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UILI boast of
tion' has become splendid nonsense.
When the chorus of a
Legible musical show breaks
in
into a particularly tune-
the Dark. ful melody, and the
words sound like a suc-
cession of do-de-o-dos, it is annoying
to find that the theatre program can
give no immediate clue, because it is
just another inky spot in a darkened
house. To save its patrons such in-
convenience, a London theatre has
e
adopted programs fashioned on the
e
principle of the radium-dialed watch.
n
When the lights are up, the pro-
y
grams appear simply to have a smart
1-
new set-up of black paper with whive
t,
printing. When the lights are
dimmed the white letters are slightly
luminous, so that the program is
is
easily legible. A very small amount
of radioactive substance is used in
ly
the manufacture of the ink, which
also contains "another chemical
ts
which shines in the dark when
acted on by rays emitted by the
fe
radioactive element. Although such
by
materials are expensive, it is said
of
that so little is required that the
cost of the new programs is not
:h
much more than that for ordinary
or
printing.
Such pandering to the convenience
ir
of the theatregoer is likely to spoil
D-
him. Instead of arriving well before
the rising of the curtain in order to
look through his program, he may
now
slip into arriving late, counting
on reading as the play progresses.
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