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N ADDITION to most of the things
native sons of the Golden West claim
L)^)j^°'' California, the results of the four
j Nationa] Radio Auditions held Blnce
I 1927 indicate they can assert the
g!^] Goiden State is the music center of
*—'*- the country. Seven out of the forty
nationa] Hnallsts seiected from tens of
thousands of young contestants between the
ages of IS and 25 years by tho Atwater Kent
Foundation have come from California which
leads ail the states in the production of young
aspirants to radio concert and operatic fame and
fortune. And six of the seven finished either
Brst or second in the nationa] triais!
Ohio, the birth piace of Presidents of the
United States, can claim to be the oniy state
that has produced two nationai Brst piace win-
ners, in the persons of Miss Carol Deis, soprano,
of Dayton, who is being prociaimed throughout
the country this month as the best young woman
singer found by tha 1930 Audition, and Miss
Genevieve Irene Rowe, aiso soprano, of Wooster,
who won the first piace honor iast year.
New Orieans, with its traditions of cuiture and
artistic achievement extending back to the eariy
days of American settiement, however, is the
single city that has furnished the nation with
ten per cent of its forty young iinaiists—four of
the young immortais being from the quaint oid
southern metropolis.
Colorado and Texas may iay claim to having
provided the nation with three each of the forty
young singers and tha city of Denver Masrt* tt
M*tiaH't*.,-nn!t tn M«TV Or!e;uiswHf)'<auur!!l(r
Coforado three, one of them being Miss Agnes
Davis, who won first piace in 1927, the first year
of the auditions. Iiiinois, Michigan, New York
and Arkansas have provided two finaiists each,
and Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Caroiina, New
Hampshire. Virginia, the District of Coiumbia,
Missouri, Georgia, Rhode Isiand, Maine, New
Jersey, Mississippi and South Dakota have each
supplied one.
The inquiring reporter who conceived the idea
of making a kind of box score jf the four years
of intensive search for young voices conducted
by the Atwater Kent Foundation which has re-
sulted in the turning out of a chorus of 40 espe-
ciaiiy good voices has aiso inquired what hap-
pened to the young peopie after they were dis-
covered—and what use did they make of the
opportunity and the funds awarded them by the
Foundation. The purpose of the nation wide
iditions, it was expiained, has been to And
where the best voices grow and give their
possessors encouragement to go on to seek fame
and fortune in radio work. To this end the
Foundation has offered $26,000 in cash awards
ami musicai schoiarshipstotheten finally
selected. The selection was made through a
aeries of eiimination auditions, locai, state and
geographical districts. There are five of tha
geographical districts and the young man and
young woman seiected from each of these con-
stituted the nationai finaiists who met in New
York and sang in competition before musicai
experts to determine the division of the cash
awards and schoiarships.
More than a thousand communities heid iocal
auditions in 1930 which year had the greatest
number of auditions and entrants. Another
feature of the auditions the 1930 contest empha-
sized was the never-say-die spirit of the young
singers of the country. In the state auditions
more than Hfty per cent of the contestants were
those who had tried in previous auditions and
failed, oniy to try again—and win. Four of the
ten finalists this year, were singers who had
tried before, one of them having tried out in ail
of thoprevious auditions!
The inquiring reporter's question as to what
the young peopie have done with the opportu-
nities for training and cash to nee them through
it, iB answered in reports from the various na-
tional finaiists of other years of their activities.
The 1930 group have just Btarted and will spend
their next year or so in hard study as a result
of their victories. Miss Deis, and Raoul Nadeau,
baritone, of New York, the young man winner,
both want to do concert work and Mr. Nadeau
aspires to an operatic career. It wouid not be
expected that the after-careers of the winners
of other years would run atong uniform grooves.
Their accompiishments and successes have been
as individuai and versatiie, as would be expected
among thirty youthful personalities.
Donaid Novis, Pasadena, California, tenor,
who won ilrst award of $5,000 in 1928 has be-
come a popular star in sound pictures. His sixth
picture, "Eyes of the World" already has been
released. He was presented this fali by Arthur
Haptmerstein in musical comedy. He has ap-
peared in such sound picture hits as "Buiidog
Drummond" withRonaidColman; "Kathieen
Mavourneen" with Saiiy O'Neii; "New York
Nights" with Norma Taimadge; "Irish Fantasy,"
a musicai pictura based on the music Qf Victor
Herbert, arranged by Dr. Hugo Paisenfaldt. and
"Monte Cario," a recent hit. He is spending htb
spare time studying under the direction of the
famous composer-coach, Frank LaForge.
Ha:ei Arth. tha Washington. D. C* contralto.
!93S winner, has done extensive concert and
radio work, and is now heard every Sunday ava-
GfNEVIEVf IRENE ROWE
ning in the Cathoiic Hour through an N. B. O.
chain. She is studying with Frank LaForge in
New York.
Edward Austen Kane, tenor, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was recued from a business career after winning
$5,000 in tha 1929 contest. He has done some
concert work and is studying opera.
Miss Genevieve Rowe, the Wooster, Ohio col-
lege girl, who received the $5,000 Hrst award in
the girls' division iast year, continued with her
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she is now in Now York studying for grand opera
with Yeatman GrifHth, a vocal pedagogue who
has launched a long iine of singers on successfu]
operatic careers. Miss Rowe, aiong with other
Srst and second piace winners, has been heard
during the Atwater Kent Hour.
Miss Agnes Davis, Hrst girl to receive the
Foundation's highest cash award—this waa in
1927—is now in her second year with the Phiia-
delphia Grand Opera. She opened the season
singing in "Gianna Schicchi" by Puccini. On
December 11th she was heard in "Thais" and
later will have roies in "Lohengrin" and "Tann-
hauser."
Wilbur Evans, Philadelphia bass-baritone, has
had two years at Curtis Institute and since he
Cnished arst in the men's division of the first
audition in 1927, has sung upwards of afty suc-
cessful concerts in aii parts of theUnited States.
On the audible screen he has been featured by
Fox Movietone and was starred in a musical
comedy, "Bambino," on the Paciac Coast.
Winners of lesser positions in the nationai anais
have gone on carving out successfui careers for
themseives with just as great promise as those
who Bnished nearer the top. The case of Marie
Healy, the Manchester, N. H. soprano, is inter-
esting and typical. Miss Healy has sung over
the radio repeatediy and has made innumerable
concert appearances in New England, New
York and the Mid-West. In between concert
engagements, Miss Heaiy 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 schoiarships
in both singing and dramatic art, each of which
carried a cash award of $1,000.
The second National Radio Audition gave
young Wilfred Engelman, a Detroit choir singer,
his Hrst trip to New York. He piaced third
among the youths in the anals. This was but a
preiude 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 a year now Engeiman has
been in Milan, Italy, studying opera under Carpi.
Fifth among the giri Hnaiists in 1928 the young
Cuban. Carmen Rosell, with a Hne New Orleans
cultural background, has forged steadily ahead
in concert work during the past two years. She
is now a scholarship student in the t?ew Orleans
Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art and is
the ieading soprano with Le Petit Opera
Louisianais.
The inquisitive scribe who endeavored to get
at the far-reaching facts of the auditions, how-
ever, found another phase to its activities not
to be uncovered in the records of the nationai
analists—the ten young men and young women
each year has favored with cash awards and
scholarships. The broadcasting stations through-
out tho country are the custodians of these
facts—and almost any of the iargcr broadcasting
stations wil] show them to an investigator, the
inquiring reporter found. There being four dis-
tinct phases to the nationai audition—iocal,
state, geographical distriot and the nationa!
anais—what rewards, if any, come to those who
lose?
One of the outstanding facts of the 1930 audi-
tion, as already disclosed, is that reward does
come to those who iose, in the convictipn that
each of them has something to be developed, in
the knowiedge that their gift must be further
developed and In the inculcation of a spirit to
tryagaln. As has been stated, the 1930 records
show that more than 60 per cent of the state
winners this year were singers who had pre-
viousiy tried and been found wanting In one or
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more necef <ry qualiQcations but who, after
farther study, had won in another triai. These,
the .report? found, were very real rewards in
the form <of encouragement to individuals and
to communities to continue their participation
and suppori
But there le sti!l another phase—the actual
and materia) rewards of some of those who lost
in the autiitlonttself; who failed to go further
, li<<*«
lively interest'In, and encouragement of, young
talent by the existence of radio broadcasting
centers.
Like in all other centers of popular entertain-
ment, a conttant How of new materia] is neces-
sary for broadcasting stations and a constant
improvement of otd material is essentia) to
maintenance of pubiic esteem. Broadcasting sta-
tions, Ilka newspapers, seli space. In newspapers,
it is space in inches. In broadcasting Btations
it is space in time. Both institutions are sup-
ported by their sales of this space and both de-
pend on popular fancy—as reHected in circula-
tion for newspapers and in habitual listeners for
broadcasting stations—to determine the value
of the tpace they have to sell.
Therefore the annual recurrence of the Na-
tional Hadio Auditions brought into broadcast-
ing Btmiios hundreds of new and unheard of
singers from the listener areas of the stations-
areas la which it was very much to the advan-
tage of the station to have a speciai interest.
Each Mate audition has been broadcast and
Mstcnti? have acted jointly with professionai
judtrtts it) the selection of the winners. The re-
sult has been that not only has each of the
annua) auditions brought into radio stations in
eauh < f tlia states a group of young singers never
before Imrd of—but each has brought to the
station the best young singers from iarge num-
bers ot immunities within their broadcasting
area—th best, as selected by competition.
Therefore each iocal audition, in a generai
way. ant) each state audttion, in a very positive
way. ban called to the attention ot radio pro-
urannnatiors not only the very best talent in
the statu but talent from sections of the state
which )t was of material and business impor-
tance, Bh .Qtd be interested in the station and
"hi'hsh.uld be established as habitual listeners.
Httne r ters of staff taient of stations In aii
Berth,ns of the country wiii be found to inciude
the names of perhaps hundreds of these young
musiiiac now engaged at reguiar salaries and
prosidlnj; the listeners of those stations with
regutar programs. Statistics of what this
amounts io are almost impossible, but inquiry
"thrta i tstingofHciais in different sections of
'ho untry disclosed the fact that the auditions
ma iled each of them with from one to
the new voices—and in some- instances with
^ ' pie of artistic bent whose taienta as
instrumn talists or announcers were developed
n'tt-r t!,(![- voices, Hrst heard in nationai audi-
etitions, had cailed the attention of
thci.uiottothem.
An - tanding exampie of this Is found In
a of George Beuchier, one of the best
nouncers of the Cotumbia BroadonBt-
! :n, whose voice is aiso heard in bari-
rt [ through that system from coast to
' ' long Beuchier was a student in Wash-
^ ])&. when his attention was caiied to
' ' ' ' Nationai Radio Audition. He entered
" ' his baritone voice won the District of
t audition. That was tho same year
ihiHl Arth, also of Washington, D.C., the
) aito to win a nationai competition,
carried ^e Hrst nationai prite.
Ju!!ut Rosenwatd
Peddling wasn't as proHtubie as the
ten-year-old boy thought it ought to
be. The wares he
had to offer didn't
seem to appeai
particuiarlytethe
busy housewives
of Springiietd, Iii.
Oider and more ex-
pertenced sidesmen
had called on them
before the iad ap-
peared. Those who
needed such wares
as .1 ulius Rosen-
[ wa]d had to offer
generally seemed
to he stocked up
Not encouraging, to he sure,
youngster wasn't discour-
knew there was a brisk
him as a door to door
isaiesnian ifhe coutdliitonwares
that were somewhat out of the ordi-
nary. He put away the staple artlcies
) of the trade and stocked up on chro-
mos. He did a iand oilice business
with them.
The liny, who inter built up the
[naii order business of Sears, Roe-
buck & Company, got his Hrst ies-
sons as a salesman at the age of ten.
He teamed then that there was al-
ways a market if you had goods peo-
ple really wanted or couid use.
SpringHeld was the piace of his
birth. He was born in 1866 in a house
not far from the old home of Abra-
: 1mm Lincoln. His father was in the
ciothlng business so the boy seems to
have come by his ability as a sales-
man naturaily enough.
Even before he turned to setting
goods to the thrifty housewives of the
Itilnois city he had earned money.
He got live cents an hour for pump-
ing a church organ when he was just
about able to perform the task.
White he attended public schoola
iie earned money as a new sboy as well
as a salesman of chromos. Ha soid
j pamphlet programs when the Lincoin
; monument was dedicated in Spring-
iieid. He earned $2.25 that day and
had the added pleasure of getting a
close up of President Grant, the great
hero of the Civii war. The general
was the Brst man he ever saw wear-
ing kid gtoves.
He was a busy and thrifty young-
He hada chance to work as a
a medicine
PJaOMears
B"' hier represented the nation's capita] in
" phical district competition with Miss
^r<)<, anil though she won ha iost. Returning
' gton he waa offered and accepted a
tith Radio Station WRC, managed and
t ' atej by the National Broadcasting Company.
'i"r las went to the Coiumbia Broadcasting Sye-
"htra he ia now empioyed aa an announcer
Ttt,t.
ster.
i goods store during
Ration when he was atteen y.,r.
} old. Even at that age he was known
as a good salesman. Otherwise he
would not have had such an oppor-
tunity.
He saved $25 of his Brst earnings in
the store and used it to buy his moth-
er a tea set as a gift for the twentieth
anniversary of her wedding, much to
... , y "Rd to the great surprise of
brother and two sisters. He waa
^ready a man in the eyes of the lat-
That year he went to New York
to work as a cterk in the store of hia
uncies. They thought the youngster
ci"v Helh"? f the big
c y. He ilved frugally in the metrop-
as a """"" abill^
as a salesman and saved his monev
New York, even in the early eighties'
'<U'I ''.any fnsoinauons and Ume wa!!-
g diversions for young men from the
country who thought more of pleas-
ure than of business. ^
The youngster from the West waa
nterested in iittte other than busi-
ness. He passed up any excessive
recreation for the serious task of
tinp"h"\ ) ^ """'""Sh'y and put-
'y '' s """"y. He wanted to „-
tabiish his own business. Even in
those days it took real money ,nd
good credit to open a store of
own. ^
After six years as a worker in the
estabiishment of his uncles he de-
cided he had enough m°"ey and suf.
Bcient experience to take the piunge
He was twenty-one when he opened
his own clothing store. He made money
with his business for four years But
he was iooking for bigger worlds to
conquer. He had hia eyes open for op-
portunity.
He heard of a clothing manufac-
turer who couidn't Bii hia orders for
summer weight goods because he was
unabte to meet the demand. Tha
young merchant decided that any busi-
ness, where the demand waa greater
than the supply, was an excelient ona
with which to tie up. He moved to
Chicago to put his money and hia
energies in the manufacture ofclothea.
His business prospered from tha
outset. R. W. Sears, pioneer in the
maii order business and president of
Sears, Roebuck A Company, was one
of the young manufacturer's best cus-
tomers. Sears, watching the newcomer
to the eiothes making business, waa
deepiy impressed by his direct meth-
ods and business acumen. He found
the young man to be a person of few
words but mighty quick on the trigger
whenitcametomakingdecisions.
The Itosenwatd concern did so weii
that when its directing genius waa
offered a chance by Sears to buy a
hatf Interest in the maii order house
for $70,000 he was able to finance
the deai. That was in 1895. The next
year he became Vice President Ros-
enwaid. He was made president of
the company when Sears retired in
H)08. Now the business is worth mi]-
iions of doilars and the boy who soid
chromos at the age of ten is devoting
his vast fortune to philanthropy.
(A by Th< Notth Amiritu Aiiitm.)
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white more than 20 own two each.
Twenty-Hve of the phtnes belong to
women.
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