New Britain herald., 1925-06-08
Through The Static

Radio fans, who stayed homo to listen In, were treated to an exeel- lena weekend, as far as receiving conditions went Saturday night, in spite of the great heat. was excellent There was no static and although some of the stations faded more than was necessary. the evening on the whole was In line with the other good nights experienced during the past week. Last night was as perfect as any winter evening. No static. lit- tie code, great volume and practical ly no fading made listening in worth while.
 On Saturday night WNYC present. ed Richard Graft, talented tenor. with a pleasing voice. in a group of songs. He offered When Shadows Fall" and Thank God For A Gar den," two numbers which showed off his voice to good advantage.
 VICES came in extra loud. We heard Adelina Vassari, soprano, in "A Kiss in The Dark" and "Slumber Song" The metallic quality which is usually present in radio soprano solos was altogether missing, and we enjoyed the singing immensely We remained with the station while Mir. Schaeffer, bass, was announced. He sang Gypsy John" rollicking song of the open road, and he &C., quilted himself admirably.
 The California Ramblers, broad casting through VICES, direct from the California Rambers Inn on the Pelham Shore road, New York, en- tertained with large group of num- bers, although we listened to only two of them. They were "sheik." a brand new selection, and Echoes of Ireland" an ingenious arrangement of well known Irish tunes.
 Three particularly well played dance numbers came in from MEAN, Providence, which was hooked up with WNAC, the Boston station of the Shepard Stores. The Copley Plaza dance orchestra played I've Found Sally" Smile All The While" and Sunset" We're thank full that Sally has been found at last.
 ROXY and His Gang" were well wound up last night and we listen ed to the program for a long time. It came in excellent, the volume be- ! ing great. The Capitol theater or chestra rendered several selections in conjunction with the showing of the pictures. Well, woman whistler whistled. some fellow sang That's | a Lot of Bunk" soprano soloist sang Caroline" and they had a great time.
 Roxy allowed one of the women 10 make her own announcements. She did so and Roxy couldn't get over ii. He had a lot of fun all around, 1t seems, and his manner of jollity which he has carried on ever since the programs started about two years ago, never fades and his re- marks are never tiresome or old.
 We listened to the program from WJAR, which was broadcasting Roxy, together with a big hookup. One Of the singers called Frank rem dered a song which brought in the call letters of all the stations in the hookup. He sang 1t to the tune of "Hinkey Dinkey Farley Voc"
 A broadcast from Grace church in Providence came through MEAN in the course of the evening. When we tuned in a woman was speaking. Her voice was well suited to broad casting and ,t was possible to un- derstand perfectly everything she said. She was an English woman and we thought she was Miss Plank hurst who spoke in this city some time ago, but we couldn't say for sure, because we didn't listen in un- til the broadcast ended. The woman, whoever she was, talked of Trinity Sunday and also told something of the strikes in London.
 "Marche Militaire" and Home, Sweet Home" two organ solos, drift ed in from WBZ and formed the | conclusion oF our radio efforts For the night. The broadcast was from the Estey Organ company's studio.
 
 Amateur operators are requested by the navy department to listen in on wireless tests when the three am- phibian planes Of the NacMillan Arctic expedition fly from the naval aircraft factory at Philadelphia Wednesday to Boston. whence the expedition will sail June F. The call letters of the planes are NADk.