New Britain herald., 1928-02-20
Through he Static


 of melodies for the folks at home, were featured on Saturday evening. and they made such hit that they presented an encore performance last night. But they overdid it. Says we. Leave 'en hungry" Cause we've seen too many acts flop on ac- count of too many encOres. Give 'em one or two bows and call it quits, but don't let them get sick of you. Do your act and don't do any more. even If the customers want it. Better to have 'em say, '"They didn't give us enough" than to have 'em shout out, They was good. but they over did it." That's the way it was with the bloopers. They were too good natured and, as a result, they re- sponded to all the encores and killed themselves.
 On Saturday night volume was heavy and so was the static. at times. There was little fading thrown in just to make things inter esting. Last night the volume didn't seem to be quite as heavy as 1t was on Saturday and it was difficult to bring in some of the stations. There was no static, but. as we said before, the bloopers were exceedingly ac- tive. Fading. too.
 The High Jinkers presented an- other of their delightful programs from WEAF Saturday. The program was absolutely informal. as usual, and a good time was had by every one. Guy Hunter was one of the best performers on the program and we heard him sing two numbers, ac- companying himself on the piano. "Way Down South in Heaven" and How I Love My Boatman." The quartet presented pleasing inter pretation of Honolulu Moon."
 Ev Jones and his orchestra op- peared on 8 commercial program from WTAM. Cleveland, SO the mys- tery Is at last solved. We'd been wondering where that aggregation had disappeared to. Tin Pan Pa rade" was one of the numbers and the closing offering was Rhapsody in Blue" excerpts from that selec- tion being presented. The station came through extremely loud.
 Through WTIC we heard part of the tabloid version of the light opera Princes Pat" It was well sung, there's no doubt about that, Jessica Dragonette was heard in the leadi- ing role and we might say that she had . heavy part to take care of. And they lived happily ever after" Tho Old Stager was his usual engag- ing self. explaining the various parts of the presentation in his familiar good -natured manner.
 Weekly barn dance from WLs, Chicago; dance music from CFRB, Toronto; chamber music from WRC, Warrington; dance music from WJR, Detroit; boxing bouts from WING, New fork.
 Frank Dole, WIZ speaker, was heard from WEEI. Boston. last eve- ming. He was invited to speak over WEEI and he accepted, speaking along the general line of Dogs" He sought to prove that the best friend of man and of woman is the dog. which everybody acknowledges any way, so why try to prove it? MT. Dole, whose interesting talks are fea- tured over WIZ, is in Boston to att tend the dog show.
 The weekly dramatization Of stories, together with the dialogue between Uncle Henry and The Edi- tor. one of the most interesting pro- grams on the air. was heard last night through WIZ and WBZ. One of the stories dramatized was a strong story of the briny deep, Scum of the Sea" The speaker of the evening was Merrill Crowell. we'll known magazine editor, who spoke on What Main Street Means" Next week the guest speaker will be Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith of New York. who will deliver a talk on Wash ington (George).
 We didn't reach out a great deal last evening because of the fact that there didn't seem to be a great deal of interesting material on the air.
 
 An hour of folksongs and spirit