Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 7

VIRGINIA'ORATORS IN HOMESTRETCH Recently Chesen Champions of Two Schools in Area - .Are: Announced. With the Maryland district awaiting its finals following its concluding “group meet” Thursday night, the Vir- ginia district of The Star's Sixth Na- tional Oratorical Contest area now is in the homestretch of its school finals ‘with only a few schools yet to pick their “respective spokesmen in the Virginia group meets which are scheduled for the week of April 8. The recently chosen champions of two of the Virginia schools are an- nounced today. The Washington-Lee High School of Ballston, which has supplied the Virginia champion in The Star finals for the past two years, chose Jerry Schutz, 16-year-old senior, to carry its foremsic banner, while the Fairfax Junior High School vested its oratorical honor in the hands of Kath- Tyn Garrett Tobin, 15 years old, who | is not scheduled to he graduated from high school until 1932, Schutz Brings Upset. Jerry Schutz, who is the son of Mrs. | H. C. Houghton, supplied the upset of the Washington-Lee finals. One or two other contestants in his school had been regarded as the favorites to win, | but in the school finals, Jerry loosed a brand of oratory, spontancous as it was fetching and as new to his own teach- ers as it was to the last member of the audience to enter the hall, to win the unanimous verdict of the judges. Schutz is described by his teachers as | a sort of dreamer, talented in the arts and withal popular with his classmates by virtue of his skill in athletics, spe- cifically foot ball. He draws well, is a musician of accomplishment and a graceful dancer. Alongside these he stacks experiences gaimed in world travel. Against this background he rears | his ambition to enter the diplomatic | service, and following his graduation | from Washington-Lee in June, he plans | to enter Georgetown Univers Hey lives with his grandmother, at Al‘nng-. ton, while his mother is living for the present in South America. Jerry's era- | tion is on “The Constitution; A Guaran- | tee of the Liberty of the Individual.” | Also Receives Gold Award. Left to right: Jerry Schutz of the Washin, Kathryn Garrett Tobin of the Fairfax Junior High School. Seeing London Soéial Season Will Begin Early; Elite Await Debut of Rosa Ponselle, BY JOAN LITTLCFIELD. Staft Correspondent of The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliauce. LONDON, March 30.—There is every indication that the London sea- son will begin early this year. Already an unusually large number of American and colonial visitors are arriving, while the coming general election is likely | to keep at home many English soclety people who otherwise would bs eut of Bngland during April. True, the opening Summer exhibi- tion of the Royal Academy, generally said to mark' the beginning of the sea- son, does not take place until early May. but the first night of the opera is to be April 22, a full fortnight earlier than usual, and when Covent Garden open its Goors every one who is any one must be there. ‘The most interesting event of the opera season this Summer is the pro- duction, probably -in late June, of “Judith,” the new opera with music by Eugene Goss:ns and Mbretto by Arncld Bennett. Special modern scenery is being designed by Charles Moor, Miss Tobin won her victory in the | Fairfax Junior High School finals v.llh‘ a well ordered speech on “The Develop- ment of the Constitution.” Besides the | right to represent her school in the | group phase of the Virginia contest, she | Teceived also an award of $5 in gold, | which F. S. McCandlish, chairman of | the Fairfax School Board, offered. At | present only a seventh-grade pupil—first year junior high school—Miss Tobin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. To- bin of Fairfax. It is her ambition to be- come a teacher, but with high school graduation still several years in the fu- ture, she has not yet set about choosing her college. PARTY GOVERNMENT PROBLEM DISCUSSED Future Influence of Prohibition, In- dustry and Agriculture Topic at Institute of Statesmanship. By the Associated Press. WINTER PARK, Fla, March 30.— Problems of prohibition. industry and culture as they may influence fu- tdre party government in the United States came in for a major portion of | the discussion at today's final session of the Institute of Statesmanship, held here this week under the auspices of | Rollins College. The institute closed with a recapitu- lation conference in which several col- lege presidents, professors from a dozen large universities and editors of two magazines gave their views as to ac- complishments of the gathering. One point, made by Prof. John Dick- inson of Princeton, was that it had been demonstrated in the institute that “there -is in the South greater willing- ness. to carry on frank and new discus- sion of political needs of the country than anywhere else in the United Btates.” ““There are two principal forces which are going to cause a number of eco- nomic 1lls,” asserted B. B. Kendrick of the North Carolina College for Women. “ * % * We.are just about at the end of increase in real wages. Tendencles will be down. -Factories will- produce more than pay envelopes will buy. If all factories were to-run at full force now they would produce from 50 to 100 r cent more than they could sell. en there is the chain store, which wvirtually is running the small merchant out of existenee. This will certainly make for economic discontentment. ‘These and the farm problem are going to cause some distress.” Commercial air service between Mont- yeal, Canada, and New York has been established. @he Forning Htar scenic director at Covent Garden, and Mr. Benneit is going to assist at re- hearsals, An event all opera lovers are await- | ing with interest is the London debut of Rosa. Ponselle, who is to sing here during the Ttalian season, and of whom gre:t things are expected. Chaliapin is coming again to sing in “Boris Godou- noff,” and there is also to be a revival | of Bellini’s “Norma,” which has not been seen at Covent Garden since 1899, | Prima Donnas Thinner. An interesting piece of news,told me by Col. Blois, who manages the opera season, 15 that prima donas are get- ting thinner. This no deubt will be a great comfort to those who.lke to pre- serve the theatrical illusian, but it some- | times results in thiner voices, too. The only thing that never gels thinner, so Col. Blois remarked, is the fee! No sale of recent times has contained so many personal relics of great writers as the one at Sotheby’s this week. Among the many interesting things on view were the desk on which Dickens wrote the main part of “Pickwick,” Burns® bannock toasting fork, Tenny- son’s cloak with a black velvet _collar and bronze chain, Thackeray's gold pen and silver pen case, and & miniature ol Werdsworth and his. wife. There also was & remarkable series of manuscripts and first editions. Among these was & page of a burlesque | on “Othello,” writien by Dickens when he was about 21. It contains 40 lines, and is said to be the earliest preserved manuscript of the novelist, It is a light-hearted. thing—“Bung the Porfer in the Pewter,” and “Right Fal-De- Lal,” and so on. A model letter asking for money due. is also from young Dickens. ‘This reads: “If you can conveniently entrust your smart_ liltle messznger tomorrow night with the amount due for the last two weeks you will much oblige me.” Ameng other important documents were Shelley's autograph mnnu.scripl. of ‘24 lines from “The Revolt of Islam,” an unpublished review by Charles Lamb of Hazkitt's “Table Talk.” and an auto- graph letter from Robert Burns to Robert Altken. Jokes of Baring. Maurice Baring, distinguished writer, whosz latest novel “The Coat Without Seam,” has just been published, is very absent-minded. On one of the hottest days last Summer he took off his hat in "the undergreund, mopped his brow feverishly, and cursed his forgetfulness in having left his cool straw hat at home. Finally he could bear it no longer. He went into White's Club and asked the porter to telephone to his servant to bring his hat along at. once. “But you've got it on, sir,” said the porter. “No, no,” said Mr. Baring, “I mean my straw hat.” “But you've got that on, sir,” was the reply; and he had. Mr.. Baring laughed for days over ADVERTISENEN By o Marty’s Cigar & 1135 1 ( chnv:p HeRe Magazine Store 4th St. Is a Star Branch Office THE ABOVE SIGN 1S DISPLAYED BY - AUTHCRIZED ‘STAR BRANCH “OFFICES | " day_ than any other ton paper that there cat question as to_ you the len remltx, The, Sur pnnts :uch an over-, whel ly+ greater- volme d L Advi m I ‘be in’be no mllm n-Lee High School and Miss fi’llt. and ‘as he has an infectious laugh his friends laughed with him. Mr. Baring is fond of making jokes, and the autcgraph inscriptions and drawings in his books would make an amusing collection. He once gave a friend a copy of his novel “C.” In it he | wrote, “Waite and ‘C."” Ancther of his hobbies is to carry on a constant correspondence in the agony columns of a certain London newspaper in code languege, in which every word bears the termination “umble.” It usually signed “Mumble Bumble.” Mr. Baring's most famous trick, however, is to balance a wine glass on the top ot his bald head. He does this constantly at dinner parties, solemnly and with no comment, carrying on his conversation as if there were nothing unusual in his action. Statistieal Omnibus, : An intelligent’ and gifted omnibus soon will appear in London. It is & sort of collector of infermation, and is full of gadgets by which it automati- cally records distances, speeds, grad- ients as it goes along. makes # record, by drawing a white lirie on black paper, of such things as the times it stops for traffic, and the time the driver is held up at the terminus. ‘The bus is also able to let down a little wheel to the road which records the distance run in yards, and it has a frame on the roof to test whether covered-top busses will go under bridges and trees. #here is also a gradient meter to register the exact slope of hills, and a spirit level which takes note of the slant on the roads. ‘When a certain British film producer is seeking a parjicular type for a pic- ‘ ture he makes a round of the West End restaurants studying waiters. And his quest seldom falis, for London waiters hail from every part of the world. There is one who was a page at the | court of the Czar, one who was 8 | peasant boy in Switzerland, and others .l\ho have known riches in Vienna or | poverty in Italy or strenuous work in France or Germany. London is thelr mecca, and some- times, when they take their holidays, instead of revisiting their own coun- tries they go to Blackpool or Brighton, or some other flourishing English sea- side phce And it isn’t for lack of money, for the average West End waiter is” prosperous. Chinese Play Produced. ‘The most unusual theatrical produc- tion this month has been “The Circle of Chalk,” an old Chinese morality theme translated into English from the “German of Klabund,” and produced with all the lavishness and beauty of color and line that denote the hand of Basil Dean. He chose as his lead- ing lady Anna May Wong, the Chinese | film aciress. & Miss Wong, while looking a picture Leave every hour on th 2 P. M.—then 9:30 Baltimore ticket office Union Bus Terminal, Lil $425 | \ MITTEN NN N Owned by Pennsylvania is | lerslie, ‘also was burned, the fire being There is a little instrument which £ ight. (Noon motor coach I Believed Result of Marylénd Moonshine War—Three * Arrests Made. Specicl Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., March 30.—] lowing the burning of three barns lmll an-unoccupied house at Rawlings, this county, James Gordon, 26; Melvin . Van Meter, 28, and Bender Wiley, 30, 8l of the nelghborhood, are in jail here, pend- ing ‘an investigation. 'They were ar- rested while in bed. The police are work- lng on the theory that the burnings The vacant tenement house burned ;ns on the farm of Dr. Frank Lee Clymer, The loss is placed in the neighborhood of $10,000. Farm machinery was stored in several of the barns. “According to Sheriff William R. Har- vey, the men under arrest had been drinking. The fires climaxed a number of - single fires of suspicious origin in!, the: same neighborhood the past-few A large stoneerusher, boller house and other equipment of the Cumber- land Cement Co. at Rock Cut, on the Western Maryland Railway, above El- attributed to incendiaries. The fhmes were discovered by the night watch- man, who had no means of fighting them. The Wesum Maryland sent a rvellef crew to protect its rolling stock on sidings. | Heavy l‘ron in Vu-gum. LYNCHBURG, Va, March' 30.—A heavy frost formed here yesterday s morning, with an official temperature of 35 degrees. Fruitmen say the fruit crops will stand 28 degrees of tempera- turee, and inasmuch as vegetation is not advanced, no damage was done by the frost. - and delighting by her exquisite gesturas and the perfection of a little dance, proved disappointing when she spoke. She has had no experience of the stage and failed, so it was reported, to control her voice. ‘The play is more notable for its-trim- mings than for its content. It is lovely ta Jook at, and the “Chinese” music, especially composed for it, is not the least of iis attractions. Moralities are in the air, and Easter is:being celebrated by the production of Maeterlinck’s “Mary Magdalene” at the Old Vic, and of Paul Claudel’s lovely medieval piece, “The Tidings Brought to. Mary,” which has been put on at the tiny Arts ‘Theater Club. Jeanne de Casalis plays the principal part in this alllg fimc Church is leading lady at the c. Nobleman's Postal Trick. Lord Dewar, millionaire business man, is noted chiefly for the witticisms of his after-dinner speeches, and it may surprise many to know that he is a regular student at the Heamtherly Art School, in Baker sireet. He studies in the life class from the nude, and he also sketches. During a recent holiday up the Nile he did excellent studies of fish, and when he visits Ostend he spends his time sketching on the shore while his friends disport themselves in the Casino; he also makes pencil portraits. He did one of these of Sir Thomas Lipton, his great friend, on & postcard, and sent it 1o the Posimaster General of the United States with the words, “Please find this man.” And they found him! (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- per Alliance. g To BALTIMORE = HOURLY ‘Express Motor Coach Serviu elwnr,aooA.M to P. M. and 12:00 Mid- res 12:15 P. M.) and wditing room — iberty and Redwood Sts. Washington Ticket Office and Waiting INTERNATIONAL TOURS 1421 Pennsylvani (Next door to Childs R Telephone—Metropolitan 5314 & Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Ave. TOIIRS Sulgrave ‘Manor 5130 Conn. Ave., Chevy Chase, D. C. ‘Homey in EVery Detail Sulgnve Manor is lomethm; more than-a place in which to live, ~The Sui tically planned; * . ‘equipped - apartment, rtistically - ites are real homes—prac- conveniently arranged; modernly ‘(including " electric ‘refrigerator ' in e _expense of the o ated at th er); mhed and fixtured. Beautiful wood- . ‘work and floors, ! open lndqndased porches, with tiled floors. .- They’re of’ adaphble | sizes—roomy enough— bnght and my—md modente rentdls. ' - 24-hm elevntor and s lchboud service. g. on the Deacon Brown Point Estate, in Penobscot Bay, Me.; where, according to reeent rumor, the wedding ol Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow Is to take place. FOUR ARE CONVICTED IN STOCK FRAUD PLOT $5,000,000 Lost by Investors in Canario Copper Securities Sales, Government Officials Say. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, Marth 30.—Two broth- rs, their brother-in-law and a brokerage associate were convicted in Pederal Court yesterday of conspiracy to de- fraud and using the malls to defraud. Another associate was convicted of con- spiracy ‘In Nation-wide stock sales of the Canario Copper Co. After deliberating almost five hours the jury returned its verdicts of guilty on the two charges against John and Herbert Locke, George F. Shurtlefl, their ~brother-in-law, and C. Carragher, assistant to the Lockes. and the verdict on the single charge of con-J cojveq an Easter present of 30 dozen | spiracy against John Carter Anderson, ing engineer. check transaction for more than $1,000,- 000, but which the Government charged involved only a few hundred dollars’ actual cash. 30 Dozens Eggs Gift to Curtis. Vice President Curtis yesterday re- ! cggs sent to him by 30 farmers at Par- sons, Kans. Sending his thanks to the The five men will be sentenced next | donors, Mr. Curtis told them that he Friday, but meanwhile they were free under bail. The stock offered by the men, the Governmenit said, was worthless and caused investors to lose $15,000,000, and was issued as investment in “mere holes in the earth.” Government counsel said | “suckers” bought rapidly and heavily. had not waited until Easter to open the gift. L B G Ballston Easter Service. BALLISTON, Va., March 30 (Spe- cial).—The Ballston Christian Church will hold sunrise Easter services Sunday Testimony was Introduced to show | morning at 6:30 o'clock with Rev. Ira that the brokers obtained an lmpoflng‘ P. Harbaugh, pastor, in charge of the financi4] standing through a “washed” | services. All denominations are invited. LONG CONTINUES ATTAGK ON FOE Accused Governor, Facing Impeachment, Publishes Own “Newspaper" in Flght | By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La, March 30— Gov. Huefy P, um. is publishing his own “newspaper,” a miniature, in his campaign to defeat the 19 impeach- ment charges on which the State House of Representatives will pass opinivd next week. ‘While the rest of the town took a Good Friday holiday, typewriters rat- tled in the executive office as about 25 stenographers and clerks prrg.fld copy for the governor'’s organ, which he is thaiiing to all ‘parts of the State. It contained further denunciations of his political enemies and “the Standard Ofl crowd,” who, he charges, was re- sponsible for the impeachment proceed- ing because he atempted to have an oil tax enacted. ‘The governor resorted to his own press because the daily newspapers of the State turned against him editorially and advocated impeachment. The Baton Rouge State-Times demanded today the addition of two charges to the impeach- ment resolution of 19 counts. One charge, it said, should be based on the governor’s “libel of members of the Leg- islature” by charging them with ac- cepting bribes from the Standard Oil Co. and another on the executive’s al- leged use of State employes for his pri- vate interests. No indications were given in execu- tive quarters that Gov. Long intended producing the names of the members he sald had been bribed as requested by a Scnate resolution unanimously ted. Late-yesterday Standard Oil officials had made no reply to the gov- ernor’s castigation. Both the governor and Dan R. Weller, president of the Standard Ofl Co. of Louisiana, have suites at the same hotel. The governor keeps well indoors. but did consent to Pone for photographers, who said he ked worn and drawn. 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