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Radio Times, July 25th, 1924. _ THE LISTENING CHILD. BY DR. C.W. KIMMINS. LONDON Teh mf THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE B.B.C. Sa EVERY FRIDAY. Two Pence. ‘Vol 4. No. 44. beae = = = ae - OFFICIAL The Kiciciextism of Radio. a PRO GRAM MES BY THE RT. REV. BISHOP j. E. C. WELLDON, D.D. ewe no {Dean of Durham). A |" is « strange Jaw of human nature that an historical ooca- are BRITISH mankind has generally set itself against sion aa the great the inventions which have been most conducive Borbar at: Delhi, BROADCASTING to its welfare or comfort. There i# no novelty, bw fk preat deal from chimneys to umbrellas, but it has been inoro than they COMPANY. stoutly and fiercely reaisted, Even the beneficent would have seen if nee of anesthetic medicines af child-hirth was they had heen condemned ‘hy a section af Christian public present in Delhi For the Week “Conlmeneinke opmion as contrary to the Divine law, until itself + for at Debi SUNDAY. JULY 27th. fir James Simpaon retaliated upon his critica their obeervation by pointing out that God Himself, before per- woukl have been “LONDON —S CARDIFF forming thefirst operation recorded in history, limited to: sich ABERDEEN GLASGOW had cast the man upon whom it was performed part of the pro- into o deep sleep, Human nature, im fact, haa oesdings “ took BIRMINGHAM. MANCHESTER Leen reformed and improved, if at. all, in- its place before their own despite. eyee, but every BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE * * + * part was brought Tht Bt. Rew. SHEFFIELD (Relay) There can be no doubt that among the fore. home to them many a. E. 0, WELLOOM, PLYMOUTH(Relay) most of modern inventioné should be ranked thousands of miles the ever-increasing asgencie: which promote away from Delhi by the agtnoy of the cinema- EDINBURGH (Relay) “the diffusion of knowledge. How remarkable tograph. * = a LIVERPOOL (Relay) is the fact that the means of Inpomotion re- mained practically the same from the era of the Pictures, or films, may do harm os well LEEDS—BRADFORD (Relay) firet Pharacha to the reign of Queen Victoria! as good, if they represent. scenes or act# of But a journey round the world is no more an immoral character; if they are senzational SPECIAL CONTENTS: burdensome to-day than was the old grand tour, or debasing in their motives; if they hold up i.¢,, the journey to the chief capital cities of wine to acorn and vice to honour, or even if THE LISTENING CHILD. By Dr. CG W. Kimmuns. Europe in the eighteenth century, Nations are they produce in young minds such an excitement coming to know each other better ; would it were as ia incompatible with the quiet and sober equally trae that they were coming to under- performance of everyday duties, Still, education, MY RADIO REMINISCENCES. By Denis Mackail. stand and appreciate each other better! whatever restraint it may impor upon the use of the cinematograph, cannot afford to dispense —— eee * * + * with the cinematograph iteell, LISTENING IN CORNWALL. Photography, again, kas given not only to * ** * By Filkon Young. the scenes ond events, but to public men of all parties and clasacs a notoriety such as The art of broadcasting is educationally “IN AN OLD-FASHIONED TOWN." was impossible before, A hundred thousand paralleel to the nse of the cinematograph. It The Story of a Famous Song. persons know the physical aspect of Mr, Ramsay is a means notso much of vivifying as of amplify- MacDonald or Mr. Lloyd George as against ingrecords of eventa, If the Exhihition at Wemb- ley strongly enforces the magnitude of the British OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. ten who knew the physical aspect of Pitt or Fox. The cinemategraph, that wonderful in- Empire and of its resources and prodvetions RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION to “ Tha vention, although the inventors name 16-seldom upon hundreds and. thousands of men and women who have never tmvelled over the Hodis Times" (tneluding postage); TWELVE heard, ia an educational instrument so powerful Mostrus (Foreign), that: spectators whe looker in an English theatre Empire, or perhaps over any part of the Empire, lis 8d.: Twetve Moxras (Britieh}, 135. 6d, or amusic-hall upon the moving pictures of such (Confitiaed overleaf im column 2.) ae i 178 — RADIO TIMES —— [Jone sie!H, ae “Inan Old-Fashioned Town.’ The. Inspiration of Radio. (Contivided from the previews page.) The Story of a Famous Song. eo the broadcasting of the King’s Speech at the opening of the Exhibition, or of the Arch- HERE are songs whose invariable custom it waa to pay even bishop of Canterbury's sermon at the great whith tickle the more attention to the words of songs aubmitted religious service in connection with the Ex- ear, songs which arouse to him than to the niusic. He raised an im- hibition, cannot but serve to accentuate beyond the risible faculty, songs mediate objection to the line :— all preceding records the effect of the speech which pleaae the critical “L love ev'ry mouse in that old-fashioned or sermon as inculeating and illustrating the ica sonac, and songs which house,” lessons which the Exhibition itself teaches reach the. heart. Mr. on the ground that no women conld erer love o or suggests, whether in the secular or in the W. 4H. Squire's well- mouse, and that the bare mention of that little sacred life, The British Empire is the abiding known song ** Tn ari beast's name would probably decide any member guarantee of truth, justice, and freedom all Old-Fashioned Town,” of the fair sex te exclude the song from. her the world over, come: under the heart- repertoire! ‘That was a facer! But, after * i: * * teaching category, al- considerable argument, the objection was over. i ja ty earnest, wish, then, ta plead that though it does not riled, and the beloved mouse left in the song ! - tit Phurch shall not turn her back upon the fir, W. H SQUIRE, thereby fail to please “ That was Mr, Boogey's only objection aa far opportunities, which wi her by broact= those who look for good music alao, I had the as the lyric was concerned, bat, on the musical casting, for the narro.. gion, As L conceive side, he thought my piano accompaniment pleasure of hearing Mr. Ivor Foster introduce it to be, which has ext tectsBpeceet the asaocia- “too simple,” and aupgeated Aome Variation in it to the public on Febroary th, “St. tion of the Church with the secular press, is Valentine's Day,” in that year of sacl memories, the second stanza, a augecstion in which | gladly setting itself now against the broadcasting of ‘1914, aix months before the world was darkened acquiesced and which I am sure ‘made for sermons and of public worship generally. But ‘bythe thundercloud of war. It made aninstant improvement.” ; the conditions of religious life no less than of appeal, and has now: entered that somewhat Anxious Days. secular life are rapidly changing. When, people “abbreviated” list of songs which may be “Thos, on February 14th, 1914, ‘In an Old- could not read or write, when they lived in said to have “ come. ta stay.” Fashioned Town ' was introduced tothe public the country, and little occurred of could occur by Mr. Ivor Foster, without whose kindly and to break the monotony of their lives, Divine Foetry Over the 'Phone. timely suggestion it would never have come into worship, or at least the sermon, was perhaps Tf you should ever go to Witney—where the existence, at the London Ballad Concert, Royal the most interesting part of a week's experience. blankets come from-—arnd should inquire of Albert Hall, It made an instantaneous appeal But to-day the English people have become almost any inhabitant of that Oxfordshire town, which has fortunately proved lasting, not ao much a hearing os oa reading people. where you may. find the identical old-fashioned “Meanwhile the absence of the talented The newspapers, above all the Sunday news- house in their old-fashioned town, they will point authoress in Cornw,all just atthistime, had caused papers, are formidable rivala to church-going, to one situated in the town's West End where the me some anxious days, leat the worda should not It is probable that the habit of regular church- authoress of the Iyrio, Ada Leonora Harms, be at my disposal. The editor of the Grand going will fail, as it is failing now. epent her girlhood, a fact which undoubtedly Magazine, to whom I had made application, € € * o accounts for that note of sincerity and true wrote to aay that he had sent my letter to Ada The Church must aim at winning the atten- aentiment which has helped so much to make and Leonora Harris, and I awaited her reply very tion of the people by novel means. Preachera maintain the popularity of the song. anxiously. [received her permission for the use are sometimes censured for playing to the When I asked Mr. Squire, the famous ‘cellist of her words, of which she had retained the copy- gallery, But to whom should. they play ? and composer, how thé song came to be written, right, and in a further communication she in- The gallery is the assemblage of humble men he toh me a remarkable story, formed me that within twenty-four houra of “The byrne of ‘In an Old-Fashioned Town,’ * and women, whom God must be supposed to the receipt of my communication a well-known prefer, a4 President Lincoln once said, because he said, “ appeared in the Grand.

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