<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Dear Candrama subscribers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am currently researching "opera by telephone" in BC, and have only come across one or two productions so far that incorporated this technology. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">In 1893, G.C. Hodge (manager of the Burrard Inlet and New Westminster Telephone Company) set up a few receivers in the rafters of Herring's Opera House in New Wesminster. In doing so, he claims to have invented the first proto-radio in the province.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">A couple years later, in 1895, he did the same for a performance of <i>The Pirates of Penzance</i>, which was broadcast to Vancouver, Ladner, Cloverdale, Whatcom, Seattle, and St. Mary's hospital just down the street from the theatre.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I'm wondering if anyone might have further info about this short-lived period of media history, or any potential leads re: earlier and/or later examples of the theatrophone in action.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thanks!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Matthew</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:black">___________________</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="color:black">Matthew <span><span><span>Tomkinson</span></span></span> </span></b><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b><span style="color:black">PhD</span><span style="color:black">, Theatre Studies,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> UBC</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.matthewtomkinson.com" target="_blank">matthewtomkinson.com</a><br><span style="color:black"><span>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/mtthwtmknsn" target="_blank">@mtthwtmknsn</a></span></span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:black"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><span style="color:black"><font size="1"><span style="color:black">I am grateful to live and work 
on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the 
qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), and 
sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) Nations.</span></font></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>