New Britain herald., 1925-05-22

We heard several Of the entertain mont features, among them two popular songs by John Shaugnessy. This singer had the regulation vau- deyile style and his method of inter- pretation reminded one of the fla nous Ted Lewis "Oh, Katherine" and "Old Familiar Faces" were the numbers presented by him. He pitched his voice high and carried on most Of the work without any regard for the music, leaving the theme to the plano which accom- panied.
 WNAB, although it Is but q 100 waiter. came in with unusual vol ume. although other stations around 250 meters did their best to get in on the proceedings. WFBL at Syra- cuse interfered considerably al times, this station dartng back and forth with the nervous vigor of n knitting machine,
 The Bison City Four offered "Just
 For Mary" from WHN, New York. The tenor voice seemed 10 be un- usually high, but the quartet was entertaining. The announcer made it
 plain that the group is appearing at
 one of"iho Loew theaters in New
 York this week, and he urged radio ! fans 10 hasten 10 the box office and
 purchase tickets,
 Music memory contests are th' rage at the present time, Last nigh' we stumbled over two of them
 WGY conducts long drawn out ont at 6.30 each evening, playing one "1 5 two numbers and then continuing ] . untit another night, VICES has l contest which is called the Graphic - Piccadilly Music Memory contest. B compelling name. Last evening Ed 7 die Worth and his orchestra playet / q gron1 of ton foXtrot numbers anc : the listeners in were told to nam'
 them and send the titles 10 VICES
 We had more darned fun guessing - wrong. The last two numbers w - are sure Of, though. The orchestr; = was no one horse aggregation nnt 9 Inc selections were presented in ex [ cellent style. Opportunities wer !. given for solo work by the varion
 instruments. The announcer told u g to 'chune' in.
 u Eddie Mayer double whistler y dashed off few selections for us a 0 q continuation of the WGBS pro 2 gram He whistles the melody an . then fits tenor to it, just for tn ] sake Of harmony, "Lct Me Linge c Longer In Your Arms" title. | Teaberry Time was given over { Il an hour of light operas. This wa
 broadcast by kDkA, bnt 1t was i'm
 possible to bring that station in wit { any considerable volume.
 Il As the speed boats Baby Gar ] y and Baby Gar Y race the Twentiet = Century Limited from Albany, Mor 1T day morning May 25, miIe-by-mil e descriptive report will be broadca' 2. on low power from transport plan Il and rebroadcast on high power | |, WGY, of Schenectady and WIZ, 1t New York.
 By means Of a 50 watt aircra
 telephone and telegraph transmittf lc installed on the Siko"sky $ 29 A, IS giant twin-enginer transport plan st those tuned 10 either of the tH l. stations. will get q picture of Il 7. early morning race over the wate
 way travelled by the historic Hal
 moon and the Ciermont. The Bal Cars will attempt 10 cover the al lance in less than three hours. R0'
 ert Fulton's first steamboat require N S2 hours for the journey, The tran % port plane has d maximum speed { III miles per hour and will
 throttled down 10 55 miles per ho
 10 cover.
 Listeners should be able 10 get
 complete story of the race dire
 from the plane as WGY, the Gener
 Electric Co. broadcasttng station