Evening star., 1933-05-20
Washington Girl and Four
Boys Will Compete at
Constitution Hall.
GRACE COLLIFL0WER
REPRESENTS THIS AREA
Address by Bishop Freeman to
Open Contest-0rchestra and
Chorus to Offer Program.

The champion high school speech
maker of the United States will be de-
termined in the finals of the Tenth
National Oratorical Contest in Consti-
tuition Hall tonight.
A lone girl-Washington's own Grace
Mary Collifower of st. Cecelias Acad-
emy-and four boys, hailing from Flor
ida to Honolulu, comprise the field from
which the champion Is to be picked by
board Of judges.
The contest will begin promptly at 8
o'clock and will witness some of the
keenest competition displayed in any
Of the previous nine National Oratori-
cal Contests. One boy will be making
the bid for honors that he fought three
years for the privilege of making. An
other will be doing his utmost to
champion Hawaii Still another boy
winning for his family the national
honors his brother fell short of In last
years contest. Miss Collif1ower, win
ner of public and private school spokes-
men alike in the District of Columbia,
Maryland and Virginia, will be striving
to win further distinction for girl ora
tors generally and the third national
championship for this contest zone.
Contestants and Subjects.
The five contestants and their re-
spective prepared orations follow in the
order in which they will speak:
Perry Dornaus, 18, of Bloomington,
Ill, champion of the North Central zone,
Lincoln, the Iiberator."
Samuel King, II, of Honolulu, Hawaii,
c1,o of hn Dorifn 10
an Integral Part of the United States"
Grace Mary Col1ifiower, II, of Wash
ington, champion of The Evening Stars
zone, embracing the District of Colum-
bia and neighboring counties of Mary
land and Virginia, Thomas Jefferson,
Father of Constitutional Democracy"
George Oliver, II, of Lake Wales,
Fla, champion Of the Southern zone,
The Expansion OF the Constitution in
the Regulation of business"
John Milton Phillips, 18, of Kansas
City, Mo-, champion Of the Midwest
zone, Our Living Constitution"
Each Allowed Six Minutes.
Each contestant will be allowed six
minutes in which to present these pre-
pletes his speech, he will be given
slip Of paper on which a new topic,
CLEANED from the prepared Grafton, will
be written. Retiring to an anteroom,
each orator will be permitted to plan
out four-minute extemporaneous ad-
dress. After the last contestant has
delivered his prepared speech, the first
will return to the stage to deliver his
extemporaneous address. He will be
followed in order by his fellow contest
ants
The judges of the national finals will
be the heads of the five leading insti-
tutions of higher learning here and an
officer of the Department of Justice.
They will be DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president Of George Washington Uni
versity; DR.. w. Coleman Nevils, S. j.,
president of Georgetown University: DR..
Hayden johnson, chancellor of National
University and dean of its Law School;
Dr. James Hugh Ryan, rector of Cath
olic University; DR.. Lucius Clark dean
Of the Graduate School of American
University. and Roy st. Lewis, Assist
ant Attorney General.
In determining winner, each Judge
will write a separate ballot without
consulting with his fellow judges. If
a winner Is determined on this initial
ballot, the judges will not confer. But
if the first ballot fails to produce a
winner by both the low-point total sys-
tenn and a majority of first-place rat
ings from the judges, the judges will
be called into consultation to pick the
champion.
Bishop to Deliver Address.
The contest will be formally opened
by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop
of Washington, who will deliver the in
troductory address. Bishop Freeman
will be presented to the audience by
Randolph Leigh. director general of the
contest, who will preside.
The meeting will be closed when
Fleming Newbold, business manager of
The Star, newspaper sponsor of the
contest here, announces the verdict of
the judges.
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