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...famed Savoy Hotel on the River Thames back and up to its new Broadcasting House, an eight-story flatiron building between Regents Park and Oxford Circus. Termed by its Latin inscription a Templum Hoc Artium et Musarum, the big white flatiron is dedicated Deo Omnipotent, managed by lohanm Reith Equite (John Reith, Knight...
...George Reith...
...White House callers last week: Harry Laity Bowlby (Lord's Day Alliance), Sir John Reith (British Broadcasting Co.), members of the Danish Brotherhood, Fred B. Smith (World Alliance for International Friendship...
Ballyhoo. A Scotsman, a onetime engineer who was in charge of Britain's munitions for two years during the War is Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He was a featured guest at the meeting, for since 1927 he has been director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. He was knighted in 1927 for his able management of this government monopoly which permits no radio advertising and gives British radioauditors not what they want but "what they ought to have."* Sir John arrived at the New School just in time to tell the meeting that the U.S. system of competition among...
Musical Toy Stage. Ray Lyman Wilbur, U. S. Secretary of the Interior who appointed a committee a year ago to investigate education by radio, disagreed with B. B. C.'s Director Reith. He said radio has "brought about ways in which the public can be entertained and also instructed which probably never would have evolved from the heads of the very best-intentioned government officials. . . . Time will de-jazz the radio and make it more literate and substantial. The musical toy stage of the radio has about passed...