posters with which the Govern-

AIR RAIDS

The stronger nationalism of silver plate, Unlike photo- ment's publietly machineThe saying that the heaviest share

They abolished slavery, and

where the Scots and Irish made the graphy,

one plate Central Office of Information of the blame must be laid on

England.

they gave the world democra-

EIGHT years ago Lon- impact of Hollywood on them needed for every still pictura papers Britain, at a tremendous

What has happened to Ene e government. Their first don was suffering the most less severe.

produced, the television plate is cost in money.

⚫lishmen? The Scots have steam locomotive took us into devastating air raids that any The songs of Tin Pan Alley permanent. One will televise A British housewife with a abounding national fervour at the sicam age. From the city had ever had to endure. have also played their part in many hours of continually

they face and wearing u the moment, and, if the deuden- steam

took the very red

Dld English men and women overthrowing

nation's changing scene. of coat was ing hand reformatory cort

of London con- world

under ace of elec- fail

Irial? foundations. that great

When the light falls on this receiving

benevolent trol could be lifted, I do not tricity,

on your life. Their figist- England was a much greater plate, which consists of millions ing spirit went up, not down land when in its songs it of caslum-silver modules each The world poured-its-admira-ferred-the-Old-Kent-Road-to separated from its neighbour, tion upon them.

the Heart of Texas, and the electricity is released in greater And with justice.

Bull and Bush to Broadway.

and Over the fields of Kent and If we still kept the tops of the light and shade of the quantity according to Sussex and Surrey, in weather the bills

music-halls image.

The tube also contains as fine and Bunny п nay and radio programmes for an electric gun which ares at English Luhmer

can be, the tive artists who could give us the plate D continuous stream R.A.F. hit the Luftwaffe for the songs and the folklore of

from a

nge,

into the

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

NEW YORK.

ETROIT'S three millionth

Not

aud destruction.

in our

tho

alx and saved us from invasion our own land, we would have of electricity, replacing that lost more pride in it and in our-by the action of the light, and There were, of course, Scols selves. And we would be in-this narrow stream of electricity and Irish and Welsh in that initely the better for it.

traverses the plate in thin lines.

In the London television ser vice the diver plate, or “mosale” - ur-is "scanned" in this way in 405 gently a great national re-lines, and the whole process is vival as virile and exhilarating repeated 25 times every second.

REED at her own request of car of the year has come a DRESSING INVITATIONS have Immortal tiny force.

her 18-year-old studio con- tract. Bette Davis

attacked the assembly lines, but the big Hollywood. Sold she: The car companies are not satisfied, men on trouble with Hollywood is that They have put their

in an attempt to It tries to make every pleture overtime for everybody. It should make break their own world record of BOTTIC pictures specifically for the super-boom year of 1920- adults-not for the general 5,358,000 cars in 12 months. public and the kids."

But the were English- gone out to John L. Lewis, bulk of them

men. Great fighting men. leader, to American miners'

In those days England saved this winter to visit Britain

Sho the world ggest methods of boosting freedom would survive.

ensured that British con production.

'A ‘NUMBING'

WARNING left with America's

PINION: Lucius Beebe, once MOTORING: Name chosen for party chairman: "Win an elec. Gavo new 135 h.p. eight-

the best-known man about

ilan the

iown, was asked what he cylinder engine for all future thought of New York after two models of one of Detroit's top years self-exile in the Wild cars in The Spitäre, West, Said he "Fough, Now York's American colony Is smaller than the

pre-war ASKED

liquidation."

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* ENGLAND needs

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TN an adjoining room is a lot Lof complex electronic apparatus The necessary to the cameras.

of two studios,

camera

nationalism that is sweeping Scotland and Ire- Innd. The old great England must get on the march

ogain Republicans (or Torles) ** HOW As it that 0 It needs a rousing, inspiring basis of it all is the thermionio by Hugh Scott, their retiring

people

great enough to evangelism to bet it going the world enn in eight What hope can there be for valve. Two thousand of these pretty soon,

face years sink so low?

whose politicians are in operation when the com- A country Of course, the political boys have no vision beyond misery? plete system

And and girls will retort that be- And whose established Church two outside broadcast units cause we have Introduced a must admit with shame that is the sound and vision transmit~ TINIATURE GOLF, a craze system of free aspirins, be most widely known figure is ters is in action. M which swept Amerien in chuse the pits have been na- the comical Rel Dean of Signals from the their attvice on what the 20's and then spread to tonalised.. and the railways Can

Canterbury.

show the scene with a consider-

alone 30 courses rolling stock in the colour of up!

the world needs from one corner to the other. sour milk we silll stand among doing can be done better by and this is corrected ("shading") the leaders of the world.

you than by any Americans, by the Injection

of electrical But you have to be a pretty Russians, or Chinese.

in carefully controlled THE US gold hoard is a new

record.

the simple fool to believe that.

Purge your mind.

Each studlo gallery WARM. FEELINGS generated

If you have any sensitivo-

yourself into life. Throw off and control room have receiving all, you cannot help the chainst

tubes on which which Foreign

the pictured Secretary wilo

the national from any these effects on New York night bars valued at £6,140 million. ness at started the US get-tough-with-fo

One Russian-style club Most of the new gold has been feeling that there has been a Russia polley is being urged to

of England. re-enter polities, They want him which tried putting on an all- coming from the sterling atea. numblag of the national mind leadership that is your right viewed before transmission for ful place. If you do you will checking. There is a check on I don't know why. It may soon have your great Empire further receiving tubes of the to run for the Governorship of Greek cabaret went bankrupt;

of decent falling in behind you, on the plcture South Carolina, his native State, se did another club, although IN A BOW AND ARROW con-be sons of lack

actually under trong test at Asheville, North food. Perhaps snock does not march to now glory. next year. This time the South dropped Russian" from ita

and Americanlaed ́ its Carolina, between' Whites find agree with us. Or whale meat

(Continued on Page 5) wants him to lend its get-tough- namo. with-Truman movement.

atmosphere.

Red Indians, the Whites won.

American colony in Paris. It is to do to beat the slump, Britain, is coming back. In have painted B.. across their Come on, Englishment. Wake able: variation of light intensity

Just

a wilderness of poodle dois nearly 100 leading American New York named Fin, whose leashes are businessmen repiled: "Work, have opened in a attached to refugees from Paris work, and more work."

or Buenos Aires."

month.

POLITICS: James Byrnes, the W by the cold war have had ground at Fort Knox are gold

Burled in

pics.

What

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