New Britain herald., 1927-02-16
BRITAIN HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,

were heard, and the voice of tht
 director was ever to be evident, giy. ing hints as to action, directing
 lighting and other things. A re-
 markable broadcast. We heard the program through WGY, Schenec-
 tady, which came through loud and clear.
 We'll, after that we went to WICK, Detroit, where the Red Apple club
 was in session. The station was ex- tremely loud, and Charley Fitzgerald
 and his orchestra played number
 which was either "A Love in Spain'
 or "A Lane in Spain." the announcer didn't know which, since the writing was not at all clear.
 Earlier in the evening we listened to the Blue Boys from WTIC. The program was pretty fair, but we'd like to know why, in the name of all that's pretty and beautiful, Han | ford Billings cant treat those an- nouncements as if they were real. If he can't do any better than that with them. they ought to dispense with the rhymed announcements. | Perhaps it's because he isn't familiar with them, but all of them are so 1 laboriously rhymed and so evidently painful poetry that it's pitiful. They'd be better, though, if Hanford would only change his expression. He never varies his tone of voice, and that's tiresome. Come to think of 1t, the meter isn't so hot, either. It's very seldom we crab WT1C, and there are few times when its necessary, but 1t seems to us that a decided improvement could be made in the handling of those announce ments, even if the rhyming had to be cut out. We don't know who does it, but it's plain to be seen that few pains are taken with them. (No, we don't want the job Of writ ing themD
 Just after WTIC signed off at 8 o'clock for an hour, we ran across station on the same wave length, somewhere in Florida. An orches- tra played a selection mile long and the wave wasn't so very strong. At first we had the idea that We were listening to WFAA, Dallas, but after we had heard the announce ment about nineteen times we found that the call letters were as we have reported. A soprano sang "Barcarolle" from Tales of Hoff- man." Will some kind lady or gen. tleman tell us in what city that sta- tion is located?
 WLWL, New York, the bugaboo of many listeners, came in strong just below NTAM, Cleveland. Many listeners have been unable to bring in that station to date, but if they just tune carefully between WGI and WTAM they'll bring in WLWL, of WMBF. Miami Beach. If mem- ory serves us right, WLWL is be- tween WMBF and WTAM. There that's tuning fine enough, isn't it? Now, try again.
 VEAL, Baltimore. was very strong all evening, wing for first honors with WHO'D, Miami Beach. The former presented the Municipal Band of Baltimore in a regular band concert. A march, "The Univer- sity of Dayton" was we'll played. Finally the VEAL dance orchestra came on the air, busting up every thing with "A Cup of Coffee, Sand wich and You" Evidently his torical program.
 woe, Davenport, offered Dr. B. J. Palmer, head of the whole shebang out there, in a travelogue on The Holy Land" The station was very clear and very loud. We went our way, being anxious to find out out what distance was possible.
 WING, Memphis, was louder n blazes. We got there just as the read a telegram from 0 cousin Of brother of the wife Of one of the janitors of the building or some such thing. Then they signed off until today.
 WLIB, Chicago. staged the most rapid sign-off we have ever heard At one minute a dance orchestra was going full tilt, and then the an- nouncer broke in abruptly with "WLIB, Liberty station, Chicago, signing off until tomorrow. Good night" just like that and it was all i over. The wave went off the air dl- rectly. It seems as if there must have been trouble at the station. | since the announcer was in such a l hurry. He signed off at eight min l utes past one.
 KFAB, Lincoln, Nebraska, came l through very loud on 341 meters. A l University of Nebraska program was l being presented and we listened to I highly uninteresting talk by a l of the class of 1914. The