New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Through tie Static

Two pretty fair nights, with Sat urday in the lead as far as distance reception was concerned. Last night there didn't seem to be a great deal going on out on the western plains and beyond the Rockies, either that or our set was not overly anxious to venture out on such cold night. However, stations comparatively near, when speaking in thousands of miles, brought themselves over the silent wastes to our own private lit- tie Siberia, clearly and with excel- lent volume. This occurred on both evenings. A sort of indeterminate and halfway bashful buzz kept us in de- lightful suspense on both nights. but it developed into nothing more than a freeze e-out on its own part. The act will have to be boosted up con- siderably before it can get over on the big time any anything else be- side the three-a-day and the neigh borhood playhouses. A snappy open ing and closing would improve mat ters whole lot.
 Saturday evening is the night we also choose to make any changes in aerial, ground, etc., and also to charge our battery, provided that we don't forget it. We didn't forget it the night before last and so we moved the set, for no good reason at all, as we were informed later, and l al oh Al hottay-y for a very good reason, this same being because we found the pro- grams walking right out on us. When we got back We listened to WTAM, Cleveland, where the Hollenden Ho- tel orchestra closed it's program with "A Visit to Toyland," number that might be called fantasy. The sta- 1 tion came through very loud. After that number was played, control was switched to New York, where Wal ter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony orchestra, delivered another of his educational music talks. with piano music as an illus tration. We didn't stay long, but what we heard would have delight ed the music student.
 
 Later, oh so much later, in the evening, we brought in KVOO, Bris- tow, Oklahoma, which was having hard job deciding whether it should come through with volume. or die out all together. Most of the time it was on the fence and we felt like the audience does at an exhibition of magical illusions. At any rate. brigade of old time fiddlers kept things going for several hours. They arranged it so that just as soon as one of them dropped to the floor from exhaustion, another stepped right into his place. In this manner the music was kept going until about II o'clock Sunday morning, eastern standard time, when some of the old men had to go to Sunday school. They probably came back after din- ner and started all over again.
 Of course, there were thousands of Chicago broadcasters on the air, and they made a fine how-do- -you-do of everything. We had lots of fun, but not much entertainment, if you know what we mean.
 At WNAC, Boston yesterday after noon we listened to a portion of the program presented at Christmas party rendered to disabled war vet crans and their families. The Mason 7 and Hamlin band played the over f ture from William Tell" The band i sounded like a band, strange to say, ] and it proved to be one of the best | broadcasts of that type of music we have been privileged to hear. Dom- tee dun.
 Mrs. Spink, soprano, sang 'The Lilies of Lorraine" and "The North Wind Doth Blow" from WDWF, Providence, as the shadows began to fall, (which is known as the chil- dren's hour" Cpresented through the courtesy of the Blop Cream Puff Company. Mrs. sping didn't have