Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

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Crowned Queen of Beauty Hazel Johnson, of KFYR, Bismarck, North Dakota, Wins Radio Digest's Campaign to Find Most Attractive Radio Artist R<\DIO DIGEST'S first annual contest to find the most beautiful girl in radio has come to a close. ""Hazel Johnson, popular entertainer at KFYR, at Bismarck, North Dakota, is declared the winner and this month Miss Johnson's portrait, painted by Charles Sheldon, famous portrait painter of New York, appears on the cover of Radio Digest. For the first time readers of the magazine were the judges in a beauty contest and the interest in the campaign, which extended over a period of four months, was indicated by an avalanche of votes. The original thirty-two contestants representing as many radio stations and chains of stations, narrowed down to three in the finals — Harriet Lee of WABC, New York City; Donna Damerel of WBBM, Chicago, and Hazel Johnson, representing the west. Miss Johnson's radio career extends over a period of four years at the Bismarck station, where she conducts some of the most popular air features. The Musical Memories broadcast from that station is one of the outstanding programs in the far west and during this performance Miss Johnson plays, upon request, any musical selection desired by the radio audience. She is a pianist of real ability, plays the organ and vocalizes. Another program regularly tuned in by listeners to KFYR is the Tuneful Moods hour in which Miss Johnson plays the piano and sings. The 1932 Beauty Queen of American Radio is a true daughter of the west. This winsome, blonde, blue-eyed damsel, is just twenty-three years of age, and Mott, North Dakota, is her birthplace. Her musical tendencies were evidenced at the tender age of eight, and her studies have continued to the present time, her most recent studies being devoted to the pipe organ. This versatile young lady has even conducted dance orchestras of her own, and her unusual musical memory enables her to play numberless popular compositions without the use of a score. As a radio artist she has the happy faculty of projecting the charm of her personality through her voice into the homes of her listeners, and her fans are legion. Each week hundreds of musical requests are . received from all over the west and parts of Canada, and she has made thousands of friends among her unseen audience. When KFYR announced that Miss Johnson had been entered in the Radio Digest contest for the selection of a beauty queen of American radio, her friends eagerly came to her support. Miss Johnson was the winner by a safe margin, the order of votes being: Hazel Johnson, 2153; Donna Damerel, 1412; Harriet Lee, 1096. After the use by Radio Digest of Miss Johnson's portrait on the cover this month, the original painting will be presented to the young lady with the compliments of this publication and good wishes for continued success. Hazel Johnson, blond venus of KFYR, Bismarck, North Dakota