TELEVISION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1931, Page 12

TELEVISION.

DRAMA AXD THE FIRESIDE. Miss Hilda Chapcott and Miss Lucy Carr, of Wellington,, who have returned from a world's tour, saw television" at work in Xew York. They were invited by the Bell Telephone Company to see the new medium of communication at work and were taken to the laboratory, for they were informed that it is yet in the experimental stage. They entered a cubicle, a little larger than a telephone box in Xew Zealand, and in front of them was a black mirror, about a foot in diameter, which suddenly sprang into life as they approached." It lit up and the head and shoulders of a man appeared. He bowed to them and said quite clearly, with a charming smile, that he was pleased to meet any one from so long a distance away. They conversed jvith him for about ten minutes. The voice was perfect and the expression very clear, yet he was three miles away.

In the waiting room were two other women, who spoke to their husbands, and Miss Carr said that, as she did not know the gentleman to whom they had spoken and thus might not be able to decide if his picture were true to life, she asked the others what their husbands had appeared like, and they assured her their husbands appeared just as if they were in the room at the time. That this form of transmitted picture is rapidly nearing perfection was impressed on them by their meeting Miss Georgie Harvey, who was acting for television films. Miss Harvey was in Xew Zealand with the Emilie Polini Company, and she played in "Eyes of Youth,"'"De Luxe Annie" and "The Cat and the Canary." She is acting every Friday in Xew' York for the radio television in "Mrs. Wiggs of the. Cabbage Patch." which the Xew Zealanders learned was very successful. They heard, althouglit they did not actually see, the play over the wireless. The Xew Zealand visitors returned with the opinion that not much time will pass before the play will be at our firesides, in the same manner as the concert is now heard all over the country.