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Rad'o Times, May Sth, 1925. MY CELLO AND | By BEATRIGE HARRISON. WOE maiKE Tmvem MwCARTE LEERT Aa crnte WB pen Are | } Er jo Cad ETTEN ESMEELD [mda ter] ne ì Er TOAEE TREE jur) B BEEaraa 1 & ENELMEFLD EiPUR BELT NE EG TN e THE OFFICIAL ORGANzor di THE B. BC. Meiist red:at F R I DAY. Two Pee. Vel. 7 Ne. 85 HE. naa Rhei ‚]___EVERY OFFICIAL. RadioThe Rival. PROGRAMMES By GEORGE GROSSMITH. for the week commencing [Mr. George Grossmith, who is playing in the musical comedy “No No Nanette, is joint Managing Director of His Majesty’ s, Winter Garden and ShaftesburyTheatres, and at the beginning En3 eeon af this year he was appointed Programme Adviser to the British Broadcasting Company.) mn en KnWV new method af entertaining gitimmate actors l or anteresting the Pubhc is zréè- joined forces, and MAIN STATIONS, ceived by its predecessors with ane the old music hail LONDON, CARDIFF, ABERDEEN, GLAS- af the following feelings: Suspicion, con- programme-af “GOW, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, tempt, amusement, tolerance, curnasity, "turns ' began to BOURNEMOUTH, NEWCASTLE, hostility. Enless the débutant dies a topple, and revue IN miserable death witkin a vear-at is then became general; _ BELFAST. accepted in “interested fnendship, frank but no one was a HIGH-POWER STATION, weleume, or at the verw worst, resignatien. whit the wûrse for it. (Chelmsford) The old sea-side migger made rude re- marks to the intradine Pierrot. Iheyve Ed de # RELAY STATIONS. now both joimeéd a " Concert Party,” 1 produced, for ' * : * Sir Francis Towle, SHEFFIELD, PLYMOUTH, EDINBURGH, the. frst_ cabaret Ï personally assisted at the birth of in London. No LIVERPOOL, LEEDS BRADFORD, three new healthy competitart in the Mr. GEORGE GROSSMITH, HULL, -NOTTINGHAM, STOKE-ON- cifhculties were theatrical arena—inusmwcal comedy, revue, experienced. until -at- was discovered TRENT, DUNDEE, SWANSEN. and cabaret, At the. time the first to be a werw successful attraction. En musical comedy, so described, was pre- Fheatrical managers expressed the alarm SPECIAL CONTENTS, ztnted, there were no less than eight that their audience might dine late and comic operas beme etven in London, and dance RADIG AND THE CHILD PATIENT, until it was time to-attend the in the years that ammediately followed cabaret. The dance clubs were naturally By Dr. Alice Hutchison, the latter form of entertainment had its upinarms, Here was an entertainment nose temporarily put eut of joint, HAVE YOU AN «UNTIDY * MIND ? apen to the Public, especially the stranger By Prof. T. A. Pear. ES * Ed ei within our gates, where excellent enter- 1 wrote and produced revues at the tamment and refreshment might be. OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS, Empire Theatre for five vears before they obtained without having te pay an annual became a generally accepted form of subscription or be introduced by a PEOPLE YOU WILL HEAR MEXT WEEK. entertainment. Fhe strongest opposition member. mmm was put up by the Lord Chamberlain. Ï helped to heht the case before the LETTERS. LISTENERS' A revue was a Stage play; mt must not be County Council. Hor a wear the cabaret EE alan ee played for more than so many mmnutes; was Tobbed el its chorus, costumes, and 1 zi IMPORTANT TO READERS. ' ór have in its cast mere than s0 many scenery, and reduced to an entertainment The sddrear of ** The Radin Times, in Bel,Sautha mpicn speaking characters. hese barriers were personnel- of "six people in evening Street, Strand, Landen, W‚C.2. eventually withdrawn. Everybody's Doing dress,” This was obtiously ridiculous, The addren of the British Breadcmune Company, Lud, H d, Zator Hell, Strand, Leaden, W.C, Ht at the Empire, and Atl That Fly at the and the newspapers were without a single RATES OF SUBSCHIPTIGH te “The Radio Tamer" Alhambra, tlled the entire evening’s dissentient in Sáying so. Bat all these Eelen ne Je Telve Menthe (Forsiga), ÎSa- Ed; Telve he (Britisch), 13e. Gd. programme. Vancty performers and le- (Contermed biertsa).) 1 20 —- RADIO TIMES - EM AT Bru, 1925. Radio. The Rival.s By GEORGE GROSSMITH ‘(Fsshiou of the Flute. {Continued fram the previaus page.) By Francis Gribble. there divertisermente, musical comedy, revue, on Saturday afternoon, he can listen through CAV shall one fix the place of -tke Ünte in and the cabaret, were only new forma of the phones to the whale contest being described, the orchestral hierarchy f_ No inétrament exting entertammenta, every kick, every-run, by the Erening £ntelligence had been more ridieuled ; vet ne instrument haa Broadcasting, like moving pictures and expert on the spat. Janes has had to bur the heen mare fishionable. Ihickenz was particu- gramaphone records, chme te bie world as an Erentag Fulellagence, noon edition (heil buy Jarsy hard on-it One of his stoek devices For absolute novelty, one bound te he popular ard the late Night Special in addition) which con- making a character. comic waa to represent him likely to bo a serious and dangerous rival tu tains a plan of the field marked in numbered aa a performer on the flete, Diek Swiveller, it the theatre, cinema, and concert hall. Its En UTER will be remembered, when disappointed in love, danger was the greater becaure, of necessity, it “ Harristn meeta the hall at 14C and passers Ersnks Én flarte plaving as “a good, sound, diemal hed to he a monopoly. Twe or more com- IE tomaat a mamntte—dwrkson at 13E. ocvupation,” with the result that he waa panis operating in the same district could not The latter hae n clear feld," and so on. promptly called npan to leevo his bodginge. supply cur receivers at the same time, An Perfect combinatien of: Press and BBC, ! Uther -noveliste, Charlotte Brontt among otherie struggle between Tetrazzini and John them, have made flute-plaving the bezetting zin Henrv were uathinka ble, Na Mean Tesk. of comic curutes: and that is doubly crael on Meitad, Combination and Finance. 1 do not know what treaty, if any, Armértcan view of the fact that St. Chrvsoatom called lutea The opinions of theatrical managers Cowards Broaccaating has witk: the Prest, but 1-hiatened “the very pompe and hotch-poteh af the broadcasting have been pretty generally aired, last autumn at u country-houge in Up-State Devil”? and as friendly negotiations towards an agree. New York toa perfect deseription of the Yale- At tha Olympic Games. ment are on foot, Ì do not propose to express Princetown. Mnteh by-a runner on the feld; Amorthe ánvients, the flute was Árst very no mean taak auch description in American my own views here; but Lam quite sanguine poorlv and then very highlv regarded. The that an agreement benefiting both sides will be football, where members of the teams art chante cfme, according tu Aristotle. after the changed during the game, Persian war, The- fnte, at that elbrenuoug reachast, [te must be conceded that the concert giver ie There was no indexed map of the field in the time, stimulated the Greeka to prodigiea of the one maat Nikely to suffer fram the new rival, me wepapers—that is my idea, 1 also heard on valour. Jt consequentie became “tho thing": nx convert audienvee go chiefly to hear and hat the same instrument without any change of ta plavit. to zet, and as a simultaneous broadcasting af voil the Eve of Election speeches of both Coolidge Prizes for fute-plaving were offered at the the concert could give the latter no poesihle and Kinvis, Olympic Games, Îhe prize-winners wert, zo to advertisement, The recent tornado which laid waste a portion sav, the citema stars of the ancient world, It iseasy ta imagine how broadcasting may af Southern Wlinois and adjoining Stater, with a Their statues were ereeted by publie subecrip- hurt, and difficult to imagine how it may help, loes of hundreds of human lives and millions of tion, They ecoold earn as much ne ERM far the concert world: and vet it may do so; it ie dollars in property, waa reported hy Radio tu performing ata concert, They made themselves all a question of method, combination and the entire natton hours before tidings- cf the conspictous hy wearing jelowelothes and green slippers, amd “to live thelife of a flnte- player * hant, terrihle- catastrophe appeared in the daily newaptpers, became a proverbial expression signifving osten= Tke Force of Publie Opinion. tation and zelf-indulgenep. The plarwright complained in the past that Ahead of the Press, Royal Players. the cinema kept people away from the theatre Sitting quietly in their homes, listening to and his author's fees were thus reduced. He the regular evening broadcast programme, Moreover, the Hutt has heen the fnvaarite instrument of many eminent men and women, now sells the meving-pitture righte of his play mullicns throughout the, Middle Weet were for a Ínr greater sum than he ever realizes out eutbdenly shocked by the announcement of the including both famous kings and queena and af that play in the theatre, The concert giver, disaster coming, from a number of large stations famous authors, Carmen Sylva, the poéters presenting a great Diva at the Albert Hall, may situáted north of the strieken region. The newe Gueen of Rumania, is said to have played the har that comcert being broadcast the same was rapidie relaved all over the country hy Mute, Frederick the Great certainly played it, evening in London ; but there is no reason why Radio, and. before any morning newspaper though hie roval father forebade him to de so. he should not permit it to be broadcast carrying the story had gone to press, moet of the Fanny Burnev's father, who was privileged to throughout the rest of the Kingdom far a population of the United States