The Washington times., 1926-06-12
I UNER
TUIs.AT HOME

Z T 4 S
Average III both noise and re.
cenfiOn was last night. Atlanta
made itself heard as did BOst0n
and Chica gaD-WitE q faint signal
audible from Fort Worth. The
rrinding 81 static was steady. iil
the North and West, spOtty lIl
fhe South and fading was note.
worthy with New York reception.
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Graham McNamee weighs laS
pounds, eats spaghetti with the
left hand, and rolling motion
ana sings baritone. Mathtlde
Harding plays the piano at catch.
weights is both distance and
sprint record holder in fruit salads
for Broadway as far as Column bus
Circle and powders her nose
equally we'll with either the rignt
or left hand.
Aside from these little things
important In their way there was
entirely too much static to hear
with any satisfaction what the
wild ether waves were doing TO
the program produced last night
BY the staff OF WEAF. The
grafton. .of Philips Carlin at the
beginning OF the hour and IA half
allotted the stunt was heard, In
spots: an orchestra, sometimes.
and sometimes q piano played
then MclGamee started singing
ssMandalay.'' We tuned out just
as he was turning into the home
stretch Of the seventeenth verse
and beginning to sprint.
SUMMER TUNING
STATS AT HOME
From most OF the aforementioned
one can gather that summer tuning
should stay at home. And ones
gatherer hits on exactly all six
when it so registers. AS q matter
OF fact. the best Of the outside pro.
grams are being broadcast locally
and that means where ever one
may happen to live and tune
East or West or North!
For iIIstance-the entire c0un.
try heard. the Whittall Anglo Per.
slams present Louis Katzman's we'll
arranged program that began with
Iyanoff's coIOrful March OF the
Sirdar," from the Caucasian suite
and included. an arrangement Of
Tscka Ikowsky's aAndante Canfa.
bile which, when we heard Isham
Jones do Il last, and faster, was g
one-step, h11t which Kaufman played
in slower and less regular time e
tone poem.
The Sir Hobgoblin children's story
from WEAF also went TAR and wide
through these United States as Y
local program In ait least IL com
munities. Each night there n some
thing Of the sort-local to dozen
communities--whi ch, when added tc
the really local material, makes
very good listening.
STRING QUINTET
SETS HIGH MARK
The Mozart String Qntntet set 9
high mark from WCAP last eve
ming. IN radio range and excellence
with a program that included List
Thirteenth Hungarian Rhapsody and
Irving Berlin's Always. So. too
did the mandolin and guitar or
chestra OF Walter Holt, which closed
the WCAP program for the evening
cts hard to tell the depth OF g
well by the length Of the handle
OF the pump Warbled a songsteI
from WIZ during the hour the
catsup manufacturers reserve t.
pour sweet harmonies into tbs
loud speakers which was proba.
bly, the promised surprise part q
the programs genuine tomato
surprise. In q recipe way Of speak
ing.
An orchestra from KDKA and
another at WTAM were very much
in the running. all evening. The
Schubert March Militaire's went
SO well from WEAF early In the
evening that a band at WSB, At
lanta. tried IT with the same sort
of success later on. Altogether
the evening was fairly tuneful from
all directions.