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SATURDAY. Eastern Standard Time. ls Note—Asterisks ( *) Indicate Pick | of the Programs. Figures to the left of call letters in- | dicate kilocycles; those to right, | meters. | New England Stations | 630—WTIC—Hartford—476 Dinner music, the Hub Restau- rant trio. a. Contilena (Lemont);b. Chant sans Parole, Opus 2, No. 3| (Tschaikowsky); c. Valse Bril- lante, Opus 34, No. 2 (Chopin); d. Nocturno, Opus 54, No. 4 (Grie €. As My Dear Old Mother (Dvor- ak) A Dream ( { ws '—To be announced 45—Songs a. At Dawning (Cadman); b. Vil- lanelle (Dell-Acqua); c¢. From the Land of the Sky Blue Water (Cad- man); d. Italian Street Song; G » Root Merriman, soprano; , accompanist continued: a. Sevil- b. Melodie tlar Period: &. » Alone; b. Gone Your Arms g (waltz); d. As Long As I'm “What 1s | Agrict Morris E. nnecticut Fed- Hymns, Mrs. lHere or With Yo 30-—Bible Done iod, Being at tate » Kilby, reader tions: \ Love (song) Dixie (h: World is W nica); Wooden Soldiers (bone g Bird (harmoni Drum Corps (bone n of Bugle Call ca); h. (imita- wrmonica on Field o Barnum's Steam ( b. Marc! Song (Poole); tor (Bidgood). : Bill thilda Palle Spirit of Doodle; Michael Barry, Julian Palms, Jo- | seph Ferguson. The Band: a.| March: Le Tambor Major (Tur- pin); b. Old Irish Song: Ilene Ar- ron (Turpin). Song: Silver Moon | (Ernest); Bill Sweet, yodler; Ma- thilda Palleit, accompanist. Trio: Spirit of '76: The Troop; Michael , Julian Palms, Joseph Fe Band: Sacred Marc wward Christian Soldiers; March, | The Call (Shrimpton) Popular Selections, Leon Hatton 1:15—May L. McAvine 30—Program of compositior Call of Love Woodford, accompanis he tenor; Sydney Green, | Piano Solo: From Spanish Days (Friml); Sydney Green. Tenor Solos: a. Betty; b.| Drifting With You; Watson Wood- ford, | 9:45—Contralto Solos: a. Good Bye, Sweet Day (Kate Vannah); b. Lilacs (Rachmaninoff) (Pearl Curran); d. All th In Love (Woodman); e. I bama Coon (Starr); mans Hobson, contralto Stanlee Barelett, acc 10—Weather Worthy orche SUNDAY AT WTIC. 4—State theater concert; Bert Wil- lams, conducting: (I) Rako March (Liszt). (II) Cello Solo, The Swan (Saint-Saens), Roy Tuttle, soloist. (IT1) The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss). (IV) Bassoon Solo, To a Wild A. Kirchner, ist. (Herold). (VI) Bells (Addy Love Song: Told Me So apd the Rose (Jacques G Un Peu d’Amour (Silesu); d. T Perfect Melody (O'Hara). (VIII) Suite, Dwellers in the Western World (John Phillip Sousa): & The Red Man; b. The White Man; Man e Waltz of the itt). (VIII) Four Your Eyes Have Blaufuss) 1120—WD progress EX 1050—WI1CC—Bridgeport—285 —Dance pr idio prog -Taxi Period s male quar vy orchestra 1 orch WEAF WNAC—Boston—130 announce music estra; popula Fay and R '—\WEEI—Boston—3 48 ickman and Kogos i songs | and plano I 10:30—Trio 11:30—Dance orchestra 12 mid.—Saturday Nighters 2—Dance orchestra $80—WMCA—341 6:30—String ensemble 7—Orchestra 7:30—Chat —Studio program 3—Ray McKittrick orchestra 4—Freddie Hewitt, ukulele 4:30—Charles Di Gaetano orch. —Lido Venice orchestra 7:10—Radio forecast and weatk 7:20—Venice orchestra 0—Newspaper Sidelights §—Clara Baker Trio $:30—Pirates of Penzance 9—From New York 10—Cruising the Alr 10:05—Hockey broadcast Boston-St. Patrick's game. 680—WLSI—Providence—441 10—Hotel Biltmore orchestra 620—WJAR—Providence—185 6:30—Val dance orchestra 7:30—U. S. Army band §—"The Political Situation $:15—From WEAT Musical program Talk, F. M. Hathaway New York Stations AF—492 Policy association 11:30—Ukuleie Al Bert —Orchestra ntertainers orchestra port gossip ~Talk; social activities the | > 9 o ks Eastern Stations 761 —WBRS—Brooklyn—394 —Jim Martin and troupe 11—Theater hour 1250—WTRC—Brooklyn—210 wick Ramblers William H n, —WAAT—Jersey City— a Josephine Levando: soprano ie Carroll, pianist phine T lio concert ip Krumholz, baritone {. I\ & Co., songs Anders, recitations 5 luncheon leve Cootang 10—w0 l\n\vnrk—-]O.'l s n0 | 2:30—Henry Kost, teno Betray Them-|, 45 Arnold Weiss, violinist ~Conroy and M piano duo Mildred Lakestream, sopran 3:30—Piano duo 45—Mildred Lakes! mble Jance orchestra nks rt or riminals alk nd Bits,"” musical comedy | um, sopran 10—Vocal s 10:10—Dance music 11-12—Orchestra 660—WJZ—154 nce orchestra Weather reports :05-400—Saturday dlscusslon; tional Republican club -WJZ orchestra restra ide, contralto; C with orchest lent cor hestra concert trio lerican artists’ recital News hulletins orchestra Na- -A. E tenor, h s Healing, soprano Mark Hooley, bass - ling, imitations rd Welsh, pianist idio program 1140—WAAM—Newark—263 O0—Dance orchestra WGBS—316 A. program llmeth, sports illian Chadwick, S—Junior Order band Irma Gray, soprano Orchestra 1070—WDWM—Newark—250 4-2 a. m.—WPCH program —WODA—Paterson—39 1 —Popular songs Dance mu Lillian Shore, songs with tiple banjoist 10—Orchestra 7:30—Frank Short, critie ~Clifford C y, “Numbe —Male octet ongs; Man- 10:30—Dance orchestra 570—WNYC— 7—Herman Neuman, planist ‘Bronx County Hospitals" —Police alarms waiian quartet ard Oxley, trump Mixed quart 0—Frolic 90—WOO—Philadelphia—508 —Band, Jrehestra 760—W FI—Philadclphia—395 mble 9:15—Annual dinner, 1 d; Comptroller 590—WIP—Philadelphia—508 1—Organ recital j—Orchestra 9—Dinner music Department of Agrict Pianologues Bedtime story and roll call ytorial orchestra son, violin »—Alfred Hall's par Matty Levine, hel Zimmerman, songs and h: i —Ralph Wilkins, tenor —Raymond W. Ma rty, song, company humor “red Bell —*"“The Gree “Glad Singer” Robertson, Wackendorf, 0—Organ recital “Dance orchestra 1or : 25—Dinner music 680—WGI 6:05—O0rck 7—String ensemile —Bob Schaeffer, 40—Lester Steele —Harold Land )—Donnelly and Me 9—Opera company 10—Harmonists 10:30—Variety 090—WMSG— and Mrs. Bobby adio ensemble sort talk —Ellin Vanson, 183 tenor mandolin orche 0—Dance orchestra 1185—WSYR—Syracuse—353 nee —Schenectad y—380 Music from Onondaga hotel —Part of Buffalo Hour Trom New York -Damroscl symphony orch tra from New York —From N 11—Dance music sopr prano contralto aritone prano; violinist Srnest Herman ulictte Long, Mar- progr andoski, soprano and organ, trumpets | on, violinist |8 NEW RRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, FE Hits and Bits from WEAF New York Symphony | 10—Orchestra 10:20—Etzi Covato's orchestra | 11—Fort Pitt program | $33—WMBS—Harrisburg, Pa—360 | +—Municipal Improvement celebra- 11— ts nut Kracker Klub ensemble | Southern Stations | 640—WRC—Washington—469 G stra from WEAF talk ct play from WEAF musical comedy troupe In commemoration of Lincoln’s| {birthday, “Gettysburg,” a one-act |drama by Percy Mackaye, the re- {nowned dramatist and poet, will be | presented next Saturday evening, | | beginning at $:30 o'clock. The |playet, directed for its “air” pre- |sentation by Dailey Paskman, di- |rector of the station, is unique in| that it s written in Yankee dia-| 0—WHAS—Louisville—399 lect in blank verse. It is one of the rihur Fielding, baritone, and |dramas on American historical sub- { ing artists jects written by Mr. Mackaye. His| 700—WSB—Atlanta—i128 other contributions to the theater' A. band linclude “The Canterbury Pil- | chiool lesson grims,” “Jean of Arc” and “The recrow,” which was both a |stage and screen production; and |several pageants, notably “Cali- | ban” and “Saint Louis.” Bedtime story The drama concerns a crippled —Andrew Jackson hotel orch. | New England cooper, who lost the - ck Keefe and studio pro-{yse of his legs in the Civil war, | describing the battle of Gettysburg | | to his grandnicce on Memorial day. | |As the veteran is reminiscing, he |sees the parade coming down the |town’s main street. The martial | strains and the memories of his | war experiences produce a miracle which is grippingly portrayed in |the drama. h | The role of the old soldier will |be played by Howard Kyle, well known to the stage for his many ances on Broadway and to the leading actor on the: S music-drar “Gettyshurg” is an old favorite with Mr. Kyle as | he has previously played in it on [the stage in Boston and at a bene- [fit performance at the Shubert | theater, ew York. Lottie Salis- bury will enact the part of his grandniece, The incidental music, | composed for the drama, will be played as a background by the WGBS instrumental ensemble. To Record Athletic Events An effort is being made by elec. {trical engineering department operators at the Pennsy | State college to extend permanent | |1ines to the college armory so that detailed and pla results of indoor intercoll athletic |events may be broad through | the college station WPSC, Beginning | |today when three events are {scheduled. . | 1f connection can be made in !time, it is hoped to broadcast the | boxing meet with Temple university, | starting at 2 o'clock, immediately |followed by the wresting meet with ity. At 7 o'clock in the evening the basketball game | with Carnegie Tech will be put on | the air. | A feature that has taken well |with the WPSC radio audience \since the re-opening of the station ast month is a serics of orchestra | concerts put on at 1 o'clock in the morning. 1060—WSM—Nashville—283 Announcements 9:30—Artist al —Dance music 630—WBAP—Fort Worth—176 $:30—Sund. hool review —Popular musical program THS—Hot Springs—375 attractions 1127—WGHB—Clearwater—266 ~Popular music; talk tudio recital; band 10—Dance music 750—PWX—Havana—100 —Dance orchestra n songs nce orchestra Mexico Clty—410 ; music ZE—Mexico City—350 weather; lecture | | Western Stations 70—WTAM—Cleveland—389 i Orchestra udio concert 9 nphony orchestra 10—Vaudeville 920—WSAI—Cincinnati—32 orchestra mid.—Dance orchestra 920—WKRC—Cincinnati—326 { 10—Dance orchestra { 11—Blues and Ballads [ 11:15—Dance music 710—WLW—Cincinnati—322 Organ Radio club e Farm 0—Special feature 0—W WJ—Detroit—353 —TFrom WEAF —WJR—Detroit—517 s0loist How They Did It When Milton J. Cross, National | Broadcasting company announcer, | {faced a microphone in Chicago on Friday night, iminary [to the first nationwide transmission and opera from any stage, an audience numbered in million: ard his voice. His words carried |into mansions and hovels from! Maine to California, from Texas to' | da, but t probably encoun- tered surroundings no more vividly | contrasted than they found at their | ource and in the studios of WJZ and WEAF in New York city. Many of the music critics of the leading Metropolitan lies had gathered in the studios of the two New York statlons to form their eveuts; gpinjons of the great event. In quiet luxurious surroundings, they sat at their ease while Mr. Cross's voice |was reproduced in loud speake connected with the stations’ moni- ‘,Lor systems. At the Chicago terminus of th wire line, however, no such atmos- |phere prevailed. Around the control Iboard clustered many of the artists | who were to take part in the broad- cast, officials of the Chicago Civic | Opera company and of the Bruns- | wick - Balk e -Coliender Company | which was sponsoring the program. | All of them had a personal inter- lest in the outcome, and most of |them were showing signs of ner- vousness over their parts in the | making of broadeasting history. | Mr. Cross had plannned to make | | his announcements through a mi- ;cmphonc located close to the con- trol board, but as the time for the |opening of the second act of aust” drew near, he found that the nervous tension was affecting rchestra; | Studio program Merry Old Chief 1110—WGHP—Detroit—270 §—Musical program Lansing—286 { | CHICAGO IS ON THE AIR TO- NIGHT. 1070—KMOX—St. Louis—280 udio recital —Harmony singers; soloist | 11—Musle; weather |11:15—Dance orchestrs . Louis—. current 5 Review of music 0—WCCO—Minneapolis—116 concert WEAF e | 11—Market reports; | 11:05—Dance music $20—WDAF—Kansas City—366 hool of the Air Sume as WEATR Nighthawk ¥ 930—KOA—Denver—322 | 12:30—Dance music 710—KHJ—Los Angeles—105 “hildren’s program; music News; quintet; soloist 830—KGO—Oakland—361 ort talk Organ recital | NRW—Winnipeg | 11—Dance music 690—CKCL—Toronto—435 7—Dinner music 690—CKNC—Toronto—1 | Rochester estra ~Totman and Wack B Buft F 940—WGR— alo—319 mid A—Pittshurgh—3090 y Wes an Leglon g nd Kroll, Merm, 976—KD) ~Ethe! gHe Giles 0'C Talk Ra. \estra 650—WCAE—P 3 3 1 It itshurgh— _at “WHEN IN HART DINE WITH US Everything we serve very best, If you don’t believe it come in for a test. DRIVE YOURSELF— 25¢ an hour—I0c. @ mile. Speeinl entes for fong trip C-DRIVE AUTO RENTING Cor Sy monr and Kl Phone 3981-2 Day and Night Service is the 00, | Wholesale and Retail Depart-. | ment in Connection. 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The footlights brightened, the curtain rose on the famous “Garden Scene,” disclosing Irene Pavloska in the costume of Siebel, the boy, picking a bouquet to lay on Marguerite’s doorstep. “Faust” was on the air through one of the largest chains of stations ever linked together for a broadcast event, and the United States was listening in. Through the telephone, Mr. Chat- field directed the switching of the various microphones from the con- trol board, and at the mixing panel Mr. Grossman manipulated the con- trols. By his side, listening to the pickup, was the assistant conductor of the Civic Opera company orches- tra, indicating minor changes in the amplification of certain microphone channels which were being combin. ed as his musically trained ear told ngl he searched for a quiet spot and discovered a small room under- neath the stage, not far from the control board. The announcer’s mi- crophone and a buzzer were quickly installed in tbis small room and Cross locked himself in. Telephone engineers had complet- ed the details of linking 26 stations into the special chain, and the tele- phone circuits had been tested to make certain that they would trans- mit without distortion the tones in- cluded in the wide frequency range involved. At the Chicago end of the curcuit, the mixing panel developed and installed under the supervision of Eugene F. Grossman, Assistant Manager of the Operation and En- gincering department of the Nation- al Broadcasting company, was ready to blend the variius elements of the music absorbed by the 15 se. parate microphone channels in the auditorium into a smooth, well bal- anced unit in which every portion would posses proper emphasis. Pre- siding over the special mixing pan- el was Mr. Grossman. Posted at an advantageous point in the auditorium proper was Ger- ard Chatfield, National Broadcast- ing company director of programs, with a telephone connecting with best balance. All over the country, listeners were being held spellbound by the sheer beauty of the music. In the studios of WJZ and WEAF, the mu- sio critics were expressing amaze- the mixing panel and a diageam of | MeNt over the fidelity of the repro- the auditorium stage as set for the | duction. But in Chicago, Chatfleld, opera, With the location of all the | GTossman and the assistant conduc- S ronchn it | tor went quietly on with their in- ot dividual tasks, while artists and e “supers,” awed by the knowledge fleld, the “first night” of the na- ™26 “Waust: wes being heard by tionwide broadcasting of grand opera came as the climax of weeks of planning and ten days of inten- sive effort of grueling, hard work, proving that the thing could be done, While four or five micro- phones had been used in picking up orchestral concerts on former occasions, no one had ever at- tempted to combine the output of 15 microphones until the experimental work was begun in preparation for the transmission of the Chicago Civie Opera company's production of “Faust.” For over a week, Chatfield and Grossman had attended rehearsals and performances of the Civic Opera monitoring the music on their pick-| And you certainly will be if you up em, the most claborate ever|are not tuned to 370 meters, at 9:15 used in rdio broadcasting. They had | p. m. Thursday, February 10, for listencd to. the results with head-|at that time WEBH and WJJD, phones and loud speakers, consult-| Chicago, America’s twin stations ed with musicians as to the manner | will broadcast twenty scheduled in which the output of the pick-up|rounds of the best boxing show in instruments should be blended. They | months, had constantly shifted the positions| The broadcast will introduce Spug of the microphones on the stage, in| Myers, who recently fought a draw | the orchestra pit, the proscenium ith Billy Petrolle, and “Mushy"” arch, over the heads of the audience| Callahan, junior welter-weight - r;mr uditorium, in the wings and | champion In one ten round feature backstage. They had tricd every possible combination of microphones and musicians who had listened to the | music over the monitor system had helped them with the fine points of | amplifying and combining the sepa- rate portions of the music. They had experimented for hours on end to insure that shifting from one combination of microphones to an-| other would not result in a notice- | able break in the continuity of the music, but that the melody would flow smoothly from one set of in-| struments to the next. They had paid particular attention to the lo- | cation of the artists on the stage and their movements during the performances. | The firsé act of “Faust” was fin- | a 1 minutes before the it of the opera had ex-| pected, necessitating a longer inter- | mission between Acts I and II than | had been surmised. Twenty-six| broadcast programs had been ar-| ranged to start the transmission o e second act at 10:30 p. m. east crn standard time, and the act| could not begin until after Mr. Cross had made his preliminary an- | nouncement, At exactly 10:30, Philips Carlin, in the studio of WEAF, grected the radio audience of the 26 stations and told the listeners what was| bout to take place. As he finished fr. Grossman touched Mr. Cross's| buzzer and the announcer, locked in the room, opened his microphone and in the shortened time allotted him on account of the long inter- mission, set the Invisible stage for num- Grossman and Chat- | sembled for an operatic perform- ance, clustered about the control board, and guards stationed in the wings and backstage kept everyone ;away from the microphones, in or- der that no extraneous noises might be absorbed with the music. At 11:28, eastern time, the curtaln descended amid the fiendish chuckles of Mephistopheles and prolonged plause from the audience in the auditorium, In the locked room, Mr. Cross again spoke into his mi- crophone. Grand opera had been | successfully carried to the nation. Boxing Events on Thursday “Eight—nine—t-e-n, you're out!" WINNERS of th 3rd Prize, D. E. 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Local Organization On the Air The Teutonia Maennerchor of this city, a chorus of 25 male voices which recently won a prize in the state German singing contest, may be heard in a program from tha studios of WTIC, Hartford, on Mon- day evening, February 14, at 8 o’clock. It is seldom that this organiza- tion, which enjoys its fourtieth an niversary this year, fs heard out- side its own exclusive circle, and | The Travelers station in offering a concert by this group to its vast un- seen audience is giving them some- thing worthy of attention. May Boost Power Since the advent of “chain broadcasting,” WOR at Newark has teen approached to combine its facilities with those of other lead- ing stations in various parts of the country and the owners of WOR are at present considering such a step as a service to listeners and to broaden the scope of the metropoli- tan station. The WOR antenna is located atop the Bamberger build- | ing in Newark and its main studio |is at 1440 Broadway, New York. | WOR is quite generally credited | with several radio innovations, | among them th2 early morning Well- | ville Gym Classes, the nightly Bed- time Story for children, and the broadcasting of dinner music from varlous New York hotels. Roxy Coming Back. v with his familiar “Hello | Everybody,” a greeting known to | thousands of radio fans, will be hack on the air in a series of weekly broadeasts within the next month. This fact was made known today in | an announcement issued by officials of the National Broadcasting Zom- pany stating that he and “His Gang” would be heard through WJZ and the affiliated stations of the N, B. C's Blue Network, WBZ, Bos- ton and Springfield, KDKA, Ditts- burgh and KYW, Chicago, as well as the southern division, WHAS, Louisville; WMC, Memphis; WSE, Atlanta and WSM, Nashville, The exact evening and time of this re- vived presentation will be given of the (Continued on Page Twelve) Morell’s Radio Co. 176 ARCH STREET e Franklyns Sets 1st Prize, Mrs. Confiette, 50 Erwin Place. 2nd Prize, G. H. Hunter, 131 Winthrop Street on, 593 West Main Street SALE ON SUPER 5 RADIO Set Less Equipment $49.5o COMPLETE: 1 Hartford Battery 1 Loud Speaker 1 Speaker Plug WELL, HENRY- WHEN THE BELL RANG TWICE | KNEW MRS BLOWER WAS ON THE LINE_AGAIN- AND ! DIDNT WANT TO MISS ANYTHING !, CROWLEY BROS. INC. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS THE HONISS Camp Real Estate Co. 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