New Britain herald., 1927-04-23
LOCAL FOLK KNOWN
 TO AIR AUDIENCES
New Britain Entertainers Popu-
 lar Before the Microphone

l New Britain stands well up on the
 list Of towns and cities that have
 contributed talent to the radio
 world The list is Of considerable 1 length and includes all types of en- | tertainment, from the highest grade
 0, classical music. down the line
 through solos, readings, instrument
 al efforts, dance music, popular 1 songs and all the rest. Every branch | is represented, except, perhaps, the 1 zither players. New Britain. as far as is known. has had no zither play CTS on radio programs.
 The whole thing started back in ! October, 1925, when the Chamber Of Commerce sponsored a New Brit 1 ain Night" program. II was a four
 hour affair, with New Britain talent i supplying the entire offering. The , Wennerberg Chorus. James Dona- hue, tenor: Mrs. Mary Crean. so- { prano: John J. Crean. pianist; George Westermann, violinist; AL bert Basnay, violinist: Harry Ward, cornetist; Arthur Gleave, cornetist: B. Madrak, clarinctist: Robert
 Young. drums; Barbara Troup, plan
 ist, Tho Hart club consisting Of
 Theron W. Hart, pianist. Mrs. Ruth Horton, soprano: Miss Jane Futile, contral'o. Morris HoaGlund, tenor. and John Lindsay. bass; Joseph C. Baebe, orGanist; Judge William C. Hungerford; the Trinity Bacchana
 lian orchestra: Paul Lucas and
 Dwight Latham. popular singers.
 those artists presented the program that evening.
 From that time 10 this a con-
 tinuous line of New Britain artists
 has passed before the microphoncs
 or the Travellers station and some of them have hranched out to WIZ
 at Springfield. Miss Grace Baum,
 con.ralto. has been heard from the
 Springfield station, and the testers,
 Stanton Ashley, Paul Lucas and
 Dwight Latham, have been engaged
 for q series of programs at that sta
 tion
 | New Britain entertainers are well known at WTIC. Isadore Rosenberg.
 pianist. is frequently heard from
 that station. as are Mrs. Emile And
 zrllaitis and Leonard C. Nolk, also
 pianists. The MendelSsohn Trio. pre-
 senting classical music on stringed
 instruments, is q welcome visitor at
 the station. and a trio consisting Of ! r ('ha,.l-c Jnhn. 1 son and Nunzio Agnello. has also ] been heard to good advantage. Church choirs have also come in ! for their share of the air. The Trn
 ity church choir, the S'. Marks
 church choir and the Center church
 junior choir, have presented pro-
 grams The F.varyman's Bible Class
 orchestra has been heard frequent
 lp, also. Mrs. Florence Jaffe. violin
 ist: John Gowan, baritone; Andrew , Basso, tenor, and Marcus Fleitzer.
 violinist. are included among those
 who have delighted WTIC audiences
 IT ore recently.
 ' Constable Frank Clynes. pianist,
 and Matthew Callahan, tenor, pre-
 sented program recently, and Fred ] Latham. baritone, Miss Dorothy
 Latham. soprano, and Mrs. Fred Latham. pianist, are frequent per
 formers over the Hartford station.
 The last three mentioned will be heard Monday evening at 1 l o'clock,
 daylight saving time, when they will appear on q joint program with { the testers,
 The roamcrs dance orchestra Of this city was also heard on one oc- casi0n. More recently. Michael Murphy. old time fiddler, presented a program Mrs \. r.. Hobart offer cd 2 reading with musical setting, one night last week.
 Of courGc. one may go further back than 1925, back 10 the pioneer days of the old Hartford 'ourant station. That was in 1923 or carly Tn 1924. X group of Now Britain went I'D there one night and offered q program. Mrs. Mary Crcan. Gerald Cream. John !. Crean and Andrew Rasso provided the program. But that old station didn't reach out very far and the results were confined 10 the locally Of Hartford.