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tite rrrrxTxn standard WediTPsSav Jamtttrr T2 TTiiili Tide London Bridge to-morrow fl38 1D2J £50000 IN 30 DAYS FOR AN ORCHESTRA THE FIRST WORDS The Big American Way with Music 14-40 hp Vulall btJ ford' fite-taier talojn £595 24-40 VAUXHALL BEDFORD FIVE-SEATER SALOON £595 Four-wheel brakes Four door in wide Four speed Wire wheels Dunlop cord balloon tyre Comprehensive equipment Separate front teat adjustable A characteristic of the is its big body The inside width at the rear is fifty inches and there is proportionately ample leg room front and back The doors are well over two feet wide Yet this roomy saloon bearing the Vauxhall name costs but £595 For that price you get a carrying capacity above the average perfect comfort a fashionable make of car and one with a road performance that is always a source of gratification to you Ask us to give you a demonstration run in the VAUXHALL MOTORS LIMITED LUTON BEDFORDSHIRE Telephone 466 Luton (4 line) Telegram Carvaux Luton London Diafrih ufors SHAW Oc KILBURN LIMITED 174-182 GREAT PORTLAND STREET Wl 1 THE CAR SUPER EXCELLENT Models: 14-40 hp 25-70 hp 30-98 hp FIGHT FOR PERFECTION Conductor of the Philadelphia Born in England One of the most famous body of musicians in the world the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra which is coming to Europe in May and will play at the Hall by invitation of the Royal Philharmonic Society The Philadelphia conductor is Leojmld Stokowski who was born in England his real name is but has Polish blood in him I It is under his leadership that the orchestra has reached the pinnacle of fame He will bring about 120 musicians with him when he comes There certainly no orchestra in England which is their equal in size But we need not consider this is a reflection on England (writes an Evening Standard representative The great difference between musical conditions here and in America was explained to me by Mr Avery Robinson hon co-treasurer of the Royal Philharmonic Society himself American and who has lived here only since 1920 In America they are music-hungry and they are willing to pay almcst anything asked for tho best Unlimited Money The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra has reached its world-famous position there is certainly none other in America to touch it by reason of a combination of a tip-top conductor and almost unlimited endowment If Stokowski wants a good player lie pays him whaever he asks Money is no point He must have him It is much tho same in all the big American orchestras He lias bought them body and soul as near as it is possible If he ants them to rehearse all day and every day then they have to do it Ho must have perfection and his reputation is that lie has got it The result is a marvellous organisation WINNING WAY Apart from his knowledge of music Stokowski has great business ability and unbounded enthusiasm and it is a tribute to him that he has persuaded the citizens to put enormous sums of money into the orchestra What is the position over here? You have plenty of rich men but your conditions are different You are taxed very heavily and you? rich men give say £20000 to a hospital or sonic other public institution and think they have done their bit And so they have Over there the hospitals and such public institutions are maintained by the State thus releasing the money of philanthropists into other channels In St Louis they raised by public subscription £50000 in 30 days to kcp the orchestra going for three years That sum would keep us going for Former London Organist Stokowski went to America twenty years ago and is believed to lie the most highly paid conductor in the world lie was at one tinio organist of St Church Piccadilly 'The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra was founded only twenty-six years ago 3000 PARDONS BY How Edison Made it Repeat His Voice How many gramophone enthusiasts know what were the first words repeated by the first gramophone or phonograph as the invention was first named? The first gramophone record was of a nursery classic (though no nursery could tell you the name) It was of the first verso of Mary Had a Little Lamb spoken by the inventor of the phonograph Thomas Alva Edison What made Edison choose that lyric for testing his new invention is not stated by Mr George 8 Bryan in his account of the groat moment when the phonograph first repeated its voice which is perhaps the most interesting page in a very interesting study of Kdiison liie Man and His Work" (Alfred Knopf 18s) A ncer Contrivance The table grand and cabinet gramophones of to-day would certainly not recognise their first ancestor which a model maker made tj instructions in the autumn of 1877 The model maker himself when he asked and was told what the queer machine was for was sceptical So were others But he made the model with others he stood by to sooff when it was tried and was made to marvel There was no defying that the model did look rather odd (says Mr Bryan) On a wooden base metal shaft having a thread cut in it (like a horizontal screw) and with a handle at one end was mounted on two supports The shaft rail through a metal drum into whose surface had lieen cut a spiral groove On either side of the drum was a little tube and over the inner end of each little tube was stretched a parchment diaphragm In the centre of each diaphragm was a steel needle While the scoffers scoffed and bets were made that the thing work Edison proceeded to act in a highly assured manner A Moment of Triumph Ho put a thin sheet of tinfoil around the drum Then he started to turn the handle of the shaft while at the same time into one of the little tubes he declaimed in stentorian tones that immortal lyric Mary Had a Little Then he turned the shaft backward to the starting point drew away the first tube adjusted the other and once more turned the shaft forward Out from the machine faintly hut surely came the voice of Edison reciting the classic adventure of Mary and the Lamb Edison must have enjoyed that moment: even though he lias since declared I was never so taken aback in my life I was tiwavs afraid of things that worked the first But he must have got over that fear and enjoyed himself still more next day when he took the machine to New York and demonstrated it to Mr Beach of the Scientific American editorial staff who got a shock when Edison unpacked and set up the machine and with a Here you pushed it towards him Voice tfxn the Machine As there was a long shaft having a heavy wheel at one end and a small handle at the other naturally I gave the handle a twist and to my astonishment tho unmistakable words emitted from a kind of telephone mouthpiece broke out Good morning What do you think of the phonograph? Edison is a great inventor but originality in oratory can Lordly be his strong point For when all the staff of the paper came in to hear this marvel and see how it worked Edison again repeated Mary Had a Little Lamo into tho mouthpiece 1 And when a little later he was invited to demonstrate his machine tn Washington ho again had recourse to nursery literature for material and made the machine repeat the poem beginning There was a little girl who had a little and thereby gave offence to one of his listeners Senator lloss Conkiing who wore a prominent lock of nair in a curl on his forehead and thought the inventor was making a hit at him Even after these and other demonstrations many people suspected that Edison was perpetrating some kind of ventriloquial fraud Among them was a bishop of tho Methodist Episcopal Church but ho was convinced No Deception The bi Jiop talked into the recorder at top speed a long collection of proper names from the Bible When these had been correctly repeated by the machine he announced that he was now convinced there was no deception since not another man in the country could recite the selected names with an equal velocity The iishop had evidently supposed a ventriloquist was concealed somewhere about the premises rnd this was a frequent And how many gramophone enthusiasts know where this great grandfather of all gramophones is to-day How many have seen it in the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington? The history of the principal of other inventions is told by Mr Bryan in his survey of the career from a machine to electrocute blaokbcetles a device of 'his youth to -oiicrcto-pourcd houses So long ago as 11)10 he had applied for 1328 patents And he is still inventing THEIR FORTY BURGLARIES PARIS Wednceduy The police have in custody a gang of five criminals who own to having committed forty burglaries Two crucibles used for melting down the plate and jewellery were seized at the dwelling of the alleged receiver of the gang lteuter YOUR GREAT INHERITANCE AS a citizen of the British Empire you are one of the trustees of an inheritance more vast and splendid than the world has ever known before You have your personal share of responsibility for the future of an Empire comprising more than one quarter of the whole earth and containing resources of inestimable value still untouched immense areas still awaiting settlement by men and women of our own race How can you help to forward the great work of peaceful development to which all the nations of the Empire are com- mitted By purchasing the produce of your own Land and Empire in preference to that of foreign countries Buy EMPIRE GOODS IS IT BRITISH? 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