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28 RADIO AC
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A view of Morro Castle, over whose grim walls the waves of PWX pass on their ethereal
TO the travelled American Cuba means Havana with its gardens and palm-filled patios, Spanish Opera, a gay and cosmopolitan throng busily engaged in colorful pleasures, where existence seems to be all laughter and pleasure.
But to the stay-at-home citizen who does his traveling by means of his radio set, Cuba, and particularly Havana, means PWX — the pleasant Latin tones of R. 0. H. — the click of castanets, the throbbing rhythm of Spanish music and the ticking of a clock.
This clock has the best known tick of any in the western hemisphere, for between numbers, when the station is otherwise silentj for a few moments, the clock is placed on the microphone and sends its own voice out upon the invisible waves.
And this is the reason, good fans, that when you are reaching out through the ether seeking distant voices and you hear the ticking of a clock you may know that you are in tune with PWX.
Fine Mansions
AS you listen employ the brief . interval imagining the old white buildings of the city, the delicate iron grille work of the balconies, the courtyards filled with the exotics of this tropic isle. Picture the" fine old mansions standing like Castillian grandees beside the most modern structures of this busy age, for here old and new jostle each other and pep and languor meet and smile whimsically at each other.
There are many beautiful drives of which Miramar Boulevard, beside the sea, is the favorite. It is pleasant to watch white sails go tacking across the harbor while the grim old Morro Castle stands guard over the spot where the Maine went down.
Fine old churches, full of historic interests; botanical gardens filled with curious tropical plants ; the Gran Casino — reached via the Prado, famous as the Fifth Avenue of Havana — cigar fac
tories, the sugar mills and plantations; all hold out their various appeals and when they fail there is always the Cuban national game, "Jai-Alai" waiting to claim its devotees.
Bilingual Announcements
THE voice of the announcer, Senor Remberto O'Farrill Hernandez, does nothing to mar the picture you conjure up. The musical Spanish tongue sounds even more musical when he uses it and the perfect English either following or preceding it, comes over the air in distinct and pleasant tones.
The announcements of PWX are in both English and Spanish for this Cuban station is heard in both Americas as well as in Cuba and its neighboring islands.
Senor O'Farrill has a natural qualification for this bilingual position. The Hernandez part of his name refers to his Cuban mother and O'Farrill reveals his father's descent and explains,