RADIOCITIES
The Last Round-up. “What makes you think that dachshunds are becoming fashionable, madam?’’ “Because they are always saying over the radio, ‘Get a long little, doggie.’ ” Radio Plays. It seems quite possible to produceon occasion—radio plays that will appeal to a very large section of the community simultaneously. And out of the hundreds of thousands of published short stories there are hundreds of radio plays awaiting adaptation. But the ordinary “magazine type” of short story is not suitable. The adaptable short story must have either a quality of realism or of romanticism. The magazine compromise is not good enough. Scent Transmission.
Perliaps one day wo may be able to transmit not only sounds and sights, but even flavours or scents by wire or wireless, and taste at a distance the flavour of the turtle soup at a Lord Mayor’s banquet, or the scent of tbe roses at a flower show.—Sir Ambrose Fleming, president of the Television Society, in the “Daily Mail.”
"Wireless'' Humps, In Arabia camels have been fitted with radio receiving sets, aerials being fixed to the humps of the camels. The tedium of detect journeys is thus lightened. There are also receivers at the wells.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 10
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198RADIOCITIES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 10
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