New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-27

Two hlFlhlnB musical OllcflnRa
came from WBZ last evening, one
by the orchestra Of the Capitol the
ater Springfield, and the other by
the United States navy band, the
latter In observance of Navy Day,
Both programs came through with
out the least bit of distortion and
| provided listeners with some of the
| best bits they have had an oppor-
tuuity to hear In a long time There
was no sameness In the two pro.
grams, each organization have ITS
own type. OF music. We enjoyed it
immensely. And in conjunction with
! the Navy Day program DaVey Jones
Deep Sea orchestra PLACED several
| dance numbers, among them
"Sonya." "Oh. Boy, What a Girl"
and several others. The only fault
we had to find with this orchestra
was that 1t didn't let itself out
enough and appeared to be stited in
its performance,
WMBF at Miami Beach and
WGBU at Fulford- By-T Sea, both
stations In Florida, came in as loud
as WPG, Atlantic City, and that's a
fact. At the former station, which,
we brought in several time in the
course of the evening the an
nouncer was up to his customary
hospitablo antics, making everybody
feel at home and doing his stuff like
q gentleman. He seemed obsessed
with the idea, however, that every
body would marvel at the fact that
some steamship or other made the
journey from Miami to New York IN
40 hours or something hike that, He
announced that fact at every pos
fslble opportunity.
WDRC, the Doolittle Radio Cor
poration at New Haven, offered a
snappy program of dance music
from the Hotel Taft
The noises from WGBU compared
favorable to those emanating from
wild party during pre- prohibition
days, and, for that matter, a wild
party today, providing you know
where to get the wild" Blue
Steele's orchestra was working over
time, and we laughed heartily at the
announcer who, from time to time,
started to recite pathetic little bits
of poetry, only to be shut off in the
bloom of his youth. by heartless
trap drummer, who banged unmer-
cifully on the cymbals every time
one of these outbursts came from
the announcer. They were having a
grand old time and We should have
enjoyed staying with them, had 1t
not been for that blasted sputtering.
We ran into two boxing bouts and
ran out again, because Of the fact
that the announcers did not prove
exceptionally interesting, At WNAB,
where somebody was fighting some
body else, we didn't get the names
and we couldn't find the bout in the
sporting pages this morning, the an
nouncer was too slow and easy go
ing and besides another station was
fighting its way into the limelight,
by beans Of a barrage Of dance
music.
Then we went to WOR at New
ark, where the Harry Wills-Floyd
Johnson fight was scheduled. The
announcer there, although he was
capable enough, rushed us along on
the wings of a hurricane of words,
giving US the feeling that we We're
painting for breath. He was too ner-
vous about his work and it was no
pleasure to listen to him.
We listened to parts Of an enter
tainment by the Mayors Committee
on Athletic Activities from the Hotel
Commodore, New York, through
WNYC. What mayor? Don't be FOOL
ish. What mayor always has his
name tackled to everything in New
York city, even the Five Cent Fare
t club buttons? Well, we enjoyed one
{ section of the program. the singing
! of "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby by IA
= fellow who initiated Cliff Edwards
, with more success than we thought
was possible. After that we listened
: to a tiresome description of the next
soloist, in which the announcer stat
| ed five or six times that she had APP
, peared in the open air concerts al
= Central Park and then dashed into
= talking about this and that, arranged
by the MAYOR. That's one good
thing about radio. If you don't like
anything, away you can go, inns
= column doesn't play politics, what
S more,
/ PERSONAI-If the operator OF 3
t high powered, straight eight reneg,
= erative receiver in our vicinity vii
= call at this office, he will learn some,
s thing of advantage to him. Bring
= coffin measurements and list o
= chosen pail bearers.
Y That's all for today, thanks
p. E. L.