New Britain herald., 1926-12-06
Through tie Static

made for better volume and clarity
 although there was plenty of static
 last night, Saturday night was not SC
 noticeably statical, If you'll pardon
 the coined word. Our activities or
 Saturday were cut short because oi
 the fact that our battery needed
 charging right in the middle of the
 evening and it came near dying on
 its feet the battery, not the evening
 Saturday. We made nasty trip
 around the dials due to the fact that
 was taking a nap. We stopped at
 WTIC where we heard one number
 by the Imperial quartet of Water
 bury. This number was John Peel
 that well known English hunting
 song, and it was presented in a
 manner well balanced.
 Don Vorhees Cor Voorhees, and
 his orchestra from the Earl Carroll
 theater, New York, offered varied
 program from WIZ, This program
 was composed of mixture of class ical and popular music. The band
 presented the former much more satisfactorily than the latter, to our
 way of thinking, although the or chestra is primarily a dance organi- zation. Of course, Hugs and Kisses, v the hit from The Vanities," was we'll done.
 The usual run of dance selections was offered by an orchestra at WHO'D. Miami. The station came through loud enough. as did WGY, Schenectady, just for the sake of say ing something different. We heard WQAM, Miami, sign off at about o'clock, after it had engaged in mixup with another station. Others we brought in before 9 o'clock. the time we had to shut down and put on the charger, were WBZ, WN1C, WNAC, WLS, VICES, kDKA and WPG.
 Mm- -m- rn- m m- i'm. Oenotlng charger charging).
 Yesterday the bloopers were &C., tive, as usual, although we didn't notice as many on the air during the morning as we did the Sunday morning before. We have q sus- picion that several of them were out in the garage trying to get the car started. All well and good. We'll have to think of something to keep 'em busy next Sunday, too.
 Things came through very well yesterday. Everything within reach dashed in with pep. life and what ever else chaxacterizes vivacfous radio waves. WPG, Atlantic City, presented Walter Reed, baritone, in that beautiful classical colemnity. There Is No Death" and he made it sound deeply impressive. Accom- panied by an organ, the number was gem.
 We ran into q lynching party down at WICCO, Bridgeport. It seems there was a blooper And this bloop- CT was like all the rest Of the bloopers. He liked to annoy people, you know, just like mosquito, al- though there's very final way of squelching a mosquito. But be that nevertheless. this blooper got on WICC's wave and stayed there. sending forth @ heartrending squawk continuously. It wasn't funny at all. Finally, several other bloopers came along and they saw their comrade sitting on the wave and they said, Come along with us." And the blooper who was seated on the wave, | or the fence. as you like, said, No, I've got to annoys people, Well, then, let us up with you" said the other bloopers, "No, I'm going to be l all alone" said the blooper on the fence. And then they said, You, in surgent, you!" And they all rushed up and made horrible noise and, judging by the sound. several of them were killed, and poor WlCC | didn't stand a chance, It just stood ! there and took all that punishment
 All that took place in the after noon. We went over to WNAC, Bos- ton, where an interesting talk was heard on Repeats in Music The lecturer told of the necessity Of re- beating certain notes over and over again in musical numbers. His talk was exceedingly humorous, although . he gave out some excellent dope. Ills audience entered into the spirit Of . tn thing and proved to very appre- ciative. One of his stunts was to take the name of some of the famous foreign composers and give the Eng fish translation. Take Giuseppe Vrdi, for instance. He stated that, in English, Verdi's name is Joseph Green. Now. wouldn't that look fine," he said, "to see on a billboard the name of some famous selection composed by Joe Green'?" He also let a member Of the audience choose three notes from the scale and he a waltz from them, just to show how easy it is to write soms types of music. We listened to his talk for about half an hour.
 Massenet's "Elegy" was furnished as violin solo at WRNY, New York, hut ue arriuad juqt twO steDs head | of blooper and we fled to WIZ, where the closing exercises of the afternoon vespers at St. Georges