New Britain herald., 1925-10-17

Philadelphia, the oldest newspaper
 mems organization in the world.
 will broadcast on Friday evening,
 October 2S. during the Morning Glory club period at WILT They
 will present "A Night In Bohemia"
 Many well known neWspapermen, ,cartoonists and feature writers win
 be heard over the mike, as will svv-
 era stage stars and other notables. { How law abiding radio broad
 cast station was inadvertently aiding
 q group of rum runners was brought
 10 light recently by a letter received ] Ihy the Glenn C. Smith orchestra at
 WAHG. Richmond Hill. Long Is
 land. The letted from somewhere off i
 Long Island and postmarked Baby !
 lon follows::
 Dear Glenn C. Smith; Don't i
 know whether yon will be fattered 1
 or not but ever so many rum runners |
 have dubbed your band The Boot leggers' Own We hear you so often i from WAHG and that station goes |
 out over the water In great shape. !
 Men who go down to the sea in
 ships at night enjoy your music
 especially the late programs. About , midnight when you come on we are
 getting ready 10 nose into the creeks and bays with our cargo. Our radio
 picks up your jazz and it makes the | boat seem like pleasure craft. On
 several instances the Coast Guard 1 has been fooled on account of your jazz numbers from the Grebe station.
 Your dance orchestra sure is appre-
 ciated even though we are in no DO
 sition to do any jazz steps. More
 power to you.
 Canada Redtop: Toronto Slim and Brunswick Bill"
 The atmosphere of college life will be broadcast from the University of | Michigan twice each month, be- ginning October 29 at D. m.. ar engagements having been made with WJR, Detroit, to broadcast programs from the college campus at Ann Arbor during the winter months. | songs, yells and other novelties will be sent out on the ether. At 10 o'clock, Tuesday night, De- tober 27, WTIC, at Hartford, will broadcast a contest for the Barber Shop Ballad championship of Con- necticut. All quartets are asked to enter the contest and scores have aI- ready been accepted. Each quartet will sing Mandy Lee" Sweet Ada line" and another number of their own selection. Three well known musical men and the fans will act as judges, the winning quartet going to New York to take part in the na- tional championship contest some , time in December. The winner of i that event will be given, as a prize, a Keith circuit tour.
 Lambdin Kay the popular an- nouncer at WISE, Atlanta, will be in 9 Chicago at WLS, all next week, and will hold down the microphone there during the absence of George Hay, f "The Solemn Old Judge,' who will r be in Dallas, Texas.
 The fourth annual session of the :. National Radio Conference will open in Washington. Monday Nov. g. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover will preside. It is generally / expected that the fireworks display will commence shortly after the opening address of the presiding officer. Everybody in radio seems to want something and something must be done about 1t" or words to that effect. There are many appli- cations for broadcast station licenses and wave lengths must be found. The 57S broadcast stations now op- erating may be compelled to share time with new stations. It is even | hinted that the amateur band may | be invaded for a 50 meter slice. l Embryo broadcasters are demanding time. They claim the air is free and they want to use this new freedom.
 Usually where there Is an abun- dance of smoke there is sure to be fire. This might be applied to the oft repeated announcements that there will be no extension of the wave length band below 200 meters. Most of these announcements appear to be in the form of either letters or telegrams and the letters or tele grams are always addressed to some radio manufacturer whose set will not navigate below 25O. Mean while everybody and his brother seems to be asking the radio editor for some easy way to make a set function down to the 200 band.
 January. 1926, will usher In the Transatlantic tests, and already eX tensive preparations are being made by the broadcast stations listed for participation. The broadcast listener is also fixing up the old set in an- ticipation of picking up FLO and the various continental stations who will again attempt to entertain the Yankee radio fans.
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