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Show HUNDREDS OF YCVKG SINGERS FOUND IN HUN1 FOR TALENT ! 4. , J auoitiomX",, - ') - y I ! MEDAL z L' i ty. " " il ' MADAM LOUISE HOMER. - x tin;; 1 1 L -1 v" . f r! 4v.ff Sr'-K' a AT WAT P R. i MRS EDGAR. STILLMN K.ELLEY IJENT I i r -JEN' voung American singers , J presumably the best in the j country will face the micro- I Phons at Station WKAP in New York City early In De-' De-' cember to sing for fame and fortune. Tbev wil: be the finalists in the Na-! Na-! tional Itadio Audition of the Atwater Kent Foundation of Philadelphia. This nationwide quest for radio voices has already revealed hundreds of young singers o promise, who hv-e entered the contests eagerly because be-cause the auditions ofler them recognition recog-nition at home and a chance to com pete for prizes aggregating $17.iU0 Distinctive figures are sponsoring t lie undertaking as a National Audition Committee. They are Madam Louise Homer, tho Metropolitan Opera star: Mrs. Kdgar Stillman Kelley, president or the National Federation Federa-tion of Music Clubs: Edward W. Bok, former editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, 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. Winuers of each of the live district auditions-one auditions-one young man and one younj woman In each receive gold medal and are X x " -" x K Vfx x X ( EDWAR.D W BOK- 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 55,000 cash and two years' tuition in a musical conservatory. con-servatory. Winners of second place will each receive 52,000 cash and one year's tuition. Winners of third place will each receive 51,000 and one year's tuition. Winners of fourth place will each receive 5500. |