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...Manhattan last week Nevil Monroe Hopkins excitedly announced that voting by radio was closer to realization than ever. Three years ago this tall, grey electrical engineer, who gets wide-eyed and trembly-voiced when his enthusiasm mounts, described his invention which he thought would enable radio listeners to signal at once to the broadcaster the fact that they were listening, and whether they liked or disliked what they heard (TIME, April 2, 1934). Radio sets would be provided with three buttons marked "Present" (tuned to the station taking the vote), "Yes" and "No." Each button would close a circuit through...
...program instantly to the broadcasting studio. Millions of other radio listeners have wished they could somehow signal applause. One evening last week in Manhattan a tall man with greying hair stepped up to a microphone, told his hearers they had not long to wait for their wish fulfillment. Dr. Nevil Monroe Hopkins' voice was tremulous with excitement. Seven years of work and thought had gone into his scheme for "Radiovotes" which he was now outlining in 15 minutes. As in elections, individual votes are submerged by the mass vote under the Hopkins plan, which works through electric power stations...
...shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks. These he disposes as skilfully as of yore. The plot lurks excitingly -how young David Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest...
...stage today of dispensing with all but the bare outlines of a plot--a beautiful daughter, lost in Egypt when a child, is sought by her parents. She is found by her brother, who recognizes her song at a cabaret--and that's all there is to it. Mrs. Nevil lard has an opportunity in the part of Helea, the daughter, to do some excellent singing, and her voice is well above the standard of musical comedy heroines. Probably the best acting is done by Miss Helen Bennett, who plays the role of the brother...
...Ford, Nevil, Apley...