New Britain herald., 1927-05-03
Through tie Static

| Last night was outstanding for
 volume. there's little doubt about l that, and we don't think any of you
 will disagree. The first part of the
 evening was excellent. not to say su- l perb. But, as the night wore along.
 up popped the old. old story and 1 static. It crept in and before mid l night it was pounding away in all its /, splendor. the volume of the stations counterbalanctng it, however. The louder stations were not affected, but 1 We didn't try to listen in on any
 thing unless it was tearing the dia- phragm out of the loud speaker to see wl-at made it go.
 Roxy and His Gang entertained for the third time in as many days. About three days more and we'd be- gin to get tired of the Gang. but we 1 didn't notice that we had lost inter- 1 est last evening. Our set was with WBZ. one of the stations broadcast ing the program from New York, from 7:30 until o'clock, when the Gang quit until next Sunday. A guest artist was present in the person of one Mischa Levitski. pianist of no l mean ability. He played two num- bers. one of them Sixth Hungarian
 Rhapsody" by Liszt. Levitski is rated among the best in the business in this country, and his excellent work was enhanced by 8 perfect sounding piano. We have seldom heard one that reproduced as well as that one did. Other high spots were the song of Gladys Rice,' "The Little Fellow With His Mammy's Eyes"
 Miss Rice possesses a voice that just seems to "get" one, and she has a laugh that is a knockout. That laugh was brought into play when Roxy was joking with her .n his usual manner. Then Frank, the comedian, used his really good baritone voice to sing. T Want to Sing Grand Opera" It was about as distorted as anything we have heard and was put on in such manner that it sounded awful, which is the purpose of the song, after all. We got quite laugh out of it. Frank sounded like one of those amateur singers. with a little voice culture, who is sure that he can knock Gatti-Casazzi for a row of the well known pup tents. The male quartet sang two light numbers. Hop, Along. MT. Toad" and My Little Banjo" both of them offered in true quartet style. The Good Night" quartet from Mar tha" was the closing number by Roxy's Mixed Quartet. It was pleasant hour and a half, no doubt.
 Andrew Basso, tenor, we'll known New Britainite. may be heard with Roxy in the future. Basso has a re- markable voice which has been care- fully trained, and he should be one of the stars ill the gang. He was to have a tryout yesterday or today. We wish him luck.
 Over to WTIC, where We heard part of the Capitol Theatsr program, with Jim" Clancy as guardian angel. Judging by the applause that greeted the act we heard, 1t was whiz. It was all about an auto salesman try ing to sell car to a young lady. And what he told her! Some Of the conversation was rather hard to get because the characters were too far from the mike.
 WJR, Detroit, came through loud with dance orchestra which played valencia" Right after that the sta tion signed off, and good reason why.
 
 Then we went over to WNAC, Bos- ton. which was breaking through very loud. Jimmy Gallagher's orch estra played All I Want Is You" with not whole lot of background.