The Washington times., 1922-05-24
STR|NCOF BEADS
IS RADIO SHOW
RECEIVING SET.
Cats Whisker" in Tiny Glob-
uIe Permits Wearer to Hear
Broadcasts.
BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER.
I-nIN4rSaI News Service.

niNrrSaI NCNS SrrNlcr,
NEW YORK, May 24.-The big
radio show which opened at the
Seventy-first Regiment Armory here
this week is offering respectful at.
tcntion to women in the wonders II
spreads before the eyes of an aston
ished world.
An innocent appearing string OF
beads lies upo1 a fold OF velvet. II
is glass necklace of many colors
combined in futuristiC pattern, such
as one may buy IN any department
store for TWO or three dollars.
But where the pendant should be
there is a crystal and a tiny cats
whisker" You find odds and ends
OF Clevcrly-COnCealed copper wire
through the large globes. Still its
only after you've clasDed them
rouTd your neck and heard some one
singing over in Jersey that you re
ready to believe what +. c. BuChig-
mani. managing director of the show,
tells about them. He said:
Sets for Women.
Receiving sets so tiny that they
may be concealed N jewelry are be.
lHS SHO"H lOi tie INST tAllLe ~ 'hH
show.
They are for women's use, of
course. Or, at least, il isn't likely
they'd have been d, signed at this
stage OF radio development save 70.
thought of the feminine need.
Eventually they may be carried
about like wrist watches. loCkets, OF
even in little fancy boxes to danglr
among the collection OF jingling van.
uy cases, and things women HOOK
over their arms.
They'll be able then to whittl-
away tedious hour more or less.
Think how pleasant to be able
to enjoy a grand opera concert dur
ing the afternoon in a beauty pArlor!
Or what could better fade the dis.
agreeable hour in the dentist S
! chair"
In developing woman's own radio
requirements, science did not neglect
| the masculine need.
For the man who likes to carry
around a receiving outfit, the exposi.
ton which is said to be the greatest
and most complete in the industyy's 5
brief history, is offering the radio
brand cigarette.
! 1t is merely the ordinary little
paper covered cylinder, SO far as ap.
pearance goes, excepting for tiny
cats whisker" at the end. The
antonna is Coilc'l inside some way
that only Dr. Miller Reese Hutrhin.
son, world famed inventor, who is
chairman of the committee, which
will judge amateur exhibits at the
| shows seems to understand.
Or If a man doesn't care for
loi1 ltIN n i1Ng q,
! tie pin. This, too, is IN unscicntific
looking bit of adornment, with q
! pearl setting. The pin, however,
/ acts as an inductor: the slide varies
wave lengths and the crystal is
hidden in the top of the pc
Powerful Amplifier.
The other extreme in radio Il,
velopment, is represented at tn,
show by an amplifier describeI as
the most powerful in the world.
1t is similar in type to the on
used by President Harding at thr
armistic day ceremonies at Arlington
when his voice was carried on the
open air for over a half mile.
Exhibited by the United Sta.'s
army signal corps, the big ampli.
fier had it's test Tuesday night
Wien IL DIOduCSISlCu lllN lATNW
address of Lady Astor from the
hotel where she is being entertainrd d
at dinner.
The America born NJ. p. spnk
into telephone to Western Electro
broadcasting sta ton 2XB. From
there her speech was broadcasted as
far as the Mississippi river toward
the West, Florida and Labrador, to.
ward the South and North, and the
mid.AtlantiC the other way. Over
, half a million persons heard her say
good.by-among them five thousand
attending the radio show.
The most interesting exhibition