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

ditions made last evening on excel lcnl one for cutting the tiugcr nails by the expedient of chewing them and "gnawing" them to the cuticIc or whatever 1t is, The evening start ed off in a well bred manner, but for some reason or other, it got into evil associations which had their effect on the nights work. First Of all, there was q noise; second, there was a noise; third, there was q noise, static came in Drifting and Dream ing" carly in the evening, but it finally awoke to the fact that fans might get some pleasure out of the evening if it didn't wake up, so it put on more steam, between 9;30 and 10 o'clock, with the result that We Were ducking the cracklcs and roars before We quit altogether.
 The first thing we heard for re- cording was an insult 10 radiom, when lhe announcer a' WLSI, Prov idence, in the course of the Biltmorc hour Of dance music, popped out with the word "brOadcasted, which we all know is wrong. Don't we chil- lren? Now what is the past tense of "broadcast," Tommy? "Broadcast," :" teacher. That's right, Tommy. And youd think that announcer would have known better. Think Of all the little children who might have been listening 10 that announcer and think of the effect it's going to have upon them if they take to heart lis re-
 mark about "broadca8ted," What $ going to happen if they go through life saying that word as he said tt? What We need in this country is more easy speakers and fewer speak oasies. Epigrams flow off our finger tips just like ice from a dish pan.
 Some fellow down at WCAu, wc
 think it was. had the supreme nerv" to sing "Ycs, Sir. That's My Baby" with utterly no excuse for rendering it except that he wanted to do so. If he'd been deliberately giving pro- gram of numbers which have made people sick it would have been all right, but he didn't even have that excuse. Or if he'd 9ung it in for eign language it would have been Dassable. But he didn't even do that. He just brazenly sang the number and probably expected thousands Of applause cards for his work. He ought to receive medal for bravery.
 WING, New York, was acting real chummy all evening; in fact we have seldom heard that station come In any louder. It even outdistanced the code, and that's saying something. An informal program Of popular numbers was sung in a pleasant way by Ay Doyle. Jr., with his father at the piano. "Five Foot TWo' and Sleepy Time Girl' were two of them. One thing in that boys favor was that he didn't try 10 snatch few minutes sleep while the songs were being presented, as do many ot the alleged popular song pluggers, He put lots of pep into his work and acted as if he really enjoyed singing. La, La,
 Our old familiar hop, skip and jump racket began 10 make ttscil apparent at about 9:30 and this noise brought along one of its little play mates, an unidentified WhirrlnS which jumped on the stage and hog ced the spotlight until the static got wise to itself. When last seen it wore q certain bonnet and was headln south at terrific rate of speed.
 We "Hstened' to 6 decidedly spas modic and uncertain dance program from WBPI. New York. which is To- catcd down where the roars and raj ties and sQueals and whistles make fife just one riot after another. Then I'll Be Happy" was said 10 be the name of the number but author ities could not be reached by phone today. WBPI faded in and out with balance destroying irrrgnlarity, When that station didn't come in, its place was taken by fearful voiced soprano from WRNY, who just couldn't keep still. She was one oi WRNY's momentous finds That station is the tabloid news sheet "t inc radio world. Always springing some "sensation." Tho regular even- ing sensation is the way in which the announcer pronounces the names of some of the artists
 While the last rites were being a1- ministered al WBZ, Springfield, just previous 10 shutting up shop for the night, one Of the mos, raucous gen orator huns VIC have ever heard made itself apparent also making ns glad that the station was signing off. We hoped thoy stayed up late enough las' night 10 fix f, whatever it was that vas loose.
 T Care For Her" Jack Smith's we'll known whispered vocal com plaint. makes a tunetul foXtrot, and wc heard it las, evening as played from WGY hy an unchartcd dance orchestra. Somebody's Society orch estra it was and 1. followed fh" Grand Tour" program. The noise was something awful just about here. but the music came through comparatively well. Just a minute while We go to WIZ
 Nope. George Olsen isn't on yet. They have a rather emotional tenor, VIC think that's what he is, who is singing too slcepily and with too many rolls of the "r's.' But wait T minute. He's singing "One Little Dream or You" his own compost tlon. Wow: It's a honey. Wish you could hear it. It's a great number and our friend the tenor has H really pleasant voice, come 10 think Of it. Well, back 10 WGY-