Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1928 — Page 16

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AMATEURS TO WIN $17,500 IN RADIOCONTEST Finals of Atwater Kent National Audition Set for Sunday. Grand opera idols and renowned concert artists usually presented in the Atwater Kent Sunday evening radio hour will stjand aside Sunday night and give this time to the best ten amateur singers of the nation. These young singers—five young women and five young men—who have been selected by a series of local, state and district singing competitions of the second national radio audition from more than 50,000 contestants, will be heard in finals of the audition, beginning at 8:15. Finalists and sections of which they have been adjudged champions are: Dixie—Carmen Rosell, New Orleans, soprano, 19; Ernest Paul Ferrata, New Orleans, barytone, 21. Far West—Dove Irene Kilgore, Oakland, Cal., coloratura soprano, 21; Donald Novis, Pasadena, Cal., tenor, 22. Midwest —Gladys Morrison Ball, Kansas City, coloratura soprano, 22; Wilfred A. Engelman, Detroit, barytone, 24. Northeast—Hazel C. Arth, Washington, contralo, 25; Kenneth D. Hines, Buffalo, tenor, 22. Southwest —Anna Mae Chandler, Fayetteville, Ark., coloratura soprano, 20; Patrick Henry Wilson Jr., Galveston, Tex., barytone, 18. Given Rich Awards These musical “finds” of the 1928 audition will be given $17,500 in cash, in addition to scholarships by the Atwater Kent foundation. The young man and young woman adjudged best in tonight’s finals will receive $5,000 cash, each, a gold decoration and a two-year scholarship at a leading American conservatory. Those placed second will each receive $2,000 and a one-year scholarship; third, SI,OOO and a year’s scholarship each; fourth, SSOO each; fifth, $250 each. After Agnes Davis of Denver and Wilbur Evans of Philadelphia had won the first-place awards in the 1927 audition, other unexpected benefits came to them in the form of attractive contracts to sing over radio in individual or joint recitals in Boston, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Raleigh, Washington, Philadelphia, Denver and many other cities. Heard Last Sunday Evans was heard in the Atwater Kent radio hour last Sunday with Hulda Lashanska and Toscha Seidel; Miss Davis, the previous Sunday with Frederick Jagel. Three contestants who won state championships, but were defeated in

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