Monday, Apr. 07, 1924
An Exhibition
The sun never sets on the British flag. Soon the voice of the monarch it symbolizes will reach to the uttermost parts of the earth and come back to the speaker. It was announced that at 11:30 A. M. Greenwich time, April 23, His Britannic Majesty would formally open the BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION at Wembley. For the first time, in English history, the actual voice of the monarch will be broadcast and heard simultaneously in thousands of homes in every part of the Empire. Carried by undersea cables when the air waves fail, along the All-British cable route across Canada to New Zealand and Australia, thence to India and South Africa and back to Wembley, his voice will encircle the world in five minutes.
The "slow" British have invested $200,000,000 in the Wembley Exhibition. London will offer the biggest thing of its kind that the world has ever seen.