The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-02-06

ming 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, Ca,
was recued from business career after winning
$4,000 in the 1929 contest. He has done
concert work and is studying opera.
Miss Genevieve Rowe, the Wooster, Ohio col
lege girl, who received the $4,000 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, a vocal pedagogue who
has launched long line of singers on successful
operate 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
Foundations highest cash award-this was in
1927-is now in her second year with the Phila-
delphia Grand Opera She opened the season
singing in "Gianna Schicchi" by Puccini. On
December 18th she was heard in "Thais" and
later will have roles in "Lohengrin" and Tam
hauser."
Wilbur Evans, Philadelphia bass-baritone, has
had two years at Curtis Institute and since he
finished first in the mems division Of the first
addition in 1927 has sung upwards Of fifty sue
cessful concerts in all parts of the United States
On the audible screen he has been featured by
Fox Movietone and was starred in musical
comedy, "Bambino,' on the Pacific Coast.
Winners of lesser positions in the national finals
have gone on carving out successful careers for
themselves with just as great promise as those
who finished nearer the top. The case of Marie
Heay, the Manchester, N. H. soprano, is inter-
esting and typical Miss Heay has sung over
the radio repeatedly and has made innumerable
concert appearances in New England, New
York and the Midwest. 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 Addition gave
young Wifred Engelman, Detroit choir singer,
his first trip to New York. He placed third
among the youths in the finals. This was but
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 year now Engelman has
been in Milan, Italy, studying opera under Carpi
Fifth among the girl fnalists in 1928 the young
Cuban, Carmen Resell, with fine New Orleans
cultural background, has forged steadily ahead
in concert work during the past two years. She
is now scholarship student in the New Orleans
Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art and is
the leading soprano with LIE Petit Opera
Louisianais.
at the far-reaching facts Of the additions 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 cash awards and
scholarships. The broadcasting stations through
out the country 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 auditon-oca
state, geographical district and the national
finals-what rewards, if any, to those who
lose?
One of the outstanding facts of the 1890 audi
tion, as already disclosed, is that reward does
come 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 incubation of spirit to
try again. AS has been stated, the 1880 records
show that more than go per cent of the state
winners this year were singers who had pre-
viously tried and been found wanting in one or