DOMESTIC COMEDY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11132, 15 February 1930, Page 7

DOMESTIC COMEDY

U\N ’PHONES WIFE FROM , MID-ATLANTIC. WIFIE DISTRUSTFUL. LONDON, Due. IS. Husband (’phoning wd'o i'rom Atlantic liner): ‘'Hullo, dear!” W ile in New York (suspiciously): “Where have you been for the last three clays i thought you were crossing the Atlantic." Husband: “l am in mid-Atlantic now.” Wife (distrustfully): “Tell me another !” This little domestic comedy took place between an American Business man on board the Leviathan and Ins wife in New York on the newly.in. augurated commercial ship-to-shore wireless telephone service. Thinking to give his wife a pleasant surprise the business man ’phoned her. But she had heard nothing of the latest wonder ol wireless. So clearly did the call I’roin ship to the New York flat come through that the wife could not believe that her husband was really at sea. In despair Tie called bis friends' on the vessel, who reassured the doubting wife. During the voyage Ltd calls v.ere telephoned from, ship to shore, from distances ranging from 300 to 2(x/J miles out. “Everything worked admirably,” Mr. Van Meyer, general .traffic manager of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company,told a “Daily Chronicle” representative yesterday. “Within eighteen months it will be possible to speak from practical I v every liner by telephone.’’