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Station Parade
Stars of the Air
come Out of the West
says
KOA Director
By Morris Hepler
busy preparing for grand opera and has temporarily relinquished her interest in radio. Many listeners will remember Hazel Hayes, as beauteous a lass as ever came out of the Sunflower State to triumph in Denver.
As for Norman Price he had tenored himself to the top in Denver — one of
Norman Price, tenor KOA
FREEMAN H. TALBOT, that keen judge of musical ability who guides the destinies of KOA, the National Broadcasting Company key station way out in Denver, boasts that considering the population the foothills towns in Colorado have given the radio world more talent than any other place in the world.
Taking into account only musical talent, and omitting the before-radio successes, where does KOA fit into that picture, he was asked. And was he stumped? Not Mr. Talbot !
"Among the musicians who first aired their talents over KOA," explained Mr. Talbot, "there was one who became a first place winner in a national Atwater Kent audition and two who won third places; three joined the internationally famous Seth Parker troupe; one became the highest paid singer with the British Broadcasting Corporation; two were first place winners in the Sesquicentennial Exposition contests; two won contests conducted by the National Federated Music Clubs; five won scholarships repeatedly with the Juilliard Foundation, and three are now staff members in the San Francisco studios of the National Broadcasting Company."
Out on the Pacific Coast are three National Broadcasting Company staff soloists who first saw the light of radio through KOA. They are Everett E. Foster, baritone; Mary Wood, soprano, and Forrest Fishel, tenor.
Another KOA singer is now reaping laurels on the Coast. Just now she is
KOA's Solitaire Cowboys and — in radio opera. NBC took him on immediately.
The Quarles sisters — Alice, Marguerite and Virginia — piano, violin, and 'cello — started a habit of winning contests when they won Juilliard Foundation fellowships while they were still in their teens. They have held four Juilliard fellowships besides a scholarship for a year's study at the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontainbleau, France.
Other stars of the air — many others — started with KOA. Freeman H. Talbot's boast seems justified.
Upper left: The Quarle sisters
— Alice, pianist; Marguerite,
violinist; Virginia, 'cellist.
Center: Freeman H. Talbot, manager, KOA
Hazel Hayes, popular soprano, another star who started on KOA