New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Through he Stotic


 CT! If you haven't, don't! If you nave, hoU's that new ear trumpet working? Last evening sounded like the night shift at the rolling mill. ! inc statlc was a great success, in iact It was riot It certainly took itself seriously, there's no doubt about that, at all, at all Cthe effect of the proximity of St. Patrick's Day), The noise was worse than it had been in long, long time. The static was almost continuous and we found 1t impossible to bring in wes- tern stations. Needless 10 say, 1e didn't fool around with outside of- terlngs sremaining with WTIC during most of the evening
 | A grand total Of 10000 bloopers count 'em, lo.00o) in our neighbor- hood enjoyed trying to bring in the sharkey- -Risko fight. Walls, shrieks. yells, whistles, squeaks, squeals, moans, cries, screams, croa ks, sroans, shouts bays, ye.ps, grum bles, quacks, parks hoots, chirps. varbles,
 
 to us as we were tuned in, endeayor- ing to hear something about the contest. (What contest Why, the fight. Well, why didn't you say so? did, didn't I? Oh, maybe you did. | beg your pardon. You should. I do. All right.) We forgot 10 mention that the sizzling, snappng and
 
 mosphere, causing Us to become candidate for several of the better known sanitariums, all at one and the same time. We learned that Fisko won the fight. How we found II out we don't know. It must have the ball was over Risko stepped up 70 the microphone and quoth as tolloweth: I'm glad ] won; I hope 10 make mess out of Tunncy treal brotherly thought. Hello, Cleve- land, and everybody" The punctu- stiou marks are ours. but to Risko goes the credit for the remarks themselves,
 once upon q tlme there WAS 6 Russian girl who showed aptitude toward the law and became law yer. Somebody discovered she had d great voice, too. and she graduated from 8 music school at. about the same time that she completed her Ia,w studies. One day she took part in a performance at the small opera house at Charkoff, Russia. That was . years ago. She made a sensation and was brought 10 the Moscow opera. Result: more sensation That girl was Maria kurenko, Russian nightingale, who sang in the course of the Family Party, WTIC-WEAF. last evening. We are not quite over it and probably we will never be the same. Of course, reception was per feet as far as WT1C was concerned and kurenko's voice was Of such a limpid, mellow. yet brilliant, qual ity, that the designation. "nightin- Gale,' is putting it altogether too mildly, The remainder of the pro- gram was about as usual.
 Did you hear the performance of GershNin's "Ehsp psody in Blue" pre- sente1 by the Time-To- Retire Boys? That was another gem Of the eve ming. IT it had been on the Colum- bia chain we would have called it q gem of the ocean, just to be funny. Well. at any rate, the Rhapsody was presented in all its beautiful colors. the piano parts standing out especially well.
 WOE. dance music: NBZ, also WEEI. music; WTAG. dance orches- tra; WTAF. GypsiAs: WAR, the same thing look like it.
 The Middebury College Glea club, champions of New England and fourth in America, will present q program of choral music and lighter ballads over WIZ on Thursday after noon of this week at l:3o o'clock. There are 50 singers and musicians in the organization. Last year the club was awarded first prize when it competed in Boston with other New England college glee clubs. In the national contest in New York city. the Vermont men won fourth place. . At the Boston contest there are F other colleges represented.
 Curtis D. Wilbur, secretary of the navy, will deliver an address or our Navy Requirements in the course of a program by the United States Marine band. which will be broadcast by WIZ and other stations of the Blue network. on Thursda! evening at o'clock. Secretary Will E-ur will speak from the new NBC studios in Washington, while the program by the Marine band will come from the Marine Barracks ir he same city. The address by the Secretary of the Navy is expected to begin at 7:30 o'clock.
 The presentation 10 Col. Charles X. Lindbergh. of the Woodrow Will . son Foundation's s25.ooo award for his work as good will ambassador and Colonel Lindbergh's speech ot acce eptance will be broadcast through stations associated with the Blue network. on Monday evening, Marcl 19, at o:3o o'clock. The stations trough ychich the program will bt heard. will be announced later. al though WIZ will head the list. it ii