The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-02

Times Endurance Contest
Opens Wednesday Night
in Lyric Ballroom.
LAST AWAKE is WINNER
Special Prize Is Offered for
Best Guess as to Time
of Event.

The Indianapolis Times. with the
Lyric theater, the Sylvania Forest
ers, and city radio dealers cooper
ating, will sponsor the most novel
radio event of the year, starting
Wednesday night at 7:3o In the
ballroom of the Lyric theater.
When Milton Cross, noted an
nouncer. sounds off for the start of
the Sylvania ForesterS program at
that hour, the contest will be Off
cially under way, listeners en-
durance contest that will last until
competitors except one have sue
cumbed to sleep.
The last contestant awake wins a
$500 radio receiving set and there
will be other attractive prizes, do
mated by city radio dealers. Five
women are among the thirty-two
contestants entered up to noon to-
day, and a special prize will be given
one of them. Regardless of whether
a woman outStayS her male rivals,
the woman longest in the contest
will get one Of the best radio sets
obtainable.
A Prize for Best Guess
Then there will be a special prize
of a high-claSS radio set for The
Times reader who can guess nearest
the exact time which the event win
last. A coupon will appear in The
Times Tuesday on which to register
your guess and it must be dropped
into a "guess box" which will be in
stalled at convenient place in the
Lyric ballroom.
Five hundred seats are available
in the ballroom for contestants ant
spectators. The public is welcome to
come and listen in. Every comfort
and convenience of home will be pro-
vided those in the race for the grand
prize.
Meals will be served in the ball
room to the competitors, free Of
charge, with the diet especially ar
ranged by a prominent Indian
apolis physician.
Stars to Entertain
In addition to the radio attraction :.
several Lyric acts will help Will
away the time, Jack Major, nation
ally known air entertainer, billed a.
the voice of the Southland" an0
several Radio-Keith- Orpheum en-
tertainers will do their stuff whel
everything else drags.
The contest, from time to time
will be broadcast by WKBF, with
contestants telling how they are en-
joying the grind and how long the.
expect to last.
The deadline for entries Is Tues
day midnight. All you need to do Is
mail your name and address to The
Times Radio Editor, specifying your
intention Of competing and appea
at the Lyric ballroom Wednesday
evening at o'clock. You must be
IL years of age or more.
Many Dealers Cooperate
Radio dealers cooperating with
The Times, and sets they sell, fol-
low: Duco Corporation, Lyric All
American sets; w. J. Holiday, Re,
NTH; Kruse Radio Company, Cros-
ley; Riser Brothers, Day-Fan; Wag-
ner Radio Company, Atwater Kent
Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company
Earl and Kellogg; Crescent Paper
Company, Freed; Grifith Victor
Distributing Company, Victor, and
Gibson COMPANY, Fada.
The Stegman Radio Company is
making special offer of one of its
fine Howard sets to The Times
reader who can guess nearest the
exact time which the contest will
last.
1t won't be long now until Tues
day midnight. Rush in your entry.
A complete list of prizes probably
will be ready for announcement IL
The Times Tuesday.