Mix, Jennie Irene, 1862-1925

<p>Jennie Irene Mix, who has written
"The Listeners' Point of View" since
April, 1924, died suddenly after a short illness at her home in Toledo, Ohio on April 26th.</p> <p>When "The Listeners' Point of View" started it was the first attempt to present sound radio program criticism in any magazine. Miss Mix was probably better qualified than any other writer who could have been selected for the task. For many years she had been writing music, thinking music, and almost living it. She was well known in the musical life of Pittsburgh. From 1904 to 1918 she was music critic of the Pittsburgh Post. During many music seasons she covered important musical events in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, and Chicago.</p>
<p>Miss Mix spent some time abroad, where she furnished music correspondence to a number of prominent American newspapers from such centers as Paris, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, and Bayreuth. In 1920, Henry Holt and Company published a novel from her pen, At Fame's Gateway, which deals with the life of a young music student in New York. Comment on this book was very favorable and very widespread. Several years before, Miss Mix had turned her talents in another way and Mighty Animals, published by the American Book Company, presented in an entirely new fashion the story of prehistoric animals.</p>

"Who's Who in Music" says that Jennie Irene Mix was born in Cleveland, studied both at home and abroad, wrote for various newspapers for a dozen years, was musical editor of the Pittsburgh Post, and the author of the scientific juvenile book, "Mighty Animals."

Another example of a woman in a non-traditional media profession was Jennie Irene Mix: when radio broadcasting became a national obsession in the early 1920s, she was one of the few female radio editors at a magazine: a former classical pianist and a syndicated music critic who wrote about opera and classical music in the early 1920s, Miss Mix became the radio editor at Radio Broadcast magazine, a position she held from early 1924 until her sudden death in April 1925.