New Britain herald., 1926-11-16
RADIO KEEPS DOWN
 CONCERT AUDIENCE
Big Time" Competition Affects Attendance at E. B. (. Musicale

Competing with Mary Garden, Will Rogers, Tita Ruffo, the New York Symphony orchestra, etc, etc., the New Britain Musical club last night gave concert under the aus pices of Everyman's Bible class at Trinity Methodise church.
 The date picked was selected from large galaxy Of possible dates; there was no compulsion to select Monday the 18th. But it was done, inadvertently and unsuspecting. of course, and what was the astonish- ment to find that 1t was the biggest night in history for radio broadcast ing. Members of the E. B. C., their friends and the public include ardent radio fans. That was self evident, for the E. B. c. concert was not crowd ed to the doors. It was quite a large audience which greeted the accom- plished musicians, but not as large as would have been the case had that super -broadcasting not been on the air. There can be no two sides to this point.
 From the standpoint of appreci- ation, however. there was nothing to be desired. The audience was re- sponsive and yielded generous salvos Of that warm hearted applause which is the food and drink of per- formers. From this it can be judged that in spite of everything it was a successful evening.
 The star number was the presen- tation of Nevin's Captive Mem | ories, species Of short cantata en- listing the services of a mixed quar- tot, reader, and pianist. The quar- tet, composed of Miss Irene Nolan { der, soprano: Miss Ruth E. Schade, contralto: Morris E. Hoagland, tenor, and F. w. Latham, baritone, | was one Of the most delightfully."- bal anced singing here for a long time. The reader was Howard '. Stearns, the pianist Mrs. Emile Andzulatis. ! The reader told the story, part of | the time with the piano forming q soft background of harmony, and the i singers sang it. Solos were inter- spersed, in which the individual sing CTS shone brilliantly. The presenta tion of this delightful cycle of song was something Of which the Musical club can justly be proud.
 String quartet No. 2 from the clul made it's second appearance of the young season and again did itscli vast credit. II had the honor ol opening the program, doing so with the Haydn kaiser quartet variations which takes the Austrian nationa hymn which Haydn wrote and turns it into scintillating variations. Thi, quartet also had the honor of clos. ing the program, doing so with the ever blooming TschaikoWsky canta. bile from Op. II, and the famed Boccherini mnuet, The quartet play CTS were George Westerman, frs violin: Raymond Ostman. sccont violn;. Richard Porter. viola, ant Miss Margaret w. Perkins, cello.
 Did anyone ever hear of d combi
 nation of two 'cellos and piano il this city? Probably not. It happonef last night, however. The player
 were Henry G. Schautfler and Nils
 Perkins, 'cellos, and Miss Lolia NJ
 Lii'lehales, piano. They played ; Handel "Largheito" and an ancien Italian gavotte by Perrin-two con
 trast"d pieces which stirred the au
 deince greatly.
 Others on the program were high
 ly successful also. They were Mis-
 l-it'lnhal"s in piano selections; Mar GUS Fieitz r, violin, and Mrs Emili'
 And1ulatis, in duos; and Miss Dor