New Britain herald., 1925-04-25
RADIO NEWS NOTES

broadcasting stations announce tho purchase of new type of high pow cred Western Electric transmitter for installation this summer on tho topmost floor of the Atlanta Bilt- more hotel. a s7,oOO,O0O showplace of Dixie.
 The new broadeasting unit for The Voice Of the South" will be one of the first two produced by the Western Electric factories and rep- resepts the most advanced engineer ing achievements in improved modu- lation. power and efficiency. The station has no prototype in the air 1 today.
 While rated at 1000 watts. the &C., tual power attalned when voice or music are in the air will reach a peak of 2,500 watts. Use Of new type of 4,000-watt, water-cooled am- plifying tube and a capacitively- coupled circuit will insure elimina- ton of harmonics and will sharpen the station wave at its prescribed frequency.
 The new location on the roof of the Biltmore hotel building ten stories high and 400 feet long, will provide WISE with palatfal studio appointments and with modern an- terna system S25 feet long. Steel towers will support an aerial span hing virtually the entire sweep of the roof.
 The Bltmore is isolated from any buildings Of comparable size. 1t stands on one of Atlanta's loftiest eminences andgwas chosen by New York engineers as the ideal location for The Journals new station.
 The Voice of the South" is ex' pected to be on the air under its new power before midsummer.
 More than three years ago, The Journal built its own 100-watt trans hitter as the first newspaper broad casting station in the south. A few months later the original set gav' way to one of the first two 500-wat Western Electric units in the coun try and did its share of trail- blazing , through the ether.
 Veteran listeners will remembe that radios first slogan. The Voic of the South;" the first station sig nal the three-note chimes; radio first fraternity, the radiowls; tn first belated nightly concerts a l0:45, and numerous other tradition and prcsent-day practices were Dor under WsBs antena.
 Lambdin Kay, former featur writer and department editor on Tn Journal staff, now director and an nouncer at WISE, states there wi be no change in the stations pro gram policy other than an eXpar sion and delaboration of service. Tn title of "The Little Colonel' was re gently given Mir. Kay by his fello' announcers at the Kansas City Radi exposition.
 VICES will broadcast the Jubile Dinner and Entertainment tendere by the members of the theatrlcf profession, commemorating the 25t anniversary of the Theater Magazine to it's publishers and editors Lou and Paul Meyer. and Arthur Horr blow, in the Grand Ballroom of tn Waldorf-Astoria tomorrow evenin n The broadcasting will commence l. 9:30, when revue with an aIl-stt cats, Twenty Years in tr Theater," will be staged, continuir until after midnight, Leon Errol, tf star of Louie the 14th," is als ,f scheduled for an appearance at II k Lambs Gambol taking place Il same evening; in order to keep bot l. engagements he will appear befol the Lambs early in the evening.
 The revue, Twenty-Five Years the Theater," will be made up
 some of the most popular theatric ,n numbers of the year 1900, 190 1911, 1915, 1920 and 1925, play' c. by those stars who appeared in the originally. Among those who W participate generally in the eve ing's entertainment will be the Du can Sisters, w. c. Fields, Edit Wynne Matheson in a selection fro "Everyman;" Holbrook Blinn al Judith Anderson, Billy B. Van, Si ney Blackmer, Gus Edwards, Charl K. Harris, composer; Jean Tenn ng son in songs by Rudolph Friml; Ma jorie Leet, and many others fire the guests Of honor which will clude the following prominent fl ures of the theatrical world:
 David Belasco, Morris Gest, Jo Drew, Daniel Frohman, Walt Hampden, Winthrop Ames, Jo Emerson, Theresa Heburn, Willis A. Brady Raymond Hitchcock, thur Hopkins, Eugene O'Neill, Peg g Wood, George Arliss, Lionel Atw Helen Hayes, Margalo Gillmo
 Frank Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Grs rt. Mitchell, Fritzi Scheff, Ernest Tru
 Fred and Adele Astaire. Riche nd Bennett, Ruth Chatterton, Ina Clai
 Owen Davis, Walter Damrosch, Dl
 ley Digges. Blanche Yurka, Sta
 Young, George Jean Nathan,
 Wynn and many more.
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 Station WJAZ, owned by the Z' ety ith Radio Corporation, will be on
 air within the next few weeks, 8
 word from the Chicago firm. !
 studio will be located in the T
 Strauss building, Chicago, and mia broadcasting will be by remote c Of trol to the station, 30 miles fir
 Chicago. Veteran fans rcmem a. WJAZ, operated in 1923-24 by
 Zenith company at the Edgewa rch Beach hotel in Chicago. The {
 ton was sold. but the call lett
 were retained and fans will h
 soon the old familiar "WJAz, (
 cago."
 Artists broadcasting from the
 ton will not feel that stranger
 associated with the knowledge 1