New Britain herald., 1925-02-28
Through The Static

Superintendent Robert Hurley Of the state police advocated road for trucks 10 run parallel to the state highways, when he broadcast talk from WTIC at Hartford. He has a | good radio voice and his talk was in- teresting. An item in his talk was his comparison of the number of automobiles in 1912 and 1924 in Connecticut, There were 21,37t of theso vehicles in this state in 1919, while 1924 showed that tho number 1 had jumped 10 224,07l. Population increases were also given as follows: 1912, 1,114,756: 1924, 100000. The Travellers station pres, nted m excellent program all around, last night. It was lengthy one and was given by the Travellers Choral club, q triple quartet, and several soloists, l instrumental and vocal.
 The station took care of the T5 / blended voices and there was no dis 1 tortion as a result of the great burst Of music. viking Song" and Dis covery" were among the best of the numbers rendered. Miss Gertrude i Dischert sang several fox trot songs, with ukulele accompaniment. Among 1 them were Me and The Boy Friend" and "No Wonder" Her voice Is pleasing.
 Some other station was present in the background while the Travellers program was going on, the tell tale whistle, while not as bothersome as | it used to be, grinding away some- where out in the country.
 Dance orchestras were the rule last night and nearly every station we tuned in on after 10 o'clock had q band going full tilt. Joseph c. ! Smiths orchestra was at CFCA; Rainbow Melody Boys at CNRA; Meyer Davis Lido Venice band at WEAF, and Wardman Park Hotel orchestra at WCAP. It looks as if fans would get their fill of dance music before many moons.
 
 l WPG at Atlantic City came in ! clearly, the Hotel Traymore orches- tra presenting an enlivening group 1 of dance numbers, among them "Will You Remember Me" and "Copen- hagen" The station signed off a 12:12 a. m., the announcer saying Good Morning" to eastern listeners in, while the folks out west received a chcery Good Night"
 Conditions were good last night. If there could be any improvement l over reception of the night before | that improvement was present. No 1 bursts of static marred concerts and , stations faded practically not at all. 1 WGY, an old offender, held it's wave and seldom did the volume decrease. to any great extent. Of course, some , of the stations on the lower wave l lengths had attacks of the itch and jumped three or four points out of the regular path. Code interference was negligible.
 "Iiome Folk Blues was presented 1 by Ben GlaZier's orchestra from WIZ 1 last evening. This number, written in the approved blues style, is novel l in it's makeup and gives alert mu- sicians sevsrpl chances for weird or i chestral effects.
 1 Thomas Kirby, basso. rendered l that old favorite, "O'er the Billowy ! Sea-" from CNRA, Moncton. Sur prising to say, the deep tones camc i through with volume. something un- usual in the broadcast of deep tOncs Mir. Kirby also sang At Dawning," " q well known number. The program from CNRA was unusually appeal ing to those fond of good music Of the semi classical variety and was presented by Moncton artists.
 The radio ball from WBZ on Mon day evening of next week promises to hold the attention of many radio fans. This will be feature extra ordinary and will be broadcast from Cooks Butterfly, Springfield, ten dance orchestras taking part in the festivities, besides a number of vau- dcville performers. This will be one of the biggest events broadcast from Springfield and will be served to the radio audience at S:45 D. m., follow ing the concert by the Aleppo drum corps. It will be World War" of music.
 WEE has had evenings Of folk music, nights of classical renditions, and now there is scheduled q jubilee program of American music for radio listeners. The orchestras which will take part in this ceIebra- ton will be: Paul Specht's White i Fleet orchestra, Of Worcester, Mass; "Bill" Tasillo and his Cinderella or chestra. from the Cinderella Ball room, Hartford, Conn.,; John CaEal- laro and his Cinderella Ballroom or chestra of New Haven, Conn.,: The Miner-Doyle Novelty orchestra, Of Lowell, Mass; the Fenway Novelty orchestra of Springfield, Mass; Rap isarda's Oriole orchestra of Spring field, Mass; Falvey's orchestra with the Whalen- Breglio Polkadot Boys, of Springtield; William Malone and | his Ritz Dance orchestra from the Ritz Dance Palace at Bridgeport, Conn.,; the Waldron Society orches- tra of Springfield, and McEnelly's i Cip erip0 nrrhpefr1 d