Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1931, Page 16

MRS, OWEN MAKES DEBUT AS AUTHOR Representative Writes Book | on Oratory, Describing Own Experiences. By the Associated Press. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen's name makes its debut as author in the | new books of this month, on the sub- | ject for which the Bryan family ‘:,t famed—‘Oratory.” | Dedicated to her father, the late Wil Ham Jennings Bryan, her book. “Ele ments of Public Speaking” tells how those supposed to be “born orators” quire their proficiency by diligent devo- tion to the art. | A foreword by Willlam Lyon Phelps, Yale University orator, compares Ms. Owen to the person mentioned in St Matthew, who, given 5 talents. “in- creased the sum to 10 and won the approbation of his Lord.” Based on Own Experiences. Humorously, Mrs. Owen gives & “be- fore-and-after” picture on the eloquent | one, based, she frankly admits, on her | own experiences She contrasts the apparent magic of | the person able to sway an audience | with his past of “interminable lecture | to tired, ill-paid, discouraged. and | above all, perplexed and harassed by the problem of satisfying the audience.” Of the “resonant” voice she says: s no hint of the time when it ted completely on its first jour- » the open air: returned start- | ingly in echoing halls, became entangled | in the rafters and bunting of a medie- val auditorium.” Aplomb Often Upset. The orator’s “poise,” she confides, has on occasions been shaken by little front-seat boys in Chautoqua tents who sneak up and untle speakers' shoe- strings and do stunts of balance and contortion; by vagrant cats able to completely absorb the attention of an audlence; by cries of fire; by tents collapsing in rain storms; by sheriffs making arrests in the audience and hospital authorities capturing there an escaped inmate. She narrates early struggles of many orators, including her own father, to prove her contention that oratory is ot & “gift.” and that in this age when “every man and pvery woman" is called upon to make a few remarks, all can learn to do it well, “Short-cuts” she worked out on lee- ture platform and in Chautauqua tent. | and Iater put into “laboratory practice’ in teaching public speaking classes at Miami University are embndied in the | text | | i | | \ Commoner's Voice Musical. They include such modern methods as making the subconscious mind do of the work of thinking up | Her chapter on “voice” comtains this intimate incident | M n. who w: the ‘silver-tongued or ticularly in his younger a singular | beauty and clarity of tone 1n his speak- | ing voice, and at the time of his death 0 had been in a most strik- | ing sense his helpmate, said: ‘It seems a little thing to think of at such a | time as this, but it is such a loss that | the music of his voice is stilled.'” | called by some | had. par- 20 Planes Start Race. TORONTO. Ontario, Scptember 8 (/) —Starting at Westo e than 20 air- planes took off today in a race across the province to Windsor and back. Pilots are competing for cash prizes in the Canadian Natioral Exhibition Afr Derby, and were expected to finish the race about 6 o'clock tonight. {KEYES AND PROSECUTOR SHAKE HANDS AT PRISON Fitts Chats With Man He Sent to Jail While on Visit to San Quentin. | By the Associated Press. SAN QUENTIN, Calif, September 8. —Asa Keyes, former district attorney of Los Angeles, and his successor, Buron Fitts, who prosecuted and sent him to prison, have shaken hands in the prison | tion. yard of San Quentin, Pitts, acccmpanied by his wife and a periy of friends including the motion picture esses Louise Fazenda and Marion Marsh, were inspecting the pris- on erday, himself and intercepted an inconspicu- ous figure in prison gray hurrying across e ‘ “Why, hello Buron.” “Hello, Ace, how are you?" ‘Without hesitation both men shook hands and chatted for a few minutes. n | Fitts suddenly excused | Who 1 | not disclosed. THE EVENING | The nature of their conversation was “‘Ace has shown himself a real man.” Fitts sald later. “He has taken his unishment without a whimper and serves all the credit in the world for, hat. I was glad to see him again and see that he was looking so well.” The former district attorney, sen- | tenced for bribery conspiracy in con- | nection with the Jullan oil cases, has been given a parole and has but six | more weeks (o serve. He plans to return | to Los Angcles and work in a law office | while carrying on a fight for rein-| statement to the California Bar Associa- | Swindler Suspect Caught. NEW YORK, September 8 (#).—Wil- | liam Davenport, 44, of Danville, Ky..| is wanted by Chicago police in| connection with a $25,000 real estate swindle, was in police line-up today charged with being a fugitive. He told STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, SE JAPAN CONSIDERS SPY SHOOTING CASE Cabinet Will Hear Army's Attitude on Shooting of Officer by Chines it considers the insincerity of the Mukden regime. Manchuria has plead- ed for time to complete an investigation. Capt. Nakamura, another J-pmm.( & Mongolian and & Russian faced a | firing squad together. 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