Evening star., 1927-04-25
ORATORY CONTEST
tickets LIMITED
Requests Pour In--0nly Two
Allowed Each Person for
National Finals.

Requests for approximately 1 ,00C
sickets for the final meeting of the
fourth national oratoricaI contest, May
27, were received by mail and by per.
sonal calls at Contest Headquarters
Room 1923, The Evening Star Building.
before noon today.
The rush was precipitated by the
announcement in The Star Saturday
that tickets for the national finals. to
be held in the Washington Audi
torium, May %, were being dis
tributed.
The contest management announces
again that the tickets are for the ma
xional finals onIy-that is, the contest
in which the champions of the seven
regions, into which the United States
is divided for contest purposes, will
compete for the championship of the
nation. No tickets, it is reiterated, are
required for admission to the three
unit meetings Of The Star finals. May
4, when the representative of this
newspapers area in the national con-
test will be chosen.
Two Tickets Per Person.
Most Of the ticket seekers are con-
fning their requests to the allowed
o-per-person, but for the benefit of
those who are not familiar with the
necessary ruling, it is repeated that
only two tickets viii be given to any
one person. This rule has been in
force for the previous national con-
tests and is necessitated by the very
heavy demand for admission.
The next contest in The Star area
ar-E11 -. 4
when the champion Of this district,
will journey to Europe for 21a glori-
Gus months. will be determined. That
contest viii be divided into three
units, the white public high schools,
the colored public high schools and
the Washington private and parochial,
Maryland and Virginia schools.
The first unit will meet at Central
High School, when the jury will hear
the orations of Ethelwyn I. Hine of
Central Joseph Richard Greenwood of
Western, Alvin Graves of Eastern,
Stanley Segal Of Business and Miss
Catherine Birch of Mckinley. The
Central High School Orchestra, under
the direction of III. F. Hoover, faculty
Instructor, will play in concert.
At Dunbar High School.
The second unit of The Star finals
will be held in the auditorium of the
Dunbar High School, when the
speeches of Lucius Robinson of Dun.
bar and Allen Andrews of Armstrong
viii be heard by the same jury which
attended the first meeting. The speak.
ing program will be augmented by
the Dunbar High School Orchestra,
under Henry Grant, faculty director.
The last unit in this regions finals
will meet in the auditorium of the
National Museum and there the jury
will hear the orations of John Oscar
Bell, jr., champion of the Virginia
schools district William Alexander
Ioker, champion of the Maryland
schools district, and Bessie Cush.
chmapion of the Washington private
and parochial schools district. A con-
cert by the Tech High School or
chestra, under the direction of Dore
Walton, will augment that contest
meeting.
No decision will be announced until
the judges have written their sepa-
rate ballots, without conference, and
the ballots thus cast have been to-
tailed by the national contest officials.
The winner will be announced in the
following issue of The Star-probably
that same afternoon.
Jury Will Travel.
The jury, which viii travel to each
of the three unit meetings, is COM
posed of:
Judge Mckenzie Moss of the United
States Court of Claims; Mai. Allen ".
Gullion, u. S. A, of the Office of the
judge advocate general of the Army,
War Department, and District Com
missioner Sidney f. Taliaferro.
Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend-
ent Of the District of Columbia Police
Department, viii be official time
keeper.