New Britain herald., 1925-04-01
Through The Static

Last night was rather rough one, but laugh 1t of, oh brother, laugh it off" Conditions were much bet. ter than on Monday night and sta, tons obliged by coming through with all kinds Of pep, so that most of them drove right through the in terfcrence and came out the other side with only a few shreds Of static hanging 10 the programs. It wa: possible to bring in some programs without any static at all, if one were careful to turn down the power oi the set so that the stations could be heard with moderate strength. West. ern, southern and northern station: boomed In and few stations faded.
 WTIC presented noteworthy pro. gram by the boys from Wesleyan The Jibers were present and there was an orchestra, a quartet and [ number of other features provided for the entertainment of radio fans The quartet sang two famous col lege songs, Landlord Fill the Bowl and "Roll The Bones," in addition to two other numbers, the names 0 which we didn't hear. The Jibers' or chestra, or Jibers' Melody Boys, a they are called, presented severa foxtrots, among them being I'll se' You In My Dreams" Peter Pan, Nobody's Sweetheart" and Eliza"
 Fred Strope, pianist for the Jibers stepped out and presented a plan solo, Evening Star" from Tam hauser." MT. strope's work wa l excellent.
 Hawaiian guitar solos were strum med by a worthy yclept, MT. Tar row. We are not up on Hawaiia numbers and, aside from "Aloha Oe and Happy Heinie March" GU knowledge is not.
 H. c. Cole. violinist, played
 pleasing version of Song of India, a number that has been changed in to nearly every form of musi known, from Indian war dance t foxtrot, although in some cases tn difference between the two dance mentioned is not great.
 John W. Titcomb. superintendent of the state board of fisheries an game, delivered an interesting tall for the benefit of the followers o 1zaak Walton, who started out toda to hunt the finny beauties in thei natural haunts. Mir. Titcomb told c the why's and wherefores of the law and offered great deal of inspil ation to alleged fishermen. Tn } from WTIC.
 Emil Heimberger's orchestra Ter dered It's usual excellent concel from the Hotel Bond dining room the scene switching back to tn studio at times so that artists in tn studio might get chance to sing c play or something between dances,
 "The Parade of the Wooden So diers" is back. We heard it froI WBZ last night and several othe stations have broadcast 1t in the pal few weeks. Can you imagine that There's a number that sh houldn have been allowed to die, althoug we'll admit that after we had hear every orchestra everywhere playir 1t when 1t was popular we began l hope that a bomb explosion or som' } thing dreadful like that would wrec the parade. The St. James theat' orchestra, in it's usual Tuesday nigl |. broadcast, presented the number, addition to a group of other populi selections.
 . The Georgia Minstrel Boys mac their first appearance" for the 19. . season at WGY last night. Tn group of entertainers will be remer
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 sented the "Darktown Convention . a take-off on the Democratic N ; tional convention last year. Speal
 ing of radio, the endmen had il
 following conversation: My girl ge Austria every night on five tul n set" That's nothing my girl ge
 Hungary every night without usil
 q radio set" The songs were got !. and the crossfre batter was clevt There were no waits while someol
 thought of what to say. Everythii
 went along like clockwork. Ol ', duet by the endmen was Flag Tn Train To Alabam."