The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-21
CITY SINGERS
TO COMPETE IN
RADIO CONTEST
Six Enter Race for Rich
Prizes; Broadcast to
Be by WKBF.

Six young Indianapolis men and
women have applied for entrance
in the second annual contest for
non-professional singers, to be con-
Quoted by the Atwater Kent Founda-
ton, which will be opened in In
diana with contests for Indianapolis
singers Sept. 81 and %.
Girls will be heard on the first
date and boys on the latter date.
Contestants already entered are
Harold Edwin Bean, tenor, and Miss
Eugenia Magidson, soprano, pupils
of Glenn o. Friermood, Bromley
House, baritone; pupil of Fred
Newell Morris; Miss Pauline Lam
bert, Miss Alice Arnold and Miss
Marjorie Harold.
The Indianapolis contests will be
followed by State contests for girls
on Oct. and for boys on Oct. 49,
AL contests will be conducted by
radio from Indianapolis station
WKBF.
Mrs. Frank B. Hunter, 1926 N.
Illinois ST., third vice president and
State radio chairman of the In
diana Federation of Music Clubs, is
city and State chairmna of the
cnotests, and all desiring to enter
these contests should apply to Mrs.
Hunter.
Keep Names Secret
Identity of contestants will not be
disclosed as they broadcast. Each
will appear under number and
they will not know the order of ap-
pearance before the microphone I'M
til they enter the studio.
Judging for the Indianapolis con-
tests will be by a board of judges
not represented in the contests by
pupils. Judging for the State con-
tests will be done by a different
board of judges, whose vote will
count 40 per cent, and by the radio
audience, whose vote will count go
per cent. The radio audience will
be required to vote for a first and
second choice among both boys and
girls.
Indianapolis judges have been
chosen by Mrs. Hunter. State judges
will be chosen by Mrs. Hunter and
her State contest committee, which
includes Mrs. Edward Franklin
White, DR.. Ernest G.. Hesser, Mrs.
Clarence Maxwell, Mrs. Hugh Nc
Gibeny and Mrs. Louise c.. George,
indianapolis; Mrs. Charles Arthur
Carlisle, South Bend; Mrs. E. B.
Birge, Bloomington; Mrs. Frank Van
r. Bum, Muncie; Mrs. Spencer
Norton, Bedford, and Mrs. Myra
Stewart Gordon, Logansport.
Final judging will be by a jury
Of musical leaders without radio
vote for the national contest, which
will be conducted in New York City
in December, over the National
B1cadcasting Company's network
during a Sunday evening Atwater
KEN Radio Hour. The national
contest will follow district contests
to be broadcast in November.
To Winners From State
Winners in each city, State and
district addition will be one girl
and one boy. After local and State
additions have certified to the dis
trict additions, one girl and one boy
contestant from each State, the dis
trict additions will send ten final
contestants to the national addition,
when each will receive an award.
The two winners of each State
addition will receive silver medals
and district winners will receive
gold medals. In the final additions
the two winners of first place (boy
and GRID will each receive a gold
decoration, $4,000 in cash, and two
years tuition in leading conserva-
tory.
Each second award winner will
receive $4,000 in cash and a years
tuition; third place winners will
leach receive $1,000 in cash and one
years tuition; fourth award winners
will each receive $500 in cash, and
fifth awards will be $3.50.
Principal qualifications for con-
testants are: They must have
reached their eighteenth birthday,
but not their twenty-sixth birthday,
nv tho TINA If +I1o JoooJ oo1Ea1te.