New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-01-03
Through the Static

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| Saturday and Sunday evenings are of
! interest to us. Friday, as far as we
are concerned, can go jump in the
lake. Saturday night was fair for
volume, with heavy static on distant
stations, this static increasing as the
| evening became more and more SO.
| Last night was excellent for volume,
most of the time. There was no
static, although chatter appeared
| from somewhere or other and Wor-
| ried the life out of us from about 10
o'clock until midnight when we
! turned in for a we'll deserved rest
and we don't mean if.
Saturday was hot stuff as far as
| WEAF, New York, was concerned.
but if other stations hadn't been tied
up for most Of the programs, we
would have been out Of luck. We
STAYED with WIZ most Of the time.
since that station was handling the
WEAF schedule. We listened to in
augural of AL Smith over at Albany
and listened to G.. l.. Grant, the an
nouncer, describing the gowns and
such. AIS speech came through we'll.
That big blooper which has taken up
so much of our time, trouble and en-
ergy during the past week or so,
came in about 1890 and ruined the
air for about 10 minutes. When he
finally realized that his set wasn't
t,,rI, fo 1-sr, IN, hn
subsidized. Later, about 10 minutes
before the program was over. he
came in again, but We laughed mer
rily. What else was there to do?
At o'clock we went out to Pasa-
dena, California, for the Leland
Stanford Alabama football game. We
employed WBz for the purpose OF
hearing that feature. Graham Nc
Nance was up to his usual form and
he seemed more joyial than usual. II
anything. His description of the
warm weather out there will prob
ably result in his speedy demise be-
fore he gets back to New York. But
he handled the game well and the
hookup was SO satisfactory that We
might have been listening to a game
played in the Yale Bowl. There was
no wire hum and no break in the
program. 1t was we'll handled and
well engineered.
Then In the evening we heard
some of the Famous Artist concert
from VITO. We don't presume to be
critic of artists such as Ponselle,
Mccormack, Cortot and Elman as
far as their voices or their perform
ance is concerned. The only thing
that interested us was the manner
in which the program was transmit
ted and the manner in which the
voices and sounds of the instru-
ments came through. Clarity was
foremost and the performers were so
placed before the microphone that
the audience received the full bene-
fit of the superb music. Music lovers
certainly should have been satisfied,
although some insist that radio is
flop for music. In fact, some insist
that anything is a flop and that life
in general is all wet.
WSKC, Bay City, Michigan, a sta
ton from which we have been hear
ing a great deal OF late, presented
q dance orchestra which came in
very loud. ""That's A Good Girl
was one of the numbers.
WOk, Homewood, Illinois. offered
a vocal duet Of Mary Lou"
Without any pause whatever we
so TO Sunday. The vesper services as
transmitted by WIZ and the pro-
gram by the Serenaders, as handled
by WDWF, Providence, were attrac-
tive late afternoon features, both be-
ing in keeping with the spirit of the
day. At 6 o'clock the State theater
concert program went on the air
from VITO, and we listened with
keen enjoyment to every number.
The we'll known peer Gynt' suite