New Britain herald., 1926-07-26

monte concert was excellent, through
WIZ. Something happened to the
transfer apparatus, so they put in a
feature to hold the attention OF the
audience until things could be fixed
up, Hence, Frank Anderson. bari
tone, pinch hitted. He sang In the
Cleaning" very well. The second
half of the Philharmonic's program
was broadcast. 1t was presented, not
in the stadium, but in the hall ad-
joining the stadium at n. Y. Y,
We guess. The apparatus was fixed
up just in time fer the second half
Of the program.
The Onondaga Hotel orchestra
from Syracuse was broadcast by
WGY, Schenectady, presenting rath-
er uncertainty Poor Papa" and
Land of the Sky Blue Water" The
orchestra can't beat WGY's own
Van Curler aggregation.
We find that all we heard was
dance music, the usual layout for
| Saturday evenings. WPG, Atlantic
City, with its overpowering trans
mission, offered the Ambassador Ho-
tel orchestra, while VITO, Hartford,
presented the first of series of Sat
urday night concerts by the Colt
Park band. We managed to hear a
few numbers by the Westinghouse
Employees band from KDKA, Pitts
h,,rp1 nS oh
vas being played when we struck
the place.
Came the dawn, as they say in
the movies. and we waited until eve
ming, for obvious reasons, before we
again tackled the ether. In the in
term, We charged the battery, made
everything secure, attached a new
lightning arrester just for the sake
of having something to DO, threw
away the old lightning arrester and
finally settled down to business, after
doing justice TO a well proportioned
chicken dinner which made us fit
Chicken dinner with all the flxin's
is not to be sneezed at. don't you
forget it, unless pepper gets into the
delicate membranes of the nasal
passages.
The Ambassador trio and the Ho-
tel Pennsylvania orchestra divided
honors on WIS early program.
The former played "Marche Mill
taire" and Love and Life In
Vienna" Love and life in Vienna |
must be rather hectic, judging by |
the music descriptive Of it. The |
Pennsylvania group reached out for
popularity with selections from Mo
zart's famous opera Don Juan"
Static interfered with the an
nouncements from VIDAL, Balti-
more, where that stations concert |
orchestra entertained with several
we'll chosen and superbly rendered
numbers. Songs Without Words"
and Dance of the crackcrack-
bang" CHATS what it sounded like
were played The station came
through with sufficient volume.
All we ran into was concert Or
chestras and more concert orches-
tras high-hatting the public by be-
ing called ensembles" The Hotel
Majestic ensemble" offered CLASH
cal selections from WFBH, New
York, a station which didn't come
through well at all.
Static was heavy at times on
WBZ, Springfield, and the Golden
Rule Hour suffered considerably as
a result. A Mr.. Backman offered
several violin selections, among
which was Ave Maria" We listen
ed TO several others but they were
strangers 10 US and we had no
chance to find out their names, since
the noise consistently blotted out all
efforts to be heard on the part OF
the announcer.
We had to stick our head down
into the loud speaker to get KYW's
call letters, and that only after We
mad listened TO reno" SlAsluS
Climb the Highest Mountain If
Knew You Wouldn't Follow Me-" or
something like that. That rather dis
couraged us, in spite Of the fact that
the station started to come through
louder after that.
We went over to WGY. Science
tady, which was coming through
moderately loud with WIS pro-
gram. We didn't stay.
We finally hit into Voc, Daven-
port, which. considering the eve
ming, was being quite boisterous.
There was less static and noise
there than there was on any other
station and we really think that
woo takes honors for the evening.
We were able to hear every bit of
the services without interruption and
we listened to the sermon, THE
Road to Heaven" with keen inter