“JUST a SONG at TWILIGHT” the Radio Times, December, 21, 1923

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Six Pence. THE SECRET OF CHRISTMAS. ee By J. C. W. REITH.

“THERE (is a séeretc-Et was told in the mratevious fentiment afloat. The air is still specially we have invmemory, May we be able happy days of childhood. It unlocked charged with some romance, but perhaps one in ame measure to mitigate their sickness or the invateries; it made the season a time of lacks the formula—the magic formula of youth loneliness, magic ind high romance. Anything ‘might —hy whose virtue all the stolid: matter-of-fact xk 4 w + happin. The very air was heavy with mystic realitics which imprison us may be diesatlved Let us hope thatthe spirit will seize us to possibilities, ‘There wae a sort of expectant 80 that we may once again walk the enchenti i mike merry in material fashion, aml this vear, hush aathe great date iteell drew near, There iround, the first Wireless Christmas, the means thereto waa honeed to keep the secret, either. In fact, * o a fo will be at hand. Northern fisteners may be everyones about we seemed to share if too. lt is desperately tantalizing to hear vcoat icky enough to skate te wireless music—if the The keenness of our anticipation made itzelf hy wear this whisper of romante—so insistent jee holds. In any eaeo, receiving sets ercry- evident days in advance; we protracted the ond then to conclude that our circumstances where are going tobe weloomeadditions to many festivilies amd the circumstances of the delight preventfurther heed. The call comes anutomatic- a happy gathering, for as many dave afterwards as we could, ally, as if the habit had been well learned, (ut *& ** environment or stress of ludéiness—repeated rt a a # The lond-apenker is such o. convenient enter. disregard—eventually choke the channels along Guichened heartbeats, eager: shining rycs, ininer, Ho-is eo ready to oblige when wanted, which there need to flow the spontancons free restless feet, delirions jove:. all this we. did. 6 unassuming when otheraport is forward, reapoaner, know once upon a time. Then, of couree, we ‘ é * rs He doesn't feel hurt if a cracker is pulled im bn to prow up, and in varying Mensure the middle of a song, or offended if the fon Perhaps we promie: cureclves. that, before gradually joat touch, &o. many things con- grows rietows during his performance. Ho the next Christmas comes, we shall eo have tributed: disillusionment was one; our own turns a deef earto all interruptions, and is roady planned and arranged the appropriate setting increasing feelings of superiority to childish to “awitch off" at a moment's notice, if ihe as to be able to recaptore that iletve old ioohi#hners, forsooth, another; pouring rain company vote for a epeech from the host, or romantic air and translate it inte words and inatead af the beautiful snow mantle of carlior want to hear the local choirs contingent of rts, times ; railway traina; fas-firea—all the old- *%* i carol simcets. time characteristic eloments of Chrisimes dis- a = = a: The external atmosphere and incidentals of placed and well-nigh forgotten. Wireless will play ita part in other ways too. the old (Christmas ‘times cannot come again [ suppose a good many people, young and off, fe | oe & unless in small degree or artificially created— will indulge in dancing, whether abroad or at One sometimes hears nowadays that it ia-a but the attitude of mind-and heart, which is home on Christmas night, and those at bore ily mistake to put suchnonsenee intechildren’s far more. important, may be gained by those will cheerfully foot it round the drawing- heads as te Wake them believe in Santa Claws ; who seekat. There ta more of Christmas in this roomandupand down the ball to the strains but the “nonsense of childhood is, however, than in the snow and the Tree and the Yule log, of the Bavoy Orpheans. Others will, perhaqa, the precious memory of ago, What tort of a & Hi a a be feeling the zest of younger days, amd will Inemery woulda “rational” Christmas bare For there is an underlying tehpions motive join the children in Musical Chairs, providing “ “ é & in the celebration of Christmas that is often the “stopa” by awitching off. Others, morc To seme, of course, instead of bringing the forgotten. Where other things have failed to youthful still, may delight in “ Hant-the- traditional good cheer, Christmas brings. only bring happiness and comfort, one has some, Slipper’ or “ Hunt-the-Thimble™ to musical smemories which provoke sadnecs, One cannot times to get down to fundamentals, and eo accompaniment—and no one out of the fun at help remembering days and friends that were. irrespective of any particular belicf, one does the piano! Jt isn't really difficult to be young Anniversaries of all kinds aro apt to. become well at Christmas-time to reeall the hallowed for an hour or two if everybodywill play. associated with the incidentala of previous and pracsous origin of the festival. And it is & # # ® celebrations, till gradually the real orginal event in the power of everybody to bring & measiny Sore of you who have newly aequircd ia Jost sight of, and the lesser occasiins with of cheer to somebody, especially perhaps when recerving ects may try them out with all the which we surround them magnified out of all we feel we need it. most eurselyea, One has pride of new possession on Christmas night, perspective. never fir to seck for an opportunity to do 4 and may enjoy the “showwithout much ti é a i goml turn. This way comes happiness soonest questioning; but thoce of you who are ob Whatever our individual conditions may be, to ourselves, ‘ frienda the B.BAC—and our correspondence thers is something in Christmas for us- all. a é * x tells a story of sudden but suro friendshipa— There simply must be, though it may take a We delight to remember that through the will remember to givea passing thought for littl finding. Everybody feels some feeble wonderful agency we control there are almost those who are working in order that you may Stirring of romance. The calendar eet ‘to, say, ‘unique and boundless means of bringing some play. December 20th at loaxt brings vague memories of the fellowship and good cheer of music and && + * ot emotions and exciteménts which such a song and kindly méssage to those who cannot And now allow me to wish you all a Happy date evoked in past years. There is still come gather with others. The invalids and old people Christmas and the Best the Season can bring. xz -- RADIO TIMES -— iepcesben Bier, 1085. A Christmas Message. eaiae Customs: HOW DID THEY ARISE?

By LORD GAINFORD, Chairman of the B.B.C. By ARTHUR BURROWS,Director of 7 cheerfulness of and inercasing cort=, the coming year may bea Programmes. Christmaa is, in yerr of greater activity than we have: known ¥ thought: af this moment are wal of pro- nalish life, amteh Finco the termination of the Jeate war (lon- prammes. hor than 2 “oer fcicnce jf ono mont easerting tiecli, and there Glancing through a ebore of negatives and imply tradition. It Bon better pre apedt that the pet tenes of Pode prints, which bear memories of days more 4 i time when the who haveiadessecrifices mey be rewarded, wealthy in “ epare time,” [ camewpon & much- Himpaphere seems It ig a pleasure to be ssaociated with a Com- prized snapshot of a Boar's Head, bedecked live with good cheer. puny at home that has increased the happiness with jewels and roeemmury. Thia waa taken a Whilst, perhaps, wo of the community, at a time when tho ae number of years ago im the Hall of (hieen's avo lost something é‘tiation has been operating to clothe the work Collece, Oxford, where is observed to this day f that type of Obrist- in. grey depression, Starting in a amall way one of the charming customs which, through nas nackte wilh with concerta. that .werp largely experimental, centuries of British history, have been aszo- he worka of Dickens the British Broadcasting Company have been cated with Christmastiute. ve ore etal with him been ahle to build op a confidence in the mind Tt ia still the practice at this college to carry no otr innermoa) feel- of the public which we shall vigilantly guard in state, to the accompaniment-of a carol with Inga, and tndenvourto maintain, Our object ja to Latin chorus, o fing Boar's Head mounted on a LORD GAUMrOnD. [ om scmling Christ- incertae from our wireless stations the pleasure mizsive silver salver and decorated with Haga mast and New Year and the entertainment, on the witheet demo- and wikdedherba, grectings to all that vest numberof people who, erotic basis, forall sections of listenera. We At the conclusion of the ceremony the trifles during the past year, have by their loyal support are not wizards who can transform by magic need for garnishing purposes are thrownamongst. ind appreciationhelped to make poasible the & tottersd Cinderella into a-rodiant Princess. a scrambling crowd of privileged guests, whilst work that the British Broeidensting Company We have not attempted the imposible. What the Boar's Headis consumed at dinner the same has: achicved, we have endeavoured to do, and whet the public evening by the Provest, the Fellows, and their industrially, the year has not been a happy encourage us to believe we have achieved, ia ta friends. ont for many. Unemployment has continuce ttimulate a taste for good music and in other Where Did We Get Mince Pies? to cast: ite shadowover the homes of large gections ways to increase the means and the measure of As one highly interested in ancient practices of the people, My public life hes for a nomber nadjonal well-being, by giving inexpensively the and in the folklore of Britain, I have been of years kept me in close touch withthe wage bev programme: pightly, steadily improving searching once again for satiefying ex planaliois caring community, and | have alweya been programmes, throughout the kingdom. of the ongina of many Chrittumastide customs— impressed with their fortitude in musfortine Inthe Sew Year our efforts will be unabated. for the birthplace of mumming, carol singing, amlther cheerfulness when things were bad, Programmes are being conceived that a year Misrule (which still prevails in a mild form when ‘This is a great. characteristic of our race. ayo avero wndreamt of. We are secking father dons the paper hat from the Christnias Looking ahowh me fer etna of that revival homorists who will drivo away dull care, Cracker), the practice of decorating the howe whieh will once more bring prosperity tommlustry ghgers ind musicians why will lighten the tired with holly and with mistletoe, and of serving l beheve thet] can see them, | beliewe that spirit, and the services of those eminent in the hot (with mistaken kindnezs) plam-puddings, with a general effort. to increasing production (Continued at foot of col. 1, nee 2) mince-pies, and all thoeedisturbers of the a a diyestive peace so helpful to the family doctor. Myinvestigations have failed, ae | fear tbe¥ always will ax for these customs, how Aeso- MyChristmas in Burma. cinted with the Nativity of Christ, have been

gathered together fom finny #oUrcee, sure The British Spirit Abroad. Pazon, some Roman, several obseure. it has occurred to me that the peculiarly CANNOT say what gave me the desire to (m Chrighmas Eve the colony foregathered widespread circulation of The Nadia Times experience the wonderful and poculsar arells at ihe Club, where almost every topicof con- of the jungle, Jt may hayebeen Kipling, or verestion was excluded except rominiscences (there are ‘now subscribers in all Scandinavian countries and other parte of Europe} would it may havebeen the story FE read osa child of Uhristmages spent of bome. Even the afford an excellent opportunity for dicovering of o banyan tree so large that it coukd shelter TMistrict Superintendent of Policeforgot his anarmy. It is- strange how muny desires have scorpions for awhile! Aa the evening wore on, how many Yulevide proctices, long since be the chance to bo satisied: My opportunity an impromptu danco waa arranged, which in lieved to be defunct, actually will persist. Does there still prevail im the Northern countice came soon after the war, when I spent some spirit was better than any of the formaldances the practice amongst boys and girls of col- time in Burn. sometimes organized. All the old Christmas 1 am not now recording how far my experi- carols were sung in the carly hour of Christmas lecting “ Hagmena' on Christmas Eve, anid encesthere exeemled or fell short of my imagin- Day,and the “absent ones" toasted before doce this “ Hagmenu™ still take the form of “Peares ond Plonbs und Penes* ? ings; IT waernit ouly to deaeribe the kind of some of us departed fora brief sleepprior to a Cliristmas that English people have in certain shoot of waterfowl] on Christmes Day, on the “The Highfeast of Yole."" prts of oor-distant Empire. qutskirts of the jungle. In the evening the Tn howmany places does the burning Yule As Cliriztmas opproached and the mails club waa deserted, the colony having divided log provide the ‘aohe light by whieh the Christmas from home brought presenta to the eolony in itsell into a nomber of dinner parties, which revelé open, and inthere in the C ity of Yorkany which | was temporarily living, one began to reminded ane of OChristinases apent at home, remnant of the elaborate ritual which at on ferl thet the spirit. of the English home ot ‘The. Christian: Burmese were bedecked this time graced the * highfesst of Yole™ ¥ Clrietniastinie was cacuping from every letter day in their finest array of beautiful silks, At how many funetions of really historic and parcel that wea opened, The men soaked their long black hair ini soa mut onpin are carols still a feature } Ano they still Chir settlement was in « fairly large rice- oil: the women added an additional touch of ta be heard in the towns of Yorkshire eung by producing area on the banks of tho Ngwoon powder to their beastiful, if rather Hat, oval young women at six o'clock in the morning, oa 4iver, @ tributary of the Driwady. faces, and nutobers of them visited our bunga waa the care a CENtOTyY Apo There weroonly somo forty white people there, lows singing in English their favourite hymn, Who Inst saw a hobby-horee amongst tle including the District Commissioner, theJudge, Christians, Awake {™ propertics for Christmas revels, and are there and the District Superintendent of Poliee—a So this Christmas ended. Thoughts of home #0 places Where the master still waita opon the peppery ald nua jor, whee chief delight was ty and distant fricnds bad added perhaps a wistful: servant, o8 in the oldtine Kingdon of Misrule t extract the poison of scorpions by electric shocks, neas to our celebrations, but as far as eiroun- Finally, are there still chorches in this country Noone knew why thia was his hobby, but he stances would permit, the English Chritmas had apart from York Minster, where mistletoe, the considered he had the finest collection in Burma! been well kept. Returning to my bungalow et dnetime “profane plant,” is given a place His frend was the Doctor, Wherever Ae wert night with my durian before me, along the amongst the Chnstmas decorations 7 he was accompanied by a gun gripped tightly bullock track lined by tall palm trees, with just The answers to theee questions might prove beneath his arm, He was never seen to use a peop of & moe wonderful moon above them, interesting remling; they might even provile it, and why it wae his insep cablecompanion one felt that the Christmas spirit, whether in ideas for next year’s Christmas programmes| only he knew, The rest of the eolony were jungleland or bomeland,was the same wherever But, if I remember rightly, | vaid o few minutes he Sahkibe from the mills, whiWen Were, H. P- age that my thoughta were wet of programmes,

Decesnrr Gier, 1925.) —— RADIO TIMES

By LORD RIDDELL

APTURING soundwaves vibrating in the Wihint efeel inspinne, bal the charm of the voter oreesta air ian marvellous romance, with possi- is the Radio attention, The Radio has the merit of pre- kihities few nealise, Cech aes remarked! that going to have serving this interesting quality, Of course, it the discovery aquals in importance the disgovory on life ¥ (Ev has the further advantage that, without ap- f printing. Perhaps he was right. ile Why, Lea pearing discourbeom, you can cut off a dull Ratio ie tie nearest thing to wittherait the not like the speaker when you have had enough of him, In world has seen aa yet, but before long we inay dose ription his turn, he is not distressed by seeing iis see even more sirpriaing things. “lhe wizards “wireless.” audience melting away one by one, He can whe devote their lives to thease inveativad ions Why de- still orate in the mistaken belief that he is may cieearer how vo capbine vibrations of tle scribe athing talking to millions, hitman void wl ether sounds,withor) their by i Tey [ am mach intercebed in the coutroversy heing ‘transmitted through a receiver, “Then, ton F ) Are regirding broadcasting plava, If looks as- if sain, they may lear to capture the speech of people poing Radio will afford opportunities for a new type yesterday or the day before, or the day beferc to rend Tees 7 of playwright ond perhaps a new type of actor, thet. It is said that they have already «ic- Are they just in the same way as the cinema has cone. ceeded in caplurng recent speeches. ‘there voing to talk One thing is certain. Radio ia only in ita are herrid thoughta! How complicated life will less? Are childhood. What the grown-up: creature is be! And what alot we shall have to dig up! they going going to be, no one can say, New inventions Think of poing home in the evening whenThe tbo be better have strange and unexpected repercussicns. Radio Tins announess that thestar turn will oF POPs Aa the French remark, * Nothing is more sur- hea love scone between Antony and Cleopadra ! informed ¥ Are they going to the theatre antl prising than the unexpected.” What seems Or the next night an interview between Quorn mieic-hall less y Are thoac who reside in rural probable does not ocrur, Something quite lizabeth anid Drake, or instead of Kreis 2 fitiricts fone io be more or lees satisfied } different happent, But in this, as- im ubher tlo hy Nero, intermingled with the crackling Wie can tefl? ‘They are all difieult protien, matters, ih we weeless to look ton far ale, Hames of berning Tome! m0 fir as the present generation 1% conceried * Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” [ believe that those accustomed to read and who —and the good also, Reading and Radio. like reading will continue to read whether they However, at the moment we have quite ise the Radio or not, Bart how about the next Nerves and Listening. coough to go on with—specches, concerts, generation brought upon Radio t Are they going Radio will quicken and lighten life, Speeches lectures, etc. ole. Every age bas ite distinctive Lo prefer information through the medium of the which formerly had to be taken down in #hort- feature. There is somo reason for calling this ear to that throngh the medium of the eve ? hand, transcribed, and circulated ta the news- tho “ Matier of Fact “Age.” No one seems There are many differing views concerning paper offices, will before long be received and strrprised at anything, the “effect of broadearting speeches, Some printed almost direct from the speaker's mouth, I do not profess to be o romantic. bot the people bold that listeners will not wish to read thus saving delay and trouble, All these Radio gives me an uncanny feeling. Think cf radioed! speeches in. the newspapers on the developments meanmore highly doveloped the mystery of Lhego invisible ageuciea,. ‘Shere following day—others that they will be all the nervonsa systems, quicker hearing, quicker they are all about us When you wave your keoner to real them, T am not prepared to appretension, and ao forth. hand in the air, you must be knockoll-sorte express anopinion. Tt is, however, certain that Owing to the ever-increasing complexity of sounds on the dead, but they oo not care, few people readJong apeeches. Moat newspaper and strain of life, many people view the future You turn on the Radio of a doxven Reading in rendera are content withtheeves of the apeech with alarm. They gloomily prophesy more the same Proom, nual rat they Pe Tnined, prepared by the aub-cditor, But when it comes nerver andmore lunatics. ‘here is, however, Then they are the worst burglars in thé world, to letening to'sperches we muat remember thik no nee for apprehension. Man is the moat They do not hare to-nee jemnuecs or skeleton the speken word differs From the printed word, adaptable of allanimels, And so far aa.concerns keys Lio open doora and winlows, ‘1 hes pel Many apecches dull to read are attractive to the Radio, you need never try yoursell too high. itl Phong tle walls: You Geri¢ | ihern. hear, Rome hoinon vores have remarkable When you have had enongh, you can always Lacke, boli, firiel hers 10 Tho aoe, powers ef macnetian. ‘The motter may not be aay, “ Good night, Radio.”

Te = Wireless si Sheals: Microphone# Wisdom. A Radior Dream. Die imperiince of wireless as A tieans of “tr othem is one thing more than anceder TRELESS has been charged with various education i being. Increasingly under: which i caloulated to. rik the general public, misiemianonira, such aa bod weather, stood by the teaching authorities. Permission it is the clerical critic who verdiceea without ete., and it now seems as though even our more toinelade wireless in the curriculum has recently ever seeing the show." —Rev. BR. T. Newcome, or less well-earned] rest is to fall undef its heen given to twenty-five Londen schools: and 7 x a * activities, A correspondent tells the following the Mementary Education Sub-Committee hare “Moral cmler are necessary bo crvilizadion true story of a dream he had recently, One reeommended that permission shod be given qul their only substituie in anarchy.— night be dreamt that an old farmer, not feeling in for one year for the inclusion of wireless’ ARCHIBALD Hannow, very well, wont to his tloetor, and afterwards the ‘eurriculum of all schools which apply + i a 6 dezeribed what took place at the interview. for 1h. travis filme. . . pe Bbrong-in ool “ A see, “Dootor,’ a sez, “Aw'm no vory li i interesting to note that it in also laste but-they are weak-in adventine, whereas eradely.' recominencert that the “Canny Loon | American filme are strong m. adventure lot “Ah, “o sez, “sit tha down an’ well should pay the licence fees-—ie.. 10s. per Weak. in pool taste, G. A. ATEINSOS, mak’ an examanashun!* So ‘e gele out a TL ET .. & te t fe thing ‘e cad a stuttemekoop, an’ ‘oe claps it It is stated by the Sub-Comimaticos that agen mi chest, an’ “e claps it agen mi back, an’ “Les better to bear the trath about roureelf ‘? Puts tether end im bis earoil, like "e wae a ihetroction in wireless givesa good opportiunits iv wireless than not to hear it at all.—Rev, for linking up the teaching of sciener with the tryin’ to ‘ear 210 callin’, or Shétiel oC. Kox. apoakin’, joopress of ineention and of mdnsiry. and: thay a a ua a ales declare that the making: and handling of “By andby‘eso, ‘ Ah, yewve got a hit o witeless apparatus provides a waefollesson in “Toeen are bedrock vertices upon which we a fluateration, a soart o° oscillation, ‘e sex, ‘in handwork. have to. come dewy and hold there, whatever one o' yer valvod,’ ‘e 202, There can be no dowbt that athe very meat winds miy blow," —hev. T. Yares. ** Nos, doctor,” A ses, “tha's kiddin” me,’ A fiiire wireless will play a very promimnénot part as & a ik sez; ‘tha knaws Aw've nobbut a crystal ect,” lafeed in’ the education of our children; and “Herne... i an enjoyable novel, and let A sen." the enthorites are to be heartily congratulsted ny thavk Heaton for i without perversely Alter that our correspondent woke up. Ho a thett ’decistoh te make nee ‘ol this very inqoiring whether it has any value os literature.” had quite evidently Leen listening before le Mapes tannt oin oh of sence, — Os STRACHEY, went to bed that night,

RABIO ee —-— (Decrnnrn Slur, 1925, aaa e Think of Hecadvaskar

Opinions and Suggestions of Some Famous People.

GY THE VISCOUNT BURNHAM, C.H., the Dis- foes, Dhene is. 2 boonidless future of use- Christ ia the onty apint which oansave society tinguished Newspaper Proprietor. fulress in front, of vil. ‘The reek advice (wick, im ita andustrial ed international «lations ; W/E PAT ino ve ile world faster however, ia, I am afraid, of « very general from cdliseclation, I hope that trie religon, which than we improve ourselves,” hoe character) that T cen give to you ia, keap 0p hianothing to de with. vesbirts and porto fee, bern well said hy somebody, ond short cuts ihe standard of yor seryien Do not ploy bent whith ih a for rightes GETPeES Ais ine red ‘to happiness are dangerous ground. down. Re nitan bey thet the Ereat HLA of maT by the fear of God and the love of the Fayiour, We tan, however, improve the world und ps rls really War ciel things, may be strongly and widely fostered by broad- ourselves so far as happiness depends on tho easting, satisfaction of the senaes aml even ihe faculties BY THE RT. REV. J. E. C. WELLDON, Dean BY LILIAN BAYLIS, Losses and Manager of that are in ws, of Dorham, the Old “ Vio.” Thus] haveno hesitation in saying that bread- j DO net wish do pees os an authority open every casting haa largely increased the means of happi- broadcasting: bet 1 eaomet doubt that like to see in the foture | SHOULDlonely farm, every outlying lowe,and ves for “the greatest nomber of mankind,” the future of lreaideaeting will greatly afiect every hospital with a wirelesd matallation, so to ose theold formula of Otilitarian philoseplry. social welfare, There is oo more remarkable that nobody may feel ont of things when a lt fila the blank spaces of homen existence featore of modem times than the wide exien- visitor comes and sayas “Have you heard with new interesta and fine fantasy. It peoples won in the range of personal intluewce. So-and-So 7" amd the poor host has had ao the blank spaces of lonely solitudes. with. the The steteemen of ofl time were seurcely chance of being in Lendon or in any big-town, forms of beauty and the figu resol romans, known even by sight; they weldom addressed perhaps, for years, Considering the diffic ult and tratizitional any pulbhic political bedy except Parliament ; For invalids, especially, F think wireless lias riod through which it has passed, [ think thet they were names, and were not alwaya as been 2 wonderfal boon; TD hare come aerose the British Broadvasting Campany hea mace the much as namics, outsile London and the few ao many cases where. the hardest part of an moat of ite resources and Haopportunities. The il neea for anyone to bear was the knowlerdga reatest number of their public wish to he that he or she waa ‘oheolutely cut off from nimteed rather than instrocted, to be distracted hearing good smusieo—particularly orchestral rather than preached at. On the other hand mua. And pi wie, veelin, wad ‘celle recrials, ete. they do not want merely what i4 frivolens Llove the aaneation- of hemo able te torn on or frothy, and they appreciate a judicious hoantiful singing as easily as one can turn on nite ‘of Berpousess with tharetert smment, the fresh water in a tap. I think one of the All depends, as indeed does life itself, on-a sense happiest evenings I ever epent was when, last of prepertion and in a nicely adjusted balance Ammer, a young friend who was reacned from c Depot and values, which I feel convinced thet ihe wreek of the Prepeewa ceanie home \ British Broadcasting Company will be able tinexpectedd:, and we pot on the lond apoaker to‘effect« and to develop te the highest efficiency and had an imprompty dance, BY SIR LANDON RONALD, the Famous | have-abo enjoyed thoroughly many-of the Composer and Conductor, epecches, particularly the Sunday Night ‘Talks, HAVEfollowed the broadcasting programmes BY THE RT. HON. J. BR. CLYNES, M.-P. very carefully, and o# theae programmes ar: BD setae, the brief lite of Wireless Browed- tural; compiled to appeal to oll tastes, | casting one hae beoome aware oon of venture to think that on the whole you hare the immensepower of the spoken word. moceetiod well in ‘your object. Apeeok is the oonerste ulterance of our Lhouyhite, Personally, I could wish for less dance muric, Tt ia the instrument or channel of our apentily. bot Tam broad-minded enough to know that fions and emotions. And whom we one my neighbour may write to youond oak to unexpectedly upon thia miracle of wireless, hare leas Warmer! what can adequately be sail of fi an a vehicle All these things ore purely personal, and in for their expreaion ? Here is a power in the th a gigantic undertaking sa providing hand of men. Ther treet is comparable to programmes for every meht in the week, one that of legislators or judges, “Abused, as gon hee to have toleration. meciine of expression have been abused, whit temanding the serious music performed, I A lr. J, Resa fede. a disservice may not be wrought by it * Used think here there js room for improvement. Tightly for the common advancement and

Vhen the Broadcasting Company can afford it, recreation of the people, who is to set hounds to it would be «a good thing to give some fine large tities of Great Britum. Eot withm the the positive good which may accrue from it ? erchestral concerta with recognized concert last centory the facility of railway communica. Through it a people might hear its nativnal onchestras and Gonednctors. tion hat taken them wpand down the country; husiness discussed and transacted. and who 1 do not say this im any carping spirit against the Press has carried reporta of their apeeches more fitted to hear it than those millions of the orchestras and the conductors that exist into all. homes; their photographs are ell ordinary men and women who constitute the adready, but only imagme what delight you everywhere, and now it seems that the braad- nation ? would give to yourhundreds of thoumnds of casting process, like the cnema itself, will Considered mits relation fo elucrtion, ts there feteners all over the country if they could make their woites at well as thelr preecnces now any reason why the cultural refinements of hen irom your station an orchestra such ie the and their movements familiar to all classes of our Universes and the finest thonght of oor Queen's Hall, with Sir Henry Wood conducting! the people. day should not be brought into the houses of ' know there it a yYery important fingt.cial ldo not belhewe in broadessting the sounds of the lomnbleet workers, often deprived by bitte: tide te this propestiion, but with this if ia not Nature; they are too delicate, Bot T hope the circumstances of the opportunity for leaning? “iy Intention or. business to deal. British Broadcasting Company will-do all that Misie, poetry, drama, eriticiam, are huowan Broadcasting ia an amazing thing which uri- lies in its power to circulate speeches, not so activities Which make their appeal to the car, doubted!y bas come to stay, ad therefore if i much in favour of party of clam as specches all these have their place too, but Dam reminded vp to the brondeasting company to give ua the whieh chwell upon the virtocs of pood crtizenshin, of a phrase carved over the portico of the Danish vey best they can. upon the magnitude of the British Enmipire, Sinte Theatres: “Not Alone for Pleasure.” and wpon the principles of troth, postice, freedom BY J. RAMSAY MACDONALD, MP. and progress which oro incorporated in the BY LIEUT.-GEN. SIR ROBERT BADER- | Jf afraid that I have been so moch oecupier Empire. POWELL, the Chief Scout. with other things during the Inet twelve The question of broadoasting sermons or HOPE the New Year will bring along on niinthe that [heave been able to give only wery religions addresses may be more difficult. But invention whereby the crashing and ehipe’ poowting attention to radio matters, I have the Charch will, I think, umke a mistake -if ignals ean be climinated from the ordinary vetobed,however, with the greatest interest. she avoids or neglecta the modern agencies of receiver, Listening verysoon palls under these the development of your plana andyour pro- information ; and, as T hold that the apirit of existing handicans,

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RADIO TIMES -— [Bee EME ER Bist, 1a. “The Mistletoe Bough.”a Wireless andthe Rarthquake. A World-Famous Christmas Song. HE tragical story of “The Mistiletor the seat-of the Nock, which tells o F the earl fatc By F. A, Cobb. Bough" coea not make cheerful Vule- of a young lady who was acting there in private [The wren inf this article Leseitior terrelesa tide residing, and vet, ever since Thomas Haynes theatricals during the Christmas merry-moaking, operndior tu ihe wench sercice, ofa as Bavly told the story wo well in verse about a Two Stories in One. engaged im relic? ork during the recemt terrible century ago, it hasbeen a prime foveurite earthquake in Japan, | among Christmas carols. No self-ncepecting In ona of the scence it was necessary to represent a foreral, and the part of the dead brase hand would ever think of venturing forth “Ne reports from Japanese reporting on our streets afternightfall as Christmas TiFl was taken by a bright VOUT wend of the stations owing to breakdown of cable aporoacher without “ ‘Tue Mistletoe Boogh ™ house, who, for the purpose ofthe play, was service.” The addition to the weather report put into an old o#k chest, the Hd being choeed in ite repolar repertoire, while with the old- irom the Shanghai Arawel, wittless station of fachjoned waite it wee an indispensable number. down upon her. Tragedy wos revealed when those tow words at ip.m. onthe let of September Few, indeed, of cur popular songs tell a story the time came to release the gitl, for, on lifting was our first intimation thot. something had eo well, benee, probably, ita continued popu- the lid, eho wea found to have died of sulio- hapnened in Japan. Tue following morming arity. Jn aongwy like “Robin Adair,” and cation, ber eries having been unheard, the weather report papain mentioned thet the *BRathleen Mavourneen,”’ and “The Las o Ii would appear, then, that Thomes Haynes weether news waa incomplete, as comminication Richmond Hill," and many others, one iz lett Bayly put these two stories togetber in writing with the observatory at Tokio had been out off, hia ballad. Yet even hefails to cay where “the ficesing what it i¢ all about; bot Thomas OWwine to a serious carbhquake. Haynes Bayly, the author of “The Mistletor misthtoe bough" comes in. Thus it wie Sunday, eptember 2nd, before The popular idea hea always been that Bough, goes atraicht on with the sad story We age that there had bechon carthquake, “young Love)” tried to. kiss his new-madn from beyinning to end. Consequently, this antl aa far as we oomld- puede, a bad one. ROLE survive 4 when everything ele that Bayly bride under the mittletee, and she, playfully wrote ia ‘as dead as mirtion,” except only one secking to escape from hig embrace, yet hoping Horrifying Dotails. he would findher, rushed into # remote mom other gone whieh thorceuchly deserves to live— On the following day we arrived at Moji, “eho Wor a Wreath of Roses.” and hid in the chext, which Hea ei the entrance to the Inlend Bea of Ol) pb -t- “epeetesds The Tragic Gamo. Japan. Toerc, we soonleagned fMmll. detaila * THE MisTLeE FOE. BOUG H.”’ There can be littl: donbt as io where Bayly conceming the catastrophe, which were eo got the story of “The Mistletoe Bough,” for be THe mistleies hung im the Castle Hall, hariiving that we: thought they must) neocs- The holly brinch shoné on the wea born at Bath of a well-connected, even Sees awily have been somewhat exagwernted, (As Old oak wall: e aritocrati, family, and would be seyuninted a tatior of fact, when we arrived ct Rote, we And the Barats retainers blithe andgay ¥ found that they had been under-cetimated. } with all the county families. Now, m the eel Were Keeping their Chnstmoas holiday, < parish church of Bawdrip, about three miles The Baron beheld, with afather’s pride, ¢ The harbour at> Mod waa thronced with from Bridgwater, (here ia a monument to Edward His beautiful chikl, -young Lovells * Japanca: Naval cra t loading with Red Cross Lovell oad his wife-and two daughters, Maria and bride ; t stores, food and clothinu—in Jact, anything Rleanor, on which appears a Lafin ineeription Serle While ehe withher bright cyee seemed > that mii ht prove most vite ly neediul in soch

relating to the last-named, Eleanor, which may ee to be r an (mercency. be thes rendered into English: The star of the goodly company As we entered the Inland Sea, en rowle for Oh, the mistletoe bough! the ‘Eleanor... . died June L4,. 1681. ee Koke, asquedron of Japanese drstrovers steamed mistiotoe bough | past ws at top apeed, loaded to their fullest Snatched oway on ber wedding day well-

hia young wife's cousin, otml that ghe war, rs lt wes difficult for us, who had so often been therefore, one of those brides who marry without They sought her that night, they sought there, fo realize that Yokohama no longer her next das, changing their surname, existed, And they sought her in vin, when @ Wireless to the Rescue. But, although there does not appear to be ee week passed away ; much room for doubt that here is the seed from In the highest, the lowest, the loneliest When the earthquake firet occurred, Tokio which the hallad grew, and that Eleanor Lovell =a apot, and Yokohama, with the surrounding districts, is the sad bride of the chest, the strange fact Saeng Lovell sought wildiy, but found were almost entirely cut off from the outer remains that there are certainly three other hee ot, world, all the lond cable lines- having been |] houses in England which have « similar legend And years flew by, and their prief destroyed, It was, therefore, the wireless —the house of the Cope family at Bramshill, busi installations on theshipa that lay at anchor Was told age sorrowful tale long paat : Hampshire, the house of the Hartoppe in in Yokohama Bay thet teok the place of the And when Lovell appeared, the chil dren Leitestershire, and Marwell Old Hall, near cried ; destroyed.telegrapha. It wae through these Winchester, eee ‘Sec, the old man weeps forhia fairy that all the relief ships approaching Kobe were Moreover, if if undeniahle that Samuel ee bride} ™ kept in toweh with. Jt wos through theae that Rogers, the hanker-peet aml frien] of Byron re the tremendous number of messapes ime vitable At length on old chest that bad. long and his coterie, had already written his story of Buchan oocarion were handid,and it i ee

tain biel oe of “Ginevra, " which makes this same tragicel Wos found in the castlo—they raigod * certain, that the efficient amdspeedy measures OCCU take plaice in Modena, Daly, and t)e the hd— r that were hecemlary to prevent cdietorbances poet,after relating in very polished hiank VeTEe And a skeleton form lay mouldenng 4 ond to provide firet-sid and medical attention the story of the happy bride, the game of 1ee there, ; “ould have been greatly delayed bad it not hide-and-seek, concluded :— | In the bridal wreath of that lady fair. 4 been for wireless, - “The happiest of the happy, i Oh! sad was her fate—in sportive jest, 7 Messagcn wore dispatched from the relief When the spring-lock that lay in ambush there - Bho hid from her ford im tho old 4 ahipa as apon ms possible to those m charge of Festened ber down for ever,” : oak chest ; ¢ the relief work in Kobe, informing them of the Thus it will be reelized thatthe story ls a i It elosed with a epring, and, dreadiul 7 number of cases requiring turgent medical ? doom ! i somewhat elusive one, associated not. only with { The bride jay clasped in her living 7 isintonce, enabling everytuing to be un readdi- more than one hous, but with more than one 4 tomb | i neaa whon the ship arrived. country, Whilet the association of wor song with 7 Oh, the mistletos bough! the ; Tiina once more has wireless-amply demon- Chiistmos is etill farther toeeek. It ia possible mistleten bourh ' ; strate! whet a valuable factor it is in times of that Baylyhed heard the story of Exton Hall, O22 fe fe eth abe At fic a dig. e a8,

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Christmas Hymns and their Stories. HE old familiar Cliristmas hymna. will he Adeate Pideles, known to English-speaking folk A Talk from London by Major L. heard by vaet numbers of Heteners this all- the world over as!) Come, All ¥e Faith. R. Tosswill. Yuletide, a sort of cnormous expansion of the fal." The fact is, that the late Canon Dake ley rent iden of the Writs, so that the rmall translated thia hymn so finely that the transla- AS’ Vriday, IT were workin’ up tu “quire boys and girle who sing “Hark the Herahd- fidn if as good as the original, and as the well. Tucker’ tu Nataworthy—Ilcastwara, | Angels” through the keyhole, andknock at the known tune fite both, onecan take one’s choice were diggin” up plants an’ pores ‘ond hack clint for pennies, will he in danger of being beiwixt the dead and the living language. open, zame as 1 allus dus up there. wen there ant O° work,” althou:vheit ie dowhtfal whether But the Adeste Pideles is. not an ancient hy ain't nort elec. Zaddenly, I ‘cara a romblin’ they will realize the fact. in the sense that the Te Jenin or the Jes Irae zyund, an’ a girt motor-lorry vrom Exter Jt is surprismyg what charming little romances are, for the Latin hymn waaako written by drives. in dru the gates.. Out gets dree men an’ eitele around Christmas hymns, Take, for an Englishmen, John Keading by name. pulls onta girt pole, ‘hout vorty voot Tong, ivianee, that primo favourite, “ Christians; singularly enough, he has another, and perhape J shud zay, an" zome bits oy wire an’ zach like, Awake! Salute the Happy Mom,” which is more enduring, bold upon fame, for he wrote "Ulo, T thinks, wot be “bout then ? Aquire dome # Known to overybody, despite the fact that the famous holiday song Jelee Demamm out ov house an talkees ta mun. T pute my there ooniy one occasion inthe rear when it Joyour—or Sweet Home, which tho hora of pipe down an’ dries to ‘ear wot er zaith, but I is: appropriately sung. JohnBy ran wrote it as Winchester Sehool cing round a certain pillar cuden, vknow—ony summat ‘bout “airy.” long ago as 1745,-aane the onal MS, which is at breaking-up time. It is saidthat John Wull, yu knawtes alles airy pon Dartymoor, Fill preserved in Cheetham’s Hospital, Man- Reading composed it when ho waa oa schoolboy Any’ow, they dree men 2taris wong (1 an Chester, i6 beaded: “Christmas Day for confined for misconduct during the Whitsun vro, measuring the garden wi’ a hit ov tape De Tly.™ holidaye, and, so report saya, “tied to a aeemingly, an’ they goes inta th’euse an’ T A Present from “Daddy.” pillar,” aes en lnkenonter winder an’ wp "pon the rufe Improving Shakespeare ! an’ orl auver the place, “Dolly " waa Hyron’s little daughter, and, If you were to ask the “ Waits” what. theer To Jast, they digsa holo en the middle ov just before Christmas, 1745, after a jolly romp the iawn an’ pitta “the poleiin en, an’ vixes en together, the fether promieed Dolly, as a favourite Christmas hymn or carol ig, you would probably get the reply: “ While She p up orl vitty wi wites 20's to hold en. That's a Christmas present, a carol.all for herachf, Some queer gtart, I thks, Maister Brimmlecom tu little girls might not have cared for such a pift, herda Watched.”