New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

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 Tn commemoration of Lincoln's birthday "Gettysburg, a one-act
 drama by Percy Mackaye, the re- nowned dramatist and poet, will be presented next Saturday evening. beginning at S:30 o'clock. The playet, directed for it's lair" pre- sentation by Daley Paskman. di- rector of the station, is unique in that it is written in Yankee dia- lect in blank verse. It is one of the dramas on American historical sub jects written by Mir. Mackaye. His other contributions to the theater include "The Canterbury Pil- grims," Joan of Arc" and "The Scarecrow," which was both a stage and screen productions; and several pageants, notably Cali ban" and Saint Louis."
 The drama concerns a crippled New England cooper, who lost the use of his legs in the Civil war describing the battle of Gettysburg to his grandniece on Memorial day. As the veteran is reminiscing, he secs the parade coming down the towns main street. The martial strains and the memories of his war experiences produce miracle which is grippingly portrayed in the drama.
 The role of the old soldier will 1 be played by Howard Kyle, well | known to the stage for his many | appearances on Broadway and to radio as the leading actor on the | VICES music-dramas.- "Gettysburg" is an old favorite with MT. Kyle as 1 he has previously played in it on the stage in Boston and at a bene- | fit performance at the Shubert theater, New York. Lottie Sails bury will enact the part of his grandniece. The incidental music. composed for the drama, will be played as a background by the VICES instrumental ensemble. To Record Athletic Events An effort is being made by cleo. trical engineering department operators at the Pennsylvania State college to extend permanent lines to the college armory so that detailed and play by play results of indoor intercollegiate athletic events may be broadcast through the college station WPSC, Beginning today when three events are scheduled.
 If connection can be made in time, 1t is hoped to broadcast the boxing meet with Temple university, starting at o'clock, immediately followed by the wrestling meet with Syracuse university. At o'clock in the evening the basketball game with Carnegie Tech will be put on the air.
 A feature that has taken well with the WPSC radio audience since the re-opening of the station last month is a series of orchestra concerts put on at 1 o'clock in the morning
 How They Did It
 When Milton J. Cross. National Broadcasting company announcer, faced a mcrophone in Chicago on Friday night, Jan. 21, preliminary to the first nationwide transmission of grand opera from any stage, an audience numbered in millions heard his voice. His words carried into mansions and novels from Maine to California, from Texas to Canada, but they probably encoun- tered surroundings no more wildly contrasted than they found at thelr source and in the studios of WIZ and WEAF in New York city.
 Many of the music critics of the leading Metropolitan dailies had gathered in the studios of the two New York stations to form their opinions of the great event. In quiet luxurious surroundings, they sat at their ease while MT. Cross's voice was reproduced in loud speakers connected with the stations moni- tor systems.
 At the Chicago terminus of the wire line, however, no such atlnos- phere prevailed. Around the control board clustered many of the artists who were to take part in the broad cast, officials of the Chicago Civic Opera company and of the Bruns- wick Balk -Collender Company which was sponsoring the program. All of them had a personal inter- est in the outcome, and most of them were showing signs of ner- vousness over their parts in the making of broadcasting history.
 Mr. Cross had planned to make his announcements through a mi crophone located close to the con- trol board, but as the time for the opening of the second act of Faust" drew near. he found that the nervous tension was affecting