Radio revue (Dec 1929-Mar 1930)

46 RADIO REVUE ►***VVVVVVV*VVVVVV*VVVV*VVVVVVVVVV*%VVVV*VVVVVVVVV%<| WHO Is Your Favorite Radio Artist? j —and Wfvy.7 j 'TpHE Editors of Radio -*" Revue will pay Ten Dollars for the best letter on this subject and Five Dollars for the second choice. Write plainly and on one side of the paper only. Winners will be announced in the February issue. S Radio Revue I Six Harrison Street New York, N.Y. Ohio Soprano and Georgia Tenor Win Atwater Kent Auditions {Continued from page 7) "Don't let it worry you," was the reply of an NBC official who happened to overhear. "Neither of the last two winners wore dinner clothes." But no one encouraged Miss Rowe when she was selected as No. 1 and asked to sing first by telling her that the No. 1 singer had been adjudged the winner for the past two years. She did not learn this until after she had cried in her father's arms on hearing Graham McNamee announce her name to radio listeners as the victor. Miss Rowe's soprano voice was nourished in an atmosphere of music. Her father, Neill O. Rowe, who played the accompaniment to her "Shadow Song," from "Dinorah," by Meyerbeer in the finals, is Dean of Music at Wooster College. Her mother also is a fine musician. As a result, Miss Rowe has "been singing ever since I could talk." Three years ago, when she was eighteen, she began serious voice cultivation. Since then she has been actively identified with church choirs, the Wooster College Glee Club, the Oratorio Chorus, the Fortnightly Club and other vocal and musical organizations in her home town. Both young singers will be heard frequently in Atwater Kent programs through the NBC System. Mr. Fussy Fan Admits He is a "High Brow" {Continued from page 18) get too much for nothing and hence fail properly to appreciate what is done for them. Of course, some method of taxing each owner of a radio set and using the funds so obtained to put on high class programs — such as is done in England — would perhaps have been the most effective means of stabilizing the industry. However, the infant radio grew so rapidly and to such vast proportions that there was no holding it. Will the present system continue, or will there be an entirely new order? What will be the result when television develops to the point where millions of homes have their own sets, as they now have radio receivers? What would happen to radio if the Federal Radio Commission enacted a ruling that prohibited chain broadcasting? These are all questions that face the radio listener who is interested in the future of broadcasting. Only time can answer these queries. »-. ■ m •-• Editorials {Continued from page 34) speech into the microphone, and people who ought to know better kneel down muttering "The Presence is here!" When an advertiser takes a thousand dollar advertisement into the office of a great newspaper, do the presses cease to function and does the editorial force rush to the street with red carpets and servile salutes? They do not! And the sooner the radio business recognizes that the advertiser comes into its halls as a guest, and not as a controlling and paralyzing influence, the happier will be lots of people working in it. The radio business, until it finds some other dignified source of income, will have to take the advertiser's money, we presume. But do not let us witness the spectacle of a great corporation and it officers kneeling in fear and trembling before a tin merchant "idol." While the radio business may require money, does it need it as badly as that?