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Radio Times, November 1, 192D. SOUTHERN EDITION. THE BROADCAST PROGRAMMES FOR NOVEMBER 3rd—9th. THE RADIQvfiMES THE JOURNAL OF TH%BJ^^ffi^Ap,g^TING CORPORATION > m NATION SHALL SPEAKTEACE UNTO NATION Vol. 25. No. 318. r Registered at the 1 L G.P.O. as n Newspaper. J NOVEMBER 1, 1929 Every Friday. TWO PENCE. Items for Every Listener in this Week’s Progammes: 6 CARNIVAL5 REVIVED RAMSAY MACDONALD ; London before the War—the old ways and the old tunes—hansorn One of the most important public speeches of the year is that made cabs—the pantomime—the ballet—studio parties in Chelsea xile by the Prime Minister at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet. This year’s in Cornwall—Carnival, adapted from the novel by Compton speech, by the Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, is to be relayed Mackenzie, will be ‘ revived * on Monday and Wednesday. from the Guildhall at 9 o’clock on Saturday evening next. POINTS OF VIEW—VII RUSSIA-IN-LONDON The ‘ Points of View ’ have included challenging expressions of Those who visit the big European capitals may be familiar with the personal opinion by Shaw, Wells, Haldane, Lodge, and Inge, Russian cabarets established by exiles of the old regime. Less- introduced by Lowes Dickinson. On Monday evening Mr. travelled listeners will be able to eavesdrop at one of these exciting Dickinson, who originally introduced this symposium, c sums up.* entertainments during the relay from * Kasbek * on Thursday next. FOR DANCE LOVERS SIR LANDON RONALD This week you can dance in the evenings to famous bands relayed On Friday Sir Landon Ronald conducts the third of the B.B.C.’s from-Covent Garden Opera House, the Tower Ballroom at Black Winter Symphony Concerts, which includes Bach’s * Double Con pool, Ciro’s Club, the Cafe de Paris, the Kit-Cat and the Piccadilly certo * for Two Violins and Strings, with Adila Fachiri and Jelly Hotel—as well as to Jack Payne and the B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. d’Aranyi as soloists, and also Elgar’s Second Symphony in E Flat. PEOPLE’S PALACE—I A DIRT TRACK RACE The B.B.C.’s People’s Palace Concerts, which proved so popular One of the phenomena of modern amusement is the Dirt Track last Spring, are being continued as a scries this Winter. The first Race with its roaring machines and slithering * spills.’ On Thurs concert is to be relayed to London, Davcntry, etc., from the People’s day evening we are to be taken over to Wembley Speedway for a Palace, Mile End Road, E., at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening. graphic commentary on the c star * race, Wembley v. All England. N.B.-R. C. SHERRIFF’S FAMOUS WAR PLAY, ‘JOURNEY’S END ’ IS TO BE BROADCAST ON THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER 11. ■ 306 RADIO TIMES November 1, 1929. Lives depend on my radio .i j . ■ fi ? ! t j! ► > i t i ? i v ! : Mullard Valves : My radio is the eyes and the ears of the ship. In an emergency even a momentary breakdown may mean disaster—loss of life. I can afford to take no risks— that’s why I use Mullard valves. Milliard Use Mullard Valves for Receiving, Recti THE *MASTER. « VALVE fying and Amplifying. Advert: The Mullard Wireless Service Co., Ltd., Mullard House, Charing Cross Road, London. W.C.2. U^£«MH|0W!EQHHH ■November i, i05o. 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On Friday, November 1, this practice will be resumed. Here is the story behind these decisions. ITE suspension last March of the an side bands. The leaders were employed by direct or indirect, from that time onwards. nouncing of * outside ’ dance music the establishment with whom th€ B.B.C. had As a result of a resolution to this effect, the T was the cause of some disappointment entered into broadcasting relations. It was an publishers formed a Vigilance Committee, and criticism. The change of method arose admitted fact that the bands were in general w'hosc duty it was to watch the position, obtain out of a system which for a long time had extremely well paid. It was not a case of evidence of infractions of the agreement, if troubled the B.B.C.—a system commonly necessity, therefore, but as some of them put they occurred, and to report to the B.B.C. known as * plugging.’ A famous dictionary de it, of ‘ plain business.’ * The money is there,’ Broadcasting facilities were to be withdrawn scribes ‘ plug as ‘ a natural or morbid con they said in effect, ‘ why not take it ? ’ Indeed from orchestra leaders proved to be receiving cretion.’ This phenomenon was threatening the money was pressed upon them by agents of subsidies, and the publications of any firm the vitality of B.B.C. dance-music programmes. some of the publishers concerned. It is absurd found to be breaking the agreement were to Subsidized song plugging, as formerly prac to suppose that if the B.B.C were to have paid be banned from transmission by wireless for tised, was a system in which those commercially leaders a fee to broadcast, their attitude would some months. interested in dance music succeeded in having have shown any material change. Actually, The situation improved somewhat, but tills the numbers they were anxious to ‘ boost ’ there is definite evidence to the contrary.' was only tempo ran*. The arrangement was broadcast repeatedly by direct arrangement Moreover, those listeners who were loudest in given every chance. But on January 9, 1929, a with orchestra leaders about to select the items their complaints of * Why don’t the B.B.C.