New Britain herald., 1928-02-10

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but static was quite troublesome. It ! possessed more continuous proper ties than it did the night before. There was some fading and condd- erable local interference.
 i Early In the evening, at about o'clock, we noticed that WNAC and WEEI. Boston stations, were break ing all records for volume. It is not often that we hear those stations coming through with such volume as was evident last evening. WNAC was put out of the running in . ahort time. when WCAE. Pittsburgh. start , ed up, causing a heterodyne whistle to overshadow the Boston broad caster. That heterodyne, while not loud. gave WNAC the sound of a run down. jerky phonograph. 8 pleasant thing to listen to, you will agree.
 We listened to many howls, shrieks and squeals, but we couldn't find any of them in the program, so we decided several things. Intersta- tion interference was terrific, was one of the things we decided.
  We tuned in CNRO, Ottawa, which presented one of the most interest ing programs on the air. of which there wasn't so very many. The an- nual Sleigh Ride was taking place and we listened to a great deal of iollity and laughter and singing and music. These sleigh rides take place once a year and entertainment is provided at fast and furious rate. People write in and ask to have the party call at their homes. which is the signal for the announcer to ded- 1 icate a number to them The station 1 came through extremely loud, al though WLW. on one side, and WJR-WCX on the other made it . rather tight squeeze at times. There's only one fault we have to find with the Winter Garden dance orchestra at WAX. Jacksonville. It is too ambitious. Last night we lis tened to Swamp Blues" played about 10 times straight. Now that's too much. A few times is all right, but 1O-monotonous.
 from WTIC, came through in good shape, although we didn't care for the show, in spite of the fact that Jim Clancy managed to keep us in- l terested in his descriptions. The show consisted of several skits and a minimum of music, but we couldn't get interested in the acts at all, for some reason or other. We'll say this 1 much. the last one was terrible. A lot of cutting up and lots of noise from what was supposed to be a comedy batter team.
 We hunted around but we couldn't find great deal of inter- esting material We logged WEAF. WJR, WGN. CFRB. WsB, WLW, WBBM, woR, WTAM. WGY. WIZ. voc. NMCA. WSAI, WCBD and i WBZ.
 ! That history sometimes errs is the claim of Mrs. Nelson Todd, who knew John Wilkes Booth and saw the Lincoln tragedy in Ford's the ater that fateful night in 1885. Ac- cording to her version the presi- dents assassin did not shout what the school books say he did. Mrs. Todd. who calls herself a young woman despite her ss years and. of course. IS right, will bring first-hant impressions of Abraham Lincon, An drew Jackson. William Henry Harri- son, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster to audiences of WOR, Newark. dur. ing the Lincoln broadcast tomorrow evening at 10 o'clock. Emmanuel Hertz will present study of the Lincoln his presidential successors knew. There will be musical selec- tions, also.
 An hour of real black-faced min. strels will be broadcast by WHAM Rochester. tomorrow evening. begin. ming at 10 o'clock. The program will be part of the annual Merrill Hose Company's Big Minstrel Show. ' Wlll,l has been yearly function a, Canandaigua, N. Y., since 1891. witt very few lapses. The Merrill Min strels claim the distinction of being among the first to produce black faced show in the United States.
 The National Broadcasting Co. vii present, through WEAF. New York and associated stations of the Red network. the proceedings of the
 Army-Navy luncheon in honor ol Rear Admiral Charles F. Plunket' and Major General Hanson E. Ely from the Hotel Astor tomorrow afternoon beginning at o'clock.
 
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