The Alaska daily empire., 1922-09-15
FIRST PROGRAM
CHAUTAUQUAT0
OPEN TONIGHT
Curtain Raises at 8 O'clock
Coliseum Theatre
Musical Prelude.

The curtain will rise at 8 o'clock
tonight at the Coliseum Theatre, for
the first program of the Chautauqua.
A crowded house is anticipated by
the tickets which have been sold.
Music lovers will be delighted
with the solos and duets by the
Going-Epperson Bell Company. A
special feature will be vocal solo
by Evelyn Going,a whistling accom-
paniment by Fay Epperson. Bur
nell r. Ford scientist and inven-
tor will give an interesting and in
structive lecture on "The Wonders
of Electricity" He will demonstrate
new uses for electricity, show how
electricity is used by fake spiritual
lists to deceive the public and will
give a spectacular exhibition, af-
fording all who see these things a
greater vision of this world in
which we live. Mr. Ford uses in
his program apparatus valued at
many thousands of dollars.
Discusses Radio.
"All Alaska will soon be able to
listen to music and speeches made in
any part of the States.
Until a few weeks ago the radio
could be operated successfully by
the layman for distances not ex-
ceeding two or three hundred miles.
And then only when connected with
a wire high in the air and properly
grounded
To-day such improvements nave
been made that with an instrument
SO small that it can easily be carried
under the arm, music and voice can
be plainly heard for nearly thou
sand miles, said Mr.. Ford AND
instead of an aerial wire and ground
a simple loop only foot in diameter
is used, this eliminating static dis
turbances
Big Improvements.
Improvements are still oeing
made and the time will soon come
when all Alaska will be able to
listen into space and hear every
thing that is going on in any other
part of the continent. For instance
the President in Washington Will
be able to talk into his telephone in
an ordinary tone of voice and those
sound vibrations will be transformed
into high frequency ether waves
that will fash out through space in
every direction with the velocity OF
10000 miles a second. These waves
pass through mountains as easily as
through the air and a detector in
Juneau will intercept these vibra-
tions and change them into sound
waves which can be amplified and
given a volume SO that the voice
can be heard for blocks around.
Radio has annihilated time and
space and is going to do more
toward developing Alaska than any
other one thing. The day has come
when the remote corners OF the
earth have been brought together
and with modern and inexpensive
apparatus one can keep in close
touch with the affairs of the world
even though thousands OF miles from
the populated centers.
Program Tomorrow Afternoon.
The program tomorrow afternoon
at 2:3O o'clock will devoted entirely
to entertainment. The Going-Epper-
son-Bell Company will again appear
in duet numbers, vocal and whistllng
solos. Fay Epperson will give
number of child impersonations.
or the other entertainers. who
will arrive on the Spokane early to-
morrow. Joseph Marks, boy violinist,
will appear in violin solos and IN
addition Wee Jamie" Clark, pipe
major and Walter MacRoberts,
drummer. will delight the hearts OF
young and old with their numbers