It is said that the Socialist Government is likely to bring in a Bill at an early date to preserve the many London Squares. No other ell tu the, wel with so many such charming open spaces and it would be a catastrophe of the first order if they were gradually to be built over and disappear. The Bill will make them ineligible as building sites and be compensated for the imposition of such a restriction. This question compensation will prove the chiot difficulty in getting the Bill passed. While the "owners will almost certainly argue that the Squares will be less valuable "to. them if they are never t0 be allowed to erect buildings in the middle, the promoters of the Bill will reply that the residential value of the houses round the Squares themselves depends very largely upon the maintenance the Squares as open, green places, Television Brondeasting. Begins Quite unobtrusively this week the first experimental broadcasting Television pictures was made by the Baird system. Similar" Broadeas's are to be made every day during the present month from 11.00 a.m. to 1130, am. but as the general public at prevent is without 'Tel visors, the experiments are not like ly to' arouse much inferents Tt hoped, however, that with the knowledge that daily Television broad-public will decide to buy Televisors. According to the reports of those who witnessed the first experiment al broadcast the results were rather varied. The watcher looks into a glass disc about 10 inches in. diameter in which the face of the singer or speaker appears and moves his or her lips in synchroniz~ tation with the sounds. Some of the faces were very clear and good likenesses, Others were of more moderate quality. It seems therefore that it will be some siderable time before television 80 perfected as to become gene fally popular but that it has a gre future before it no one seems to doubt at all.
Symphony Orchestra in Variety The tone of variety performances being raised by Sir Henry Wood!
and" his famous. symphony orchestra have been definitely engaged for three-weeks in Jo uary to appear at the London Coliseum. This engagement. hat been entered into after protracted negotiations, and Sir Henry has Postponed a South African tour in order to appear. The symphony orchestra consists of about 80 musicians, and as they are amongst the most highly paid instrumentalists the country, {t can be imagined that a huge feo is involved in these employment as a variety act. Sir Henry considers that popular musical taste is better than some managers allow, and he will include his programmes such compo as Wagner, Bach, Beothove Strauss, Elgar, Vaughan Williams id Perey Grainger. The orchestra three performances of 40 minutes each day. It will be interesting to see whether this optimistic view of the public's taste for music is: justified, or whether Sir Henry will merely draw to the Coliseum music-lovers who will go anywhere to hear a good orchestra.
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