Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 21

DISTRICT ENTERED | Cxtote tmporen o INPLAY CONTEST £ Four Competitions Drama League Auspices Open to Residents Here. Four national play-writing contests to be conducted concurrently under the auspices of the Drama League of America are announced with specific cash awards and guaranteed publica: tion of the winning manuscripts as prizes. The individual cont fied as follows: 1--Co historical | subject—one act, open only to college | studeats. 2—Little Theater, expeni- | mental—one act, open to &ny one. | 3—Biblical, non-sectarfan, any length and open to any one. 4—All-Ameri-| can, full length, any theme and open | to any one. ! . Glenna Smith Tinnin of the| rtment of the National | chool has been appointed | judge of the manuscripts submitted | by residents of the District of Colum- | bia and she will select one of each | class of play, excepting the Bibical type, to be entered with the selections of other state judges in the final con test in Chicago, the headquarters of the Drama League. The Biblical play entries are to be sent by the writei directly the Drama League Chicago. Must Be In By May 1 Plays submitted by residents of the District must be delivered to Mrs.| Tinnin on or before May 1 and they | should be addressed in care of the Graduate School of Theater Arts, Wardman Park Hotel | a League announces that if | ational judges decide they are | of sufficient merit, the plays will be | produced. Una this provision the | full-length play will be produced by | Brock Pemberton, the Bibical play the Pilgrim Players of Chicago, and | the oneact plays by the American Academy of Oneact Plays, and 50 per cent of the gross receipts and a share in the radio, picture, chautau qua and forelgn rights will be given the writers. Should the winning plays merit only publication, the writers of the | all-American_play will receive $500 advance royalty, while the writers of | the biblical and the oneact plays will be awarded $250 each. The writers will receive also 50 per cent of the gross receipts from the sale of amateur rights and 10 per cent from the sale of books. The rules governing the contests as announced by the league follow: 1. Plays must be original and owned by the author and must not previously have been produced or published professionally. 2. The treatment may be in any manner—burlesque, farce, comed drama, melodrama, tragedy or m tery, but neither material nor treat- may be offensive to good taste. Length of Plays Fixed. 3. One-act plays should require from | 20 to 40 minutes to perform; full- length plays from 2 to 2% hours. 4. Each play should be typewritten on one side of the sheet, with name and address of author, together with return postage, in separate sealed envelope, attached. The author should keep a copy. 5. Authors should send manuscripts to college, State center or national headquarters as iIndicated, and with- out comment. - The last day for hand- ing in manuscripts is May 1. 6. Each college or center will formu- late its own rules for conducting its contest. The one best manuscript of each college and the five best manu- scripts of each State center are to be sent to the State judges (Mrs. Tinnin in the District) not later than June 1. 7. The State judges will select the winning manuscript of each of the three contests not later than July 1. Bibical play entrants will send their manuscripts to the “Drama League, 69 East Van Buren street, Chicago. NEW YORK BANKER ENDS LIFE WITH PISTOL SHOT William Elliott Enox Rose From Clerkship to Be Head of National Association. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February A e volver shot, muffied by the roar of trafiic outside the Forty-second Street Branch of the Bowery Savings Bank, yesterday ended the life of Willlam | Flliott Knox, who rose from a minor clerkship to the presidency of the | bank and of the American Bankers'| Association. Percy Delamoter, secretary, who had seen Mr. Knox enter a third floor lounge room to rest after luncheon, went to summon him to the telephons in his office downstairs. He found Mr. Knox, a revolver gripped in his hand, lying lifeless on the floor. A hysician sald he had been dead for an hour. in | Mrs. Muthulakhmi Ammal, who represented the women of India at the last Women's International Con- ference in Paris, has been appointed deputy president of the Madras Leg- islative Coune Ge!f | Dr. Shah’s Under| _ s are classi- | f THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 6, 1927—PART 1. KELEY W. MORGAN, Who has just been appointed chief of the division of Latin American affairs in the State Department. Unnsual importance attaches to Mr. Morgan's position as advisor to Secretary of| State Kellogg at the present time, be- cause of the crisis in American rela- tions with Mexico and Nicaragua. CONOWINGO DAM By the Associated Press with the terrifying chine gun has been received here to do away with musi will sponsible for “‘blue notes” and jangles, | tional s {but the instruments which cause dis. | clares cords will be the objectives Master TuningE:k Which Resembles Machine Gun Wiu B?.j:tle Discords CHICAGO, February 5.—A device aspect of a ma- standard musical at the headqu Assoct all pitch. There ar tuning forks, W. F. McClellan, retary of the association One 18 in the United S |Burean of Standards at W perfected |and the other at the headquart pitch,” al discords. There be no shooting of players re The device is a new tuning fork, pitched to an “American to be kept rters of the National ation of Piano Tuners, so that instruments can be tuned to its only two other s na- hington, | the Music Industry Chamber of Com-|hundredth of a vibration per second | merce in New York. correct. This difficult adjustment was | aiorid estras have been|made by Dr. Dayton C. Miller, head | b S e ention of stand. | Of the physics department of the Case R “-henl.\‘chool of Applied Sciences in Cleve instruments of different pitch are | [and. brought together interference of sound waves causes a clash. In the future, Gets Reserve Commission. Mr. McClellan said, all planos and other Instruments will be tuned by | Arthur D. Etlenne, 3100 Connecticut the pitch of these three standard |avenue, this city, has been commis- ch | tuning forks. ‘ The instrument resembles ie. ’(‘hn\t\ gun, be 8 a barrel-l] es | resonator into the fork part| sings when struck. It has been cal- ed so that is within one-| — fantry in the Reserve Corps of the | | Army. A man with a lame story frequently of | it in the telling. ALLEGED BOOTLEGGER SLAIN; FEUD SUSPECTED Sixth Member of Warring Factions | oned as a second lieutenant of In-|BY ridd all auton city the man was slain by members of a faction warring for sugar-rum privi {leges, which has resulted in five other ‘dna(hs in the past few months, | The others killed in the alleged foud jare Jake Trager, Frank Speed. Killer” Conrad, Isadore Cantor and amuel Jacobs. Jacobs' body was found in the East River in New York after he had been reported missing here. Associated Pross | DETROIT. d body in Detroit Found Riddled | ‘With Bullets. oo v The term “staterooms® for cabir 30, |on boats originated from the practic 1 an |on Mt ppi steamboats of naming bile the s of the|rooms fi e various States, accord olice advanced the theory that | ing to Li Magazine, 1S BEING RUSHED $52,200,000 Electric Plant on Susquehanna Is 40 Per 4‘ Cent Completed. Special Dispatch to The Star PHILADELPHIA, February The $52,200,000 Conowingo Dam months’ ahead of its schedule, and is progressing so far in | advance of previous estimates that the Baltimore pike will be opened over | its top roadway by November at the latest. In giving out this information today, the Philadelphia Electric Co., which is | building the dam to generate electric | power, announced that 40 per cent of | the dam has been completed. Floods Were Handicap. The dam’s progress, officials said, | has been made despite two floods— | one in September and the other in, November, 1926—that broke all rec- | ords for high water in their respective | months. In the September flood | months of work on the east coffer dam narrowly escaped being wiped out. When the dam is completed | nthe Fall of 1928 it will supply an annual output of 1,150,000,000 kilowatt hours, of which § per cent will be lost in transmission, per 100 miles. The plant is expected to supply at least 50 per cent of the electric power used in| Philadelphia. | Fifty per cent of the excavations of | river rock required for the dam'’s con- | struction has been completed, the company announced. Of the 650,000 cublc yards of concrete masonry to | be used in the dam 260,000 cubic yards have already been poured. | The first powerhouse unit is e pected to start operation by the mid dle of next year. | 2,850 Men Employed. Stone & Webster of Boston and the Arundel Corporation, Baltimore, are the contractors. About 2,850 men are working on both sides of the Susque- | hanna at a point 2 miles below Cono- wingo, 850 being employed on the east side by the Arundel Corporation and about 2,000 on the west side by the Boston firm. All the concrete towers connecting | the two shores of the Susquehanna have been completed, and .concrete pouring has been under way several months from both ends. Actual con- struction work was started last March. 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