New Britain herald., 1926-12-11


 On the same night at o'clock, the Friars'. club dinner in honor of Bobby Clark and Paul Mccullough, stars of "The Rambers" now playing at the Lyric theater. one of the out otanding musical comedy hits of the season. will be broadcast through VICES direct from the clubs Monas- tery.
 Cosmo Hamilton will bring some thing new to radio when he starts his radio serial on Thursday evening at g o'clock. Subsequent installments of his serial will be a regular. week feature at VICES.
 w. c. Handy. Negro composer and author. will tell how he originated the "blues" on Thursday evening at S:20 o'clock. His we'll known jazz band will also appear with him.
 Dr. Sigmund Spaeth will also add distinction to the Thursday evening program. He will discuss, play and sing old times sentimental ballads of a bygone day and conduct memory contest on the "sob songs" of the mauve decade and later.
 "All in all I don't feel that it's boastful to say that it's a big week for WGBS," Mir. Paskman declared.
 We'll Planned Talks.
 The ability to prepare interesting talks is one of the principal points in winning and holding the appre- citation Of radio audiences, according to Sam Pickard. chief of the radio service, United States Department of Agriculture.
 Honolulu a Center.
 Radio signals from Saigon, Indo- China. and Washington, D. C.. are being received regularly at Hono- lulu. The broadcasting stations of these two cities are separated by 11,000 miles.
 Tho "Pick-Up" Job.
 To aid the broadcasting of pro- grams from points outside the studio, KDKA. Pittsburgh, maintains corps of engineers who determine acoustics of the program room and place the microphones for greatest audibility.
 WHATS New Home.
 Chain radio broadcasting will soon have a 15-story building on Broad way. New York, dedicated primarily to it's purpose. Four entire floors will be given over to the equipment and studios of the National Broadcasting company. The building is expected to be ready for occupancy May, 1927.
 Law Advice on Aair.
 Legal advice for farm listeners has been added to the program of farm talks from WMAQ, Chicago. The points of law deal primarily with farm problems.
 Joint Opera Broadcast.
 Stations WLS and WMAQ. both of Chicago, broadcast joint light opera programs. In this way, one operatic presentation is broadcast on two wavelengths, giving more listeners an opportunity of enjoying a high class program.
 Frohman Will Speak.
 Old-time theatergoers will un- doubtedly be particularly interested in the talk which is to be broadcast by WEAF. New York, WILT. Phila- delphia. and WSAI. Cincinnati, at S:15 o'clock on Monday evening next when Daniel Frohman, noted the atrical manager. will speak on the topic, What Has Become of the Stars of Yesterday" Probably the average theatergoer gives scant at tentiop to the disappearance from the boards of some famous person. ality almost in the same way as the average baseball fan soon forgets the fame of a player when he begins to slow up and disappear from the big leagues. MT. Frohman has been re- sponsible for the development of many of the stars of yesterday and today and is deeply interested in their welfare. His talk should be one of the most interesting ever sent out on WHATS wave.