New Britain herald., 1925-09-25
Through tie Static

The middle western and western stations had another streak of bash fulness last night and failed to come in at all comma WTAM at Cleveland or WEAR comma whichever of the two stations was supposed to be on comma being heard not at all comma a marked contrast to the perform ances of the night before period New York stations came in rather jerkily comma as did others nearby comma 1t being necessary for us to contine our efforts to the stations within 100 miles period The only western broadcaster to dash through was WLW at Cincinnati comma which station acted half way decent period There was not much static last night comma but fading was noticeable on all wavelengths period
 Paragraph Peter Appleby put out an unusually entertaining program of tenor solos from WBZ comma Springfield last evening comma his recital being one of the most Inter esting we have heard so far this sea son period His voice was well repro duced and the lack of any distortion aided in presenting to the radio au- dience a clear tenor voice period He sang comma among others comma "On Wings of Song" comma "A Noontide Song" and Border Ballad" period
 Paragraph Excellent music well arranged came to us from WGY comma Schenectady comma last evening during "The Romanys" Hour of Music per--that was anus ing at first, but it's getting tiresome) The General Electric station was ex- perimenting on 50 kilowatts, switch ing back to 2,000 watts from time to time. We heard the first selection as played by this little symphony group, they being classcd as a group of Gypsy songs. On 50 Kilowatts WGY came in loud and clear. but such were atmospheric conditions last evening that when the station went back on its usual output, fad Ing and weak signal prevented US from enjoying much of the program.
 
 The SilvertoWn Cord orchestra, through WCTS at Wor- cester, caught our attention next. We had been trying to have that station catch our attention for about ten from other stations of the ,tatins of the WEAF chain, but to no ,ffect. Either the station faded too much or they couldn't be heard at LII. WCTS proved to be life saver.
 The unusual orchestrations of this | ,and are attracting attention among | ans who are seeking something diff erent from the regular dyed in the wool brand of dance music It seems 0 us that the Cord orchestra im- proves with every broadcast, be- a use at one time last spring the or hestra was not any better than many others on the air. Now they lave risen to a great height in dance music presentation it would be a ough proposition for some of the thers to touch them.
 The announcer for these programs ids considerably in putting the roadcasts over. He weaves a little tory about every selection played nd last night when the band pre- cnted Lady of the Nile" one could lmost see the ancient Egyptians go- 1g about their daily recreation of uilding pyramids and other myster- ous things and hiding them in the and, 50 that eXcavators in future mes could stage nice little Peanut Iunts." We even saw Cleopatra along the Nile. Well, any ,ay, the orchestra played "Yes, Sir, hats My Baby." 'Let Me Linger ,onger In Your Arms" and one more, he title of which we didn't get. The liver Voiced Tenor rendered in his sual faultless style that old Scotch 1elody, Mary of Argyle"
 WBZ ground out some awful oises last night during the rebroad- asting of the time signals at 10:55 clock. The noise was something Ike concentrated static and sounded ke the ripping of a heavy piece Of anvas. The shivers chased each ther up and down our back and we ad the same feeling as chewing on
 wet towel would give us. The noise ffected other stations within 15 me CTS, too.
 FOUND! Hawaiian guitarists who not play Hawaiian music. This oteworthy and doubtless epoch 1aking discovery was made acciden- ally by us last night as we listened ) VICES, New York city. Doubtless e were the first to discover such q tate of affairs and we claim the sole ights for having made such 8 dis overy. The guitarists in question ere King Barry and Michael Stoltir nd we heard them play "IIl See -ou in My Dreams" and West of he Great Divide"
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