New Britain herald., 1925-04-11
RADIO NEWS NOTES


 place Thursday night, April IS, when the Triangle Players will broadcast from VICES. New York, their current production of Oscar Wide's poetic drama, "Salome". The play Is we'll suited for broad casting. Last week this same Tp- angle group, whose .theater Is To- cated in a Seventh Avenue cellar in Greenwich Village, broadcast Art Assists one-act, curtain raiser to "salome". The performance from VICES will start at 1l;15 p. m, giv- ing the players time 10 get ito the studio after their regular perform ance. The dedication of new branch studio of the Willard Storage Bat tery Co. will take place Saturday April IS, beginning at midnight and lasting until about a. m. Sunday morning, April 1s, when the Mite Caps on Lake Erie take their monthly cruise from WTAM. |, The new studio will be in the Euclid Music Co. building and will be operated mainly for programs ar ranged by them. This studio re- places the former Plain Dealer studio which was discontinued when the Cleveland newspapers withdrew from the broadcasting field.
 The Euclid Music Co. studio will give WTAM permanent down town location from which special programs can be broadcast by artists who could not make the long trip to the Willard studio In the east end.
 The Mite Caps will cruise from the downtown location and James Frew Of the Euclid Music Co. and L. W. Zimmerman, program director of WTAM are working out monday concert schedule to be broadcast from the new studio.
 s. E. Leonard. chief engineer at wTAM Is planning very elabor- ate pickup unit for the studio which will make 1t possible to try out prospective artists In the studio. It has long been the. policy of WTAM to maintain downtown broadcasting center of some preten- tiousness as to size and equipment connected with the other downtown pickup points of the station, The Euclid Music studio fills this need admirably.
 The Mite Caps on Lake Erie is ar fowl" program arranged once a month by the Euclid Music Co Ordinarily the cruise takes place on the first Saturday night of each month. The April cruise will be a week late in getting under way be- cause of the dedication of the new studio.
 The Willard company has beer accorded the honor of arranging the first part of the dedication pro- gram, usually devoted exclusively tc the Mite Caps. After fitting cere' monies the cruise will start.
 Other special programs that vii be picked up from the new location will be announced later as they oc' cur. The Mite Caps. however, vii be q standard fixture. Get you reservations in early.
 Those whose sets can bring II KOA at Denver. with any degree O consistency, should not fail to tun' in on that station next Tuesday eve ming. April 14, at il p. rn., easterr standard time. when the annual DO : licemen's ball will be broadcast Some familiar thrills are promised t' laymen and crime-chasers alike, in cluding few riot calls, ambulance Songs and billy-club symphonies Joe Mann and his orchestra will fur nish music.
 XIV at Chicago has sent ou handsome announcements for testimonial dinner 10 William B. Eff which will be broadcast from tha station or Tuesday evening next, be |, ginning at 10 o'clock, eastern stand ard time. This dinner will b held at the congress hotel and tn speakers will include many me prominent in national art life.
 Bang! Bang! Bang.
 For the first time In the histor of broadcasting a man will be she over the radio. This shot which wi virtually be heard round the worl will be fred from radio station WOl of l.. Bamberger and compan' Newark, New Jersey, next Saturda evening, April IS.
 A bandit with a .45 calibre Co automatic pistol will empty h weapon at a policeman. Each bu let will lodge in the vicinity of Il heart of the officer, but not dro of his blood will be shed. H bullet proof vest will prevent tha The shooting will be the climax a thrilling talk by an importal pubic official on the dangers whic the policeman faces in the course
 his duty. The radio audience VI hear how New York's finest" col duets itself in the face of eve present perils. One of the inciden
 mentioned in the talk in which le policeman risked his life to ca
 ture one of the most dangero
 criminals will then be enacted. Ea'
 detail of the capture will be gri
 pingly reproduced before the micr
 phone and told to the audience
 all its dramatic intensity ending wi
 the shots being fired at the mode
 armor worn by the policeman a
 the arrest of the criminal.
 Ex-Ambassador James ". Gera
 has accepted an invitation extend by wOR 10 broadcast a talk