New Britain herald., 1925-03-31
Through The Static

Terrible, My dear Watson. simply awful, sir. Good old Sherlock would have needed about seven needles last night If he were listening to a radio set reproducing faithfully the aerial disturbances and fireworks which were served up by old Mother Ma ture. Tn fact, 1t Is our honest opin- lon that Conan Doyle's hero would have had his nerves badly shattered it he had listened in for any great length Of time. We succeeded in bringing in three stations with some degree of success, WBz, KDKA and WMAK. Early in the evening, VICES staggered In for awhile and then left in steam roller.
 
 KDKA put on special pror. am for the benefit of South American listeners in. The program was com posed Of dance music which was re- ceived clearly despite the work of the elements to prevent it from get ting through. The Dixie Minstrel quartet put on several numbers in good harmony and there was a speech in Spanish by Felipe A. Espil, counsellor of the Argentine embassy at Washington, and message read from Dr. Leo & Rowe, director of | the Pan-American union. The an- I nouncements were made both in English and in Spanish, like unto the announcements from WkAQ and PWX. The orchestra presented sev- eral popular foxtrots, among them Your Folks and My Folks Down in Norfolk Town" Uncle Bob," Drifting" and Believe Me-" An unidentified soloist sang one chorus Of each number in typical vaudeville style. We heard one interesting and up- usual selection from WEEI at Bos- ton shortly before o'clock. This number was "Nola," presented as a saxophone solo. Anyone who is &C., quainted with that number which is featured so much on pianos, knows what difficult thing it is to play 1t on a sax. Nevertheless, Matt Ham, ilton did 1t and we heartily applaud ed when he finished.
 WMAK at Lockport, N. T., was In a classical mood last evening and an orchestra set at work early in the evening, playing all the classical numbers in the world. When they finished those they started making up some as they went along. After times. we guess they stopped. Several times wew ent to that station, be- tween 7:S0 o'clock and il, and the orchestra was working on some nn- tricate classical selection. We heard 1 one of them all the way through, Blue Danube Waltz" and it was ex- cellent. WMAK Is by no means bash l full and, although it is only 800 watt station, 1t comes in strong enough to be a 5KW affair at times. l A poem written by Billy Near, a Waterbury boy, down in the base ment, and 1t was big seller" was the introduction we had to the Brass City minstrel troupe broadcasting from WBz last evening. We enjoyed the entire performance, the jokes were good and the songs, among them T Wonder Whats Become of Sally" laugh It Off," "My Best Girl" When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues" and many others, went over big. The entire per- formance, which lasted for over an hour, was well worth hearing.
 The Aleppo Drum corps went on the air after the minstrel show and presented Its weekly broadcast of martial airs and other band seiec- tions. Among the numbers, played in the customary style of the drum corps, were Military Polonaise, ' La Paloma," Light Cavalry March" and as a final, "The Star Spangled Banner. WBZ signed off al that time, to be on the air again al 11:S0 o'clock from Cooks Butterfly Ballroom, Springfield, where Nc. Enelly's Singing orchestra was scheduled to broadcast. We didn'r