Evening star., 1927-04-18
ORATORS TO DANCE
AT PARTY TONIGHT
Carlton Hotel viii Be Scene
of Gathering Of 800
at 8 Pm.

Oratorical worries-the ConQueSts
the defeats and the speculation of un-
fought battles~-will be ground into
happy dust beneath the dancing feet
of hundred youthful speechmaking
couples at the Carlton Hotel tonight,
when the dance of the Washington
Star Chapter of the Constitution Club
will be given in honor OF the con-
testants in eight of the district flnaI'
oratorical contests.
The dance, which begins at 9
O'clock, constitutes the first round of
social pleasure that accompanies the
conduct of the fourth National Ora
torical Contest, and it is, therefore,
the first taste OF the pleasurable re-
wards of competing in the contest
that the victors and conquered alike
will have had. While the prominent
personages include among the first
the eight district champions them
selves. those who competed with them
in fair, hardfought battles will be
the guests of honor also.
Without Adult Aid.
The club managers themselves have
planned the dance and they have
made all arrangements without adult
guidance. In rendering the dance to
the district winners this year. the
Constitution Club extends it's welcome
to this years eligibles for membership,
for every young orator who competed
in the group contests may join The
Washington Star Chapter of the Ma
tion-wide club of high calibered young
men and young woman.
Miss Myrtle Posey, The Star areas
nationalist in last years contest, is
chairman Of the committee which has
planned tonight's dance, and she has
as her working associates on the COM
mittee, Miss Ruth Newburn, nation
alist in the 1924 contest, and Joseph
Sorrell, who finished fourth in The
Star area competition last year. A
floor committee composed Of these
past masters of the National Oratori-
cal Contest art, and two of last years
champions of other regions, who are
now students in Washington Colleges,
will have charge Of the dance. The
assisting regional champions are
Joseph Mullarky, Georgia s entry last
year, now of Georgetown University,
and Burton GuidioZ, Louisiana's cham
pion of the 1926 meet, now a student
at George Washington University.
With the District contestants, In
whose honor the dance is being given,
the guests of the club will include
District of Columbia school officers
officials of The Star, members of the
faculties Of the contending schools and
prominent residents of the city.
Created i'm 1925.
The Constitution Club was created
in 1925 for the purpose of keeping
alive the friendships which We're
formed in each years contest It's
membership was at first limited to the
contestants in the United States ma
tional meets, but in 1926 it was de-
cided to broaden the scope of the
organization both in purpose and
membership. Consequently contest
ants who met in the semi-fnals and
even in group tests were admitted,
and the club undertook to increase in
terest in the contest among students
in the eligible schools by giving them
suggestions and even practical instruc-
ton in the subject of their orations.
In addition to these features of its
work the club is stressing in a nom
partisan way the Importance OF ctti-
zens voting in State and national po-
litical ARRAYS
The next battle in The Star area
Of the contest this year will be the
regional finals May 4. when the repre-
sentative of this newspaper in the
national contest later in May, will
be determined. Seven boys and three
girls compose that contesting field
and each of them is working now to
perfect his oration for that crucial
test, when the two-and-a-halfmont
tour of Europe will be at stake.