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Show HUNDREDS OF YOUNG SINGERS FOUND IN MUNI FOR TALENT C:&f l y ; f. MEDAL Sgg&358Ssg 1' 'I ' k ' I' J7Z ll MADAM LOUISE. HOMER- r r ' 1 f i MRS EDGAR, STILLMAN KELLEY Cj'Vir I A' 'kENTI t I V I - I I J , I I .i v ,v 'i T. 1 EN young American singers presumably the best m the ' country will face the micro-K.'c' micro-K.'c' phone at Station WEAF in New York City early in December De-cember to sing for fame and fortune. They will be the finalists In the National Na-tional Radio Audition of the Atwater Kent Foundation of Philadelphia. This nation-wide quest for radio voices has already revealed hundreds of young singers of promise, who have entered the contests eagerly because be-cause the auditions offer them recognition recog-nition at home and a chance to compete com-pete for prizes aggregating ?17,500. Distinctive figures are sponsoring tbe undertaking as a National Audition Committee. They ?,re Madam Louise Homer, the Metropolitan Opera star; Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley, president of the National Federation Federa-tion of Music Clubs; Edward W. Bok, former editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Mrs. Otto H. Kahrr, wife of the world-famous New York banker bank-er and music patron. Winners of state auditions one boy and one girl receive silver medals and are taken to their district auditions audi-tions at the expense of the Foundation Founda-tion to compete with young singers from their neighboring states. Winners of each of the five district auditions one young man and one young woman lu each receive gold medals and are EDWAR.D w. BOKO taken to New York by the Atwater Kent Foundation for the finals, which will be broadcast over a national network net-work of stations. The awards for these will be as follows: Winners of first place one young man and one young woman will each receive $5,000 cash and two years' tuition in a musical conservatory. con-servatory. Winners of second place will eacb receive $2,000 cash and one year's tuition. Winners of third place will each receive $1,000 and one year's tuition. Winners of fourth place will each receive ?500. |