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Show HUNDREDS OF YOUNG SINGERS FOUND IN HUNT FOR TALENT i OALJ f UADAM UOU15E. VfOMtR. MRS. EDGAR. STILLMAN KEULEY Ng KENT I? r Ik '2uv. pk s:Jj T -JEN young Americaj singers presumably the best tn the fr country will face the micro-1:-J 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 ot the Atwater Kent Foundation ot Philadelphia. This nation-wide quest for radio voices has already revealoa hundreds of young singer? ot 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 the undertaking a: e. Natioual Audition Committee. They are Madam Louise Homer, the Metropolitan Opera star; Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley. president ot the National Federa-tiou Federa-tiou of Music Clubs; Edward W. Bok. former editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn. wife of the world-famous NewjTork bank-r bank-r and music patron. Winners of slate 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 slngera from their neighboring states Winners 1 t each of the five district auditions ' ns young maa aad oaa yonag woman a each eoetr gob awdt aad an a i E0WAR.D W. 0OIC taken to New York by the Atwatei Kent Foundation for the finals, which will be broadcast over a national net work ot stations. The awards tor these will be as follows. Winners of first place ont young man and one young woman-will woman-will each receive 15.600 cash and two years' tuition in a musical con servatory. Winners of second place win each receive (SfiW cash and one year't tnltion. Winners of third plaea wRl aaek racerra 11.090 and ens year's tofttoa. Wnoeva of foorpt plaea wDl saia raEatv fita. |