A commentary.on the arr their Majesties the King and Queen in New York and their drive through the city, has been added to the series Of descriptive broadcasts on th Royal tour that listeners to Daventry are to hear.
On June 15 the last but one of the series will be, heard, bringing to listeners overseas an actuality account of their Majesties' departure from Halifax for New found land. This broadcast, arranged by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, will come from Halifax's splendid harbour—the third largest in the Dominion—where the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, and the Lieutenant-Governor and Prime Minister of the Province of Nova Scotia, and thousands of his Majesty's subjects will be gathered to take part in the historic occasion.
Many events in the tour will be described for listeners at Home and overseas in special talks and eyewitness accounts, illustrated by onthe-spot recordings, that the BBC's travelling observer, Richard Dimble-by, will arrange. Among the scenes that it is planned to cover in this way are:—
The layin of the corner stone of the Supreme Court Building at Ottawa by the Queen (a broadcast that will include a record of her Majests speeches in English and French), and the unveiling of the Canadian War Memorial by the King; Canada's official observance, on May 20, óf the King's birthday, when the Brigade of Canadian Guards will troop the King's colour; E
Their Majesties reception of the Dionne Quintuplet; the presentation to the King and Queen of gifts by the Hudson's Bay Company: the King's visit to the depot of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; a rodeo at Calgary and the presentation at this city of Indian Chiefs and Indian De-Dutations; and the visits to Vancouver. Victoria, and Niagara Scenes From Antony and Cleopatra The last of the current series of "Scenes from the Tragedies of William Shakespeare" will be broadcast from Daventry today. when John Richmond will produce excerpts from "Antony and Cleopatra." In the part of Cleopetra listeners will hear the well-known act Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, whom London audiences seen in many of Shakespeare's plays since, aged fifteen, she made her professional debut by walking on in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Sm,—May I make use of the columns of your esteemed paper to suggest an idea to meet the new call for hospital help for European refugees referred to in the letter under the above heading in your today's issue.
I am quite certain that a regular weekly sum could be raised by instituting a voluntary tax, of say 20 cents per person, on people attending cocktail, parties, of which it is fairly safe to say there are at least six a night in Shanghai, costing $160 to $200 or more. A bag or box might be put at the entrance to the house or garden, and every guest put in 20 cents, This at a moderate estimate of 300 guests per party would realize $60 per party, $360 per night, six nights a week $2,160. AN nationalities would have the opportunity of "taking part, and the nightly sum realized might be sent to somebody who would act as secretary and for warded to Mr. Hayim once a week.
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