A Persevering Singer

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 20, 28 November 1930, Page 5

A Persevering Singer

Victim of Remote Control THE ‘remote control system-which enables as many ag nine studios to be linked together to provide one radio play-is reported to be a definite success in England, but it leads sometimes to amusing situations, The services of an Italian tenor were recently solicited by the London broadcast station for such a production, The gentleman and his accompanist were posted in a studio apart and warned to embark upon a Neapolitan folk-song as soon as the green light signalled that the producer at the "panel" was ready to fade them in. They were also warnea@ that under no circumstances whatever were they to stop until a series of "flicks" from the light told them that they might do so. At the first rehearsal, the signal to start was given and the singer commenced to do his best. Long before the end of his first song, however, the producer faded him out, and worked the switch. which should have given the order to stop. Unfortunately, the switch failed, and the signal was never received in the studio, The singer, anxious to please, for this was his first visit to the studio, eme barked loyally on a second song, and then on a third. Three-quarters of an hour later, the studio manager chance ed to visit the studio, and found the tenor, pale and exhausted, still singing into a "dead" microphone!