Show I England Makes Little Use of Transatlantic Telephony I By MILTON BRONNER LONDON March 24 2 NEA- NEA I Americans are just twice as much I excited over wireless trans Atlantic trans Atlantic telephony as Britons Britons-accor Britons lIng to r the figures figures' given gl out b by the the telephone tele- tele phone branch or of the British flee department I The last statistics show that since the servIce w was s inaugurated there have been calls only of which originated on this side But Bu even thoo figures dont don't tell the whole stor story of American enthusIasm enthusiasm for the new wireless miracle Of th the calls initiated on the British side probably not halt half of them were put In by Britons The others were by y AmerIcans of varying vary vary- ing degrees of Importance Some Same were bankers ers who called up tip New York to confirm deals Some were wealthy Americans who wanted the seventY c seventy five l luxury lux lux- ury of saying to the theIre wife Ire hack home One was by by h na Bankhead the beautiful who has been such a Imo lt t over here In The Gold DigGers She telephoned telephoned tele- tele phoned to Papa Bankhe who wa was called away from Crom II duties In Washington to chat with his noted daughter One bears Briton the proud recard rec- rec ord ard of havIng refused more calls front from our side of time the water than an any man living JIe's Hes the PrInce or of Wales ales A Tennessee editor cabled hint him the other day asking to arrange it If Possible a telephonIc conversation conversation conversa- conversa tion between H. H TI R. H. H and lEer Gra- Gra douB 1005 Majesty the prettiest girl In Tennessee The princes prince's affable private secretary Sir God Godfrey frer Thoma courteously explained to tome tome me me the prince would have to decline the pleasure as lie he had already turned down dawn about fifteen ot otmer er r requests re- re quests from newspapers In various sections of af the United States The most interesting transoceanic British so far ha has been I S a Coleen Moore movie star makes the longest phone call in history history- I from her Hollywood studio to London Lon Lon- don where she talked with the British Brit Brit- ish representative of her film Brit I con con i cera 1 I Jack Jacl H Hylton leader and owner of a famous London Landon dance ban band Hylton read in the cable news that someI somebody some some- body in New York had written a I jazz son which was was was' all the tho rage So So with ness get that Is IsI ismore I more Yankee than John Bullish Hylton hauled down his trust trusty telephone telephone tele- tele phone receIver gO the composer o on the phone and took down both words and musk music Its It's the fir firt t time this has ever neen done |