New Britain herald., 1926-11-02
Through tie Static

Last night was one of the best in months and we don't mean by chance. There was volume, clarity, little fading and minimum of static. And. in addition, excellent distance was possible. So what more could you wish. It seems that the batteries, or something, are running down in our set, so we brought into play a six-tube portable super-het- erodyne. This set is compact and can be carrier around easily. It works out great. too, as you will note.
 We did considerable fussing and fuming around during the early part of the evening and it was about 8 o'clock before we finally gave up trying on our set and decided to use the other one, which proved to be happy decision. So this story will be an account Of results on a small set which can be carried around easily and which has loop in the door, which can be swung in any direction. The first thing we hit was WAR, Providence, while Hartford was on the air. We certainly like to talk about the feat Of bringing in the former while the latter is working.
 We'll, WAR offered vaudeville from the stage of a Providence the ater. One of the acts happened to be something we saw some time ago in Hartford. Apparently 1t was just as bad in Providence as it was in Hart ford. Especially distasteful. was one of those double-meaning songs sung by young woman, supposedly French, and certainly tough. The audience down there liked it though, judging by the applause.
 Markel's society orchestra present ed a program from WIZ, New York. This band, in spite of its high-hat title which Is stressed at every op- portunity, and also in spite of the high-hat introduction its gets from WJZ's announcers, is really the goods. The arrangements are novel and the combinations are acceptable. Baby Face'a was one of the num- bers. The arrangement was a color full one, with snappy trumpet chat ter and cascading saxophone runs. The tempo was also excellent and al- ways is.
 WCAC, Storrs, came through vo- luminously, for fact. The station was clear, except for q noise similar to that emitted by a canary when it is thrilling away down in it's throat. We can't figure out whether that was caused by the station or by another station interfering, but we'll give E7CAC, the benefit of the doubt, any way we could tune it out, the thrilling we mean. Well, we heard the end of talk on alfalfa, which wasn't any thing to send us into raptures,, but our patience was finally rewarded and we found ourself transferred to the Capitol theater Willimantic, where the music played in connec- tion with the showing of "The Big Parade" was heard. The orchestra was a large one and the microphone was arranged advantageously, so that the sound of the flutes was as au- dible as was that of the trumpets.
 More WCAC. Songs of the recent European conflict were played and we could picture parts of the action by associating the music with them. The only trouble was that the or chestra played You're in The Army Now" about 5,4SS times in rapid succession. When we saw the pie ture we didn't notice that fact, but we did last night.
 The announcer at W1lh, Cleve- land, q station that came through very well, stated that election re- turns will be given out every ten minutes this evening. All well and good. We stayed. But, when whistling soloist was announced, We departed. Not that we have anything against whistling solos, but over the radio they remind us too much of bloopers.
 
 kDKA, Pittsburgh, was holding its birthday party and so was VEAL, Baltimore. Both or them came through well, but we didn't spend much time with either. in spite of the fact that they were offering worthy features. We stayed long enough at KDkA, however, to hear a sketch called The Hunters at Home." It deals with rabid radio fan and the efforts of his wife to get him to bed. He says he must lis ten in while because he has KtI, Los Angeles, and q singer renders a song, and then his daughter says she wants to hear a bedtime story. and he says he has no time for that be- cause a Spanish program is sched-