Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1931, Page 4

s FIRST GIRL WINS " ORATORY CONTEST ‘Beminary Student Is Chosen %o Represent St. Marys County in Finals. ‘Winning by & unanimous decision of the judges, Miss Harrlett Adams Mc- Call, 15-year-old freshman in the St. Mary's Seminary, was chosen last night to represent St. Marys County in the Maryland district finals of The Evening Star's zone in the National Oratorical contest. Miss McCall, who spoke on “O1 of the Constitution,” is the first girl to capture a county cham- pionship this year. A crowd of several hundred persons packed the Leonardtown Court House to hear the annual forensic event. Miss Lettie M. Dent, superintendent of St. Marys County schools, presided over the meeting and introduced the speakers. An orchestra from St. Mary's Academy, Leonardtown, rendered three selections &s the musical portion of the program. 'Will Enter Maryland U. Miss McCall was judged winner by George P. Sacks, president of the Bank of Bethesda; Aldo L. Raffa, teacher of public speaking in the Georgetown Uni- versity Foreign Service School, and Robert P. Reeder of the Department of Justice. She is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. G. McCall of College Park, Md. Her father is a soil sclentist in the United States Department of Agri- culture. Miss McCall intends to gnter Maryland University following the com- meuon1 lfr lmdr’ prepara school Work. he will stu 8] 3 s'I'I'Ae fourth p:nd final preliminary meet in the Maryland district will be held tonight at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Bethesda, Md., 8 u'clo%k. s:gmlelghmon‘ ty Hi 00l ora Wi g’t;ld ixgnechl awarded each county win- ner in The Star area. Judges Selected. Superintendent of Schools Edwin W. @roome will 'g.’ as fiymd ,?dgd judges will be: Dorsey e, Jr., = 3..:; of the Washington Chamber Commerce; W. D. Boutwell of the office of education, and George W. n, associate editor of the Pathfinder Mag- azine, Musical selections will be given by the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Orchestra, under the direction of Miss Mary Bennett, and that school's Girls' Glee Club and elective music class, under the leagership of Miss Geneve Bourdeaux. The schools entered and their repre- sentatives are: Takoma-Silver Spring High School, Ted R. Bohannan; Sher. ‘wood High School, Sandy Spring, Md., Eleanor Cissel; Fairland High School, Beltsvile, Md., Sylvia Miriam Ellin; Gaithersburg High School, Doris Pal- mer; Reckville High School, Alvin Perkins; Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Lucy Prank; Georgetown Pre- paratory, School, Garrett Park, Md, Prancis K. Cole, and Damascus Higl 8chool, entry. Zone Finals May 8. champlon of the Washingtcn ar area will be designated in the final The ears will be followed. Leemamm-wwnmmm out the morning. Order in which the will be heard in their differ- ent suditoriums will be announced later. The judges will be: Frank J. Loesch, attorney, of Chicago, & member of the National Commission on Law Observa- tion and Enforcement and president of the Chicago Crime Commission; Albert 'W. Atwood, editorial writer for the Sat- da; Post, -uuur'omuw- o El ington . who is also president of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; French Strother, administrative assis- tant to the President of the United States, author and former editor of the Apr World's Work; George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia, lecturer, authcr and member of Phi Beta Kappa. Each speaker will be allowed six min- utes for the delivery of his prepared and memorized address and four min- utes for the extemporaneous address, which will follow. Extempore Contest Rules. The plan for the extemporaneous ad- dress will be the same as that used last year. That is to say, each speaker will given his extemporaneous topic 45 minutes in advance of the time when he must deliver his talk. The extem- poraneous topics will be based on ma- terial contained in the prepared ad- dresses and will be so framed as to thoroughly test the speaker’s knowledge of his entire subject. Each of the 11 participants in the finals for this area will already have re- ceived a cash prize of $100. The winner of The Washington Star area cham- pionship will receive an additional rfllc of $200, plus the privilege of participat- ing in the national finals. Participation in the national finals automatically rarries with it, as a prize, a Summer tour of Europe, with all expenses paid. ‘The winner in the competition of May | ¢ 8 will participate in the national finals meeting to be held in Constitution Hall on May 23. At that time, he or she will compete with the champions of six national zones, namely, Pacific, South- e, Midwestern, Central, Northern and New England. Loving Cup Offered. In addition to the substantial cash awards which all of the contestants will have received before reaching the na- tional finals, and in addition to the Summer tour of Eurove, each partici- | pant in the national finals will have & chance to win the handsome silver lov- ing cup, which is the national trophy. The winner of the national cham- plonship will compete for the world champlonship in the international finals, 1o be held in Washington October 24 A Washington contestant, E4mund Gullion of Wes'ern High School, last year fought his way through to the in- ternational finals, and there won the grand prize, the world championship cup. The nations whose contestants won the privilege of participating in the grand fina's of last year were Encland, France, Germanv. Canada. Mexico, United States, Irish Free State and Chile. e . Supplies From the Skies. in For the purpose of dropping supplies | broken the record for early appear- from an airplane and aecurately de- positing them near the desired spot the Royal Alr Force is now conducting ex- periments with automatically controlled parachutes and containers. The big difficulty is that of devising an appa- ratus which will fall accurately as a = | noon, 10 District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir- ginia, West Virginia—Partly cloudy to- night and tomorrow, not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate westerly winds. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 70; 8 p.m., 63; 12 midnight, 54; 4 am, 50; 8 am, 52; Barometer—4 pm. 30.14; 8 pm, 30.16; 12 midnight, 30.18; 4 a.m., 30.16; 8 am, 30.15; noon, 30.28. Highest temperature, 72, occurred at 8:30 p.m., yesterday; lowest tempera- ture, 47, occurred at 6;30 a.m. today. ‘Temperature same date last year— Highest, 47; lowest, 42. . Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 2:05 a.m. and 2:40 pam.; high tice, 7:43 am. and 8:08 p.m. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 2:42 a.m. and 3:20 pm.; high tide, 8:19 am. and 8:46 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:30 a.m.; sun sets 6:46 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:29 am. sun sets 6:47 pm. Moon rises 5:15 a.m.; sets 6:40 pm. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Comparative figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first four months against the average is shown in the following table: Average. 1931, ....3.55 ins. January . .1.561ins. bruary...3.27 ins, February ..1.36 ins. ..3.75 ins. March ....3.50 ins, .3.271ins. April 2.06 ins. Record rainfall for the first four months were: January, 1882, 7.09 inches; February, 1884, 6.34 Inches; March, 1891, 8.84 inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches. Weather in Various Citles. H Stations. AS0USIH =+ +gwpasisas qusin ssey Abilene, bany, N. Atantie & antic City Baltimore, Bimiin Boston, . : Chicago, IIL.. Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, Columbia, 8. Helens, Mont... Huron, 8. Dal Indianapolis. Ind chklon\éll Fla. 30. Los Lou Tex . Y. =8 BEBVLLBLES | o+ 2039w, i 4 SE5EEES 2 r Pt.cloudy Pt.cloudy Philadeiphia oenix, Ariz.. 29. Pittsburgh, Pa.. Portland, Me... 3 Portland, | Raleigh. Bal © 30,0 | io.. . 30.12 Ban Diego. Calif 29.94 n_ Prancisco. 30.00 . Mo. . FOREIGN. (7 am., Greenwich time, today.) Btations Temperature. Weather London, England......... 44 Rain Paris, France Be B Ge: Switzerl; Stockholm. Sweden.... .. 40 | (Noon. Greenwich time, yal), Azores. (Current observations.) Hamilton, Bermuda 62 an Jush, Porto Ri ns, Cuba. Colon, Canal Zone. Part cloudy Clear Cloudy Straws Appear in London. Straw hats elready have appeared London, and are believed to have | ances of the harbingers of Spring. One | was worn by a beautifully d girl, and the hat was shaped exactly like half a melon, but made of the finest straw. The other was a “boater,” worn | | by a veteran cricket enthusiast. | { —— ! eight locks to the canal; Judges who will serve at The Eve- ning Star area finals of the Naiional Oratorical Contest in Washington on May 8: Frank J. Loesch (upper left), | Albert W. Atwood (upper right), Wade | H. Ellis (center left), French Strother | (center right) and George F. Bower- man (lower). Figure Eight in Canal. The figure eight bobs up curlously in the construction of the new Wel- | land Canal around Niagara Falls. For bullding purposes the canal was di- | vided into eight sections. There are | it takes | eight minutes to fill each lock with | water, and eight hours for a vessel to pass through the entire canal The | eight locks have each & usable length | of 820 feet with a depth of 80 feet, and 82 feet is the height of the lower mitre gates. The greatest height of | lock wall is 130.8 feet and the weight of metal tn the valves of locks is 3,800 ns. A pond 80 feet deep, covering 84 acres feeds the eight locks. The span of the lift bridge at Peter street, Thor- old, is 80 feet, and lock eight, with a ! length of 1,380 feet. 25 MATERIALS PLACED ON MEMORIAL SITE Work to Begin at Once on Temple to District Men in World War. First materials were moved to the site of the District of Columbia World ‘War Memorial today, marking the be- ginning of actual operations on this city’s tribute to her hero dead. At the same time the special com- mittee of the World War' Memorial Commission charged with the responsi- bility of determining the names of vet- erans to go into the memorial sought further information from Government sources more specifically to interpret the law concerning which names should be included. The committee, of which Maj. Gist Blair is chairman, met in the office of Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the National Guard, yes- terday afternoon. It was determined first to learn from official sources how far it can go in carrying out a liberal policy on the compilation of names. At the suggestion of Gen. Stephan, Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, assistant adjutant general of the National Guard, was ap- pointed to act as secretary of the com- mittee. Dr. B. C. McNeill, department commander of the American Legion, and Frederick H. Brooke, architect of the memorial, also were in the con- ference. The complete list of those from the District of Columbia who served in, the military and naval forces of the United States during the Great War will be inclosed in the corner stone of the tem- ple and the names of the dead will be carved around the base of the temple. On the site of the memorial, located in West Potomac Park between the ‘Tidal Basin and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, on the axis of Nine- teenth street, workmen of James Baird Co., contractors, today started hauling lumber from which to build the con- tractors’ office and sheds. Pile drivers soon will be moved to the site and piles will be driven deep into the subsoil, upon which to rest the white marble temple. It is now planned to go forward steadily with construction of the me- morial, so as to have it ready for dedi- cation in November. ™ A gang of workmen was busy clear- ing off the site today for the new me- morial. The center of the site is mark- ed by a small white wooden cross. About this cross in a circle, covering the approximate area of the building itself, the workmen were making good progress in clearing the place of trees and growth necessary to further prog- ress on the contract. SCOTS BAR BOXING GLASGOW, Scotland, April 17 (#).— Declaring boxing is a return to primi- tive savagery “which we inherit from our mammal ancestry,” the Glasgow City Council has Tefused to permit the use of the celebrated Kelvin Hall for bouts. Supporters of the proposal described the city fathers’ attitude as represent- ing “Mrs. Grundyism at its worst.” Box Office Receipts Of Opera in Capital Establish New Mark ‘Washington royally rewarded the Metropolitan for its three- &y pilgrimage to the Capital y: _Reports from, the office of Mrs. Wilson-Green€ indicate that a record has been established, and that the guarantors of this com- pany will start out the coming season with a fund instead, as in previous years, of a deficit. »_Not since the year when Mary Garden sang “Thais” here, with the Chicago Opera Co., have the box office receipts been so large. A “sold-out” sign could have been hung outside of the Fox Theater at the performance of “Peter Ibbetson”, at “Tosca” there were scarcely two dozen seats available, and the largest opera matinee audience ever seen here agtended Thursday's per- l formance of ““Mignon. METROPOLITAN CROWNS SEASON American Composer Wins Ac- claim as He Appears on Stage. Capital Society Fills Fox Theater to Capacity for Final Performance. Strong men wept last night and fashionably costumed women bowed their heads while, as a climax to three days of opera, Deems Taylor's musical version of the famous dream phantasy by Du Maurier, “Peter Ibbetson,” was presented before a crowded house at the Fox' Theater. Hundreds had been turned away earlier in the day. Interest in this most | recent of American operas ran higher | than for any such event in local history. | -And, to make the occasion all the more memr:;:ble. '}‘he mnpme; himself ap- peal on the stage and was greeted cordially by the audience. i Composer’s Wife Sits in Aisle. The appearance of Mr. Taylor (whose wife is sald to have had to sit on a campstool in the aisle on account of the immense crowds), with Lucrezia Bori, Edward Johnson and Lawrence Tibbett, was the signal for great enthusiasm on the part of the audience, and since there was no other opportunity in the closely interwoven sequences of the story to indicate approval by applguse during .the remainder.of the opera, this was the one time in which tribute was paid to the man who has written the most successful “novelty” sponsored in the last 10 years by the Metropolitan. Mme. Bori as the Duchess of Towers, Edward Johnson as Peter and Lawrence Tibbett as the colonel revived the rples in which they appeared originally. All three of them, while not allowed to soar to any of the vocal heights to which they are accustomed, seemed especially successful in their portrayals, Mr. John- son imparting a youthfulness to his role that was perfect. Although Mme. Bori is far removed from the type outlined by Du Maurler, she lends that peculiar grace ‘:ng chlun;x lto the part which, were rama; nstead of operatic, would Ilive in its own right. » Debate on Substance Revived. ‘There is little question, however, but that “Peter Ibbetson” is the most de- batable of operas. Since its birth, argu- ments pro and con have roared around it with unabated fury. And last night, while its admirers sat speechless and tear-stained, its less friendly reviewers ’ut gloomily looking at their watches and wishing they were elsewhere. This latter attitude, it seems, it due to the music’s lack of backbone—or rather to lack of substance which the listener may take home with him and hum in his morning bath. There are, further- more, no long arias, no sustained rant- ings and roarings. which leaves some operagoers feeling they have been cheat- ed. The music is not divisible. Itscourseis unbroken. It flows along on an ethereal course and does not pause for the char- acters to speak their lines in prolonged vocal gyrations. Whether future generations will ap- prove of this technique is a question. But those who listen deeply can be strangely stirred by the lyric stretches, of the music which do not, after the fashion of some operas, assault the ear. InAact, a second hearing endears one to it immeasurably more. Performance Meets Difficulties. There were troubles last night in its rendition that had not been apparent before. Mr. Serafin, who handled the orchestra with such amazing deftness at the opening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, seemed over- fond of prolonging the crescendos, with the result that listeners in the balcony sald that all they heard was the orchestra. And those nearer the front of the house, could not help byt over- hear the “whisper” of the pi ipter as he helped the principal singers over some of the hurdles, which in a few instances threatened to become & kind of call and echo. Scenically, however, the Metropolitan was at its best. The acting was flawless, too, even to the very smallest of the dramatic characters in the dream | sequences. And those who are fond of their Du Maurier, and their tears, and music, which, without reaching the most brilliant climaxes leaves one neverthe- EISEMAN’S SEVENTH AND F STS. ‘30 WITH TAYLOR'S 'PETER IBBETSON' [ = o EDWARD JOHNSON. less immensely satisfied, must have felt | that thelr evening was well rewarded. E.de S. MELCHER. WASHINGTON’S SOCIETY LIGHTS PACK THEATER FOR CLOSING OPERA The audience which attended the closing performance of opera was a brilliant assemblage, representative of all the circles of soclety of the Na- tional Capital. Every box, every seat in the orchestra and in the balcony was occupled. ‘The Vice President, Mr. Curtis, with his brother-in-law, Mr. Edward Everett Gann, and Maj. and Mrs. Chdrles P. George, son-in-law and daughter of the Vice President, were guests of Maj. and Mrs, E. J. Dawley in their box. Other guests with Maj. and Mrs. Dawley were Mr. and Mrs, Lester Collins of Moores- town, N. J. The Ambassador of Poland and Mme. Filipowicz, Senator and Mrs. James J. Davis and Mrs. Frank Letts were guests of Mrs. George Mesta. Swiss Envoy Guest. ‘The Minister of Switzerland and Mme. Peter, Mme. Bachke, wife of the Min- ister of Norway, and the First Secretary of the British embassy and Mrs. Ter- ance Shone, were guests of Mrs. J. Mandeville Carlisle, who also had with her the commercial counselor of the Polish embassy, Mr. Wankowicz. , Mrs. Francis T. A. Junkin was hostess in her box to Capt. and Mrs. Arnold Ruemann, the latter formerly Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Hol- stein, and Miss Rosalle Hollyday of Baltimore. Among many others who heard “Peter Ibbetson” last everfing were the Ambassador of Cuba and Senora de Perrara, the Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel, the bassador of Chile and Senora de Davilll, the Ambassador of Germany and Frau von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the Minister of Hungary and Countess Szechenyl and their family, the Minister of Finland, Mr." Leonard Astrom; the Minister of Austria and Mme. Prochnik, the Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. Van Royen; ' the Minister of Rumania, Mr. Davila; Mme. Viverka, wife of the Minister of: Czechoslovakia; Mrs. Robert ‘Patterson Lamont and Miss Gertrude Lamont, ‘wife and daughter of the Secutu; o Commerce; Mr. Justice and Mrs. Har- lan Fiske Stone, and Representative and Mrs. James S. k. Other Leaders Present. Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom and Miss Vera Bloom were present, as were Mrs. James R. Mann, Mrs. Mar- shall Pield, Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. F. Trubee Davison, Capt. and Mrs. Emory Scott Land, Maj, and Mrs. Parker W. West, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kauffmann, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Kauffmann, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ben- ning Spencer, Mrs. Jennings Hackett, Maj. and Mrs. Ennals Waggaman, Miss Prances Virginia Waggaman, Mr. and Mrs. William Livingston Crounse, Gen. and Mrs. Willlam E. Crozler, Mr. and Mrs. John Walker Holcombe, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Droop, Mrs. William Bailey Lamar, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Delmar, Mrs. Jack Biddle, Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Oulahan, Mrs. Charles ‘W. Fairfax, Mrs. Theodore E. Chandler, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Augustus Simpeon, Mrs. Perry S. Heath, Miss NEW SPRING SUITS - - CONVENIENT TERMS EASILY ARRANGED These suits are tailored of the finest hard- finished worsteds which wear so splendidly without frequent pressing. 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