Evening star., 1932-10-22
SCHOOL ORATORS
| Of FIVE COUNTRIES
COMPETE TONIGHT
Brilliant Society Audience to
Attend Contest in Con-
Stituti0n Hall.
u. S. SPOKESMAN GIRL
FROM LOS ANGELES
Holland, Whose Representative
Won Last Event, in Race With
Henri Phaff, 6. W. Student.

The worlds champion in high school
oratory will be chosen tonight in Con-
stitution Hall when one giri-spokes-
man for the United States-and four
boys contend in the Seventh Interna-
tional Oratorical Contest.
The meeting, TO be attended by repre-
sentatives of Washington's most bril-
liant society, including persons promi-
nent in governmental and educational
circles of many nations, will witness
in all 10 contestant speeches designed
to increase interest in and respect for
the governments Of the young orators
countries. Each contender for the
and memorized Grafton, after which he
will discuss particular phase of his
subject extemporaneously.
Ireland this year will launch the
contest with 18-year-old R. Eric Boden
of Dublin, who will speak first on Ire
lands Contribution to World Civil
zation.''
Constitution u. S. Subject.
Other contestants will be heard as
follows:
Miss Lyculle D. Goldsmith Of Los
Angeles, Calf, representing the youth
Of the United States, on THE Consti-
tution-the elimination of Centuries.
Georges Pol Domino Of Vitry-le-
| Francois, France. on The Attachment
of French Youth to Tradition and
Progress"
Charles G. P Smith of Windsor.
England, on William Ewart Glad
stone"
Henri Emile Phaff of The Hague,
Holland, on Hollands Contribution TO
America"
In his bid for victory young Phaff.
the Hollander, will strive to retain for
The Netherlands the international
championship which was Won last year
by Henri R. M. Van Hoof, who since
that victory has been a student at
George Washington University here
The contest meeting will be launched
promptly at o'clock by Randolph
Leigh, director general of the contest.
| As chairman of the forensic meeting,
Mr.. Leigh will introduce DR.. Leo S.
Rowe. director general of the PAN
American Union. who will deliver the
formal opening address.
Tickets Lapse at 7:45.
Holders Of tickets are warned that
ticket rights. with the exception Of those
calling for box seats and press section
places, lapse at 7:45 O'Clock. At that
time-15 minutes before the contest Is
scheduled to open-any seat except box
and press seats may be occupied. and
the doors will be opened TO persons who
were unable to secure tickets.
Music will play an important part in
the contest program and in accordance
nit }, he ,i,-is of
at the oratorical contest meets. the mu-
sicians will be Washington high school
students. The Inter-High School Fes-
tival Chorus will present the cantata.
The Sage of Mount Vernon in bicen-
tennial tribute to George Washington.
/ The author of the cantatas words, DR..
E N. c. Barnes, director OF music IN
the public schools, will conduct the
chorus. R. Dean Shure is author OF
the music o. the cantata.
Baritone to Be Soloist.
! Wendell Anderson. baritone will be
| soloist. Mrs Eveline N Burgess and
! Mrs Mary G. Lewis will be accom-
! panists.
/ The widely known Tech Symphony
| Orchestra of Mckinley High School,
| directed by Dore Walten. will provide
! lIl6 ulStIu IuHleIlIdl HluSlC 4Ol LilC plO-
gram Not only will this group of young
artists play concert numbers during
| the meeting, but it will summon each
| orator to the stage with the playing Of
! his national anthem. The five orators
| will be introduced briefly by Mr. Leigh
/ at the beginning of the meeting and as
| his name is pronounced, each will stand
| and bow. But when each orator is
! called to the front of the stage to de-
liver his grafton, it is the Tech SYM
| phony Orchestra which will preform the
! rite.
Judges for the finals tonight, which
actually will climax year of contest
! activity in many countries, will be
multi-linguists, capable of weighing
| the utterances of each speaker in the
contestants own tongue. This board
of judges will be DR.. Miguel Cruchaga-
| Tocornal Ambassador of Chile: DR..
Eric Hendrix Louw, Minister of South
/ Africa: Dr. Louis H. Michel charge
d'affairs of the legation of Switzerland; /;
DR.. Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of the
Junior College, George Washington
University. and DR.. Paul G. Gleis Of
Catholic University.
Time Board to Serve.
| As each orators time will be closely
/ watched TO see That ne delivers his pre-
pared grafton within the allowed six
minutes and the extemporaneous speech
within four minutes, board of official
timekeepers will keep watch with pre-
cision timing instruments. These off,
cials will be Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries,
U. S. A., retired, and Brig Gen. Hugh
Matthews, U. S. M. c.
| Each orator in tonight's meet is the
survivor Of an intensive series of con-
tests in his own nation. Miss Gold
smith won the United States national
! finals here in Constitution Hall last
May by defeating the regional winners
| from various sections of the United
States. These regional winners them
selves had survived series Of elimina-
tion contests that ran all the way back
to individual schools where competition
was keen for the right to speak for the
individual institution. In all, 1t has
been estimated that more than 100000
boys and girls competed in the contest
in the United States. Similar systems
Of selecting national champions were
used in the other nations and groups OF
nations for the determination Of the
! personnel in toright's contest