TOWER OF SILENCE TO BE ERECTED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18624, 28 November 1928, Page 8

TOWER OF SILENCE TO BE ERECTED.

GREAT NEW STUDIOS BUILDING FOR 8.8. C.

(United Press Assn.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright, ) (Received November 28, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 27. A Tower of Silence will be a feature of the Broadcasting Corporation’s new headquarters, which are being erected in Portland Place at a cost of between £400,000 and £500,000. It will take over two years to erect and will be one of the finest buildings in the world. It will contain nine insulated studios, one accommodating an audience of a thousand grouped in the. central tower. Each studio will combine a suite comprising waiting, band, engineers’, listening, echo and announcing rooms. The studios will be protected from street noises by a complete outer layer of offices, and the absence of vertical steel work will eliminate sound transference between them. A Rich Announcer. David Tennant, one of the London radio announcers, whose pleasant voice is known to millions throughout the world, has inherited £90,000 under the will of his father, Lord Glenconner.— United Service. A report in the London “ Daily Chronicle ” of October 10 said:— There was a piquant interruption yesterday of the cross-Channel flight which the Hon David Tennant intended to make with two passengers. He left Stag Lane aerodrome in the morning with two passengers—his wife, better known as Miss Hermione Baddeley, and Mr Brian Howard. As the machine was a two-seater, the passengers shared the only available seat. There was no difficulty until they called at Lympne aerodrome, near Hythe. Four Crossings. When Mr Tennant wished to resume his flight, he found himself opposed by the-Air Ministry officials, who refused to countenance it on the ground that the machine would be overloaded. Mr Tennant, determined to cross, therefore took the air first with Mr Howard, and, having landed him in France, returned to Lympne, picked up his wife aqd again crossed the Channel. He expressed his intention to fly with both passengers from the French coast to Paris. They reached Le Bourget between five and six o’clock. Mr Tennant, who is a brother of Lord Glenconner and stepson of Viscount Grey of Fallodon, completed his course of instruction in flying only a few months ago. He provided society with a sensation last May by giving, with his wife, a bottle and pyjama party at their Adelphi .flat. Two years ago Mr Tennant was appointed an announcer at 2LO. Miss Hermione Baddeley, to whou he was married last April, was but seventeen years of age when, playing in “The Likes of Her ” and “ The Forest*," she was noted as an actress with a future. She will- be twenty-two in November.