New Britain herald., 1926-04-19
Through tie Static

A weekend with no more to recommend it than have had the ! evenings stretching back into tho | past for aat least two weeks. The same uncertain volume, the same old slivery static, the same faint dis turbanccs which somehow managed to get themselves in the way of pro grams. Well, better times are ! comm. mates.
 Several fans have written in com | plaining of that old friend of ours, | the 15-second buzz These fans live | in the southern section of the city | and state that the noise during the 1 past few weeks has been so that program enjoyment has been impos- sible. There Is little that can he done about the disturbance, al- ! though engineers, believing that . they have found the source of the | annoyance, have been working 10 . secure it's elimination for some i time.
 The announcers at WTIC give a demonstration of presence of mind | each Saturday evening at the close . of the program by Skinny and His | Gang. Maybe they pull the stunt | at other times, but We have noticed l it only at the conclusion of the in- teresting period by the youngsters. Hanford Billings was at the studio | and after Skinny had finished his l talk he said, Next week Skinny and | 1 His Gang will talk about Barnum" and from the Hotel Bond. the cir i cfs man who said there Is sucker |, born every minute" There was no perceptihle pause between the two i parts of the phrase, although con trol was switched from the studio to the Hotel Bond dining room and two | 1 men took part in the speaking of ] the sentence, There was no sound l of microphones being opened or closed and 1t was almost impossible to tell when one voice stopped and the other began. The dinner pro- gram started immediately and we applauded that little trick heartily By the way, did you hear Skinny? He spoke about Beethoven, the king of music, and his talk was quite sad | toward the end. Rudy Wiedocft, king Of the saxo- | yNb York, in as fine a program as we have ever heard. The music was | aided by faultless transmission and | there was not bit of noise to be | heard, strange to say. The pure, | deep tones of Wicdoefts instrument l came through with all the volume needed and 1t stood out undistort- ed and sharp. At Downing" was 1 one of his selections and he played l l in his own inimitable manner sew eral of his own compositions, num- bers that cannot be played as we'll l by anyone else.
 WGY Schenectady. in conjunction with WIZ, transmitted notable event on Saturday evening, the ban quet in observance of the tooth an- niversary of the New York Central Lines. It was the tooth anniversary
 of the road, in that it was the cen
 tennial of the granting Of the char
 ter to the Mohawk and Hudson rail-
 road, the forerunner of the present 1 New York Central. President P. F. | Crowley of the great system de- | livered a short address in which he
 sketched the history of the road. He
 said that 1t took 25 hours to travel
 from Albany to Buffalo when the
 road first opened whereas the Em- pire State Express makes the dis
 tance In about SIX hours now.
 Chauncey M. Depew, New York's
 grand old man, s2 years of age, was
 then introduced. We have heard
 Depew in person on several oc-
 casions and we were somewhat
 saddened to note that his voice has
 failed considerably. But he is still the champion humorist among after
 dinner speakers, an honor he has
 held for many years. He seemed
 to have trouble with his throat and he coughed considerably. He told of the many changes he has seen
 since he was youngster and his
 talk was decidedly interesting. WGY
 was not very trustworthy and we
 heard most of the program through WIZ.
 The announcer at WCAC, storrs,
 this state, was asleep during large
 part of 6 program presented Sat
 urday by the Girls Giee club of
 somewhere. This organization sang selection after selection without one
 word from the announcer as to
 where the station was, who was sing ing or anything else. That gave us
 a large, healthy pain. The station i, came through with its usual rasp, caused no doubt by humming gen.
 erator. There was lots of volume,
 however.
 3 The organ recital from WIG yes
 terday afternoon proved 10 be a flt-
 ting one with which to end the sea- : son. Transmission was excellent and
 the full tone of the organ came { through at all times. The music . was awfully classical, but it was enjoyed. We also heard the pro-
 gram from WDRC, New Haven, r which was broadcasting the event.
 "The Merchant of Venice" one of
 the Shakespearean Hour programs 0 from WEAF, was broadcast by ,. WTIC without any previous an-
 nouncement. It compared In per h formance, favorably with Julius |, Caesar" which was presented by
 WTIC last week. Finished actors . are employed in the performance , and we felt that We had heard the T beautiful play done as well as pos