The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-02-24
HARRY LAUDER AVOIDS
BROADCASTING


Stage fright is nothing compared to
mike Fright" even to SO tried vet
efan of the stage as Harry Lauder, the
bonnie Scot humorist
"Belive me- Harry declares, ut is
one thing to stand before a crowded
house on the stage, aided by footlights,
makeup and the healthful atmos-
phere of the theater. And quite an
other thing to stand in large, hush
ed, draped room and crack all your
best stores to cold and passionless
piece of apparatus that gives you no
encouragement"
Twirling hi crooked stick, doing the
highland fling casting wink or rails
ing knowing eyebrow are lost to
the radio audiences. Lauder does
these things even in the studio, with
only one or two looking on, but he is
i'll at ease the while.
81 know of no more eerie expert
ence," he says. "The very though
that ones voice which will not carry
more than couple of hundred yards
unaided, can be flung across half the
world without any visible means, and
picked up perfectly by millions of lis
teners, is sufficient in itself to give a
poor, simple old Scot mike fright. 1t
is no easy task to call up smiles
which are unseen and laughter which
is unheard."
Photograph Industry Buried Under
Radio
Figures issued by the department of
commerce give mute testimony as to
the cause of Thomas A. Edison's re-
cent complaint against the radio in
dustry. The figures are the results OF
data collected at the regular biennial
census of manufacturers for 1925, and
show decided drop in the phonograph
industry.
According to these official figures
last years production of monographs
including debating machines, suffered
a loss in value of more than 60 pei
cent of that of 1923. Parts and &C
cessories dropped more than 80 pei
cent in the same period.
The only increased revenue phono
graph manufacturers enjoyed In thu
period was from radio sets, cabinets
and parts which they put in. The to
tal increase of manufacturers in tn
radio industry, as apart from the pho
nograph business, was 215.5 per cen
in the two year period.
These figures were collected befor
the recent innovations were made Il
photographic manufacture-those i
which radio principles were lnteoduc
ed. These Innovations brought con
siderable improvement in the phone
graph business. But what effect
had in bringing it back to the oil
standards will not be known for som
time.
General Electric Tests Show Little
Hone for Short Wave Br0adcasting
THE difficulties attending broadcast
mo on short-wave lengths, for whic
MANY broadcasters have been hoping
have been brought out strikingly
the tests completed by radio engineer
at station WGY.
The greatest argument these tes1
produced against popular broadcas
ing on low wavelengths was the Ell
ormous "skips" or jumps made by tt
.usaves before they could be caught (
receiver Second only to this w;
the increasing fading which accon
named the decrease in wave-length.
With these important difficulti
there is no hope for shortwave broa
,asting-at least below 100 meters.
The tests were made over long p
Rod last spring and had the cooper
tion of more than five hundred mer
borg of the American Radio Rel;
League and it's corresponding assocl
lions throughout the world. The co
illusions are based on reports receiv
by the engineers from every part
the globe.