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native sons of the Golden West claim j -." !, N J, : .'5 - t ' -V f i
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ADDITION to most of tha things
native sons of the Golden West claim
for California, the results of the four
National Kadio Auditions held since
102" indicate they can assert the
Golden State is the music center of
the countrr. Seven out of the fortv
national finalists selected from tens of
thousands of young contestants between the
ages of IS and 5 years by the Atwater Kent
Foundation h3e come from California which
leads all the states in the production of young
aspirants to radio concert and operatic fame and
fortune. And six of the seven finished either
first or second in the national trials!
Ohio, the birth place of Presidents of the
United States, can claim to be the only state
that has produced two national first place win
ners, in the persons of Miss Carol Deis, soprano,
of Dayton, who is being proclaimed throughout
the country this month as the best young woman
singer found by the 1930 Audition, and Miss
Genevieve Irene Rowe, also soprano, of Wooster,
vho won the first place honor last year.
New Orleans, with its traditions of culture and
artistic achievement extending back to the early
days of American settlement, however, is the
single city that has furnished the nation with
ten per cent of its forty young finalists four of
the young immortals being from the quaint old
southern metropolis.
Colorado and Texas may lay claim to having
provided the nation with three each of the forty
young singers and the city of Denver asserts It
self as second to New Orleans with two ot the
Colorado three, one ot them being Miss Agnes
Davis, who won first place in 1927, the first year
of the auditions. Illinois, Michigan, New York
and Arkansas have provided two finalists each,
and Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Carolina, New
Hampshire, Virginia, the District of Columbia,
Missouri. Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, New
Jersey, Mississippi and South Dakota have each
supplied one.
The Inquiring reporter who conceived the Idea
ot making a kind of box score jf the four years
of intensive search for young voices conducted
by the Atwater Kent Foundation which has re
sulted in the turning out of a chorus of i1) espe
cially good voices has also inquired what hap
pened to the young people after they were dis
coveredand what use did they make of the
opportunity and the funds awarded them by the
Foundation. The purpose of the nation wide
uditions, it was explained, has been ta 2n3
where the best voices grow and give their
possessors encouragement to go on to seek fame
and to: tune in radio work. To this end the
Fon-idation has offered 25.000 in cash awards
Hi musical scholarships to the ten finally
se. ected. The selection was made through
seiles of elimination auditions, local, state and
geographical districts. There are five of the
geographical districts and the young man and
young woman selected from each of these con
stituted the national finalists who met in New
York and sang in competition before musical
experts to determine the division of the cash
awards and scholarships.
Mors than a thousand communities held local
auditions in 1930 which year had the greatest
number of auditions and entrants. Another
feature of the auditions the 1930 contest empha
sized was the never-say-die spirit of the young
singers ot the country. In the state auditions
more than fifty per cent ot the contestants were
those who had tried in previous auditions and
failed, only to try again and win. Four of the
ten finalists this year, were singers who bad
tried before, one of them having tried out In all
ot the previous auditions!
The inquiring reporter's question as to what
the young people have done with the opportu
nities for training and cash to see them through
it, is answered in reports from the various na
tional finalists of other years of tbolr activities.
The 1930 group have Just started and will spend
their next year or so in hard study as a result
of their victories. Miss Dels, and Raoul Nadeau,
baritone, of New York, tho young man winner,
both want to do concert work and Mr. Nadeau
aspires to an operatic career. It would not be
expected that the after-careers of the winners
ot other years would run along uniform grooves.
Their accomplishments and successes have been
as individual and versatile, as would be expected
among thirty youthful personalities.
Donald Novls, Pasadena, California, tenor,
who won first award of 15,000 In 1323 has be
come a popular star in sound pictures. His sixth
picture, "Kyes of the World" already has been
released. He was presented this fall by Arthur
Hammersteln In musical comedy. He has ap
peared In such sound picture lilts us "Bulldog
Drummond" with Ronuld Colman; "Kathleen
Mavourneen" with Sally O'Nell; "New York
Nights" with Norma Talmadge; "Irish Fantasy,"
a musical picture based on the music of Victor
Herbert, arranged by Dr. Hugo rlsenfeldt, and
"Monte Carlo," a recent hit. He Is spending his
spare time studying under the direction of the
famous composer-coach, Frank LaForge.
Hatel Arth, the Washington, D. C, contralto,
1928 winner, has done extensive concert and
radio work, and is now beard every Sunday evo-
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ning in the Catholic Hour through an N. B. C.
chain. She Is studying with Frank LaForge In
New York.
Edward Austen Kane, tenor, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was recued from a business career after winning
$5,000 in the 1929 contest. He has done some
concert work and Is studying opera.
Mi3s Genevieve Rowe, the Wooster. Ohio col
lege girl, who received the J5.000 first award In
the girls' division last year, continued with her
college work and last June took degrees both in
arts and In music. With this thorough groundwork
she is now in New York studying for grand opera
with Yeatman Griffith, vocal pedagogue who
has launched a long line ot singers on successful
operatic careers. Miss Rowe, along with other
first and second place winners, has been heard
during the Atwater Kent Hour.
Miss Agnes Davis, first girl to receive the
Foundation's highest cash award this was in
1927 is now in her second year with the Phila
delphia Grand Opera. She openel the season
singing in "Glanna Schicchi" by Puccini. On
December 11th she was heard in "ThaU" and
later will have roles in "Lohengrin" and "Tann
hauser." Wilbur Evans, Philadelphia bas-baritone, has
had two years at Curtis Institute and since he
finished first in the men's division of the first
audition in 1927, has sung upwards ot fifty suc
cessful concerts in all parts ot the United States.
Cu tLe aailible screen he has been featured by
Fox Movietone and was starred In a musical
comely, "Bambino," on the Pacific Coast.
Winners of lesser positions In the national finals
have gone on carving cut successful careers for
themselves with Just as great promise as those
who finished nearer the top. The case of Marls
Healy, the Manchester, N. 11. soprano, is inter
esting and typical. Miss Healy has sung over
the radio repeatedly and has made Innumerable
concert appearances in New England, New
York and the Mid-West In between concert
engagements, Miss Healy has continued her
music studies In New York and Chicago. Last
summer she broke the record of the Chicago
College of Music by capturing the scholarships
in both singing and dramatic art, each of which
carried a cash award of $1,000.
The second National Radio Audition gave
young Wilfred Engelman, a Detroit choir singer,
his first trip to New York. He placed third
among the youths in the finals. This was bui a
prelude to greater things. Returning to Detroit
he sang "Valentine" in "Faust" and "Silvio" in
"Pagliacci" with the Detroit Grand Opera Com
pany. For more than a year now Engelman has
been in Milan, Italy, studying opera under Carpi.
Fifth among the girl finalists In 1928 the young
Cuban, Carmen Rosell, with a fine New Orleans
cultural background, has forged steadily ahead
In concert work during the past two years. She
is now a scholarship student In the New Orleans
Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art and Is
the leading soprano with Le Petit Opera
Loulsianals.
The Inquisitive scribe who endeavored to get
at the far-rcaihlng facts of the auditions, how
ever, found another phase to its activities not
to be uncovered in the records of the national
finalists the ten young men and young women
each year has favored with ca;h awards and
scholarships. The broadcasting stations through
out the country are the custodians of these
facts and almost any of the larger broadcasting
stations will show them to an investigator, the
Inquiring reporter found. There being four dis
tinct phases to the national audition local,
state, geographical district and the national
finals what rewards, if any, come to those who
lose?
One ot the outstanding facts ot the 1930 audi
tion, as already dlscloflcd, Is that reward does
coma to those who lose, in the conviction that
each of them has something to be developed, in
the knowledge that their gift must be further
developed and in the inculcation of a spirit to
try again. As has been stated, the 1330 records
show that more than CO per cent of the state
winners this yeur were singers who had pre
viously tried and been found wanting in one or
more necessary qualifications but who, aftot
further study, had won in another trial. These
the reporter found, were very real rewards it
the form of encouragement to Individuals and
to communities to continue their participation
and support.
But there is stlli another phase the actual
and material rewards ot some ot those who lost
in the audition Itself; who failed to go turther
than the state or district trials. And this phase
presents an interesting commentary on the very
lively interest in, and encouragement of, young
talent by the existence ot radio broadcasting
centers.
Like in all other centers of popular entertain
ment, a constant flow of new material Is neces
sary for broadcasting stations and a constant
Improvement of old material Is essential to
maintenance of public esteem. Broadcasting its
tions, like newspapers, sell space. In newspapers,
it Is space In inches. In broadcasting stations
it Is space in time. Both institutions are sup
ported by their sales ot this space and both de
pend on popular fancy as reflected In clrcula
tion for newspapers and In habitual listeners for
broadcasting stations to determine the value
of the space they have to sell.
Therefore the annual recurrence of the Na
tional Radio Auditions brought into broadcast
ing studios hundreds of new and unheard of
singer from the listener areas of the stations
areas In which it was very much to the advan
tage of the station to have a special interest.
Each state audition has been broadcast and
listeners have acted Jointly with professional
Judges in the selection ot the winners. The re
suit has been that not only has each of the
annual auditions brought into radio stations In
each of ths states a group of young singers never
before beard of but each has brought to the
station the best young singers from large num
bers of communities within their broadcasting
area the best, as selected by competition.
Therefor each local audition, in a general
way, and each state audition, in a very positive
way, has called to the attention of radio program-makers
not only the very best talent in
the state, but talent from sections of the stats
which it was of material and business impor
tance, should be interested in the station and
which should be established as habitual listeners.
Hence rosters of staff talent ot stations in all
sections ot the country will b found to Include
the names of perhaps hundreds of these young
musicians, now engaged at regular salaries and
providing tbs listeners of those stations with
regular programs. Statistics of what this
amounts to are almost impossible, but Inquiry
of broadcastlng'ofllclals in different sections of
the country disclosed the fact that the auditions
have supplied each of them with from one to
five new voices and In some Instances with
young people ot artistic bent whose talents as
instrumentalists or announcers were developed
after their voice, first heard in national audi
tion competitions, had called the attention ot
the stations to them.
An outstanding example of this is found In
the person of George lleuchlcr, one of the best
known announcers of the Columbia Broadcast
ing System, whose voice is also heard In bari
tone recital through that system from coast to
coast. Young Beuchler was a student in Wash
ington, I). C, when his attention was called to
the 1928 National Radio Audition. He entered
and with his baritone voice won the District of
Columbia audition. That was the same year
Miss Hazel Arth, also of Washington, D. C, the
only contralto to win a national competition,
carried away the flrct national prize. ,
Beuchler represented the nation's capital in
the geographical district competition with Miss
Artb, and though she won be lost. Returning
to Washington he was offered and accepted
position with Radio Station WRC, managed and
operated by the National Broadcasting Company.
Later he went to the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem where he Is now employed as an announcer
and artl.st.
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Whatever It may bo
tlm tiieul Is well
rounded and nmro enjoyed hen soiiio
tiling sweet llnlslii's It.
Prune Whip. Pick over, wash nml
cover with cold wilier, two dur.eii
prunes. After snaking (en to twelvo
hours rook In ilu wnier In which
(hey worn soaked. Itciiinvo (he sloius
siul put tho pulp through n conrso
sieve. To the pulp ndi oitohulf ciii
fill of augur, two (atilcmioonfuls of
lemon Juice, tho grnii'il rind of half n
lemon and 0110 third of 11 ti'Hsinoiiful
of suit. Now fold In (ho v hlles of sit
I'gns which have been IhmIcii hi Iff.
Turn tho mixture- Into a bullcicd bilk
ing dish, set In n in is of water and
bake until firm In n inoilcnii. nven.
Servo with n boiled eii-lanl or with
sweet orcnni.
Toasted Sponge Cake With Pin,
sppls. Cut stale shiii;-i cuke Into
slices onoluilf Inch (hick, (hen cut
with a biscuit cutter rounds I bo k!o
of ilneiipili slices. Spread them'
rounds with butter ami Nrlnkli with
sugar, Set Into tho oven until dell
cutely toasted mid ghizcd. 1 train tho
pineapple slices, mid to the sirup ntn'
half cupful of sugar, one tiiMeiMiiufiil
of lemon Juice, tho graled rliul of half
a lemon. Add the pineapple ami heat
to the bulling point, cook two minute.
Reduce tho heat and keep hot ready
to serve, l'liice,ii ullee of (he pine
apple on each piece of cake mid pour
oer tho sirup. Serve nt once.
French Fried Onions. Mix mid nift
one cupful of Hour, one half teaspoon
ful of salt, two-thirds of a cupful of
witter, bent until smooth; mid two
tnhlcHpoonfiils of cooking oil and fold
In one stiffly beaten egg white. Mice
ten or more onions oueelghih Inch
thick and separate Into rings. Soak In
milk to rover one hour. lruln and
dry, dip In the baiter and fry until
light brown. lruln on soft paper.
Australian Ballot Now
Universal in America
Australian ballot Is the name given
to a system of secret voting. The
minis arose from the fact that the
tMctitlul features of the system weri
first Introduced In Iv'S iu South Aus
tralia, one of the stales of the Aus
tralian commonwealth, sas an artlclo
In Pathfinder Magazine. A system of
voting modeled ufter the Aunirallun
syctein was adopted In liiigliiud In
1S7J. In the United Slates this meth
od was f!rt employed In local elec
tions st I.ouI.hIIIi Ky., In 1SSS, and
In the same year Massachuficti adopt
ed secret voting for all stato elections,
beginning In W.K The Australian bal
lot, In one form or other, finally was
adopted by every stale In the t'nlon
and It still Is employed except where
It has been supplanted by voting ma
chines, which retain the essential fen
tures of the Australian system.
According to the original Australian
system, the names of all candidates
Appeared on the same ballot, which
was compiled, primed and placed at
the polls under the direction of public
officials and at public expense; In
other words, the ballot Itself was
strictly official. The system had a
threefold purpose '.0 prevent dishon
esty In counting votes, to Insure abso
lute serrecy and to protect the voter
from outside influence while easting
Ms vote. These were accomplished
by giving each voter a separate bal
lot and compelling him to go alone
Into a booth where he Indicated bis
choice by making a mark opposite tho
names of the candidates whom he pre
ferred. The ballot then whs folded
and dropped Into a ballot box.
Its Cott Prohibitory
Beryllium is almost n third lighter
thnn aluminum, so hnrd that It will
scratch glass, acid resisting except to
hydrofluoric ncld, It lias remarkable
powers of alloying, am Its production
Is nt presetit prohibitively expensive
Fiction in Literature
Fiction is the sumo essence of poe
try as well as of palnllng; there Is a
resemblance In one of human bodies,
things and notions which are not real
nnd In the other of a true story by
fiction. Dry den.
He Could Get Headlight
Diogenes bad a most difficult task In
finding an honest man. If he were to
return to the job he would have an
equally bad time In locating a Inn
tern. Thus do we progress. Fort
Worth Record-Telegram.
Artist's T..U
The life of nn nrllst is one of
thought, rather than notion; be has to
speuk of the struggles of mind, rather
thnn the conflict of circumstances.
Hone.
Idea Worked!
Wise mothers find (ho things Hint
keep children contented, wtdl, happy.
Most of thoiii bavo found they can
depend 011 0110 thing to rcMum a
youngster's good iiutiuu when he's
cross, fretful, upset.
Tho expeilenco of Mrs. Win.
(liiirleMloii, IK ill (lliiiuro Ave., Kiiti-.
sas Clly, Kalis., Is typical, Shu says :
"I have used California Fig Syrup
with Auulo nnil I'.llly all (heir lives.
Whenever thoy'ro constipated or
bilious It has them coiurortulilo,
happy, In n Jl fly. Their wonderful
condition proves my idea works."
Physicians endorse the use of pure
vegetable 1'uJlforiilu Fig Syrup w lieu
bad breath, coated tongue, dullness,
foverl.'ilincss, IlstleHsncss, etc, show
a child's bowels need help, Wcnk
stomach iiml bowels are toned by
It; a child's appetite nnd digestion
aro Improved.
genuine uhviiys bears the name
California for your protection.
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IAX ATlVr-TONIC for CMIl tH t M
Cticr for the Chickn llnrtcj
"I'm lifiulil of my life," Ihe timid
rlllen complained Ills lawyer
"Why, she's oven (hrealeiicd to at
tack inn with 11:1 us."
"Huh! Why worryT Did ymi ever
see 11 w an try In (hop a slick of
wood "-Philadelphia Slur.
n.iutt
Muscular-Rheumatic
Aches and Pains
DR W thrm out with a "counter
irritant," l)ntrrin nuncuhr
lumtigo, sofrncss snd Ittllnru grnrr
slly reipond plruantly totood old Muf
tcrole. Doctors rail it a counter-irritant,"
became it (rtl action Snd il nt
juit a ulve. Muiirrole help buns tore-ni-il
snJ pain o the tutfarr, and thus
(ivrt natural relief. You tin Irrl how its
warming action penrtrati-i and itimu
latrs Mood circulation. Hut do not stop
with one apphraiion Apply tliii sooth
ing, cooling, Waling ointment grnrrouil
to the arlrctrd srrs once firry hour
for five hours. IVJ by millions ! f
over 20 yrart, KecommcnJcJ by many
doctors and nunct.
Keep Musterolc handy ; jan anJ tubes .
To MothertMustmle it also
matte in milder Jortn for Niblet
and imull children. Ask for C'ftf-
aren i MusteroW.
And Still Paying
"Is (his the way to neat a cus
tomer who bus been doing business
with you for 12 years?"
"For 12 years, sir?"
"Yes, I purchased a chair on the
Installment plan In 101!)." Judge.
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W. N. 'J., Portland, No. 6-1931.