New Britain herald., 1925-01-24

tress call, the radio operator in charge of the naval station, MAD, has called up WEEl, requesting that station to cease transmitting until the distress call was cleared. This was necessary because tho operators at the navy yard were unable to tune out WEEI on 800 meters. and the wave length used in case of distress. Several breaks in the programs have been brought about in this manner. The wave trap cuts out other Bos- ton stations also.
 Robert Burns birthday anniver- sary will be observed over KOA, Denver, Colorado, on Monday next, with a Scottish program of sixteen especially popular numbers. The program will consist of instrumental selections. vocal solos and violin numbers, in addition to readings and an address. Robert Burns, The Immortal" by Rev. Robert Hopkins. pastor of the first Congregational church. Denver. The program will begin at s o'clock, mountain time.
 "Plans of WNYC for keeping the public informed a sto City Affairs" will be the title of a talk by Hon. William Wirt Mills, commissioner of the department of plant and struc- lures of the city of New York, from the municipal radio station at 7:35 p. m., Monday This should furnish interesting data, since WNYC is the only station in the country owned by a municipality.
 One of the outstanding features on the program for tonight from WEAF. New York, will be a group of selections to be rendered by the male chorus of the Princeton Theo- logical seminary. This organiza- ton. is composed of 40 selected male voices and is well known, particu- larly in ecclesiastical circles, in Philadelphia. Trenton and New York, through it's annual appearance in these cities. It is with peculiar power that these young Singing Parsons" interpret their program, for the usual classical rigidity and severity are absent.
 Ten Nights in a Barroom," the we'll known old English play, will be put on the air through voc, Davenport, Iowa, on Monday even- ing at 10 o'clock, central time. The play will be given as one of a series of radio dramas by the Palmer School Dramatic club and will be. by far, the biggest radio presentation that the club has attempted.
 In the first presentation of an oratorio which WIZ, New York, has broadcast this season, the choir ot St. Jacobus Lutheran church will render 'The Holy Nativity" before the microphone of that station to- morrow afternoon. The oratoric is one of the most famous of com positions of a religious nature, and is familiar to music-loyers and church-goers throughout the Eng fish speaking world. The choir which will take part in the rem dition of this oratorio is noted for the beauty of it's work.
 A special Scots radio program in honor of the 1G6th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be broadcast by WJY, New York, on tomorrow evening. The program has been schedule in answer to the hundreds of requests from Scotch American radio fans that the anni- vcrsary of the immortal poets birth be commemorated. Dr. A. S. Mac kenzie, editor of the Scottish Amcrican," will speak concerning the life and works of Robbie Burns, and J. Mclean Johnson, tle leading interpreter of Scotch songs in this country, will sing four con- positions of Burns.
 
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