Evening star., 1927-04-03
ORDER OF ORATORS
IS DECIDED Upon
Winner of Star Area Finals
to Speak Second in
National Contest.


throughout the United States compet-
ing in the elimination tests of the
fourth National Oratorical Contest,
the order in which the seven sur
vivors in as many regions will deliver
their orations in the national finals
here has been determined.
Frank B. Noyes, publisher of The
Washington Star and chairman of the
publishers contest committee of the
United States, recently drew from
shuffled mass seven cards, each of
which bore the name of city in
which q regional contest will be held.
In that manner the order of the
speakers was determined as follows:
Winner at Kansas City, first: win.
ner at Washington-The Stars area,
second; winner at Chicago. third; win
ner at New York. fourth; winner at
Philadelphia, fifth; winner at Birming.
ham, sixth, and the winner at Los
Angeles, seventh. r.
Also Draws Nations.
Noyes determined the order of speak
ers in the International Oratorical
Contest, to be held in the Washington
Auditorium next Fall. The orators OF
seven competing nations will speak
in the following order: Japan, first;
United States, second; France, third;
Canada, fourth; England, fifth; Ha-
waiian Islands, sixth, and Mexico,
seventh.
From the results of the previous
national contests, 1t Is evident that
the position Of the speakers has little
to do with the orators respective
ability to win. In the 1924 national
finals. the winners OF first, second and
trH AN~@ ,tY&t ~
second, respectively, while the winners
Of first, second and third places in the
1925 contest appeared as the third,
fourth and seventh orators on the
program. Last year. the speakers
who won first, second and third hon
ors, were the second, fifth and seventh
orMors, respectively.
Virginians Await Finals.
The same disregard for speaking
position was shown in the results OF
the first International Oratorica1 Con-
test held last Fall, when first. second
and third honors went to the third,
fourth and first speakers. respect
lively.
While the orators positions In the
national and international meets
were being determined. the go schools
in The Stars area were and still are
engaged in their school and group
contests. The Virginia district, with
it's four group meetings over, is await.
ing its finals at the Washington-Lee
High School of Ballston, Thursday
night. The private and parochial
school district and the Maryland dis.
trict are in the midst OF their respec-
tive group tests. Central High School,
district within itself, has already
chosen it's four finalists and they will
compete, April Ia.
The program for this week calls for
the second Maryland group contest
at Leonardtown tomorrow night at s
o'clock; the third group test of that
district at La Plata Tuesday morning
at IL o'clock; the fourth meeting of
that series at Marlboro at o'clock
Wednesday night and the final Mary
land group test at Rockville, Friday
night at o'clock. During the week
three group meetings of the private
and parochial school district will be
held also. The first at Georgetown
University at s pm. Tuesday and the
second and third on Saturday at the
National University at 745 pm, and
at George Washington University at
pm. The Western finals will be
held during the school session
Wednesday and that meeting will con.
stitute the first local high school dis.
trict finals.
Former Contestants Advance.
AS the schools bury themselves in
| the business Of the contest seeing
their way only from school meet tC
| group, and group contest to district
| nnals, and perhaps think" about The
| Star finals, a group of former contest.
| ants who had won in at least group
meetings, are formulating plans for
| one of the most brilliant dances In
the history OF local high school so
| cial activities. The sponsors of the
dance, which will be held at the Carl
ton Hotel, Easter Monday night, are
the members of The, Washington Star
| Chapter Of the Constitution Club.
/ The committee on arrangements foi
| the big" dance Is composed of Miss
Myrtle Posey, winner OF second hon
ors in last years national contest
when she was a. senior at Eastern
High School; Miss Ruth Newburn
| who tied for first place in the 1924
contest as a student OF Central High
School, and Joseph Sorrell, who An
ished fourth in last years Star area
finals.
The group contests already held
have permitted the students of several
contesting schools to meet in battle
but the coming dance is planned tc
give the pupils of each OF the &C
schools in this newspapers area ar
opportunity to meet socially. The
dance will be held in the patio room