New Britain herald., 1925-08-19
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 WHN. Loew's State Theater Build ing, Broadway at 18th street, New York city, has new department for you if you care to tune in each evening Bland Johaneson is broad casting every evening reviews of the new shows on Broadway and news of Its people. This feature started Mon. day evening last.
 Few Of us have the opportunity to attend first nights. Seats for the the atrical openings are at a premium and most of them are reserved for newspaper reviewers. magazine writ CTS and prominent Broadwayites. Miss Johaneson will come directly to the studio after the show and will tell you what 1t vas all about, how the people seemed to like it. who was there,' or anything else the fans might like to know about the play or players. In addition to this, she Is making up an amusement guide for llsteners-in and one will be mailed 10 any fan who writes in for one. Miss Johaneson Is well kown along Broadway.
 Don Ramsay's Radio Four will ap- pear at WTIC on Friday evening, as previously announced. The Radio Four includes Violet Gridley, Bill Coty, Jack Armstrong and, of course. Don Ramsay. They will sing large variety of popular songs and will 50 on the air at 1o:So o'clock, daylight saving time.
 The membership of the Burgess Radio Nature League, feature broadcast of WBZ, Springfield, now exceeds 25ooo people, according to the latest ad vices from that station. The meetings of the League are weekly features at that station.
 The dance music of both ancient and modern times will form the fea- ture of the program to he broadcast on the evening of August 25 by Cros- ley Station WLW at Cincinnati, h. dian Tom-Tom music, Egyptian rhythms, the Colonial minuet and gavotte and real Indian war dance music, together with old style barn dance selections will make up the offering.
 One of the attra ctive features scheduled for tho fall and winter months by WSAI at Cincinnati is the "Ipana Trouhadours, which will go on the air from the New York studios beginning October {, This band is considered one Of the best for dance music in the East,
 The Lyric Male Quartet last Mon day celebrated its 5cnd consecutive rcnk as a regular Monday evening feature from WLW.
 The last Of the summer series of concerts by the New York Philhar- monic orchestra will be broa dcast by WGY, Schenectady; WIZ, New York, and WRC, Washingt on, on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, August ?5, @3, and 2o. These concerts have been broadcast from the Lewissohn Sta dium, College of the City of New York, during July and August and have boon among the finest musical offerings on the summer schedules of all three stations
 Station VICES. New York, Till he the first brcadcaster 10 attempt "a radio entertainment from an air plane in flight on Thursday after noon, August %, uhen the huge 1@- messenger Sikorsky hops off from Michel Field escorted by two [. z. government planes on tour of the principal cities of the East to call attention to the American Legion Endo1mcnt Fund Campaign,
 Maxine Brown, musical comedy star, who recently gave up the stage 10 de, ote her efforts 10 hroadcastins, nill sing and play on piano in ereciallv constructed sound proof srudio while the plane is 5000 feet and higher in the air. The program pill be broadcast by government transmitter in the plane, picked up by a powerful receiving set on top the Gimhel store while the plane is flying over the city and rebroadcast hv station. While men have radioed thcir conversation from sirrlanes in flight, which has been picked up and rehroadcast by radio stations this uill be the first time that an at tempt r1ll be made 10 broadcast en- tertainment from the air.
 On the day following the broad casting over Nep- York through VICES the plane will journey to Al lantic City. 7here the attempt will be repeated through the station of WIP there. On the succe essive days flights will be made to Philadelphia, Schenectady. South Dartmouth, Mass, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and other citice and programs picked lip and broadcast by stations in these places. Daley Paskman. director of VICES. will be in charge Of the hroadcosting during the entire trip. and Edward !. Content, chief en- slneer at VICES. rill officiate tech nically. The plane will be piloted by IEcr Sikorsky. the famous Russian Inventor, personally, alternating with Colonel II. R. Hartncy who piloted one of the planes in the first trans continental trip a feU years ago.
 Rroadcasting the busiest corner Of the world. Broadway and 4cnd street. will he attempted by NRNY for the frst time on the evening of August 92. 1928.
 Between the hours Of T;45 and S:l5 T. m. before the theaters begin