TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 41, 27 April 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Princess Arthur as Hospital Nurse. Few people who know Princess Arthr of Cotnaught and the wondertul work she does tor charities would believe that she could find time to go to a hospital in London every day she is | | m town, don nurse’s uniform, and carry ‘on the ordinary work of a narse; bat she does so, driving herself in a little blue two-seater car, morning after morning, long before many of ner twiends are astir, The following incident is interestwg: A weuil-known surgeon was driving to a house to perform an operation, when bz came upon an accident. The surgeon took the injured man to hospital, where he left him in the charge of one of thc nurses. . On his way back he called to see how the man we~ ‘Who did wis bandage?" he asked, ana the nurse wiio was eutrusted with this piece of work was yp inted ovt to him, "It is beautitusly done,’ he said, and even then he did not recognise the tiurse as Princess Arthur of Connaught.

Children’s Community Singing. | The charms of community singing spread, and at 3840 the kiddies are io have their own community singing half-hour. Vor some weeks past songs, both words and music, have been taugTit over the air, and it is thought that the time is now ripe to gather them together and discover how much they have remembered. Apart from the e‘‘entertainment" side of the question, the community singing halfhours for the children will have an immense educational value, training the youthful memory and sense of rhythm, and cultivating a good ear for music.

Royal Visit to Trade Fair. The King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, spent a busy morning recently at the British Industries Fair at the White City. ; ‘They were greeted ou arrival by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (president of the Board of ‘lrade) and Mr. Amery fSecretary for the Dominions). The Royal party then separated, the Queen and Princess Mary making a shopping tour in one direction, while the King inspected other exhibits. Ther visited stall after stall, talking with the attendants, and displayed intimate knowledge of the great variety of manufactures. ms * =

The King and Wireless. The King showed a surprising knowledge of wireless. At the stall of the Langham Radio Company His Majesty told one of ihe attendants that he found difficulty in cutting ont London from his set at the Yalace. His Majesty said that he could not get Paris or Germany on his set there, but added that there was no difliculty in getting foreign stations from Sandringham. Te has an expert's knowledge of wireless, and knew all about the wavelengths and dial readings cn his own sct.

= e ¥ The Queen’s Quaint Purchase. ‘Yhe Queen showed herself a connoisscur of | gems. Qne of lier eariy visits was to the stall of the National Jewellery Association, where she cxamined a Chaldean necklace 40) years old, such as might have been worn in the days «f Abraham, Her criticism of sole Australian emeralds shown her was that thev were "not clear, but of quite g:od colour."? She was attracted by an Jt Persian ring, which contained the tooth of a wild animal as its chief ‘lenoratien, and had nothing but praise for a box cut from a single amethyst, inlaid wit: gold. * s EJ Many Purchases. Her Majesty and Prinecss Mary made many purchases during the morning. The Queen retains her preference for blue. Shopping bags, shingle sets, note cases, rugs-a dozen noveltiesall seemed to be in varving shades of bine. A nursery rug, with Little Bo Peep sitting upon it, is probably destined for Princess ElizaLetli; and .ome tiny Royal proteg2 will have much pleasure from the "Beno Ilur" chariot, with its galloping horses an: litle charioteers, which the Queen purchased from a stall run by disabled ex-soldiers,

The "Nosey Parker’ Stall. One purchase the Quecn carried away with her. At one point sie round herself in front of the "‘Nucey Parker" stall. Here numerous grinning masks faced her, with bulbous balloon noses which swell and diminish as the wearer wishes. One nose sweiled to ‘Titanic proportions as the Queen approached; and she stopped. ‘’Ihese are very funny,’’? she said. "I must have one," She purchased two, and carried them away, Woman Militant. Three hundred thousand fighting women, according to the Moscow correspondent of the ‘‘Chicago Tribune,’ are enrolled in the Soviet Red Army, the formation of which will be celebrated on February 26. They are chiefly concerned with the aviation and’ poison gas departments. One hundred thousand more are enrolled in the Red Cross. Despite their, nominal stains, they receive training in rifle practice, grenade throwing, and field telephcne and telegraph work. "Without making military training compulsory for women,’"? says an ops peal addressed to them, "it is necessary that all working women should work whole-heartedly to reduce military illiteracy."’ Service for women, which was ctarted by Captain Botchkarova, end her company of women volunteers known as the "Battalion of Death" against the Germans in 1917, hag thus become an accepted fact on a large scale,