The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper in an article at the time observed that even the heavy set opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink would look like a charming slender woman if on television.

[4] The co-star of the television play was Maurice Randall, appearing as a John Bull-type Englishman.

The front panel upper part had a three inch square aperture through which the moving picture was viewed.

The stage for the play consisted of three spotlights, three scanning machines, three microphones, background scenes and other apparatus.

[7][8] The received radio drama play tended to shift to the right or left of the center of the television screen.

This was due to the variation in the speed of the motor used to drive the scanning disc that received the image on the stage.

The pictures at the receiving end also flickered somewhat, similarly to the hand-cranked silent films presented at theaters at the time.