SOPPLEMENT TO RADIO TIMES FEBRUARY 19, 1937 I RADIO TIMES I VISION SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMMES FROM FEBRUARY 22 TO FEBRUARY 27 HELPING HENRY HALL The Three Sisters, Molly, Marie, and Mary, help Henry Hall to choose the music for the television piano recital he is to give on Friday this week. 2 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937 TELEVISION A WEEKLY PAYMENT OF This important MARCONI ANNOUNCEMENT ... is News!—Really Great News! Now that the B.B.C., following the period of experiment, will be televising pictures on one system only, Marco nip hone are able to increase greatly their plans for the production of Television sets for the home. The Mareoniphone Company Limited have, therefore, pleasure in announcing the following home Television Receivers now avail• able for immediate delivery, on Hire Purchase terms for a small deposit and payments at the rate of £1 per week ! Mode! 701, Television Sight and Sound, and Long, Medium and Short-ware Radio. Cask Price 80 guineas. 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ADDRESS R.T.19/2/57 MARCONI— THE REAL THING RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937 3 WITHIN SIGHT OF THE POLAR SEA 1 n the summer of 1934 Ian Oxford University EDWARD SHACKLETON I Expedition, under the leadership of Dr. Noel tells the story of the Oxford University Humphreys and organ• ised by myself, sailed Expedition to Ellesmere Land, which i I from England for the will be the subject of his television unknown ice caps and mountains of the inte• lecture on Monday this week. 'MM rior of Ellesmere Land. Photographs by Edward Shackleton Violent storms in the from his book, 'Arctic Journeys" "^ Atlantic delayed the .;;.** ~~] \ outward passage, but finally we reached Disko Island, off the western coast of Greenland, where we called to pick up sledge dogs. Eskimos in kyaks come out to greet the ship After a short stop there, we headed north once again hoping to force our way through began to weaken under the strain, but the ice to North latitude 81, where we not before a range of new mountains intended to establish our winter quarters 10,000 feet high had been discovered; in Northern Ellesmere Land. But being Moore himself climbed to a height of met by a huge jam of floe ice more than 9,000 feet, where he planted the twenty feet thick, interspersed by ice Union Jack presented by His Majesty blocks, which blocked the whole of Smith King George VI—then the Duke Sound, we were compelled to winter at of York—in a latitude 82.30 North, Etah, Northern Greenland. Before land• within sight of the Polar Sea. ing we were able to hunt a large number The other parties also carried out of walrus, and scenes both of this hunt And ice, mast high, successful journeys and brought back and of the voyage out—including came floating by, maps of new mountain ranges and some the ship's encounters with As green as valuable geological collections. In the the floes—were filmed. It emerald !' course of these journeys the members of is proposed to televise the Expedition drove their own sledges. them in my broadcast on The technique necessary for travelling February 22. During the over rough polar pack ice is an extremely autumn we built our hut complicated one. Yet in spite of our initial and prepared for the winter, lack of experience and thanks very which was to be spent in one largely to the Eskimos, we were able to of the windiest places in the reach our objectives and return to the world. In spite of the loss of base without hurt to life or limb. some of our dogs, we were able During the summer further scientific to set out when the sun returned, collections were made at the base, and after its four months' dis David Haig-Thomas in his kyak practising the expedition was finally picked up on appearance, in the harpooning narwhal, the swim• August 24, 1935. spring of ming commodity store of the Arctic. After a very eventful return journey, 1935 These small whales supply many needs of the Eskimos, and the skins cover their kyaks. during which our relief ship lost a propeller about 700 miles off the coast of Some of the seventy sledge dogs on board the expedition's ship, Signa/horn, wonder when Scotland, we landed in the Outer Hebrides they will see land again fit and well, on October 11, 1935. Three parties took the field, each having its specific objective. We had with us twelve Eskimos and more than a hundred and twenty dogs. Perhaps the most important discoveries were made by Sergeant Stallworthy and Moore in Grant Land, the exploration of which was the main object of the expedition. After a 300-mile journey, they successfully reached Lake Hazen in Northern Ellesmere Land, and from there a way was found through lofty mountain ranges into the heart of unknown Grant Land. The dogs soon Edward Shackleton in the television studio describing life at the expedition's base-camp RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, 1937 OLD VAUXHALL NEWS for TELEVIEWERS Ralph Hill introduces an interesting eighteenth-century masque to be Dewi Sant Forms of Address televised on Tuesday Saint Patrick of Ireland was a Welshman, Here is more information for those worried and some authorities say that Saint David of about titles. Leslie Mitchell is officially O mention Vauxhall makes one think of Wales repaid the compliment by being an Chief Announcer, Harry Pringle is Studio narrow streets with mean houses, a Irishman. It needs a clearer head than ours Manager, and Peter Bax is now Productions Tfamous junction, a thick web of railway to add anything to this. One fact is evident, Manager. lines with all the accompanying noises off. however; the two Celtic nations, Ireland and Peter Bax has been responsible for nearly Such is the advance of civilisation ! Almost Wales, revere their saints more deeply than all the original scenic effects at Alexandra within living memory the scene was of an do other countries. Very soon, on March 1, Palace. He models and he paints. For his entirely different world. In 1859, after it will be Saint David's day, and a special pro• work as an artist we will control our enthusi• 199 years of brilliant and crowded existence, gramme will be transmitted from Alexandra asm and merely repeat what a member of the Vauxhall Gardens was handed over to the Palace—a recital by the Royal Welsh Ladies studio staff told us : ' Mr. Bax is very good builder. Choir. indeed. He is one of those painters who don't Once upon a time—in the middle of the Madame Clara Novello-Davies founded try very much. You know what I mean— seventeenth century—the Hall and gardens this choir many years ago. A list of her a stroke here and a stroke there and the thing's belonged to a widow named Jane Vaux, and achievements would be finished'. His more forming a part of the Manor of Kennington, as long as the choir's striking successes include were opened as a place of public entertain• repertory. She is in her the Armistice Day pro- ment, known as the Spring Garden, according seventies, she is the jjF - gramme, Burnt Sepia, to Evelyn, the diarist, ' a pretty contrived mother of Ivor Novello, Murder in the Cathedral, plantation'. It was not until 1786 that it she has written books and and Cosmopolitan Cafe. became known as Vauxhall Gardens. composed music. But His unit set is now so Spring Gardens soon developed into the viewers will see for them• interchangeable and most fashionable and popular of all enter• selves what a remarkably complete that it is an tainment resorts. Pepys tells us that ' to hear vital person this grand exceptional show indeed the nightingale and other birds, and here old lady is. She will con• that needs much addi• fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew's duct the choir herself, and tional material. trump (Jew's harp), and here laughing, and all the singers will be He is, he tells us, a there fine people walking is mighty dressed in Welsh national remote kinsman of diverting '. costume. Arnold and Clifford Bax. During summer afternoons and evenings the Thames—then as charming as the upper Nimb/e-Fingered Royal and Ancient reaches are today—was crowded with barges Gentleman and pleasure boats of all descriptions filled While we are not golfers, with merrymakers, all bound for the Gardens At the end of last month we like to read about it, with its twinkling coloured lights and gay the Three Musketeers of particularly when the music. musical comedy came writer is Bernard Darwin. before the television At the risk of irrelevance, In 1736 a large covered orchestra was camera—Stanley Lupino, we must add that he is introduced. Along the sides of the open Laddie Cliff, and Billy the author of biographies auditorium tiers of theatre-like boxes were Mayerl.