New Britain herald., 1925-04-25

and is constantly before the artists performing.
 Dan Beard National Scout Com missioner of America, big brother of the American boy will have a vital message for the big boys, as we'll as little ones, when he speaks from WIN. New York, on Thursday even- ing of next week at 7;50 o'clock. His subject will be, New York Boys Week."
 Sixty mandolins,. mandolas, man do-cellcs, banjos tenor banjos, plec- trum banjos and guitars will be broadcast from WTIC. on the even- ing of May 8. The organization was formed five years ago and is regard ed as one of the most novel orches- tras in New England. Standard con- cert numbers, medleys of popular airs and group work by the Charter Oak Banjoists will feature the eve-
 ning's program.
 The arrangement of rebroadcast- ing New Y ork programs from WEAF | through the facilities of WTAM, | Cleveland, ended with the hour of
 S-9 o'clock. Wednesday evening,
 April IS. The Wednesday produc-
 tions from the Willard station will
 be conducted In the future as they
 were prior to the relay arrange
 ment A definite schedule has not
 been completed, but present plans
 are to devote an hour on Wednesday
 evenings programs to Carl Rupp and
 His Hollenden Hotel entertainers,
 and perhaps another hour to the
 Public Auditorium organ.
 By courtesy of l.. r. Levenson
 Dagmar Godowsky, screen star and
 daughter of Leopold Godowsky, the
 famous pianist, will broadcast from
 WOR next Monday evening at T:SC
 o'clock in pianologue based on he!
 personal recollections of famous mu'
 sicians. She is an accomplished pi
 anist and true daughter of ia nous father.
 . The Great Northern Railway plan for radio reception on its trans ? continental train, the Oriental Lin ; tied, involves the elimination of th'
 ubiquitous loud speaker and the dis r semination of radio broadcastinl only to passengers who may be in - terested without disturbance to thos s patrons who may wish to read, pla cards or otherwise amuse them t selves without interference. unde s this plan individual head sets will l attached to each chair of the obser
 vation parlor, and supplied to eac 6 compartment.
 The Great Northern is just com pleting a test of radio possibilitie Il over it's system during which an Or
 iental Limited type of steel cohpart
 ment observation car was equlppe with all accessories and with tW
 types of receiving equipment, one ' pcr-heterodyne with interior lool and the other commercial set (
 the types used by sea coast broad
 casting stations to pick up sos. sig e nals right under the guns of theI u own high powered stations. This st u Is equipped with outside antenna. The test among other things is fc ? the purpose of determining the mo- , effective receiving set under cond
 tions existing along the Great Nortf . ern Railway.
 During the progress of this e u from St. Paul to the Coast and II ' turn practically every station of ar e size from Buffalo to Los Angeles w. 5 received clearly and while the e ' was in the state of Washington, o carried through a special progra ' from the Seattle Times broadcastir 10 from the Olympic hotel which 1t a Il knowledged by wire and listened e as acknowledgements of telegram
 were put on the air. During Il m days stay at Cut Bank on East 'l Sunday, Easter services were r ai ceived with clearness from Denve ., Colorado.
 m WEAF, New York; WAR, Prov Ill dence; WEEI, Boston; WTIc, liar l- ford; WCTs, Worcester; and WI H. Philadelphia, will be interlnked le 10 o'clock tonight for not only t m simultaneous broadcasting of t lu Grand Opera T Pagiacci" and u- half-hour of dance music by B eS Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt ( " chestra, but the national tribute r. General Pershing by the Americ Ill Legion 10 be held In the monstro IT, Hippodrome in New York ci g. which will take place from 11:30
 m. to a. m. During this latter eve m speeches will be given by Gene CT James A. Drain, national command m of the American Legion; the H. III Newton D. Baker, former secrcta IT, of war, and General Pershing. | gy tertainment will be interwoven W Ill., the speeches and will bring music re- the massed Army and Navy bar hl of Washington, D. C., and the co 7X' bined Rivoli, Rialto and Criteri rd theater orchestras, conducted re- Hugo Reisenfed.
 .d- The opening number will be sI TX cial presentation of the music of nd outstanding wars of American I
 tory, from the Revolutionary per
 down with dances led by Primo 'n- White Deer, full-bloo1ed Amerit ne Indian.
 iys A tabeaux specially written { he staged for this occasion. in wh CIV the leading and only speaking I all will be played by Blanche Bates, on- include singing by a chorus Of om