New Britain herald., 1927-01-25

Local disturbances were largely re- sponsible for the downfall of the evening. Snaps. Crackles. Rasps. Grinding noises. Just ordinary rat ties. We were also bothered by a series of snaps and groans named George.
 But there was lots of volume and very little fading. Stations hammer ed at our gates like the Roman Le- zion, provided that the Roman Le- zion ever hammered at gates. Seems to us we have read somewhere about the Roman Legion hammering at somebody's gates. Or maybe it was the American Legion, or the For eign Legion or the Legion of Honor or the Loyal Legion. Early evening conditions were well night perrect. From o'clock until about o'clock there wasn't bit of disturbance. Stations came through with unpre- cedented strength and we marvelled, nay, we were awed.
 
 WGR, Buffalo; WTAM, Cleveland; WMBF, Miami Beach; WISE, Atlan- ta; WIP. Philadelphia: WCAE. Pitts burgh; WEAF New York; WICK, Detroit; WWJ, Detroit; WAIU, Col umbus; WBBM. Chicago; VEAL, Baltimore, and many more of the semi-locals, too numerous to men, tion, pounded in with all the force of the waves beating against the well known and celebrated stern and rock bound coast" We said to our self, Its going to be wow of night" But we should have been warned. As time went on, noises made their appearance. First an un- pretentious buzz. Then roar. Then something else which wasn't at all fuss for about five minutes. We haven't figured out yet what it was. Then somebody started vacuum cleaner. Then. motor started up. Such things kept on all evening at intervals. Static? Say, the poor natural disturbances didn't have a lookin. They were shut out com pletely. We imagine that people in other parts of the city enjoyed excellent reception throughout the evening. If it hadn't been for noises traceable to our immediate vicinity, we would | have been able to say the same thing. But a heavy motor hum spoiled the very middle of the eve ming, we might say. Of course we had no trouble bringing in anything we wanted, provided we didn't want a station too far away. But we would have been able to do much better, | had it not been for the disturbances. The Record Boys made their ap- pearance at WIZ, the program be- ing transmitted by WBJ, also. They sang lot of numbers in their own style, numbers which are decided novelties, but which will probably never assume any real popularity.
 
 The State Symphony orchestra, as it furnished the music incidental to the moving pictures, provided inter esting material for our amusement. The music was entirely descriptive of the news reel, which was being shown when we listened in, and it was necessarily made up of bits of songs. But we enjoyed it.
 WNAC, Boston, did some fancy fading which didn't interfere with our enjoyment of the music being presented. Jimmy Gallagher and his orchestra played T Never See Mag gie Alone" another of those pop" ! bits which is beginning to enjoy certain popularity. we fear. Roy Carl son, banjoist of the orchestra, played really delightful solo on the in strument, T Don't Mind Being All Alone"
 WLW, Cincinnati, provided music from Castle Farm. The dance orches- tra was worth hearing, but the an- nouncer forgot to tell where the music was coming from. He let the band play on for about IT numbers before saying a word about the sta tion. Come on! Let's have little CO.,