Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
LEIGH ENTERTA|NS
ORATORS TONIGHT
Reception viii Be Given at
Virginia Home of Con-
test Director.

The nine contenders in the Fourth
| International Oratorical Contest finals
! tomorrow night are meeting for the first
! time late today at reception in their
I honor at the Virginia home of Randolph
/ Leigh. contest director general. whose
, original ides. is responsible for their
| being brought from the corners of the
world to Washington. where they will
speak their best in the interest of good
government.
AS they meet one another for the
| first time the girl and eight boys also
will meet the six judges who will deter
mine the best speaker from among
| them tomorrow night, educators who
have interested themselves in the con
test as an institution of learning, news
paper officials and contestants who have
preceded them in their drive toward the
world championship in secondary school
oratoTy.
DR.. Jan Herman van Royen Minister
from the Netherlands, and chairman OF
the committee of judges. will be among
those to greet the nine speakers. The
other judges present viii, include Dr.
Richard Henry Wilson, head of the ro-
nance language department at the Uni
versity of Virginia: DR.. Bots,
member Of the faculty of L'Ecole de
Psychologist at Paris; DR.. Paul Gleis,
q
the Catholic University: DIR. Adam Bo-
wing, Danish scholar, and Comdr. j. B.
de Marbois, professor OF languages at
Upper Canada College, Toronto.
SwOfTOrd Reaches City.
Ben w. Swofford Of Kansas City, the
representative of the United States In
the contest reached the Capital shortly
before noon today. Miss Frances Dick
6a
City Star, newspaper sponsor of young
SWonord in the contest, preceded him
here by several hours Swofford had
been expected to come to Washington
yesterday afternoon, but the time OF his
arrival was delayed
Miss Lis Torsleff, the Danish girl who
will speak for the Scandinavian and
upper European nations. reaches Wash
tngton this afternoon in time to at
tend the reception at the Leigh home.
She has remained in New York since
she landed there last Monday.
Meanwhile plans are being completed
for the contest finals. It was an
nounCed today that the Tech Symptom y
Orchestra, widely known 70-piece Or
ganization of Mckinley High School
students, will present the musical pro-
gram at the meeting. Dore Walten,
! Mckinley High School faculty MEM
siciaEs. will conduct the orchestra.
Anthems to Be Played.
The nine contestants will be intro
duced to the audience with the playing
, of their respective national anthems.
Another interesting development In
| the plans for this years international
meet is the decision to eliminate the
loud-speaker amplifiers which hereto
fore have been used when the finals
were held in the Washington Audito-
| rum. The acoustics of Constitution
Hall, the new D. A. r. auditorium
which only recently was opened, were
tried and found to be adequate to per-
NIT the young speakers to talk 'or
their own" Thus the audience will hear
the voices of the contestants themselves
without any artificial aids. and the
powers of the voices may be compared
with o greater degree of efficiency.
! Besides Ben Swofford and Miss Tors
| left, the contestants who will attend the
reception Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh are Civ.
ing in their honor are Gabriel FouchC
| of France, r. Whitnall Allen Of Eng
land, Roberto Ortiz Girls of Mexico
Vicente Pardo Suarez Of Cuba. Rocf
| Pinard of Canada. Herbert SchaumanT
of Germany and Benigno Petit Lecaro'
OF Peru.