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ee Vol.%. _ No.‘16. te.at-oha, tewa EVERY FRIDAY. Two Pen ce. a OFFICIAL ~Our Empire Radio Service. PROGRAMMES By Sir HENRY THORNTON, K.B.E. for the week beginning GAL, peeves 13th. (Sir Heory Thornton, K.B.E., President of the Great Britain. But - Canadian National Railways, known in England while owas in Eng- J as General Manager of theold Great Eastern Railway before it wasamalgamated in 1922 with land, your interests in "PROGRAMMES INDEX. other companies into the London and ‘North- broadcasting became | Eastern Railway, is a frm believer that radio will myinterest; I wanted | become an important factor in strengthening the TOMEI (ZED)... per ies wen vee toenae oe 555, 556, 558 to hear all [could be J bonds of Empire. In the following article Sir told about theworkot BELFAST! (2BE) weaee STO, ST1 Henry shows how broadcasting assists him to operate the gigantic railway syatem he now controls.] the British Eroad- BIRMINGHAM (5IT)..... au» SOT, 558 casting Company. T was only after a visit to England, . SOO, SBT + © « BOURNEMOUTH (65M) few weeks ago, which, incidentally, was CARDIFF (5 WA) sv DBZ, 563 my first since [Jeft m the autumn of Ig22 As all British listeners know, the MANCHESTER (22Y) 0 c . . . seid 564, 365 to take up the Presidency of the Canadian NationalRailways, that | fully realized the Canadian National (5NO) . vate e d s 1 Oy GBT NEWCASTLE great strides which radio broadcastinghas Railways have a ABERDEEN (2BD)...... -. 00: ccesce c c s coredbey OTS broadcast service of made in Great-Britain under the guidance Sir HENRY THORNTON. GLASGOW (SSC) on... c e e c e s cee ce s a e see eee Oy SGD of the British Broadcasting Company, their own, and we have already attempted to transmit a few HIGH-POWER: (SEX) on o.c ee ceeein s e e e e n e s e hye Broadcasting can easily become the greatest power for good the world hasever known. special programmes for British listeners cose oe cau G a s s e r o c e s e r s c e ane den e e e oO POUTVEE, ( 2 O V E ) Properly applied, its benefits to the British irom some of our stations. EDINBURGH (2EH) c o i cise s c c s c e sees ceheceesee dl Empire are, a5 yet, incaleulable, It is on the subject of what broadcasting HULL (6KH) . bFalutiaslis c u a v c s s s e a n e u a t a n e e The British Broadcasting Company and will do in the future to, strengthen the ties (Ls) ea aicatare le ae a n a ae the Canadian National Railways have, as I between England and the Dominions and LEEDS-BRADFORD Colonies that I would first like to write. (8LV) le see it, very much in common with the future LIVERPOOL development of this great power for our After all, what subject could be more MOTTENGHAM. (SMG)... co.cccsseces c c o s n e e p e on epe on SDM . Empire's good. appropriate at this: season of the year ? PLWIMOMITEL (BEY) cia ec cee sie ste sce c c s eresnecve oon on GM ra = a = Of this much I am absolutely certain, (OPE) o i s i c e eveceesiessscrid asc ns BPM that: radio broadcasting will contribute as SEEFICED shortly before [ left England, in 1922, the much, if not more than anything else to BOWE CUED s a y pc s i p s e seciev v a c v e v s e y a e s a-neny questionol starting somekind of a broadcast strengthen the bonds of ae SWAMSEA (55) c i c tieceancease-son cisions consis cones DM service was first being discussed. I returned + EVENTS OF THE WEEK. ....ccscccsccucaicons.555 to find everybody talking about what I e I know at the British Broadcasting know to be a system of broadcasting posses- STOP PRESS NEWS . ciseOOS its utmost and will oe! Se sing educational and entert:dinment advan- s its service is developed, = ——L_ tages second to none in the world. I had, of yy ta;beme about a real Empire ee TO READERS. course, always known that broadcasting was of Radi? Pri es. The time The address of “‘The Radio Timesia §-11, Southampton developing rapidly in England, thongh I tebe~sg_ Jar cise Street, Strand, ‘cased: Wc os some people was mot fully acquainted with. the details. addeew of the British Brosdcesting Company, Lod, bo might imagine, wher specially equipped 2, Sescy HE, Seven, Loonies, Wic.2, of the British service. transmitting stations forthi se will BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION to “The. Rade Times" (ine Canada and the United States have worked be established throughout the w ducing postage! +t Twelve Mooths (Forcign), 150. id. t Twelve on different lines from those adopted by (Continued overleaf in colamna 3.) Maoths (Britiah), Lx, bd. 1

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A regular exchange of radio progranunes helween The Story of “Fidelio.” one part of the Empire and another will make the world seem emalicr, It will help us a l l to feel much [A Beethoven Commemoration Programme will Beethoven, thuncdercd :.~ My brother-in-law would eloser together in one big family than we do now. be broadcast: from London on Wednesday, Decem- never Have written such nonsense 17" The ‘people of Canada, | know, will do t h e i r share her i6th.} Fidelie, at first: entitled feasors, wees produced! in this when the time comes, i seemstrange that a composer so versatile at Viennaon November 20th, 1805, only seven Just think of what it will mean to all those anel gifted gs Beethoven should heve written days after the triumphant Frenchhad entered the people in the far-away parts of the Empire t o oly one oper. Tut the explanation i4 simple, civ. The populace was, therefore, in no mood to hear the-sound of Bie Ben, the music from concerts whether it Hes wholly in bis statement that only listen to new moical compositions, and, largely and theatres in London, and the actual voices of ihe highest themes and the noblest treatment for this reason, the first representation of the opera people speaking in the Homeland. appealed to him, or whether it is partly to he was nearly a fiasco, After it had been produce ia a FT a found in an incident that greatly affected the on ony two mon nights, it wees withdrawn hy Jaiter part of his life, Beethoven, who did not attempt to hide his dis- T know thet you in England will he just aa He was, aswell known, deaf, His hearing was Appolmtobent, interested! to hear, in the same way, all about the normal til he became about forty vears old, when Subgequently, some of hie circle came to the conditions of life your sons and daughters, brothers the sense suddenlyleft him in part, and, ultimately, conclasion that the first two acts of the opera needed amid sisters are experiencing thousands ‘of miles he Jost it oltogether. While he could still teet pruning, and that the tenor (Dxanmer) was unsuited away, Only by radio broadcasting can these things Tee accomplished, hia own compositions by car, he began to compoge to the music, They thought, too, that another an opera (not Fidelio), and when the workwas vocalist, Joseph Roeckel, would be mach more The development of broadcasting is dependent well advanced ke had. according to his own anccessful in the part. So, knowing that it woule upon experiments, Wein Canada hope duringthe aceount, to “deal with a very tiresome and be tiseleas frankly to Jay their views before the ensuing year to broadcast from the Canadian National Railway Station CNEA, at Moneton, New capricious. tenor,” composer, they proceeded to gain their ends by Dilirtet: ears, Brunswick, a series of apecially arranged pro- Deaf Through Temper. grammes for Britieh listeners. We hope you will Beethoven was first persuaded to hear Roeckel “T had already,” he says, “written two arias at a rehearsal for a new-opera, He was much be able to receive themandwe shall be glad to hear from you if you do, Similarly, a4 time goes to the same words, neither of which pleased him, pleased with the new tenor. on, we hope to receiveBritish programmes ani] aid also a third, which he-dicd. not care for the “Tf I could have hadAim for my Florestan, firat timehe tried it, buttook it away with him. when we can to relay them to oorown listeners, now !** he growled, as he applauded vigorously. a * Cs r [ thanked heaven I had done with him,. andl This gave an opening to one of his friends, began to getile myself to something else, which who remarked that he could have Roeckel if he I have been asked to give an outline of our own I had laid aside.” hroadcast gervice. Naturally, we are proud of it, would make some“cuts” in his opera, After working for a shorttime, he heard a “Not one note will I change!" cried the irate We were the first railway in the world to take up knock whieh: herecognised ad that of the tenor. composer, promptly turning his bavk on the wireless and to equip traing with broadcast receiving “| sprang up from the table in such o rage speaker, sets, Broadcasting haa become one of the moet valuable assets of the Canadian National Railways, that, as the man came into the room, I flung Beethoven, lunvever, was unable to withstand When we started the service three years ago, our mnyself on the floor as they do on the stage, bt all the arta that-lia friends brought to ‘bear on [ fell upon my hands, When I got up, I found him, and in the end he made a number of excisions main object was to reheve the monotony -of long I was deaf, and from that moment [ have remained in Fidelio, which was thus reduced ta two acts, railway journcys across Canada such aa thoee of so, The doctor said I injured the nerves.” you in England who have never crossed the Atlantic It was-then tried again at Vienna, on March 29th, Tt may be, then, that his reluctance to compose LA, and in ite wamenched form it met with a much can scarcely realize. At the outset, we equipped certain cars of our opera wasdue in some measure to this experience, bether necepiion. which coloured the remainder of his days, This result appears to have reconciled the com- trams. with wireless. receiving apparatus- which could pick up concerts from any station within Working at High Pressure. [eser to mending, At-any mie, Fidelio eubse- quently underwent further modification, and a range, and then, when we began to realize more However thia may be, the story of Fidelio—the third version waa produced on May 23rd, 1814, andmore ita possibilities, we decided to erect story of the brave, loving wife who risked everything The first stage performance in thia country, stations of oor own. To-day, we have a chain of to effect the escape from prison of her wronged which was in German, was at the King’s Theatre, broadcast stations stretching across the whole of hushand—greatly impressed Beethoven. It was on May I8th, 1832, Finee then, Fidel, though Canida from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, picked up by Jean N. Bouilly during a visit to it has never been very popular with us, haa often All our trans-continental trains and manytrains on his birthplace, Tours, andby him turned into a shorter rung are fitted to receive broadeact pro- drama, on which an opera was composed. This been represented of our stage, and opera-goers have heard many Leonoras, from Tietzens, who was grammes in the observation car. Operators are was cnwverted into Italia. and thence into German, fond of the part, downwards, in charge of the sets, and passengers are able to ail when Beethoven saw it in a native form, he enjoy music which may be played a thousand TT. We Witeissos, at once recognized that here was the kernel! of his or more miles away. They are also ableto receive ze aa eTGyre, newa of the dav, and are thus kept in touch with Isolating himeelf, he filled many notebooks with (Continued from column 3.) the affairs of the workl as they would be in their ideas, and betook himaelf to Hetxendorf, then a feel that they are joint partners in a joint enterprise. own homes, villagein the environs of Vienna, where, in the In this way we encourage «a friend]y feeling and * i re u summer of 1805, he worked on his aketehes, writing ; & spirit of exprde corps. Our experience haa un- But broadcasting has another; and to us, a and re-writing till he setisfier] hinieelf. After doubtedhy been that this ia to the advantage of preater Valuc, It haa now becomean integral part composing nine openings for one of the choruses, everybody, Tt takes work more pleasant for ihe of our great railway system because it enables us he rejected them all, and started on a tenth, men andwe know that they take a much greater to keep in closer touch than would otherwice Floresian’s air gave him still more trouble: for interest intheir cuties, be posible, with our employees, who number over before he could strike the right-vein, he began it Of all the things we have introduced to the 100,000, and are scattered about over more than eighteen times, Canadian National Railways, nothing has cone 20 niles of railroad track, more to produce the right spirit among our employees Almost every week, at some timeduring the Nearly a Failure. and nothing has been more beneficial to tte working concerts, one of the higher officials of the railway nee the workwas done to his satisfaction, he and the fight to put it on a-satisfactory basis, than or myself give a short address, would not alter it onany account. During the the good effects of our broadcast talks, These A large proportion of our employees have their rehearsals, some of the singers bepeed him, in weekly talka are not without conmderalio benefit own receiving seta, and we are able, by means of their interesta, to make certain poussages easier; to the people of Canada as well aa our own ataff, broadcasting, to keep in very close touch with them butthey might just as well have appealed to the After all, the railway ia owned by the people of on all important matters concerning the develop- theatre walle, This attitude madg Canada, and in a senae every Canadianig a share- ment-and ronning of our huge system, As President, who were certainly not leas ing holder. Broadcasting brings ua into direct. touch Tam able to maintain what would otherwise be im- vooalista usually are, contem@ with our shareholders, and we are able in this way possible—a personal contact with all grades of and in the end, one_of the to secure their interest in its well-being, stafi—and Fam able to do it actually in their Mozart's brother-i wok Summed up, it comes to this, that our wireless own homes, In Pizarro’s aria crs stations have been productive of what is most Think of the advantage this is to a gigantic heat im fro beat the ace Tapaniment; and he made important in the managementof our great system, eoncern hike the Canadian National Railways. Wa such a fof the passage—not entirely through namely, teamwork. Thia is provedby the fact are able to tell everybody in general terms all the his own™“fauff, since the orchestra waa partly to that, up till new, we have hadmore than 50,000 things that want doing, all the things that might blanve—t at the end there wasa loud titter, letters from people who have either heard our be done hetter, and we are able to make every body This naturally enraged Meyer, who, turning towards talks or our concerta, (Continued in the precious column.)

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Crossing the Years. A Mew Classical Feature. popular opersa from Offenbach, and will per- HAT promises to bea fascinating feature will Musie lovers will he glad to hear thet, starting zonally superviee the production. be introduced intd the New Year's programme on January 4th, the B.B.C, will. develop special A Light Symphony Concert. broadcast from London throughout the British Classical feature programmes from London, normally Mr. Julie Harrison, the composer and conductor,’ evatem, Ab 1145 pm. Greenwich mean time, hetween 7.0.and $0 pam, The idee is that a week will conduct a light aymphony concertfor London should be devoted toeach of the great composers, on December Bist, Brrtish listeners will and Daventry piles on December Sith, Mr, and jit is proposed to start with representative hear & selection from a special New Year pro- William Primrose will give Glikouncy's “Violin gramme broadcast from Berlin, whenes it will aelectiona from Bach, Chopin and Beethoven Concerto, which has not. before been broadest be during the three weeks following January 4th, tranamitted at 12.15 a.m., on January let, 1926, from London, and Mr, Hurbert Heyner will be At 12.15 a.m., on January Ist next year, music Woight Reduction by Radio. the voonlist. from the Albert Hall will be broadcast throughout In yew of the popularity of weight reduction pro- The Futurists at Edinburgh. Britain. At 1.0 a.m, Dance Music will be m peganda by wireless in the United States and on A local programme will be broadcast ‘from the broadcast from New York, wheneeit will be trans- the Continent, the BBC. is planning to institute a mitted at 11.0 pan on December dist, 1025. series of special broadeasta with a view to nasisting Edinburgh Station on the evening of Wednesday December 23rd, when Misa Miriam Wood {dramatic New Year Noveltios: people who desire to reduce their weight, These Another feature of the New Year's Eve pro- broadeasta will mot consist solely of instruction soprano) amd Miss Ray Ormonde (reciter) will take part. ‘The bulk of the evening. however, will be cramme will be a talk by Mr. Keble Howard on on physical exercises, They will include algo “ Little Resolutions.” Mr, Stobart will give a new hints on the mental altitude recommended for taken up by the “ Futuriste " Concert Party, who will present a programme in keeping with the festive version of his “ Grand Good Night” just before the the success of these experiments. Mo detinite Old Year ends: The Rev. Dr. Fleming will pronounce arrangements have been-made as yet, but details Scher, On Christmas Eve, the Edinburgh Station Singers a short valedictory on the passing of the Old Year. will be announced early in the New Year. Then, after a moment's silence, “ Big Ben" will will present a recital of lesser-known cardla, moet Famous Houses in the Midlands. be heard and the programme resumed, TDhiring of these being fourteenth and sixteenth century. Nottingham's series of talks on Famous Houses the $9 to 10.0 concert period on New Year's Mr. L. Shepherd Munn is in charge of the recital. and Churches of the Fast Midlands is coming to Eve the musical items chosen will provide a retro. Bridge Talks ai Nottingham. an end, But the two houses that have ten left apet of the outstanding programme successes of to the laat are known throughout the length and Nottingham Station will havea visit from the the past year, Ripley United Silver Prize Band, who are highly breadth of England. Next week, we shall listen thought of among colliery bands, on Friday, Boxing by Radio. to Mr. H. G. Watkinson Haddon Hall, and the week It is proposed that the 10.30 feature from all December 15th. after, Wollaton Hall will be dealtwith. Stationa on Welnesday, January 13th,shall In the telka an innovation is being attempted take the form of «studio repreeentation of a Boxing Newcastle Station's Birthday. next week. It has been decided. to. give a short Match aa conducted at the National Sporting Clah, Newcastle Station's birthday is on Wednesday, series of talks on Bridge, Considering the number The whole procedure of the ring will be literally December 25rd, andfeatured in theprogramme are of people who play this popular game, “ Contract's observed and it iaintended to convey the atmoaphere the Station Repertory Company, 6N0" Choral talks will raise no lilth: controversy among his just-as faithfully aa was done on the occasion of the Rociety, the Station Orchestra, and the Aunts listeners. Radio Tattoo. A number of eminent sporting and Uneles of the Station will nlso, no doubt, Mr. York Bowen at Plymouth, personalities. will be present, and it ia hoped to provide plenty of entertainment, Plymouth Station has been fortunate mm securing mlude among these Mr. Harry Preston and Mr. This particular birthday will prove of great the services of Mr. YorkBowen, the pinnist and Eugene Corr. interest, a4 it is possible “that it will mark the composer, for the local programme: on December * Songs of 1925."" occasion. of the Newcastle Station‘s change of Zon. Among other things, he will play Rach- A number of leading wireless vocalists will premises. maninof's Polichtwelle, Kreisler'a Jfelestred, broadcast an hour's selection of “ Songs of 1925" Carols From an Orphanage. arranged by Rachmaninoff, and two examples of from the Londonand Daventry Stations onDecem- The afternoon programme from Birmingham on his own wotk, Jérerie dAmorr and A Homp, from ber 28th. These songs will include a number of Sunday, December 20th. will consmt of a Carol the second suite. the most attractive of those published during the Service tobe relayed from the Sir Josiah Mason's Operatic Gems at Stoke. year and the choice shoald be one of wide appeal. Orphanage, Erdington, Birmingham, Listeners Stoke listeners have good fare in store for the two “Treasure Island." whe have not yet heardthe Orphanage Choir should days before Christmas, The “O68T" Opera Mr. Arthur Bourchier and his company will be make a point of doing eo on Sunday afternoon, Company is once more making its appearance, heard from the London Studio on Tuesaday, January The Musical Director is Mr. J, H. Daniels, Between on this occasion to present excerpts from oratorio Sth, when on hourof the play P'reaswre Télandisto be 6.30 and 60 pom, there will be a Christmas and grand opera, the last half hour of theirpro- browdcast. Children’s Corner, framme being devoted to. gems from Balfe's Radio Forecast of 1926. The Offenbach Follies. BSehemian Girl, On Christmas Eve, the Kadio The programme on New Year's Day will be A&B. programme will be given from London by Circle Choir will sing a number of cardls, and ‘there’ built up round a mock forecast of events of the the Offenbach Follies on December ith, Mr, John Will also he some Verse speaking. coming year. This will contain many novelties. Ansell has specially arranged the music from the Charades. The British Legion Band. TS aia on ao ~ ds Se - The Christmas spirit of festivityis very prominent The London programme on Sunday afternoon, in the programme: which are to be given from the January Ord, will be given by the British Legion The Complete Manchester Station next week. One of the moat Headquarters Band, consisting entirely of ex-Ser- popular items will be “The By The Fireside vice men. On the same evening, the ever-popular CHRISTMAS PROGRAMMES | Charades,” whichwere originated last year, ‘The squire Celeste Octet will entertain listeners. first of a series of sixteen will be given on Boxing A First Performance. and many additional Night, with generous prisea for the winners, The The first performance of the Oboe Concerto series has been invented and will be produced by of Armstrong. Gibbs, piayed by Mr, Léon STORIES AND ARTICLES | Mr. Victor Smythe, anda series. of four charades, Cooasens, will be broadcast from London on Wedl- which will conceal the word chosen, will be acted nesday, January 13th, This promises to bean f will appear in before the microphone, Last years competition event of considerable iniportance in the musical produced some 2,500 entries, and it is xpected word, The performance will form part of a ninety | “The Radio Times” that this mumber will be passed this vear. mitiutes’ broadcast of interesting new musical | Christmas Number New French Talk Series. works on that evening. ; aerice Of French Talks is tobe “Dwellers in the Darkness." | on Sale . Next. Friday. Station, starting on Tuesday, In response to many requests, the drama Dieelfers Among the Contributors will be:— pm. ~ They will be conducted, tt fhe Doriness will again be broadcast, with, its apiuin, under the auspices of the original cast, on Monday, January 4th, at 10.30, | P,P, Eckersley, Arthur R,Burrows. find wall the form of ings Conducted by the Composér, John Oxenham. F. Morton Howard. from de msgit's Wi ‘erle ef autres Liales- On Monday, January 4th, from #10 pom. , Mr, anid Anatole France!a 1Etwide-Nacre, with explana. Percy” Pitt, whose birthday falls on this dav, will Ashley Sterne. fF. R. Buckley, etc. tory remarks, These books are ble from Mesers.-Horrap and Calmann Levy ively, conduct a short programme of his own works from 6d.—Specially Enlarged —6d.| For B.B.C, Christmas Arrangements see page 551. London, ———

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The Sands of Death. RadioRevels. »

# Details of the Olympia Programme. By William Adams,* Ex-Coxswain of the Deal Lifeboat. I* if probably no exaggeration to state that never will so many people participate, directly HAVE been engaged for some fifty years in Dibdin, which. weighs over ten. tons, in the teeth or indirectly, at the same time, in a centrally- lifeboat work, first as an ordinary handand later of auch gules'as we hareto deal with. Please bear organized funetion, a8 Will be the case with the isa coxswant, and curing all that time there has in mind that’ the North Goodwin Lichtehip i# nine Radio Revels, By thit time, the majority of listeners been a lot of dirty weather, and a good manycalls miles: the East Goodwin seven miles, and the are familiar with the Revels and the commendable for our services, South SandHead four miles from the Lifeboat purposes for which they have been arranged, Thetwo lifeboats at North Deal and the one at Station, That is as the criw flies, but we are Previous issues of The Radio Times have recorded Kingsdown (three miles to the sonth' ard) are always dealing with boats, not crows, which need not take the details of each official Revel that is to take plaid: manned by volunteer crews, and no one ia under any into account a dangerons sandhbank some nine miles on December Lath, in London and in ev.ery city and obligation to go except the coxswain, who receives long, andl in partsthreemilea wide, and a wide town throughout the Provinees, where there Ape a sniall anneal grant as charee-money for looking stretch of broken water. We have to ot there main or relay broadesst stations, after the boate and gear, and being the responsible under sail, and in weatherly boats, That ia the nian gener lly. old art of seamanship. : One Big Family. A Fine {pirit. i . Tricky Tides. Most. of the profits from ‘the four Revels that The men who form the crewe, who are, of course, These terrible sande—and they do not improve are being held-in London will go to the Paty all boatmen, receive payment for cach launch “pon acqusinancc—lyving, as they do, night in the News * Wireless for Hospitalk Fund,” which w iif according to the scale of the Lifeboat Institution, fairway of shipping, can only be approached, with also receive a percentage of the profits from cach anextra fee being paid for night workand for very any degree of safety in heavy weather, by thore of the Provincial Revels. Many other charities, long jobs. Many of the public seem to think that who know-them very well inderd, Vessela driven wireless and local, will, it is hoped, also henetid, lifeboat crewa receive regular standing pay, but ashore there ‘are cometimes in a very awkwanl But the Revela have also their social purpose— that ia net an, position to reach, and there may be two or three to bring together all over the country, Tike one It is pleasant to recall that during my Jong there at the same time but miles apart, and, perhaps, hig family, as manyas possible of the vast audience experience there has never been a lack of volunteers, with very shallow water, or none at all, between of listeners, eo that they may in an appropriate even in the very worst of weather, and there are them. The tides, too, are very tricky, ard are spirit celebrate the completion of three years. of ustially many more than the required mumber. affected by the “swatthways"—or channels, broadcasting in Great Britain. We knaiew by the When the bell ringa to coll a crew together, the across the sands—some of them quite deep ond application for tickets already,that many thousanrls pen who are first there to get the limited number causing dangerous whirlpools, of listeners are keen to gather together in this way, of lifebelta form the crew. ‘When the call is in the The North Deal lifeboats have raved many mare and, in -deing so, to give their suppert to charit'y, night, as it very offen is, the men sometimes rush than » thousand lives; and I have daken a hand in A Huge Army of Dancere. half-clad to seeure o belt and finish dressing after- a goo proport ion ef the launches, Fach. Revel waa arranged on the mast compre. wards, That shows a very fine: spirit, which, I A Schooner in Peril. hensive scale possible, and there are still tickets euppose, haa come down to them from their fore- Tt was ao wild week-end on November Ist ane for thoee who have not vet taken them, fathers, 2nd, 1919. A very heavy gale, E.N.E., often of Simultaneously, the spirit of revelry will he The Sea's Traditions. hurricane forer, «Three out of the four Goodwin taken inte a million hemes through the ageney of Lam old enough to remember the time when the Lithishipa were firing guns and sending up rockets.at broadcasting. Music by many of the danoe orchee. Deal luggers were the only means of saving ehip- the same tune, and it wee hard to decide which to ita at the Revela will he relayed to listeners during wrecked men, and that had been so for generations, make for first, We launched the € heries Difdin at the evening. Thus, there are certain tobe many They were open boats, without any of the safety 145 p.m., and, after beating te windard for three unofficial revele to swell the army of dancers, applianecs of the preacnt lifeboats. The men nat hours, we reached the Sands Preeenthy, we found Space alone prevents ua from giving any further only rieked their lives, but theirboats, which were the Esthonian schooner Tooca, carrying seven hands details in this final announcement in The Radio their property, very offen without reward, and ab and the captain's wife, -dvet aewe hed pot inte Tones to other than the lareeat revel, that at the their own expense. Jt waa the call of humanity, pocitian for veering down to the veaeel, ‘a large Olympia Dance Hall, where there is-reons for 4,040) and theold traditions of the sea, There were lives ateamer, herself in great danger, loomed up cut of dancers, Tickets for Olympia can still Le obtaited to be saved, the darkness, making stright for us. We had to at one guinea each. There usert to be about fifty of these Inggers, but sheer away, aud lozt our position, which aleo meant The Olympia Programme. they are al] conenow, and even the gollev-ponts lesa of valuable time, Then & tremendoys sig, How attractive the Olympia revel has’ been are going,.as, with the almost total disappearance struck the schooner and foreed her broadside on to made is shown by the following programme of of the sailing ship, the means of livelihood have the lifeboat, «wept five men away, and they were events and details of the dante banils :— | departed.. The old school of boatmen is dying not sten again, We beard a womans picring BAI 1S: pam SAVOY HAVANA, out too, but the okl spirit remains with us, as was écream, which none of us will ever forget, 115-11.0 |, OLYMPIA BAND. proved daring the war when all the younger men Saved After Six Attempts. LiLo CONTINENTAL RELAY, were away fighting, and my crews were often 11.10-11.40 Further cries were beard, and we oonld eon at .,.. OLYMPIA BAND, compesed of men whose average age was over sixty, 11.40-120° , DANCE PAG‘EANT ;— So, you see, the lifeboata are now theonly means daybreak two men clinging to the heel ofa smail ** Before Prehistoric Days."" Dance of the boat some distance away, Six abtempts were made available in heavy weather, and the Institution, Fairies." Celta and Brnids, Saxcns, FP tau: which is worthy of the support of every frendof to getto them, when a great towering sca fell iagenets and Crusaders. homanity, has more responsibility than ever, Bat aboard the lifeboat, swamped her, washingu& all 12.0-1210 am. CONTINENTAL RELAY. helplessly about. 2101240 |, JACK -HYLTON AND HIS for these boate, the men would nowoften be help. -BAND, lew, and the conatant-heavy toll of the Goodwin At last we got the two men ieee: but ondy just in time, as theywert nearly done. We got ashore 1240-10 , OLYMPIA’ RAND. Sands in such circumstances is tob awful to think 1O-E1 =, CONTINENTAL RELLAY. with them 48 soon as possible, and they survived, 110-10 —, DANCE PAGEANT ahout. As soon a8 we got ashore, about 7.13-a.m., that is : “. In the Teeth of the Gale. Elizabethan, Georgian and. Futur‘ae The boata at Deal are all sailing lifeboats, and eight anda half hours after launching, we found 1.30-:2.0 am. SAVOY. ORPHEANS. ! that other weesels needed help, so another crew was 2.0-2.10 » CONTINENTAL RELAY... , have 10 get to the Goodwins under sail, There is formed, and as I was not fit to go again, the late 2 . 1 0 - 2 . 2 0 - ,,- DISTRIBUTION OF FRIZES. no anug harbour or friendly ‘tug. Sometimes—but William Stanton took charge. 1t. was stil) blowmg 2.20-3.0 » BAVOY ORPHEANS. rarely—they can get uo tow by a tug, but there are as bard as ever, and it took them six hours to beat 3 . 0 - 4 . 0 » OLYMPIA BAND. , verylew tugs ‘about now, Those who know Deal, ~ to the other wrecks. Two eailingvessels werd Many famous stage, soreen and tadie stars wil] and eapeciaily those with nautical knowledge, will found ashore on theBands, the Corinthian and the be prevent to make the revel a large and repre see cur difficulties, first in getting afloat at all from Glendower, but only the captain and one hand sentative gathering of the entertainment world, the open béach, when itis blowing -g ins from of the Corinthian were saved, the others perishing. Senos of prizes are ready for distnibmtion: no any caaterly point—perhape Meanwhile, the reserve lifeboat, Frances #. Harion, when the seas—we seamen call one will be disappointed at the variety of the fun had launched with the third crew mistered. that which will be provided. call” wayea—ere tumbling 1 night, and in spite of them terrible experiences in The Continental relays mentioned in the Olympia Then we have to be ad toh thea Tooyo reécuc, William Haile (x ho Wert aa Programme will comst of dance thusic picked up ; miles in the teeth of fore whe Coxswain) and several other men, again volunteered, by the B,B. C. receiving station at- Keaton and given near the wree (or wrecks). They made sy thorough search, but could find no th rough loud epeakers at every revel, and, of ¢ourke, » carry cara, but only for occasional survivors from the Glejdower, but on the way back broadcast to wlhlistenera, Reyeral Continental and w that ever existed could make any use, 28 0 boarded a steamer which had picked wp from ao American stations have offered to ce-cperate, headway rowing such # boat as our Charles intermations] piece of wreckage another suryiver from the Toor Such ia the ettength of the new

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PEOPLEYOU WILL. AEAR ‘THIS. WEEK.

(sete Miss MOLLY O'ALLAGHAN (Soprand), wha will sing af Manthetter on Detember 13th, iVittphon ft Pereman Ming MURIEL BRUANSKILL (ContraHe) will be heard in Miss BELLA BAILLIE (Morro-Soprano) will take par! “The Meagah, 2.8, to of Stations on Bacember 17th, in “The Meaeiah * Progranimé on December i7th,

Debate [Faoghon & Freeman. me. MADRE BESLY bone =— t h e Gookan«hee ir. LAURENCE HOUSMAN is to Fond an e x c e r p t trom fis beok, “Little Playa of Si, Francia,” Londen Londen and ether Etetions on Dacomber tIth, itn 7 5 and ether fistenera on December | =

fi or ! Mit MOLLY MILE ano) will broadcast frem | London on December ith, |

ah (Mawerett = Mr. ALEC FRASER ai tuke the er a J part of Harry Bromien in “ The Belle The Ree, 8. 7. BUTCHER will Mix ABMCY HEPTON epi— irom ot Mow York" (2.6. fram Londons ae an 6.8. Talk Canni- Miss EVELYN RAY, who will ploy ie“ Tho Bolle of Londen on December on December 14th:, oof Papua on seccane 13th, Hew York " (6.8. from London on December 14th). i ft — RADIO TIMES — b s [UDrcramen, ‘Minn,1925 f l

A Comedian on Tour. Points From Talks.

Written and Illustrated by Louis Hertel, the Entertainer. Wisdom By Wireless. The Artist Defined.

t ALLOA |! The guard has just blown his whistle when the An artist in the literary aeneh-is a man who Ie that tarriage door is torn open by a Bolshevist porter, writes, not necessarilyfor you or me, or to please Mr. Louisa who hastily bundles in a mother and her seven himeelf—that is an inaccurate way of putting jt— Hertel ? British offspring, complete with baggage. I glare at the but for an Ideal Reader, who cares about tha Broadcasting “Smoking” notice on the carriage window and aubject so much and understands it so perfectly, Com pany look as much like a wireless entertainer ag possible, that no pains on the part of the writer can possibly apeaking bot all tone purpose, for the whole platoon spreads be thrown away.—Desmond MacCarthy, What vacan- itself over every inch of vacant space and- proceeds Costly Mtumination | cied have you to enjoyitself, Tr you wear diamonds, perhaps you have noticed during De- Tlove children with a passionpassing all under- that they become phosphorescent. after being cember, br, slanding—except when I'm travelling, and then— exposed to a atrong light, such as sunlight. All Hertel? We I fail to understand the reason, but children in a diamondsdo not phosphoresct, but the vellow Want Vou to railway carriage invariably persist in caressing m6 tinted ones will nearly always be found to do sn, tour all sta- with their stickyfingers, Once, duringan experiment, an orange coloured tions."

An Uneanny Experience. stone was exposed for some time toa powerful lime- With aamile I start on my adventures. The present occasion being no exception to the light and, when taken into the dark room, it gare of satisfaction back light sufficient to light up the whole apart. (which I contrive to keep outof my voice) [reply: rule, we have barely reached Westbourne Park before [am unanimously elected one of the family. ment.—Christina Hroadhwrest, “Hold ona moment and Pll look op my date I will draw a veil-over the reat of the journey and bowok.”” The Novelist “ With Book."’ Depositing the receiver on the table with a bang leave myfeelings, as we steam into Cardiff, to the Mywife, whois the most understanding of women, imarioation, intended subtly to indicate that at great incon. knows when I “am with book,” as she calls it, venience and enormiusa expense I might be able Next morning [ rise with the lark—ith the lark, The bear has to be left alone, mooning about, or to accept the booking, but that I should expect the mart for one, since there's nothing funny in trying staring at the fire, A growling beast! to steal out-of o first-class hotel with dignity after weather to keep fine and mild for it, and that, even Then—perhaps—alter aome days—the thing disbursing ‘only about 80 per cent, of one’s broad- so, it would hardly be worth while, oa the wife comes, whence or how—heaven knows! Some casting feein tips! would demand a new hat, the children would take people call it mediomship, others self-sngerstion, advantage of my absence to collect a few measles And so we go on, cach station (both railway But there it is, perhaps just some tittle homan and broadcasting) being a repetition of the first, and mumps, and the cook would certainly give incident that begins like a apark—and grows and varied only by the length of the intervening journey notice, [ rustle a few papera and pause to loosen crows into a fire. The pictureunfolds itself; the my necktie. We haven't got a cook, really, but aml the possibility of arriving in time to dine before characters breathe and move; one seca the whole one Tashes off to face the microphone, I can alwaya if the receiver ia banged down in the right tone of human action going on. Not quite the whole of tell the difference between Cardiff and Newcastle, woiee, it invariably conveys theimpression that it—at first—perhape, for a book is alwnvs prowing, or Manchester andl Aberdeen, beranse I know the there ig a cook who is ginger and who haa a cousin You are there ta interpret. You are the instrament microphones by sight. And, believe me, it is an whose first name is Agatha, throngh which this piece of life expresses itself, I return to the ‘phone. meanny experience to look up from one's MS. in — Warwick Leeping. the middle of broadcasting and recognize the Before the Bargain-Basement Era, An Unanswerable Argument. Hinningham “mike” when hitherto one has been THE Accounts of the Lord. Treasurer of Sootland “Are you there? I might be able to manage distinctly under the impression that it is Saturday contain many itema regarding the expense of the the first or last week, ifthat woulddo, The second night in Glasgow. dresites anpplied to the Queen of James ITD. and of week 7? Oh, what a nuisance! I really don't Working from provincial stations has one other those of his sizter and of Margaret, the Queen of think—er—just a moment.” (A alight paw.se.) grave drawback, and that is one's inability to gauge James TV. Hero is one telatmg to the list named the success or otherwise of one's performance, In “Well, perhaps with a rearrangement of my dates lady: “15 ells of white damask gold to be a great, I might able to fix it... .. Yes, [can.” London onecan always find a kind friend who has gown for the Queen—tach ell, £4 108,—£67 Ie, “All right, then you'll confirm it to-night.” listened, and who proceeds to congratulate one on in all. 12 ells taffeta to line the same, each ell, T restore the receiver to ita prongs, andwonder being an excellent cure for insomnia; bot im a 14s,—total £8 89,!'——(". 4. Malealm, WA... PRD. how the wife will take it, strange city it is only occasionally that one recures She enters O.P., advancing up-stage with a look an unbiassed criticiam—as Lonce did from a fellow: * i * * of interrogation, sspnger between Manchester and Newenstle, THERE would always bavebeen a Shaw— but then “Well, darling, I've juat booked another broad- It appeared that hehad been unfortunate enough Mr. Shaw resembled Mount Etne in that he isa casting tour—second week in December.” to don the headphones the previouaevening, and voleano without asking anybody's leave.—Janes “You haven't 1" what he told the other people in the compartment Agate, “T have,” I persist with assurance born ofthe about the programme in general and Louia Hertel Diet Among the Ancients. knowledge that the official programmes will in in blood-curdling particulars made me all hot and Wirrs the beginning of civilization, we find that due course and cold print blast her unjust suspicions, bethered, In consequence, I have definitely one of ite features was the recognition by men that “IT hate to go, my -precious: you know these decided that when television becomes an accom. disease could be prevented, aswell as cored, and absences are putting years on my life, but aa the _ plished fact, and our faces are as familiar to listeners whether we take ancient Egypt, or Isracl as an potl saith, "Sie tos now vobis.’ ” An inanswerable as Gur voices areat present, [ shall appear in public example, we find thatthe life of the people was influenced for good by the observance of atrict rules argument that quells the brewing storm. only in a false black moustache—and spats| =k Next morning comes my confirmation and of diet, cating and drinking, and personal hygiene. A Clear Idea. Insetiptions found in Egypt show that thee itinerary. Cardiff, Monday. Birmingham, Tuesday. Well, even the longest of tours comes to an end, Manchester, Wednesday. Newcastle, Thursday. ancient inhabitants of the country frequented and ultimately, I arrive back at Euston. baths, thatthey wore light clothing, and that they Aberdeen, Friday, and Glasgow, Saturday, What For the benefit of the statistically minded listener, regulated their diet, making it light, and simple.— i resb-cure | T have compiled a few succinct paragraphs which, E. Hunt. = I feel sure, will convey a much clearer idea of o * * i * The fatal morning arrives, the awning is out, the wireless tour than anynumber of pages of ordinary red carpet is laid, farewells have been concluded, dracviptive matter, Here they are ;— WE love these young American people, I think, Ll atride manfally down the drive, a auit-case in each 1. The nomber of miles travelled in working all when they are genuine, Jtia then we feel that bhood hand and my MSS, chitched tightly in the other, stations in one week would, if placed one on top really is thicker than their legal drink,—. 4. The family is lined wp in column of route; the of the other, exactly equal the cubic contents of a Atkinson, chanifeur touches his cap, the wife touches me for Jarge globe of the same size taleulated at starting. The ‘' DeadMan's Valve.” a tenner, and the youngest teagiullh besenhes me price, Tat master control handle is moved round to Ree to bring ber back a parrot. €& Fe. 2, The number of listeners who remove their thatthe equipment is working normally. Whilst Paddington!