Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1926, Page 11

STUDENT ORATORS END TOUR ABROAD Myrtle Posey, D. C. Girl, and Others on Way Home After Sumrper in Europe. Finalists in the National Oratorical Contest at last are homeward bound after a tour of eight European coun- tries. They left Fngland, Friday, on the Doric of the White Star Line for Montreal, where they expect to land either next Sunday or Monday. 1t has been a glorious Sum for the high school boys and girls, among whom was Miss Myftle Posey of ‘Washington. In addition to the finalists, with Randolph Leigh, director of the con- test, and Miss May P. Bradshaw, ohaperon, the party is made up of William ~ Meades Nowton, English spokesman: Jose Munoz-Cota. Mex- ican spokesman, and Henri Rubidon, French spokesman. ‘Wenig Going to Mexico. Writing from London on the plans of the party after returning to Amer- foen soil, Mr. Leigh says: At Montreal the party will be joined by Herbert Moran, Canadian spokes- man: Nowton, Munoz-Cota, Rubi- don, Moran and the winner of the 1926 National Oratorical Contest in the United States, Herbert Wenig, will &0 from Montreal to Mexico City, stopping en route 2t New York and Washington, to participate in an in- ternational meeting in the Mexican capital on September 22. They will return to Washington in time for the final meeting of the first Interna- tional Oratorical Contest to be held on October 15. Tae representative of each of the five nations will speak on his own governmental institutions. The prize wiil be a handsome silver loving cup, which carries with it the international speaking championship for 1926, “A special program has been ar- ranged for September 6 on board #hip, when the passengers will hear the English, French, Mexican and United States spokesmen deliver their The last days of the party d were crowded with activi- tles and diversions outside the ordi- mary sightseeing schedules. On the Friday before their sailing date, tlie members of the party were the guests of Anthony Asquith, son of the Karl of Asquith and Oxford, at a dinner given at the Savoy Hotel. They were also shown through Sulgrave Manor, home of the forefathers of George ‘Washington, by a special committee, and spent almost an entire afternoon in that shrine which Americans link with Mount Vernon as particularly associated with their development and their institutions. The party also saw “Richard 11" played at Stratford-on-Avon. The final enter- tainment in their honor was an elab- orate luncheon given by the lord mayor and councilors of Liverpool, in the town hall on September 3. The youthful orators of the four nations delivered their orations on that oc- casion, as well as at a larger public gathering held in that city on the evening of September 2. D. C. Girl in Party. ‘“The member of the party from the United States in addition to Herbert Los Angeles, national re: Myrtle Posey, Wash- .; Helen Byland, New York; Thomas Cleary, Philadelphia; Ann Hardin, Louisville; Quita Boar- man, Minneapolis. The party kept to its ambitlons scheduled throughout the trip, vis- iting the leading art galleries, see- ing many of the most renowned sights in Europe, and attending the operas and other theatrical entertain- ments in five capitals. “The pleasure of the trip was en- hanced by a plan of team reading, which was followed. Before attend- ing operas, plays, etc. or going to spots especlally associated with some famous bit of literature, the members read aloud the play or poem or story, as the case might be. Thus the Ttalian and Swiss Lake country and the land of Scott, Burns and Shake- speare took an additional charm. Most of this reading was done while the party was making long railroad Journeys, though some of it was done on shipboard.” NATIONAL ART SCHOOL TO OPEN OCTOBER 1 ZLarge Registration Necessitates Increase in Faculty—Exhibit Now on Public Display. The National School of Fine and Applied Art at 1747 Rhode Island avenue, under the direction of Felix Mahoney, starts its tenth year Oc- tober 1. The large number of registrations from out of town indicates the na- tienal reputation of this art school. The faculty has been further in- creased this yvear to take care of the increasing number of students who avail themselves of professional, cultural art training offered. The teachers' training course, which is one of the most popular courses, will have an additional in- atructor. & graduate of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. Many former pupils and graduates of the National School of Fine and Applied Art have found positions as fnstructors in other art schools. The popular Saturday morning class for school children from which #0 many children have graduated to the adult class and continued until completion of the art course will be under the direction of Miss Inexz Ho- gan. The school is open daily for registration. A exhibition of students’ work is on display, to which the pub- lic 18 invited. PUBLISHER E.XCORIATES ANTI-FASCISTI IN U. S. Italians Opposing Mussolini Are Radical, Low-Caste Lot, Franchetti Declares. &pecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 4.—Fran- cesco Franchetti, Ttallan-American publisher who sailed on the Conte Biancamano, took a parting shot at the anti-Fascist! of North America, who began the session of their na- tional congress at Cooper Union to- @éay. Its membership. he said. was composed of “Bolshevike. Com- munists and agitators. whose leaders never work and are of low caste.” Ninety per cent of Italians in America, he said, are ardent Fascisti a1 heart, as “are 99 per cent of United s citizens, descendaits of vir- all races, who have returned from Italy and lauded Mussolini for his splendid work.” Fascisti in this country, he added, are exponents of law and order and are combatting communism and an- archism among the working classes. R T An Indian fakir recently demon- strated to doctors that he could vary his pulse at will, one wrist register. ing quickening heart beats while the other indicated that the heart was elowing down. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 5. 1926=PART 1. HISTORIC FILMS TO BE SAVED IN FEDERAL ARCHIVES BUILDING| INFORMAL, SAYS POLA Officials to Preserve Phonographic Req- ords of Noted Voices as Well in Huge New Structure. Through metion picture film and phonographic record the face, form and volce of the Nation's truly great will now be handed down to posterity in the huge archives buflding to be erected soon facing the Mall. Decision has been reached by those in charge of the Government's big building program that @ part of the Propos archives, between Twelfth and Thirteenth, B and C streets, shall be set aside for the preservation of films and phonographic records of istoric value. For years this phase of preserving the action and the voices of historic occaslons has been urged upon Gov: ernment officials in different capacl- ties, but not until the opportunity opened up in the great archives build- ing did the Government have the chance to consider the matter in a manner becoming to its significance to America. Flims Privately Preserved. Growth of the two industries—film and phonographic—has been phenom- enal with the past few decades, and already there are recorded, not in Government files but in the hands of private individuals, precious records, in celluloid and wax composition. which keep indelibly more graphic reproductions of historic events than have ever been possible Leretofore by the so-called “still photograph” and written or printed document. “Living” history will thus be possi- ble for untold generations to see and hear in vivid form. Among those who have been ufging the Government to take steps for preservation of historic flilms and phenograph records have been numer- our representatives of the industries themselves. But the significance of such preservation has been fully ap- preciated by such authorities as Her- bert Putnam, librarian of Congress. Procedure Not Settled. How the archives will be managed, which pictures and phonographic rec- ords will be admitted, and how, are questions which are to be determined later, when Congress sets up the man- agement of the archives. This is a step to be reached in the future, when the building is further along. At pres- ent condemnation proceedings are un- der way through the Department of Justice for the land on which the building is to be located, and plans are being drawn in the office of the super- vising architect. The archives prob- ly will be the second of the great ‘ederal structures to go up here, un- der the Government's building pro- gram, the first one being the Internal Revenue Bureau Building. Already, Dr. Putnam explained yes- terday, the Government has possession of a few motion picture films, which were submitted to the Library of Con- gress under the copyright law. As most of the flims are inflammable, however, Dr. Putnam explained, they were nearly all returned to the owner, under that provision of law which pro- vided for return of copyrighted prop- erty to the owners at the discretion of the librarian. To date the Government has had neither practical means for preservation, protection or use of such films, and no arrangement has been made for keeping them, in any quan- tity. Cost to producers of flling two coples of flilms which could not be properly protected by the Government was said by Dr. Putnam to have been one reason for the return of most of the films, 3 Careful Selection Certain. Although the policy of selection and for the Government to flle away only those fiims of most historic signifi- cance. Under the present enormous output of the *“movie” industry it would be obviously impossible and useless for the Government to under- take to keep one copy of every pic- ture turned out. Will Hays, “czar” of the motion pic- ture industry, during a recent confer. ence with President Coolidge at White Pines Camp, the Summer White House, offered to present on behalf of the industry a collection of the finest films of historic importance so far pro- duced. It is known that President Coolidge 1s deeply interested in the project, and has given it his sanction. TROTH TO VALENTINO His Brother and Manager Verify Personal Agreement—Marriage Planned Next April. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, September 4.—The engagement of Pola Negri and Ru- dolph Valentino, film celebrities, was not a formal one, but the members of both families knew of their personal agreement and the wedding was to be solemnized next April, Miss Negri told newspaper reporters who boarded the Valentino funeral train in Mis- souri and accompanied it to Kansas City. The train bearing the body of the movie “sheik” from New York to Hollywood, arrived here this morning. Miss Negri's statement was con- firmed by Rudolph’s brother, Alberto Guglielmi, and by Valentino’s mana- ger, S. George Ullman. “Pola and my brother were.together constantly from the time they first became really acquainted eight months ago,” said Rudolph’s brother. /. “I think there was no ring, no am nouncement, but we all knew the en- gagement existed and were all glad.” Through Missouri, crowds gathered at the stations to catch a glimpse of the funeral coach. Blinds were drawn and no one was permitted to enter the coach. ‘The train arrived here at 10:30 o'clock and left an hour later. A large crowd gathered in the Union Station lobby but entrance to the train shed was denied. GERMANY HAD QUAKERS. Many of Faith Settled on Rhine as Early as 1670. BERLIN, September 4 (#).—Quaker history is quite as much German as it is Anglo-American. This has been brought out at the annual meeting of the German Friends in Hamburg by ‘Wilhelm Hubben of Crefeld. Hubben vecalled that as far back as 1670 there were many Quaker congregations throughout the Rhine country. In 1680, he said, the first German Quakers left for America, where they joined Willlam Penn. 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He was for 10 years head of the department of economics at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., and is the author of a number of books on economic subjects, inelud- ing texts for high schools. He has purchased a2 home at 4426 Klingle street. Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Putney have re. turned _from Williamstown, Mass., where Dr. Putney attended the Insti- tute of Political Sclence. Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. Collier are expected to return within a few days from Europe, where they took an ex tanded vacation tour. Dr. J. E. Bentley. professor of edu- cation, has returned from spending the Summer at Lake George. Prof. Will Hutchins, who has been doing research in art in Kurope, is expected to return this week. The dean of the reorganized grad- uate school. Dr. Edward T. Devine, will arrive in Washington about Sep- tember 15. He will make his home at the Methodisi Buliding, 100 Maryland avenue northeast. Ko;em Clothing Pasted. 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Following a six weeks' recess since the close of a successful Summer term, the Fall session of the Wash- ington College of Law will open Mon- day, September 13, with a public re- ception in honor of the new dean, Mrs. Grace Hays Riley, and members of the faculty by the board of trus- tees at 8 p.m. in the college building, 12000 G street. Short talks by the professors, out- lining their respective courses, and assignments of lessons will be the chief business of the opening day. Classes will convene formally at 5 Tuesday, September 14. Several additions have been made to the faculty this Fall, and one ab- sence will be felt' keenly—that of Prof. Paca Oberlin, who has resigned after 20 years' service to' accept an appointment on the executive staff of the Erie Railroad with headquar- ters in New York City. The college has been fortunate in obtaining the services of Maj. Fred N. Oliver of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Capt. Frederick C. 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