Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
Famous Folk Engage IN
search for Young Singers
CEARcHINo for singers is bsccminI

CEARCHING for singers is becoming
~ an American hobby.
United States Senator's. governors
wives. bankers and college presidents: as
well as music teachers. are devoting
leisure hours TO this hunt, judging from
the list of men and women. made pubic
TODAY. who are discovering unknown put
promising young vocalists ana noml-
mating them for the second National
Radio Addition awards Of Si7,5o0 IN
cash and free music conservatory scnoi-
arShips
Gov. william H. Adams Of Colorado
Is chairman of the State committee
which is presenting the addition oppor-
tunities TO Colorado singers. just as SIM
liar committees in 40 other States are
doing in their quest for grand opera
and radio concert artists OF the future.
Eight governors wives head the COM
u1ittees in their States--Mrs. Huntley N.
Spaulding. New Hampshire; Mrs. Tneo-
dore Christensen, Minnesota MIS-.
Isaac L. Patterson. Oregon; Mrs. Harvey
/ Parnell. Arkansas. Mrs. Robert p. Rob-
inson, Delaware; Mrs. Arthur q. Sorlie,
North Dakota Mrs. II. G. Baidrfdge,
Idaho. and Mrs. Fred B. Balzar. Nevada.
Walter w. Head OF Omaha, national
president of the Boy Scouts OF America
and a prominent banker, presides over
! the Nebraska State committee, while
other State chairmen include United
States Senator Peter Norbeck. South
! Dakota: J N Ding" Darling. inter
nationally known cartoonist Iowa: Mrs
Carrie Jacobs Bond. composer OF "A
Perfect Day" Southern California. Mrs
/ George Horace Lorimer of Philadelphia
| Pa. and Harris Dickson. author, Mis-
sissipp!
United States Senator'S Arthur Capper
of Kansas and Frank L. Greene OF YER
mont are State committee members In
their commemorative. as are also John
Spargo and Mrs. Dorothy Garfield
Fisher. Vermont authors. Rupert
Hughes novelist and playwright. Cali
fornia. and former Gov Henry j. Allen
Kansas.
Twelve university and college presi-
dents. including DR.. J. A. c. Chandler
of william and Mary College. in vir-
gtnia, and Or. w. w. Campbell OF the
University of California, are serving or
State committees. Seventeen National
Federation of Music Clubs officers pre-
side over State addition contests.
New York. Washington. Maine. Wyo.
ming and Montana are the only States
in which preparations are yet to be
made 10 hear ambitious young singers
Addition arrangements in these State:
will start this month.
Hundreds of cities in the 43 States
already organized are planning loca
singing contests. to be held In Septe.s
Der when the best boy and girl vocalist
will be selected for advancement towarc
State. district and national additions
al Of which will be broadcast by radio
so that listeners-in, by their votes. Car
~ Azf tsxv-
All amateur singers between the age
Of 10 and Is. inclusive. are eligible tn tr,
for the awards. highest Of which i
$4,000 cash. two-year conscrvator,
scholarship, gold decoration, free triI
10 Washington and New York and tn
foundations sponsorship In development
. for an operate debut.
, Sylvia Lent, young Washington vio
linist. will leave Saturday for SEA
bright. N. J.. where she will visit he
. brother Rudolph Lent, and hts family
She will then fiji an engagement /
play at Bennington. VI. and early i
August viii proceed 10 Camden, Me
, where she VIII remain until mid-Sep
TENDER Miss Lent expects 10 wor
: out some new programs for next seaso
= with Prank Bib, tn excellent accom-
/ pianist VINO Is EuHmefl1g IN maine.
! Among the engagements aIread
made for Miss Lent'k appearances nel
: season. Is concert Of s0natas TO
. played In New York IN which she wi
have a. her eo-partner in The ensenbl
] program LsEalle Spier. prominer
. Washington composer and plants
whose compositions ere Of n1isteianl
quality and decidedly modern IN form
They arr RrrkIsle niai ereTfan1 ti1s
J ls 10 inelgfe s7ia Ia by - h9Yfl
!. on" b. Ernest Bioca and one by M