New Britain herald., 1925-02-06
Through The Static

One of the many touching incl, dents of radio occurred last night from WTAS, Elign. Illinois. The an. ncuncer stated that. at 1l:47 D. m. that is, 1o:47 ?, m.-- Central time the station would go off the air foI one minute, during which time all those listening to the station were asked to pray that the engineers would meet with success in their at- temps to extrlcatc Floyd Collins from his prison in the Kentucky cave.
 Reception last night, although not perfect, was satisfactory, if a fan be not too critical. There was consid- erable static at times and code | messed up programs about 450 me- tens to some extent. Stations came in good. however, those within 500 miles fairly outdoing themselves. Gtorge Brock, well known com poser-pianist, aided by faultless transmission and perfect reproduce | ton, presented one of the best piano recitals We have heard over the radio.
 Mr. Brock played several request numbers, among them being the well known Hungarian Rhapsody No Q" by Lizt, and Prelude in c Sharp Minor" by Rachmaninffff. These numbers, hear so many times, could not have been more satisfactory and ! the broadcast was easily the best of the evening.
 Mr. Brock also played a number Of a lighter variety. including "Nola,' the well known fox trot number 1 This selection, along the lines of Ze7 | Confrey's finger twiSters, calls for | lightning finger work and correct in- 1 terprctation, as the least error stands out glaringly. MT. Brock sailed through this number as if 1t were l child's play.
 Ben Bernie and his orchestra playing from the grill room of the Hotel Roosevelt. New York city made good showing as a part of WHATS program. The orchestra will be regular feature of this stations | program and welcome feature it is. It specializcs on orchestrations. There is not much that can be said about the organization, except that 1t was 1 excellent. There are so many well known and clever bands on the air nowadays that one more makes nc noticeable stir. We can just say Come on in. You're welcome" We heard some good jokes from kDkA last night during the late program from that station. We also heard How Do You Do?" that ia. nous radio introduction song. The kDkA Screnaders, showing great 1 Improvement since they first began broadcasting, presented an excellent 1 program of dance music, among the numbers being "ThcreH Come a ! Time" At The End Of a Winding Lane,' and Because They All Love l You"
 Chicago has almost as many sta | tions as it has radio sets, apparent | ly. Last night we heard another 1 one, way down on about 230 meters This was WABM, unless we under stood the letters wrong. As is the custom with many stations a dance orchestra was busy all evening sending out profusion Of numbers
 AS is also the custom many times that station jumped all over the dial ] Sketches of Marcel Dupre's orgar recital came to Us from WGY an( WJY last night. but WGY faded, D. usual. and WJY was carrying on ar argument with some other station which was trying to steal it's wave length, so the broadcast wasn't en. tircly successful.
 WEI, Philadelphia. came througi stronger than we have ever heart that station. A dance orchestra wat
 on the menue, so we dashed back t, VICES.