New Britain herald., 1925-03-30
Through The Static

Last nights reception was pretty, fair, but on Saturday there was bit Of roughness in the air, which grad ually cleared up until stations came in pretty fair as the hour passed midnight. The westerners were we'll represented on Saturday and most Of them came In loud.
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 We have a great trick of tuning in on stations just as the last mum Der Is being played. Last night we dropped in on WIZ just as the Wal dorf-Astoria orchestra was conclud- ing It's program with the Star | Spangled Banner" The rendition of the number was good, exceptional for an orch estra of that sort. which. If anything, Is inclined to slightly overdo many selections.
 | Then we danced back to WBBR at Staten Island and immediately as sumed a solemn air as we heard 8 choir singing, Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross" At this station. too. the program was ending. We would have liked 10 hear more from that group of singers as the music was simply great.
 KDKA's Westinghouse band main tained its good reputation Saturday evening, when it presented a pro- gram of no little interest. One selec- tion was Lovers Lane" and anoth- CT was "Grandfather's Clock" played in the modern dance style. We can't say that we enjoyed the last so much as We have at other times when il has been played according to the score. The Augunot" might have been called "Tatters," considering the way in which the number was ripped apart. Honestly we never heard 80 many instruments doing SC many things and playing so widely separated parts as did that band Sat urday night. The program was care. fully arranged 10 please as many 7 people as possible. A dash of jazz something Of the old time sentiment tal ballad, bits from the grand opera and few martial airs made up ar excellent program and helped along :. the evening considerably.
 Promptly at o'clock yesterda. afternoon we tuned in on WDWF a l Providence and we were rewardet for the effort ten times over. Tn Venetian Serenaders" were on tn air for their weekly broadcast ant the program was certainly the bes of the Sunday programs. DepartinI from custom the orchestra launchet into a group of dance selections h among them "Oh, Lady Be Good, "Oh, Katharine" and 'Indian . Moon." Of course, the numbers wer /; played with few variations, but, a they say of parties, "an enjoyabl time was had by all" There's some thing about that orchestra that hold us to the Providence station as lon as the group is broadcasting. Tn F. numbers, no matter how old the may be, always seem fresh and ne' and they are played in a manne which makes one sit up and take nc tice, not in the cut and dried, an Il perhaps slightly bored manner ( many concert groups.
 
 There were many concert orche'
 tras on the air last night, near
 every station presenting one in 1T m course of the evening WBZ had Il Copley Plaza orchestra; WJY, Il l Hotel Commodore orchestra; WCAl the William Penn hotel orchestri WCAU, the Meyer Davis concert 0
 chestra; WILT, the Arcadia ca
 concert orchestra; and so on dow the list, And, as & rule, we can't te
 one of them from the other. The
 are no outstanding indiv1dualist
 qualities, as there are in the "Ve
 etian Serenaders."
 The greater part of Saturday mig was spent in hunting for a stati'
 that pleased us. After 9 o'clock '