New Britain herald., 1926-03-08
Through he Static

Our idea of a hectic weekend isn't sitting in the house. watching the raindrops spatter in a puddle Of water out in the middle of the road. That's what we did yesterday and it got rather monotOnOus, with noth- ing beyond an organ recital at WEEI, Boston, and WJZ's afternoon program. which were almost out of the question because Of squeals and howls, and the low wave station program, which were totally inpos- sibe for the same reason. Saturday nights conditions were pretty fair, with good volume. no static and E minimum Of interference. Last even ing there was no static until quite late in the evening, but there was no volume either, bringing the batting average away down.
 Saturday evenings most tmpor- tant event was the broadcasting, through WEAF, New York. and & chain Of stations which included WTlC, Hartford, or the annual h. tcrcollcgiate Eleu club concert. di- rect from Carnegie hall, New York city, WTICs pickup control was working in great shape, with the re- suit that reception was perfect, with lo dist ortion and no wire noises, Each selection sung by the various clubs came through strong and the usual clutter Of voices apparent when a large group is singing, was absent. In fact, We received the i'm prcssion Of being right there in the hall.
 Well, tht singing Of the prize song, Lamp in The Vest" by each club, in turn, proved 10 he rather tire somt but there was a certain inter est attached 10 comparing the inter pretation by the several organiza- tions. Each one treated 1t in a diff ccrcnt manner. Fifteen clubs took part, representing Kansas State, Princeton, South Carolina L., Yale, Syracuse. Ohio Wesleyan, Dart month, University of Wisconsin, New York t., North Carolina L. i'ordham, Penn State, Connecticut Wesleyan, Amherst and Columbia, Each one sang its own fayorito song, many Of them taking inc Alma Ma tar of the institutions. of course. you all know by now that Wesleyan, right here in this state, was award cd the championship cup as the best organization in the contest,
 Phil Carlin announced the jam horee and did a very good job. lt was nearly ll:45 o'clock when the program was concluded, and WTIC had dance music scheduled for II o'clock.
 skinny and His Gang at WTIC carly Saturday evening prove as en- tertaining as usual, with tho youth ful story teller giving his friends and us some dope on the life Of Miss Louisa M. AICott. author of Little Women" and Little Men" books everybody has read. The program vas en1ivened by the questions and side remarks by Jill and the others also had something 10 say from time 10 time. You cant do better than spend the twenty minutes from 6:$0 70 6:5o o'clock on saturday evenings with Skinny at WTIC.
 
 The fellow who yelled Play Horkoy." during The game Saturday evening between the Boston Bruins and Ottawa, through WBZ, would ! have yelled. "AW. Let's s"c q fire" at the burning Of Chicago. Al least, W uayc Frank Ryan's word for il that i he fracas was one of the hott"s' staged this yrar. The Bruins won by i ;he extremely tight score of 1-p, SC you can S,e just now active each team was. w. thought several times itha. Prank would pass out from eN- i citcmont or throw thr microphonc a' somebody in the hoWlinS mob,
 
 1 VIVIAN. Ct".olaul. came through rloar and st,aly. huI uor cxcep'ion- i ally loud. EE Jones and his evnrlast- ling gang domjna'el thn situation and VI heard a selection by banjo i quartet. Then an accordion solo : Then I'll Be Happy"