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MAY -2 1924
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Vol. IX
Copyright 1924 By Radio Digest Publishing Co.
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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924
No. 4
TURN LIGHT INTO SOUND
FRENCH USE BRIGHT RAYS FROM STARS
Inventor Claims to Have Heard Distant Capella — Astronomers Interested in Tests
Puts Radio Waves on Telephone Lines
Transmits Concerts into Homes That
Lack Airphones; Apparatus
Kept Secret
OMAHA. KEBR. — By means of an invention just perfected by A. J. P. Bertschy, engineer, of this city, Radio waves received on Bertschy's apparatus can be converted so as to be projected on telephone lines and re-transmitted into homes where there are no Radio receiving sets.
In a series of recent tests conducted by the inventor, music and speech transmitted from WOAW and WAAff, Omaha statioi -'. was converted and repeated over land lines with the strength and clarity of a good-working crystal detector set.
Ruth St. Denis, America's Premiere Danseuse, who recently talked on the "Art of Dancing" from WOR, Newark.
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Vera Featherly (below), popular prima donna heard recently from Westinghouse KYW, Chicago.
"Classic or Jazz — Which Most Popular?" Prize up
NEW YORK.— Paul Specht, WJZ and WJY broadcast artist and orchestra director, is offering a portable phonograph and a set of his talking machine records for the best 100-word essay on whether classic or jazz is the most popular form of musical entertainment.
There are no rules other than that letters should be limited to 100 words,
Four Electrodes Amplify
General Gustave Ferrie, Radio Expert, Demonstrates Invention Before French Academy of Science
(/til /'• U. Delano, Special Correspond' PATHS. — Details of the i . eas
ful experiments of General Gustave I tie in changing starlight to actual audible sounds, have become public demonstration of the invention before French Academy oi : important and indispensable this time one with four ele> I of the customary
scientific stop post
Discovery of Great Importance General Ferrie is a chief of coram nic army. While fantastic In nouncement. the discovery of the p genuine and may mean much in the study of astronomy.
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TONE BROADCAST TO VIOLIN CONNOISSEUR
CHICAGO. — In response to a request from a violin connoisseur in Boston, Lyon & Healy, music dealers here, recently sent one of their Stradivarius violins from their internationally famous Partello Collection to the Drake Hotel where its wonderful tone was broadcast by Station WDAP. Radiophans listening in on the regular Drake concert reported that the tone came through perfectly. This instrument was played by Henri Calinger.
Ann Joseffer (extreme right), The Magic Girl of WGR," won a name for herself among the Radiophans on her first appearance before the microphone. Miss Joseffer is a regular, charming American girl, seventeen years old and can make a violin sing, weep or talk.
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