Saturday, April 21

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 39, 13 April 1928, Page 11

Saturday, April 21

3 p. 4.0: 4.1 4, 6. oc ou 1 0 1 3 wweon S 14YA AUCKLAND (333 METRES)-SATURDAY, APRIE 21, m.: Afternoon session-Selected gramophone items, Literary selection by the announcer. : Further selected gramophone items. 30: Close down. 0:° Children’s hour-Cinderella, Song, Owen Fletcher, "Johnny, Come Down to Hilo" (Terry); recitation, Billy Brown, "Rebel Boy’; story for tiny tots; flute, Bob Davidson, selected; letters and birthdays; song, Owen Fletcher, "A Little Peach in an Orchard Grew"; recitation, Billy Brown, "George’s First Sweetheart’; flute, Rob Davidson, "Graceful Dance" (Lemmone) ; story-time, : News and sports results. Chimes. Relay of selected programme by Atucklana sramicipa: Cour. : Relay of dance music by the Internationals under Mr, Clyde Howley from Dixieland Cabaret. 11.0; God Save the King. 4 2YA WELLINGTON (420 METRES)-SATURDAY, APRIL 21, Noon: Running description of Marlborough Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham. 3 p.m,: Chimes of the General Post Office Clock, Wellington.

An ainusing incident was recently experienced by the medical superintendent of a Melbourne mental hospital. Wireless is installed in the institution, and recently one of the patients, an elderly lady, innocently told the doctor that. she had been listening in to 8LO, and heard her name called during the chil- | dren’s hour, She said that "Billy Bunny’ told her to look on the table in the best bedroom for a lovely present. The doctor was rather perplexed, but, desiring to humour his patient, be asked her if she had received her present, to which she replied, ‘Oh, yes, sir. 1) got it in yvonr room, and ‘Billy Bunny’ told me to keep it a secret.’? It seems that the patient was right to some ex tent-she certainly heard her name called by "Billy Bunny,’? but it was meant for a wee little girl with a similar name. ‘The doctor is now very worried as to what the patient has annexed from the dressing table of his wife, who is away on holiday. For the convenience of listeners in the far way-back of Queensland, the brisbane station, 4QG, is now providing half an hour’s special mews cach Wednesdav night from 10 o'clock until halfpast ten, and half an honr’s special news from six o'clock until half-past six of} Saturdays. Items of interest from the news services already given during preceding days are collected and grouped into a special session, which is being eagerly listened to by these to whom radio is a godsend. A Melbourne advocate for the close co-operation of the Australian broadcast stations says: ‘Imagine every A class broadeasting station in Australia being brought together in soine torm of aimalgamation or co-operation so that bands and artists could be transferred and kept continually on the move in a cireit. Think of the saving of cffort and cost of a centralised control of the broadcasting services. Even opponents to unification as a principle admit that there are paramcunt reasons for centralisation of wireless broadcasting control, because the decentralisation cf operations and the accruing advantages would by far outweigh the tendency to bureaucratic methods. Overlapping of programme items would be obviated, and the system would result iti a one bundred per cent. improved service veneraliy, whilst the benefits to States like Tasmania and West Australia would be inesleulable.’" One of the commonest notions is that laaving a iW-velt block of batteries means that there is 0 yoits on the plate of the valve. In the radio frequency side of the set this is true, of course, but on the awlio frequeney side there may be 20, 20, or even 40 volts drop between batteries and valve plate. Do not change your valves around _ after vour nenutrodyne has beea correetly neutralised. Your set will not how] and interfere with neighbouring listeners if it IS correctiv neutralised, but if vou change the radio freqneney yalves it Mav be necessary to readjust the neutralising condensers, Burning your valves too brightly shurtens their Tives. Besides, a valve will not vive better results after it reaches a certain temperature, and it is only Wasting its substance to bern it brighter than its cfficiency point. Headphones or loudspeakers shonlé not be jarred by a bump or fall. This weekens tlic magnets, even if it docs not break anything, Do net let the diaphragm of your loudspeaker rattle when reeeption is over Joud. There is an adjusting screw on most loudspeakers to prevent this happening. We cait’t have light without heat, but now Wwe ére told that we can gct heat from light rays and generate electricity while we thonght we were using electricity to get heat to generate light. Keep your fA" battery always above one-third of its total capacity. This will add to the life of the battery. Batteries should last for five years or six vears, at least, if properly treated. Tor amateur receiving set builders a very useful tool is a hacksaw, for with it old panels can be cut down and used as sub-panels, and terminal strips may he manufactured from the odd scraps of bakelite which can be bonght very cheaply at miost dealers. Never connect your "earth?" wire to a gas-pipe. Owtng to various reasons a gas-pipe is a very poor earth, and, therefore, reception will be weak, A water pipe makes a satisfactory "earth." An experimenter who has dely@d into the scientific requirements of the cone loudspeaker says: "It would seem that the cone should have a very acute angle -say, 90 degrees-to promote stiffness, and so avoid resduatce; that it should be of comparatively small diameter, for the same reason, and also to reduce its weight. It should be freely suspended at its edge in order to allow it to move as a whole, like a piston, rather than vibrate under restraint like a drumhead. It should be situated in the centre of a baffle board at least three or four feet square, to check unwanted air cirenlation; and the driving methanism should not embody any reed, spring supported armature, or other resonant member; nor should it impose any limitation on the motion of the cone, which should be able to moye backwards and forwards with perfect freedom a distance of an eighth of an inch or more."

OL: 4.25: 4.30: 4.55: 5.0: 60: 0: 40: . . . . . *- . ae OO ULES oo 7. 7. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. &. 8. ure NI "NI & Wid 8.39: 8.44: 8.48: {2D 1016 G0 OWN YI ~ Tee oe as Selected gramophone items. Sporting results to hand. Selected gramophone items. Sporting results to hand. Close down. , Children’s session-Aunt Dot and Aunt Gwen, assisted by cousins from the Sacred Heart Convent, Lower Hutt. Choruses, duets, and stories. News session, market reports, and sports results. . Lecturette-Miss Phyllis Rates, "Yale Blues." Chimes of the General Pos* Office Clock, Wellington, Overture-"British Cavalry March" (Howgill). Quartet-Vocal Quartet, Melodie Four, "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" (Kendall). Banjo solo-Mr. Charles Brazier, "Beat as You Go" (Grimshaw), Tenor-Mr. Frank Bryant, "Roadways" (Lohr). Instrumental trio-Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio, "First Movmeent of Trio in F" (Hummell). * , Baritone solo-Mr. R. S. Allwright, "The Watchman" (Squire). Banjo solo-Mr. Chas. Brazier, "Listen to This" (Grimshaw). Tenor solo-Mr. Sam. Duncan, "Aice, Where. Art Thou?" (Asher). Flute solo-Mr. L. W. Rothwell, "Graceful Dance Caprice’ (Lemmone). Vocal duet-Messrs. F. Bryant and R. S. Allwright, "The Battle Eve" (Bonheur). Instrumental trios-Studio Trio, (a) "Canzonetta" (Godard); (b) "Huns garian Dance" (Brahms). : Bass solo-Mr. W. W. Marshall, "The Gypsy Love Song" (Herbert). Weather report. Flute solo-Mr. L. W. Rothwell, "By the Brook" (Werizger). Vocal quartet-Melodie Four, "Mosquitoes" (MSS.). : Relay of Charles Dalton’s Columbian Solo Six Dance Orchestra from the Columbian Cabaret, Kilbirnie. S8¥A CHRISTCHURCH (306 METRES)-SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 6 p.m.: Children’s hour-Uncle Sam and Aunt May. Birthday greetings, songs, 7.15: 7.30: 8.0: 8.24: and stories. News and reports. Sports results. Chimes. Overture-London Symphony Orchestra, "Waltz Movements" from "Der Rosenkavalier"’ (Strauss). : Opening chorus-The Avonian Minstrels (Messrs. E. Rogers, J. Filer, F. Olds, and D. Clapperton), "De Old Banjo" (Metcalf). : Ukulele, with vocal accompaniment-Mr. Roy August, (a) "Hi, Diddle, Diddle" (Keidel); (b) ‘"Mama’s Gone Young, Papa’s Gone Old" (Donaldson). : Nautical song-Mr. F. Olds, "The Admiral’s Yarn" (Rubens). Contralto solos-Miss Dulcie Mitchell, (a) "Angus McDonald" (Roecs kel); (b) "A Light Lesson" (Maude). : Coster recitation-Mr. J. P. Darragh, "Fair Dinkum" (Nelson). : Instrumental trios-Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, (a) "Serenade" (Drdla); (b) "Vienna Life" (Strauss). 5: Bass solo-Mr. J. Filer, "Drinking" (Hatton). : Concertina solos-Mr. E. W. Heald, (a) extract from "Napoleon's Last Charge" (march and gallop) (MS.); (b) "Bells of St. Mary" (MS.). : Quartet-Avonian Minstrels, "A Mistake" (Hunt). Weather report and forecast. Overture. : Ukulele, with vocal accompaniment-Mr. Roy August, (a) "Bird's-eye View" (Donaldson); (b) "There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes" (Donaldson). : Contralto solo--Miss Dulcie Mitchell, "O Don Fatale, Don Carlos" (Verdi). : Chorus-Avonian Minstrels, "Ding, Dong, Ding" (Scott Gatty). : Instrumental trios-Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, (a) "Songs of the River Volga" (Koenemann); (b) "Hungarian Dance, No. 2" (Brahms, arr. G. Beck). : A Coster’s experience-Mr. J. Darragh, "The Huntsman." 3Jaritone solo-Mr. D. Clapperton, "Tea Time, To-morrow" (Long). : Concertina solos-Mr. E. W. Heald, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"; "Believe Me If All Those Endcaring Young Charms." : Tenor and baritone duet and chorus-Messrs. Rogers and Filer and the Avonian Minstrels, "Melodrama" (Adlam); "My Old Kentucky Home." God Save the King. 4¥A DUNEDIN (463 METRES)-SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 7.15 p.m.: News session. 7.30: 8.0: 8.1: 8.11: &.16: 8.20: 8.27: 8.31: 8.37: PEO DEE EAL OI CT EE NL OT CE ae Address under the auspices of the Workers’ Educational Association--Dr. Fisher, "The Study of Economics." Town Hall chimes, Relay of orchestral music from the Empire Theatre. Soprano solos-Miss Agne, Guy, (a) "A Request" (Woodford-Finder) ; (b) "You in a Gondola" (Clarke). Kaikorai Band Brass Quartet, "Autumn" (Round). Violin solos-Miss Eva Judd, (a) "Hindoo Lament" (Barnes); (b) "Waltzer" (Cramer). Baritone solo-Mr. Arthur Lungley, "Four and. Twenty Sailormen" (Coleridge-Taylor). ; Instrumental trio (violin, ‘cello and piano)-"Marche Militaire" (Schubert). Pianoforte solos-Miss Muriel Caddie, (a) "Consolation No. 3" (Liszt); (b) "Nocturne" (Bisley). . (Continued on page 14.)

Progrannmes Continued (Continued from page 11.) 8.46: Mezzo-soprano solo-Miss Molly Vickers, "The Noblest ‘of the Noble" (Sehumann). G50: ‘Cello solo-Mr. Philip J. Palmer, "Sererade Espagnole’ (Glazaunov)’ .&58: Weather report and forecast. $0: Orchestral selections from the Empire Theatre. 9.14: Soprano solo-Miss Agnes Guy, "A Song of Sleep" (Somerset). 9,14: Kaikorai Band Brass Quartet, (a) "Moutain Breezes" €Round); (b) "Restless Waters" (Round). @22: Violin solo-Miss Eva Judd, "Walther’s Preislied" (Willeby). 9.27: Baritone solos-Mr. Arthur Lungley, (a) "The Diver" (Macmillan) ; (b) "Summertime in Bredon" (Peel). 9.33: Instrumental trios (violin, ’cello and piano)-(a) "Nocturne" (Rubner) ; (b) "Country Dance" (Gade). 043: Pianoforte solo-Miss Muriel Caddie, "Minuet Op. 14, No. 1" (Paderewski) 9.47: Mezzo-soprano solos-Miss Molly Vickers, (a) "Through All the Days to Be" (Hope); (b) "Heart of Gold’ (Lang). 9.53: Orchestral selections from the Empire Theatre.