New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Through tie Static

ming around the office all morning asking for signs of spring and con- sequently, we're all rattled. The weekend was d nightmare, for sure. Static. Real, old fashioned static! IL was the first onest-to-goodness eN- hibition we'd experienced for several months. and We sat at the set and gloricd, while the heavy, thunderous war-whoops issued from the speaker. Saturday evening and sunday eVe- ming were plunged into battle for first honors and we believe the iight came out tie. There seemed to be considera ble volume, however. and it was possible to bring many sta tions through the noise.
 The riot began Saturday after noon with the change in atmos- phere, from cold to warm as the rain started to come down. And then ! Saturday night it changed from warm to cool again, and continued that way throughout yesterday, req son enough for the smashing Of the diaphragms.
 We heard skinny and His Gang Saturday evening and enjoyed the story about Edward Box. We also noticed the appearance Of ne" member of the delegation Which visits the studio of WTlC each Sat urday evening, a youth who stu'ters. In the beginning Jill had a grouch on and started to whine bit but she was threatened with expulsion ana finally uuieted down. The entire ol- fering was excellent and we nope skinny continues to talk from the Hartford station. The antics of that crowd are a great aid to digestlon'
 Not content with being confined to WTIC, WBZ and WIZ for the evening, we did a disappearing act and returned home at about a. 1h' yesterday. We tuned in, but the racket was coming in with just as much pep and with the added abil''y to wind it's activities into some sort of a system.
 Rut we decided to make up for IL yesterday so We started early Tn lht afternoon, bringing in as the nrst n,,mher VITAE, at Fall River, where an impromptu. musical program was heard from a phonograph' The sta tion was greatly distorted, as usual and the music had d tinnler tone than is it's wont, we thought Alter inc program, control was switched to Providence, where the nnal sallie in inc eastern soccer championship 1 schedule was being played between pawtucket and Bethlehem. mere was q large crowd and a noisy one or hand, 5000 people the announcer said. We cant for the hte or us see how 5000 people could make such a racket without the use Of machine guns and bombs.s
 WNAC. Boston, came through louder than we have ever heard Il during the day. In fact, reception O. that station yesterday afternoon WAS much more successful than Il IS during most evenings. A program was being presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and, in addition 10 , lot of talking, the Yankee Division hand rendered several selections which came through well. Selections from the opera "Martha" were espe- cially pleasing. No fading Whatso- ever.
 We expect we'll have 10 leave town after springing this one put ifs the truth and We have all Klhds of Droof. If someone told us apout ., such a thing, wed hesitate to De- Iieve them without having heard It. and vet you have the same privilege At c:45 o'clock yesterday atterhooh' March - wait-a-minue - 2l, east arn standard time, of course, while the sun was riding high in the SKY and the air was bright and clear, We tuned in WGBG. get the letters, W-G-B-G, at Thrifton, Virginia, and va heard the announcer signing ofl after the presentation of a muslcal
 program. It was on q low wave ana
 our reception of the broadcast was
 probably just one Of those freaKf which occur from time to time. NeV-
 ertheless, we expect to be duchihg l, ridiculing friends for the rest of the
 week.
 All in all the afternoon was sue
 cess. WEAF presented the Men
 Conference; WIZ. Episcopal NespeI
 services; WGY, concert music, and
 WTIC, an organ recital, all of which
 came through satisfactorily.
 Nme. Nevada Van der Neer dld
 not show mp at WTlC last evening
 disappointing numerous fans, nc
 doubt. Why she didn't appear ~'
 don't know. as we tuned in after ih'
 rrogram had started. Her place wa
 taken by Frederick Willard. basso l whose efforts were enjoyed. Per
 sonally, We cared more for his worl
 than we should have for Mme. Val der Veer's since the male voice I transmit much better than does th'
 female. One of his numbers wa . Gypsy John," a well known concer
 selection, which was well handled = Sascha Jacobson, violinist, also offer
 cd a highly commendable program 1 We were interested in the announce
 ment that the violin he used is ove - 200 years old and is valued at s25.