Radio News

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 32, 21 February 1930, Page 3

Radio News

\ " \. NEW YHEAR’S greeting in thirteen languages was broadcast ‘over a coast-to-coast network of stations in America recently. Station W2XB also transmitted the programme. on short-wave for the benefit of other countries, Ten musical organisations, each playing musical selections representative of the countries reached by the broadcast were heard during the presentation. N amusing sidelight on the practical applications of television comes from Chicago. Mr. Austin Rahe, a New York television expert we 1d was present at television demonrations at the Annual Chicago Wireies Exhibition, said: "If actresses do not put on make-up and plenty, of the blackest kind, they are going to look like animated pumpkins on the television screen, and if they do put on plenty of make-up they will look like aged walruses in the studio! It is just about the most disconcerting problem which television has ever met." From this it would seem that the actress may pay. her penny and take her choice as to whether she will look her best or her worst ‘in’ the studio or on the screen; she cannot have it both ways. ®