Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-06
CHOOSE EIGHT GIRLS
FOR JUNIOR CONTEST
Fortunate Winners of Preliminaries
Compete For Argus Prize,
May Is

The hand of the clock moved past
eleven before the last contestant in
the Central High School Junior Girls
Preliminary Prize Speaking Contest
had finished her selection and the
hand of the clock stole around to-
ward twelve before the decision of the
judges was announced
Never before in the history of the
school have judges witnessed such a
close and excellent line of speakers
and it called for the most accurate
anu fine criticism possible which all
felt the judges, the Rev. Thomas
Reisch, pastor of Christ Lutheran
Church, Harry A. Boyer, president of
the school board, and Arthur Hull
showed in their decision. Those who
eXcelled in the estimation of the judges
and who will appear in the finals on
May Is are Miss Lillian Miller, Miss
Sara Nunemacher, Miss Helen Broomal,
Miss Mabel Wright, Miss Katherine
Fahnestock, Miss Mary Elizabeth Nc
Cormick, Miss Pauline Hauck and
Miss Caroline Halton.
The prizes amounting to SIS this
year will be given by The Argus
a marked feature of the contest
was the calm prepossessing manner
of the young girls to their accurate
memory. Not one contestant hesita-
ted but delivered her grafton in a
straight, forward way.
Great credit is due to Miss Annabel
Swartz, who for more than a month
has worked long and steadily with
each girl.
'sBen Hur's Chariot Race" Wallace,
in which Miss Lillian Miller won for
herself a distinguished place in the
finals, was the second on the program.
The selection was long and difficult,
demanding unusual force and a vivid
patrol of the scene upon the part of
the speaker which effect Miss Miller
carried out to the utmost.
In pathetic selection, "The Death
Disks" Twain, Miss Sara Nunemacher
won a place in the finals, her imper-
sonation of a child being most re-
markable.
Most dramatic and unusual was the
way in which Miss Helen Broomal
took the part of the two characters
Leah and Rudolph, in the scene from
Leah, the Forsaken."
Miss Mabel Wright who will appear
in the finals in the court scene from
Merchant of Venice" gave remark
able impersonation of old Shylock.
rendering her selection with fine enun-
citation.
Miss Pauline Hauck in Her First
Recital amused her hearers in her
clever little selection. Miss Hauck's
ease and excellent delivery are com
mendable.
In THE Soul of the Great Bell"
Hearn, Miss Hatton showed much tai
ent in the impersonation of the ring
ing of the bell.
Miss Katherine Fahnestock, who is
we'll known to Harrisburg audiences.
eXcelled in her long and difficult selec-
ton, THE Ashes of Old Wesher,"
Templeton.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Mccormick
closed the contest with a scene from
"Ivanhoe." Scott, drawing a fine dis
tinction between her two characters
Rebeccah and Bois Gilbert.
Others who deserve great praise
and-o over whom the judges were COM
PEELED to spend much discussion are:
Miss Margaret Wiesman in "OId
Mother Goose" Phelps; Miss Mar
garetta Reed in "a Cannon Loose on
Shipboard," Hugo; Miss Esther Wag-
ner in Jack Connor's Son." Anon;
Katherine Peters in Aunt Melissy on
Boys" Trowbridge; "The Night Rum"
Anon, by Hattie Elder; Miss Gather
inc Kelker in "How the LeRue Stakes
Were Lost" Hood; Jesse Lebo in "a
Child's Story of Bear" Riley; "Cher-
okee Roses Anon, Alva Bitner; "a
Second Trial." kellogg, by Ivy Freed
man; Leah Clevens in THE Toll of
Pemberton HILL" e. s. Phelps; Miss
Dorothy Helman in "The Kings Par
don," arranged from white Aprons":
Miss Marion Martz in Keeping a Seat
For a Benefit" Fiske.
These twelve girls will act as ush-
ers at the final contest on May Is,