ROYAL WEDDING
HOTEL HOURS EXTENDED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, November 14. London hotels, restaurants and clubs have been granted an extension of hours until 2 a.m. for the nights during the Royal wedding week. Half a million visitors are expected from the provinces, and thirty thousand from abroad. The wedding route will be bedecked with flags of the nations, and the whole West End ‘will be floodlit in the evening.
BROADCASTING ARRANGEMENTS. (Received November 15, 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Elaborate arrangements are being made for a broadcast commentary on the Duke of Kent’s wedding at the Abbey. Microphones and cables will be installed in a small room in the crypt, close to the Unknown Warrior’s tomb. Hence, a number of carefully concealed microphone circuits will lead to points the whole length of the Abbey from the altar to the bells, thus each part of the service can be relayed in unbroken sequence, as it arises, the operator swinging over from microphone to microphone. . Other commentators will nave microphones on the roof of Westminster Hospital, and elsewhere. The 8.8. C. proposes to record the whole broadcast and file it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1934, Page 7
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