New Britain herald., 1925-08-29
BACK O THE MIKE

coach at Regis college, Denver, member of the Rocky Mountain conference, former member of the coaching staff of the University oi Pennsylvania and author of nurner- ous football and basketball articles, will begin series of tri-"eekly talks on the gridiron sport from kOA next Monday evening at o'clock, east ern daylight saving time. The talks will be given on Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays until further mo- tice, due to the approach of the football season. He should have some interesting information 10 impart 10 the international audience of the General Electric station,
 WRNY, Radio News, New York city, inaugurated a new prize con- test, vastly more interesting and satisfying than crossword puzzles. The station invites all listeners to make up WRNY acrostics, sending them to the station. The broadcast ing outfit is looking for a slogan de- scriptive of its letters and contain ing each one of the call letters as the first letter of each word of that slogan. The contest closed on Au- gust 25 and the winners will be announced on September 1.
 Madame Eugcnie Tessier, blind prima donna, will present prcgra m of several selections from WTIC, Hartford, on September 4, Madame Tessier has studied in several Quebec copservatories and Is protege of Madame Alboni, Italian prima donna who has been honored by British royalty. She has sung on the con- cert stage In all of the large cities of this country.
 Don't forget that WTIC is now broadcasting on 4T6 meters, while WEEI at Boston has taken the Hartford stations old Havelength. 54S meters.
 WMCA, for the remainder of the season. will broadcast from Asbury Park. New Jersey, four evenings a week. We admit we have just awakened to the fact that the broad casting has been going on for about week, hut t is not too late for fans 10 tune in on 24l meters any Monday or Wednesday sfrom II to 12 o'clock and any Friday or Sat urday from 12, midnight, to i a. m., 10 hear the Berkley- Carteret orches- tra play from the Mandarin Grill of the Berkley- -Carteret hotel, The dance music is quite snappy.
 
 WGMC. the Grche low wave mo- bile broadcas sting station, will cover the Pulitzer air race in October and will relay this great air event to WHAG and WBOQ. at Richmond Hill, Long Island. Transmitting on low wave the progress of this aerial derby to the Richmond Hill stations, , where the running story will be re- , broadcast, seems 10 have the ear marks of an interesting adventure, More dope on that later.
 Since Major Bowes. managing director of the Capitol thcatcr, New York city, took over the Sunday evening broadcast programs for WEAF and allied stations, the radio audience has been enjoying artistic offerings, The major handles the microphone with delicacy and re- finement. "Roxy," 1t is understood will not be heard again as regular conductor of thcse Sunday evening concerts, as he will be occupied with chain Of motion picture theaters, having given up his job at the Capitol.
 "Bolleye Me, Zantippn," a farce comedy by Frederick Ballard, will be presented by the WGY Players on Friday evening, September 4. from the General Electric station at Schenectady. This four act farce deals with a young man who makes a friendly wager Of $30.oO0 that he can commit a crime and eyade ar rest for a year. The chase leads 10 Ithe Colorado mountains where the | fugitive Is trapped by girl, The 1 plot sounds pretty good 10 us, The WLW orchestra will hn com
 posed of strings and reeds for Thurs. 1 day night. September {. Four North
 nrn Dances by Grieg will be teatur- | cd.
 Here's something that fans may
 like to try out. We heard Of 1t and
 will pass 1t on. Remove the paper
 covering from an old dry cell bat
 cry. fasten the receivers ground wirt
 70 the negative and positive term,
 inals and bury 1t in the ground tht
 battery. of coursel. As 1t remain:
 moist tt will make a good Erount
 wire for a year.
 When listening to 2 concert ol classical selection the music will bt
 more effective if a dull. soft light i'
 burning in the room where the set i' | located. Tho sound seems to earn
 better if the eyes are at rest and al faculties are trained on listening. 
 Westinghouse station KYW, Chi
 raEo, already heard intermittently ir Samoa and New Zealand. has pushed