New Britain herald., 1925-01-29
Through The Static

Pity the poor sailors at sea on a night like this" Last night was terrible, Static sifted through the speaker like sleet. It did not assert Itself masterfully, but sneaked along through the back alleys, so to speak. Nevertheless, 1t spoiled many pro- grams, Code interfered on the high CT wave lengths. All in all, the night was not even fair.
 The Salvatore SaXophone seXtette, out of WTAM, Clevclapd, presented diverting program which was a treat and a relief to our somewhat calloused temperament regarding radio programs. The presentation came in clear and loud, just like the WTAM of old, Among the numbers presented by this noteworthy group, about which too much cannot be said, was some Other Day.. Some Other Girl" and Parade of The Wooden Soldiers" That Inst, on old number, alwaysSsounds good to us
 A special program was rendered by all the regenerative sets in the neighborhood, which made an in- stantaneous hit. This music to be in- teresting, must be as loud as pos Sible. The program was a success. A dinner concert from WGN, Chi cago. was ruined completely by some operators with regenerative sets probably received as Christmas presents. These sets spent most of their time practicing the notes of the scale, inserting many notes that we couldn't find, upon investigating. Old Man Static also came in about this time. The beginning of the end of an evening.
 We were sorry to hear from WABI, Bangor, Maine, that some one who was scheduled to talk on The Bangor Library" or some such subject, would be unable to attend, owing to illness. That was an awful blow, because if there is any thing we like to hear. it's a talk on li- braries.
 N. M. Miller, out of WEE1, Boston, rendered a baritone solo, Out of The Desert" WEEI, since it went up to 472 meters, has sounded like a photograph record played with a , worn-out needle, but the program came in fair last night. The Concord quartet, q group which knows har- mony, sang The End of Perfect Day"--as it should be sung, It was an interesting experience to hear q , quartet of which one member did not try to hog the microphone. In most of them, the bass, the tenor or the baritone, can always be heard, as if in a solo, with the other mem- bers of the quartet singing some- , "ncEG III tlle bdthSl Oullb' iib"tNNi the numbers by this quartet were carefully blended and good to listen to.
 An exceptionally interesting sched- ule of dinner hour concerts was ar ranged for last night and most of , the stations put out excellent pro- grams
 We. tumbled into a program oi popular selections from WFBH, New
 York, at about 6:1J o'clock, which were refreshing, in striking contrast 10 the run of bedtime stories, stock reports and classical selections. A fellow by the name of Bob Miller sang these numbers, among the best being Honest and Truly" We're going to write that youngster let ter of appreciation. One oasis in a desert of small time stuff on the lower wave lengths.
 
 We hit upon Philip Spltalny ana lis orchestra from WTAM just as that band was finishing its program for the dinner hour. Here we heard Honest and Truly" again, this time
 rendered as a fox trot in fautless
 style. And. mark you, we heard that
 number no more last evening. That's the way songs should be balanced
 once as a vocal solo and once as q i fox trot.
 WKAQ presented the Municipa band of San Juan from the band
 stand in the middle of some park down there. This program started at about o'clock and came through l