New Britain herald., 1925-10-09
KDKA-Pittsburgh-3O0
Through the Static

There was a little bit of every thing on the air last night, that is everything but volume. A weakness in signals was noticeable, although the stations that came through were extremely clear and were unaccom- panied by distortion.
 
 Chauncay Lee and his orchestra offered q group of brand new songs from WEAR, Cleveland, This band is a regular feature of WEAR and is well worth listening to. Among the numbers last night were "Drcaming of You" My Girl said. Yes" and number that sounded like, "Why Is Love-" reminding us of that ques- ton, "Why Is q Policeman?
 A Norwegian Night program at WBBM, Chicago, nearly turned us upside down. When. we tuned in someone was singing song con- taining thousands of la-la-las and little else. Wonderment crossed our yisage as we listened and finally the announcer made the wise crack that it was q comic song, The Pheasant Girl" It might be comedy for some folks. but it's tragedy-etc,, etc. As We left for America, a duet was be- ing sung by two men.
 Philip Harlan, announcer at MEAN, Providence, acted as an- nouncer at WPG Atlantic City, after 10 o'clock last evening. He gave us all the dope on the program of dance music being played by the SilvertoWn Cord orchestra from the ballroom of the Million Dollar Pier. Harlan's fla miliar brand of announcing, a rather ierky manner of enunCiation, was present and accounted for. The or chestra was playing for the annual ball of the American Electric Rail way association, having been brought from New York city by special ar engagement. "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" "Twilight," Happy Mel ody" and others were featured,
 We ran into a few selections from Faust" as presented by WBZ Springfield. The station's reproduce ton was inclined to be rough and mussy so We didn't remain very long.
 A well played cOrnct and saXo- phone duet, the name of which we lost, came in from WCBD, Zion, H. linois, and was that stations only contribution of the evening. Consid erable fading on the broadcaster led HIS away,
 woe at Davenport came in as loud as WGY. We heard the Le- Claire hotel orchestra, playing al the Hotel LeCIalre. Moline, Illinois, We were in a hurry 10 get 10 bed, so we didn't wait for the announce mcnt. WHO at Des Moines also came in loud, these stations being the only distant ones that had volume at tached 10 them. The Bankers Life Little Symphony was playing selec- tions from "Mignon."
 Are you folks getting the World Series games, or, as Ring Lardner would say, "The World Serious WTIC at Hartford is proving popu- l lar with local fans who are desir- 1 ous of hearing the report of the games direct from the field. The Travellers station is performing Q real service to residents of this com munity and the station is to be com. plimented upon the quality Of trans mission. Clarity seems to be thu watchword and it is possible to hea the shouts of the crowd and eVel the mmpire's decisions at times. Tn station is hooked up with tn WEAF chain and the feature come by wire from New York and is re broadcast by WTIC. The folks il Pittsburgh aren't getting the new of the game as well as we do u here, and even those with radio set aren't hearing it with any more per lection than we are.
 That's all for today, thanks
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