Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26


tuition Club, a national organization of
oratory contestants. AS he makes the
announcement, Mr.. Hammond will in
trcduce Paul Claudel, French Ambas-.
sador to the United States, who will
present the Sevres vase to the victor on
behalf of the French government, donor
of the trophy.
Time will be governing feature CT
tonights meeting. The contest aWill be
launched promptly at o'clock. At the
conclusion of Mr.. Leigh'S address-at
approximately sos o'clock-the doors OF
the Constitution Hall will be opened 10
persons who do not hold tickets. Az
that time all seat reservations become
void and any unoccupied place may be
taken.
Each contestant will be allowed 10
minutes in which to deliver his Grafton.
If he is not finished at the expiration
by the official timekeeperS and the
speaker must halt instantly. Should
he continue to speak he will be dropped
automatically to last place. The time
keepers will be Maj. Gen. Harry l..
Gilchrist, u. S. A., and Rear Admiral
Luke McNamee, U. S. N.
Among those who accepted the IN
yitation to attend the reception were:
DR.. Jan Herman van Royen. Minister
of the Netherlands and chairman OF
the committee of judges, and Mrs. van
Royen; DR.. Paul G. Gleis, judge, and
Mrs. Gleis; DR.. Adam sBoving, judge,
and Mrs. Boving; DR.. Jules-Bois, Judge;
Comdr J. B. de MarboiS, judge, and
Mrs de MarboiS; DR.. L. S. Rowe, d.
rector general of the Pan American
Union; John Hays Hammond, honorary,
president of the Constitution Club, and
Mrs. Hammond; Maj Gen. Harry Gil
christ, U. S. A., official timekeeper OF
the finals, and Mrs. Gilchrist; New
bold Noyes, associate editor of The
Star, and Mrs. Moves: Miss Estrtd OFT,
chaperon for Miss Torsleff, and DR..
Juan Remos Rubio, coach for the
Cuban orator.
Orators Entertained.
The young orators who will contend
for the world championship in speech
making tonight met for the first time
late yesterday at the Virginia home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh. There was no COM
petition there-unless it could have
been one to determine which of the
young speakers enjoyed himself most
| but Instead there was fraternity en-
gendered by warm hospitality which the
| Ieighs showered upon the lone girl
| and the eight boys and the guests who
| had assembled to do them honor.
In probably no other private home
| in this part of the country could the
international orators have received
more thorough acclimatiEation, for the
Leigh house, set in the midst of rolling
hills of Fairfax County, in the State
which gave the first President and many
early American statesmen, fairly
| breathed the spirit OF Colonial America
| from the white columns across It's 'front.'
to its cracking log fires within. Most
of the languages of the world were
heard In the cosmopolitan assemblage.
Sometimes 1t was necessary for a con-
testant to speak through two of his
fellow orators to a guest whose lirSa
guistic powers were confined to Eng
liSh
Benieno Petit Lecaros, the Peruvian,
for instance. speaks less English than
Roberto Ortiz Girls, the Mexican, VINO
himself il no student of English. Hence.
wished to converse with Lecaros, he was
likely to address the South American
through James Leonard Butsch, the
washington boy, who, as The Stars
candidate for the American national
championship, competed in the Amer
lean finals here last Spring. Butsch
knows some Spanish, having toured
South America last Summer. He
phrased xthe query or statement in his
mediocre Spanish to the Mexican, who,
by inserting broken English in the flow
Of Spanish, could understand the
American. Then the Mexican would
| translate the query all over again in
| good Spanish for the Peruvian. The
long procedure then would be reversed
and finally the originator of the ques-
ton would receive his reply and, If
he could remember what he had asked
in the first place. another query, or
perhaps a statement, would start the
| circuitous route of the linguists.
| Miss Torsleff, the Danish girl, who
! reached washington just before the re-
ceptioh, was one Of the last OF the
contestAnta 10 reach &he Leigh home.