New Britain herald., 1927-01-15

uary 19, by WLW, Cincinnati. This will go on the air at Il o'clock. east ern time.
 The Lee hour will be made up of three selections on the WLW organ, with Johanna Crosse at the console. The numbers will be :Dixie," Wash ington and Lee Swing and Garry Me Back to Ole Virginny.'
 Washington and Lee Swing" Is the song of Washington and Lee university, of which General Lee was president during the last years of his life. There also will be a brief sketch of the career of the great general.
 The Old Days
 The old west, with it's Indians, cowboys. gambling halls and bad men" will be revived before KOA'S microphone Monday night, January 31 at 10:15 o'clock in a special pro- gram sponsored by the Denver Post.
 The famous mining town of Buck skin Joe, Colorado, now a deserted ghost village, will come to life in a six scene musical dramatization that will bring back all the glamour, romance and high adventure of for ty-niner days.
 Secretary Davis to Speak
 Secretary of Labor James J. Davis will be the principal speaker at the 75th anniversary banquet of the well known Jewish welfare or ganization, B'nai Brith, the proceed ings of which will be broadcast by WTIC, Hartford. Conn.,, beginning at S:30 on Sunday evening, January 23. Gov. John H. Trumbull of Connecti- cut and Mayor Norman Stevens of Hartford, will make short addresses of welcome. There will be speeches by the local and national president of B'nai Birth. concert by an aug mented orchestra under the direction of Emil Heimberger. and several solos.
 Vaudeville Hits
 On the stroke of F tonight, WABC, New York, will present it's regular dance program followed by vaudeville turns from the various variety houses of Greater New York. Since the powers that be in the vaudeville world object to broadcast ing no advance announcement of the turns is made. And some of the names used may sound new to the followers of the two-a-day. but listeners in the domain of the loud speaker may be assured that an in. teresting program will be presented
 Chicago Faust" Broadcast
 The most elaborate system of pickup" apparatus ever used in broadcasting will be brought into play by engineers of the National Broadcasting Company on Friday night, January 21. at 10:30 o'clock, eastern time, sending the program, the Garden Scene of the Chicago Civic Opera Company's production Of Faust" direct from the stage Of the Auditorium to stations of the National Broadcasting Company's Red and Blue Networks. Separately, and in various combinations, 5 or more microphones will carry DOT tions of the music to a specially constructed mixing" panel installed in the Auditorium, where the differ ent parts will be balanced and com- bined by competent musicians before the music is relayed by special cir oJ Ioo ct ti,,rr Company's speech input control" at 195 Broadway, New York City, for distribution to the stations included in the networks.
 At the present time seven micro phones are hidden in the footlights to pick up the voices of the princi- pals and chorus, placed in various parts of the pit to carry the or chestral music, two concealed on the stage at advantageous points to ab- sorb solo and duet numbers, two suspended high over the seats of the audience to provide general balance and carry to the invisible hAarers the atmospheer of the opera house and one for the announcer who will handle the event.
 The principal characters who ap- pear in the Garden Scene" of Faust will be portrayed by the following artists of Chicago's great lyric or ganization Marguerite, Edith Ma son; Martha. Maria Claessens; Faust Charles Hackett. Mephistopheles, Vanni- -Marcoux; Siebei. Irene Pay doska.
 The first broadcast will be the first nationwide transmission of grand opera direct from any stage, and it is expected that it will be the first of a series of similar programs which will be broadcast on regular schedule.
 The first broadcast will bring to the radio audience of the stations in the special chain the famous Garden Scene, one of the most beautiful and colorful in all opera, including the glorious "Flower Song" 'Le Roi de Thulse," the "Jewel Song" the In vocation," the "Dammi Ancor," the "Eternello' and Marguerites song ct the window as the act closes.
 The music of the entire third act, including the work of the cast, the chorus and the. orchestra, will first be carried by special telephone cir cults to New York City, from which point it will be relayed by connect ing circuits to and broadcast from