TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 24, 30 December 1927, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A Revolutionary Change. Broadcasting at once lifts music ont of the concert hall into the auditorium of extraction. It is a tremendous _change-a_ revolutionary one. Music at once is made blind, and the ears ate accordingly sharpened. ‘The ear either has to work or frankly abandon the task. If it is lazy it mo longer has props to lean upon. If it lags it is the fault of the ear alone-or the music. That is the revolution. Unseen music must live by its own merits. Broadcasting has done more to recapture honour from the performance aud bestow it on the composition than perhaps atly agency site music was first created. -Raymond Swing. 2 ? » A Useful Sweet. . Cut some neat squares of white bread, or else scraps, 2ins. square; soak them jin milk. Make a good liquid toffee: ib. butter. 2oz. brown sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls golden syrup. Generous squeeze of temon juice. When turning brown put the bread squares in toffee and pile them neatly on a hot dish. Pour over the remaining toffee. Serve very hot, with whipped cream. Children fove it. Men alwavs ask for second helpings. Quickly and easly made it is most usefnl as an emergency dish, and, unlike most. puddings, it does not suffer from reheating. s s A Breakfast Dish.. A tasty little dish. to be eaten with the breakfast acon, and quickly accomplished. Place some self-raising flour in a breakfast cup, stir in sufficient cold milk to make a mixture of the consisiency of thick cream, and a pinch of salt, Then drop the mixture, a teaspoonful at a time, into the hot frving-pan after the bacon has been cooked. Each portion of the mixture will immediately foam into a cirenlar patty, and will rise very quickly. Turn each patty over as it becomes browned, so that both sides may be properly cooked. 3 © e Lighter Omelettes. When making an omelette, adding a few drops of water instead of milk twnakes the omelette lighter. a " = ‘An Easy Way to Peel Apples. Pour scalding water over the apples and then the skins mav easily he slipped off and much labour and waste saved. Luxuries. A eertain man, as well-known for his extreme meanness as for his wealth, drove up hurriedly in his car one day to the door of a celebrated doctor. He was ira state of acute discomfort and fear. as a piece of fishbone was sticking somewhere in the region of his throat. The doctor speedily removed the obstacle, and the man- breathed freely, ‘Thank von, doctor," he exclaimed, much relieved "J'll never eat salmon again, never. And. with what ease you removed it-a mere minnte’s operation, was it not? How much-ah-what is vour fee?" ‘Half-a-guinea," answered the doctor. ‘Half-a-guinea," echoed the other, ‘for half a minute's. work? .Impossible!? "But consider," said the doctor, "a salmon bone." ‘What has that got to do with it?" inquired the patient. ‘Oh, a great deal," replied the doctor with a twinkle in his eve. "Had it heen halibut or fresh haddock I should have charged less-perhaps five shillings; codfish, halfa-crown would have heen sufficient: mackerel two shillings; while a herring-hone I might even have removed free of charge. but salmon at this time of the year-well, really. sir, one has to pay for these Iuxnries.’"’ And his patient paid. e ood Dd ~The Art of Broadcast Drama. Wireless drama is becoming unceasingly popular in Eneland. A new field of opportunity and endeavour has presented itself with the advent of radio,: bringing hope to many _plavwrights of talent, even of genius, who since the war have been hard pnt to it to find a market for their wares. Drama is entering upon a new phase, which is the beginning of a new vitality. Radio is rendering this aid to drama hecause of its nower of penetration which is practically: omnipotent. We witness every day the miracle of the mountain moving to Mahomet. It is difficult to get people to attend drama; very well, through radio the theatre is taken to them! And_ so through the ether the spirit of drama is going to reach the fireside of almost every home, What scope is here, what a chance, what golden opportunity! With so wide an appeal it cannot fail to gain more and more recruits who love the ancient art. It means the introduction of a new and vigorous snirit that was so sorely necded, Wireless is the hope of mod-

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Dame Madge

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Gilbert as Prophet, The popularity of community singing calls to mind an amusing record of the late Sir W. §. Gilbert’s power of foretelling the future, which is evidence of his seership, but not of the justness of his conclusions. l‘orty years ago, long ere our ears were gladdened by community singing, he wrote the following scrap of dialogue in ‘‘Ruddigore’"’ ;- Mad Margaret: "But see, they come-Sir Despard and his evil crew! Hide, hide-they are all mad-quite mad!" Rose: ‘What makes you think that?" Mad Margaret: ‘Tush! They sing choruses in public. That’s made enough, I think!" Comment would be, in every sense of the word, impertinent. * x A Jam and Apple Secret, If a.jam pan has a very little butter rubbed over it before cooking jam it will never burn. -It is not always known that apples cook very much more quickly without sugar. They are quickly reduced to a foamy mass, so much desired for many dishes, and the sugar can be added afterwards. Sugar hardens the apples when cooked with them.