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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 31, 1926
Page
4
In Melbourne’s Children's Hospital voluntary workers installed a wireless set for patient comfort. The secretary notes the hopeful impact of radio news and music on ill children, whose mood rises with the outside world and who eagerly await Christmas programs and festive treats.
The John William steamer carries a 4 valve radio built by Chief Engineer Thomas Young. He reports listening to Australian stations 2FC and 2PC during its voyage, with programs including cricket talk and a two act play. The ship heads toward Gilbert Islands from Fiji.
Marconi’s experiment in December 1901 sent a long distance wireless signal from Peldhu Wales to St. John’s Newfoundland covering about 1800 miles. The message was repeated twenty times marking a historic achievement in radio transmission.
A terse exchange pits a son against his fatherly past as he declares bootlegging and wealth define their family, sparking questions about legitimacy and social standing. The fragment hints at hidden crime and pride intertwined in a single household.
In The Bookman tale The Reminiscences Lady dattersea recalls an awkward encounter with Alfred Lord Tennyson at Far mingdon. A host’s misstep leads to a sharp rebuke from Tennyson who chides a young man for using the word awful in proximity to a greeting.
The Daily Express invites famous authors to admit they have not read many classics and to share impressions. Arnold Bennett calls A Tale of Two Cities a devastating seceharine concoction. Warwick Deeping says Diana of the Crossways is full of pos ings and insincerities. Aldous Moxley dismisses Dartan Gray as a tribute to conventional morality. Hurd Wapple notes East Lynne was finished with fear of sensibility in the eye. Miss King Hall believes Bulwer Lytton would have become immortal as a scenario writer.
Sir Adolph Tuck Bart longtime chairman and directing head of Raphael Tuck and Sons publishers dies at 72. Born in London he started in his father’s business at 15 and helped turn greeting cards and colour reproductions into a thriving royal firm with a noted charity role and titled baronet.
The Westernport Products Proprietary Limited plans massive paper production on about 2000 acres in Mornington Peninsula Southeast. German machinery imported for a multi grade print paper, with a secret process and use of seed and straw in production.
The text recalls rehearsals and anecdotes about Gilbert and Sullivan operas. It notes Sullivan urging singers to sustain first night ease, Gilbert’s quips about a hundred nights, and the Gondoliers’ tune moment. It mentions Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Ransome, salary tensions, and the carpet dispute ending their fruitful partnership.
Violinist Jascha Heifetz, aged twenty five, had a successful appendectomy in New York. Doctors sought secrecy by listing him as John Smith in the hospital register, but news of the renowned performer circulated despite the precautions. Born in Vilna, Russia, Heifetz trained under his father and Auer in St. Petersburg, then rose to fame with a 1912 Berlin debut and global tours, including a notable Albert Hall appearance in London. He plans another Australian visit next year.
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