New Britain herald., 1928-01-07
Through Me Staic

held our peace and kept quiet. Yes sir! Sizzling and cracking were flea
 tured for at least two hours. We lis tened in early in the evening ant
 were greeted by the customar, early evening noises. Then we shu l up shop for a little while and tuned in again at about s o'clock. Tn, old familiar song and dance was go
 ing on and we despaired: oh. how we despaired! Until 10 o'clock W, were forced to listen to that racke if we ventured below 40 meters ol thereabouts. We are thankful tha, there was plenty of volume and nc static; otherwise we would have been sunk most completely. After 1( o'clock conditions went back to nor. nal and we enjoyed ourself.
 Shortly after o'clock yesterday afternoon WCSH. Portland, Maine came through extremely loud. The station surprised us since we hadn't time. In fact, we were quite uncer- tain as to it's location. Some of the programs gave its location at b0S meters and other placed it on a 36l meter wave length. The latter proved to be correct yesterday. The pro- gram being offered wasn't anything for us to fall out of our chair about. It was of an advertising nature, sim iliar to those presented by WDRC, WCAU. WICC, WODA and several others during the hour or 80 before o'clock. They call them "Mer- chants Musical Programs" and we suppose they accomplish their pur- pose to some extent. Short shopping hints are sandwiched in between photograph selections. WDRC pre- sents an interesting program each afternoon at 5 o'clock. The others may do the same thing. but we sell dom hear anything from them along that line, as we .confine our at- tentions to the nearby station.
 The Cities Service concert and the program by the Anglo Persiana clicked, as usual, last night. There are two features that we'll vote for every time. whether they're adver- Using anything or not. The music is of more or less classical nature. but it is not too heavy for the aver age listener. The former organiza- ton leans more toward the popular, l while the latter chooses numbers with an Oriental savor. Both were heard from WT1C last evening.
 A double mixed quartet presented an extra fine version of Voices in The Woods" adapted from Ruben- steins familiar Melody in F." from WGN, Chicago. The group also ren- dered Victor Herbert's well known Gypsy Love Song" Both numbers were of a high quality and the sta tion came through Steadily, al- though not as loud as we have heard 1 it on other occasions.
 i We cheered heartily as Tommy Loughran, light heavyweight cham pion, successfully defended his title against Leo Lomski at Madison Square Garden last evening. The proceedings of the battle were re- corded by a quick witted sports an- nouncer at WABC, New York, which station came through with excellent volume. Other stations did their best to knock WABC out of the running, and they almost succeeded at times. Buck O'Neil was the announcer. and his knowledge of fighting terms and modern slang was proved to be ex- tensive. He kept us well posted on the progress of the game, and we found ourself getting almost as ex- cited as the wildly cheering mob at the ringside. The fight was a rough one and fast one. Loughran was knocked down twice for the count of nine, in the first round, and from then on it was a matter of deliver and receive. The fight was consider ed a great one. Tommy spoke to his friends at the close of the fight, al- though he neglected to mention those in Greenwich, Conn.
 WLS, Chicago, outdid itself for volume. It did considerable spread ing out, too. We tuned in during the Show Boat program and We were pleased to hear the Campus Flirts in a program of vocal selections. Those three girls are clever singers and they are down in our book among the very few female vocal organiza- tions to which we enjoy listening. Last night, We believe, was the first time we had heard them, but We won't miss them again if We can help 1t. They sang sam, the old Ac- cordion Man" and kiss and Make tp' among others, fitting from note to note like so many bloomin' canaries. They employ their own ar- engagements Of numbers and we like their work. The announcer who works during the Show Boat pro- gram is extremely effective, to our way of thinking.
 Other stations heafd were KNOX, St. Louis: WHO, Des Moines: WISE, Atlanta: WEEI, Boston: WCF'E, Chi cago: WEAF. New York; WNAC. Boston: WIZ New York; WOR, Newark; WTAM Cleveland; WBBM. Chicago; WGY. schenec- tady; voc, Davenport; CFCF. Mon treal; WLW, Cincinnati: WRC, Washington: WJR. Detroit; WSAI, Cincinnati: WMCA, New York; kDKA. Pittsburgh: WPG. Atlantic City: WHk, Cleveiand; WHIT, Chi cago; WWJ. Detroot: WBZ. Spring. field; CJYC, Toronto; WEI, Phila- delphia; WNYC. New York.
 That's all for today, thanks,
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