AUDIENCES IN THE STUDIO

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 23

AUDIENCES IN THE STUDIO

Large numbers o£ overseas visitors were 1» London at the beginning of last month, and quite a. number made si. view oi: an actual Ti.B.C. broadcast .-it S.-ivoy Hill .-i feature oC their liolida.v. L'lifoi'tuiKilcly tin: jnunber of houic a£i>licu- lions yf a similar kind is

so large that every overseas visitor applying cannot be accommodated, but as their time is limited they are usually given preference to a reasonable extent. Any British listener can witness the broadcasting of a vaudeville entertainment if he applies to Savoy Hill for permission, but as the waiting list is very long—it contains over two thousand names at present—and only thirty people can be admitted at a time, it is sometimes a year before a ticket of admission can be granted. The presence of an audience in the studio gives rise to periodical complaints from the listening public because of the disturbing effect of laughter or applause breaking into an artist's jokes or songs. Most of the vaudevillo artists, however, like an audience because it stimulates them, and there is no prospect that the present practice will be discontinued. On the contrary, when the new broadcasting house, with its larger studios, is built there will probably be larger audiences, and moreover they will also be admitted to concerts instead of being confined to vaudeville entertainments as at present.

The Masterton Hospital Wireless Fund, which totals £286 13s 3Jd, is now closed. It is estimated that after meeting all costs of the installation of wireless at the hospital, over £50 will remain to be handed over to the Wairarapa Hospital Board towards maintenance charges and for the purchase of records. The installation is to include special appliances which will permit concerts to be given from gramophone records when no wireless broadcasting is being done.,