The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
Miss Emma LENS, of the West Bend
High School, Takes First Place in
District DecIamatory Contest.
KENosHA GIVEN FOURTH PLACE
Miss Mollte Derbyshire Makes Splendid
Showing at the District Contest in
Milwaukee Friday Night

Emma Leins, a senior in the West
Bend High school, won the first prize
at the district dec1am alton contest held
in the assembly room of the Milwau-
kee State Normal school building Fri
day night. Margery Roberts, of Mil
waukee, won second prize, and Darrell
Hubbard, of Racine, third. Miss Leins
will represent the Southeastern dis
trict, at the State interscholastic con-
test to be held at Madison June 1.
Miss Roberts, having won the second
prize, will be the alternate, and in case
of the illness of Miss Leins will speak
in her place.
The names of the contestants and
their subjects are as follows: CDR.
Carter and His Mother" Emma LENS,
West Bend; Eruption of Vesuvius,"
a selection from "The Last Days of
Pompeii," Margery Roberts, Milwau-
kee, West Division High school; "Em-
NETS Defense Darrell Hubbard, Ra-
cine; CANCEL of Buena VISTA Beulah
Hubbard, East Division High school,
Milwaukee; Selection from Black
Rock,' Helen Myers, Wauwatosa;
'Arena Scene from Quo Vadis,'' Wal
ter Bratz, West Bend; "The Soul Of
the Vio1in," Mo11ie Derbyshire, Keno
sha.
The decision of the judges in favor
of Miss Leins was generally approved
by the audience. Her selection was q
description of an old country woman
who had come to the city to see her
son, fashionable physician, and OF
his efforts to get rid of the old mother
before his aristocratic acquaintance
and betrothed discovered his humble
origin.
Miss Roberts, who won the second
place, took for her subject the famous
arena scene in Bu1wer Lyton's ''Last
Days of Pompeii," where the eruption
of the volcano at critical point pre-
vents the Egyptian from being thrown
into the arena to the lions.
Mr.. Hibbard's piece, "Emmet's De-
fense," is familiar everywhere, and he
was evidently given the third place
instead of a better one because the Sc
lection was not suited to his voice,
which he had a tendency to force too
much down into the lower register.
The audience packed the assembly
room of the Normal school to its ca
pacity, and the students of the various
Milwaukee High schools filled in the
time while the crowd was assembling
| by giving the school ye11s and singing
the school songs.
This was repeated after the decision
of the judges was announced, the boys
of the West Side High school especial
| " being demonstrative in their enthu-
siasm over the representative Of their
school securing second prize. They
cheered for West Bend, as well as for
their own school, and sang an inpro-
viscd song on leaving the building,
which had for the refrain "Good bye,
West Bend, good bye, Emma." The
Judges were President Charles Nc
Kenny and Professors H. E. Bolton
and ]. I. Jegi of the State Normal
school. J. A. Sheridan presided.
Miss Leins, the winner of the con-
test, is the daughter of Register Of
Deeds c. A. Leins of Washington
county, who was formerly Principal of
the schools of West Bend. He is well
known in Washington county politics.
About fifteen West Bend people came
to Milwaukee to attend the contest.
Miss Mo11ie Derbyshire, who repre-
sented Kenosha, made an exceedingly
good impression by her Interpretation
of s"The Soul of the Vio1in,' and by
many people in the vast audience she
was given the third place. According
to the ruling of the judges Miss Der
byshire was placed in fourth place.
| About dozen of the students of the
Kenosha schools attended the contest.