Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-17
ANNUAL ELOCUTION CONTEST
Budding Orators of Academic Department of
Creighton University.
INTERESTING, WELL RENDERED PROGRAM
Judges VIII Announce Their De-
cisions at Commenccmcnt, when
the Medals VIII lie Awarded
Another contest Tonight.

The annual contest in elocution OF the
academi, department of the Creighton uni
yersity took place yesterday afternoon at
o'clock in the college hall, Representa-
tiyes from the three grades, chosen in pre-
lminary contests held earlier in the year
contested in three different events The
judges did not announce any decisions and
will not until commencement time, wnen
the medals will be awarded.
The University Mandolin club, under the
leadership of Albn Hustler, opened the pro-
gram with sounds of Spring by Behr
which was played with spirit and with eX-
cellout unity considering the short time
that the club has been organized. Tie
club comprises about forty instruments. 1t
was followed by the Junior Glee club, an
organization of the younger pupils, which
gave Welcome, Liege lord" by Brussel-
bach.
Three students of the Fifth grade gave
the same selection one after another. They
were Mark T. Martin, Clement j. Lee and
John j. White. Their defamation was full
of opportunities for clever impersonation.
taking as they did. successively the parts
of stage-struck youth, his mother. his
angry father and several others upon whom
the youth imposed. Their representation of
the various moods had been thought out
with completeness entirely unexpected
from boys of their rather tender age. No
very positive opinions as to which of these
three would win were expressed by the
audience.
John j. O'Neill and Clement j. Lee, who
have fresh. clear voices of considerable
strength sang 30, Boatman," by Sullivan,
and were warmly applauded.
The fourth grade was represented in
declamatons by Joseph c. Mccartney, Will
liam ID. Brown and Alphonse f. Danes. Mr..
Mccartney was easy and natural in a simple
little story of a dogs heroism, told in Il
pleasing way. Mr. Browns effort was a
! more ambitious one, being a word picture
of a scene in the Roman circus and dramatic
incidents enacted therein. His delivery,
while it compelled attention, was somewhat
married by undue rapidty. Mr. Danes had
wartime story, which he delivered with
particular and successful attention to its
emotional value.
The Junior Glee club gave a "Sleighing
| Glee," with sleigh bell accompaniment, the
effect being excellent.
| The most advanced work of the afternoon
was done by the two representatives Of the
third grade who appeared in declamations
| of an oratorical character. Robert II. Bush
man gave "Gualberto's Victory" with con-
siderable dramatic intensity, to which he
was able to devote all the more attention
on account of his ease of bearing on the
stage. He described with great power, yet
with satisfactory self-restraint, the struggle
| of armed knights in narrow pass. Francis
| R. Balliman, in the same grade, gave a
| funeral Grafton of Mark Antony and proved
quite capable of adequately interpreting its
| fine and varied shades of meaning, from the
| half-veiled irony to the stirring denuncia-
| tion of the murderers.
| The conclusion of the program was MY
| Old Kentucky Home" by the Mandolin club.
| The audience insisted on another selection
and it was cheerfuly given.
| Tonight at the same place occurs the an
| nual oratorical contest and the contest in
| elocution in the collegiate department The
| three orators will all deal with the subject
| of an Anglo American alliance and will
| present the views they have worked out. In
| the contest in elocution three students from
each of the first and second grades will take
| part These have been selected from among
| large number of the students by prelimi-
nary contests. The university is a member
of the State Oratorcal association, but Joined
it too late to take part this year.