New Britain herald., 1927-04-20
Through he Static

There was a buzz the greater part 1 or the evening and, Of course vol tune had to be pretty fair. When ! there's no buzz or static or anything | else in the noise line, volume is away of, but let the stations start
 10 come in pretty fair lnd all the noises from here to Aggravation, | Arizona, will Immediately gather for ' the mid season pow-wow right on our aerial. There might have been static for all we know. There were : several brands Of noise we didn't succeed in classifying. so static might have been among them.
 Jack Delaney and his orchestra
 need more practice, The aggregation , appeared before WTIC's microphone | al ' o'clock last evening and kept it l Up until s o'clock. l. seems that { there are too many excellent dance ! orchestras from this part Of the 1 country, that are available, without ! having 10 go away up to Northamp- l ton, Massachusetts. for group , which is decidedly mediocre in its 1 performance. We were dIsa appointed in the organization. for fact. There seemed to be no depth ot tone and i there appeared to be too much mel ody. which condition gave the music the quality of not being filled out. Jack Delaney. in person." said the s,, l,,'t b1 t,.
 in person? As g piano player, he's not so bad. The soloists. however, were not so hot.
 We took a ride over to WBZ, where Jack of the Be Weeds was taking one. also. The program came i from New York, as usual and Dor othy kidded him along and then bawled him out before she had fin ! ished talking to him. They discussed
 a moving picture and it developed that Jack has learned another new word, 'acumen." He used it on every occasion, much to our delight. l Dorothy. quite jealous of the nov | ing stars about whom Jack raves, led him on in a cold, deadly sort of way, until he had said plenty about one star in particular. Tfen she lit into him and he didn't have prayer. The scene was q rather high toned eating place and we enjoyed hearing Ja2k point out q certain man as being a big executive. He said he could tell just by looking at the man, that he held q responsible position, and he got all putfcd up when the man continued to stare in his direction. Jack thought 1t was a
 case of one big business man sizing up another. However, Dorothy blew
 the idea all to pieces when she said
 the man was an under-clerk in her
 office. working for S15 a week. The
 fellow who writes the Dorothy and
 Jack sketches has a keen sense ot
 human nature and he also knows
 American slang to a TT"
 We stuck around at WBX and .
 heard George Olsen and his Music i There's a real band. Every arrange |
 mtnL IS dBOul dS CItEtT GS can De. 1,
 Full harmonies, difficult rhythms, |
 beautiful effects, all of them are
 done up brown. Of course. in the
 past wc have raVed considerably 1
 about the orchestra, but before ii
 joined up in the new contract we
 must confess that 1t was 6oing rath- <,
 IT stale. Everybody said, George 1.
 Olsen's band has about run it's
 course" We were inclined to think
 so. too. But after hearing the or i, ch"stra last night it gives us great i, pleasure to say that we and our | friends were mistaken.
 "One Sumner Night" was one of | the sweetest arrangements, with | Far Away Bells" running right up , to the tape, too. Of course, there's , no reason why the former shouldn't ] be a knockout. IL is d dead steal ! from Songs My Mother Taught Me- 1 of Dvorak, for eight bars. during |
 which the melodies Of both pieces . are Identical. That takes the gloss | of it, Well, anyway. that's not
 Georges fault. The trio sang the
 Whisper Song," or When the 1