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1945-46 ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURE COURSE:
Ten Distinguished eakers To Appear atll Ad

ONDAY, OCTOBER. 29, 1945
ori0

Helen Douglas
Will Be First'
Lecturer, Nov. 6
Representative's Topic
Is "Price of Peace"
Ordinarily when an actress appears
on the Oratorical Association lecture
platform at Hill Auditorium, she talks
about the theatre.
But not Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Although she has had a disting-
uished career on the American stage,
she has now turned her attention to
national politics and is congress-
woman from California. A member of
the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
Mrs. Douglas is well qualified to speak
on "The Price of World Peace" in the
opening Oratorical Association lec-
ture, Tuesday, Nov. 6 at Hill Audito-
rium.
As an actress and singer, Mrs.
Douglas travelled extensively
throughout the world and across her
own country. It was in the depression
year of 1932 that her social con-
sciousness was first aroused. Later, in
the Orient and in Europe, she observ-
ed many of the developments on the
international scene that eventually
led to war. Since that time she has
continually warned the American
people against the potential Fascist
danger and presented the need for
guarding and improving our democ-
racy,
Changing her spotlights in mid-
scene, Mrs. Douglas stepped from the
theatrical to the political stage. She
became a Democratic National Com-
mitteewoman and, in 1944, was elect-
ed to Congress as a Representative
from California.
Mrs. Douglas was born in Boonton,
New Jersey and grew up in a large

Opening Tuesday, Nov. 6, with Helen Gahagan Douglas
and continuing through March 21, the 1945-46 Oratorical As-
sociation season will feature ten outstanding speakers on subjects
ranging from world peace to the American Negro.
Both season and single admission tickets are still available
and may be obtained at the Hill Auditorium box office daily
except Saturday afternoons and Sundays.
Oratorical Association lecture goers will hear Helen Gaha-
gan Douglas, Owen Lattimore, Vincent Sheean, Richard Wright,
Frances Perkins, Madame Vijaya Lakshrmi Pandit, Guthrie
McClintic, Edmund Stevens. Robert Boothby and Leland Stowe.
PROMINENT JOURNALISTS:
Three Foreign Correspondents
Will Give Oratorical Lectures
---------------
Oratorical Association audiences respondents who speaks Russian flu-
will have the opportunity of hearing ently, he was invited to act as an
three distinguished journalists: Vin- i interpreter at the Teheran Confer-
cent Sheean, Leland Stowe and Ed- ence.
Leland Stowe, the last Oratorical I
mund Stevens. lecturer this season, is famed as a'
Vincent Sheean will be the first of Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism
these to speak. His lecture on Dec. and author of the best-seller, "They
5 is titled "Personal Opinion." Shall Not Sleep."
Accompanied Patton
Author of "Personal History" and

Aithors Featured
In Lecture Series
An unusual feature of this year's
Oratorical Association Lecture
Course is that several authors of
best-sellers are to appear on the
stage of Hill Auditorium.
Heading the list of writers is
Richard Wright, author of the
controversial 'Native Son" and
the autobiographical "Black Boy."
Leland Stowe's "They Shall Not
Sleep" was named on most of the
best-seller lists last year.
"Personal History" and "Not
PeacenBut a Sword"' pt Vincent
Sheean among the most widely
read authors.
Owen Lattimore recently wrote
"Solution in Asia," and Edmund
Stevens has just completed a book
entitled, "Russia Is No Riddle."
In addition to their popularity as
writers, all of these authors are
considered excellent platform
speakers.
1w-1 0

Divergent Fields
To Be Covered
By Lecturers
Wright, Miss Perkins,
McClintic To Speak He
Three widely divergent fields will
be covered in Oratorical Association
lectures by Richard Wright, Frances
Perkins and Guthrie McClintic.
An eloquent spokesman for his race,
Richard Wright will speak Dec. 11 on
"The American Negro Discovers Him-
self." He is author of the Book-of-
the-Month Club selections "Native
Son" and "Black Boy" and is con-
sidered one of America's great living
authors. Wright will speak in an
effort to bring clarity and under-
standing to the American Negro.
Labor Secretary Here
Frances Perkins will speak here
Jan. 16 on the "Destiny of American
Labor." She has a background of
more than 12 years as Secretary of
Labor in the late President Roose-
velt's cabinet and has the distinc-
tion of being the only woman ever to
serve in the cabinet. She has done
much toward the adoption of intelli-
gent labor laws and the adoption of
better labor conditions.
Director To Speak
Guthrie McClintic, famous broad-
way director and producer will speak
here Feb. 15 on "The Theatre, Remi-
niscences and Predictions." He has
directed a larger variety of plays than
any other producer in the theatre,
among them "The Old Maid," "Win-
terset," "Candida," and "The Barretts
of Wimpole Street."

"Not Peace But a Sword," Sheean
spent many months in the Burma-
China theatre of war. Then with the
American invasion of Europe, he join-
ed General Patton's forces and ac-
companied them through France into
Germany.
Edmund Stevens, who is foreign
correspondent for the Christian Sci-'
ence Monitor, will speak here March
5. He is also author of "Russia Is No
Riddle," which will be the title
of his Oratorical Association lecture.
Teheran Interpreter
During the war, Stevens covered
the African and Italian campaigns
and spent a great deal of time on
the Eastern Front with the Russian
Army. One of the few American cor-

Asia, 1 vlie Discussed,

Authorities on the Far East will be
featured in the Oratorical Association
Lecture Course this season.
Owen Lattimore, author of the re-
cent book, "Solution in Asia," will
speak sere Nov. 28. He has acted as
political adviser to Chiang Kai shek,
was Director of Pacific Operations in
OWI and has spent most of his life
in the Orient. Lattimore is now Di-
rector of the School of International
Relations in Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity.
Indian Problem
Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS
.to open Oratorical Association lecture series
family in Brooklyn. She was educated College in New York. She is married
at the Kerkely -School for Girls in to Melvyn Douglas, who is now a
Brooklyn, the Capon School for Girls major with the armed forces in Bur-
in Northampton, Mass. and Barnard ma. They have two children.

will discuss another phase of the Far
East problem when she speaks on
"The Coming India Democracy," Feb.
5. Madame Pandit is the sister of
Jawsharal Nehru and has served as
a representative at the recent San
Francisco Conference.
British Viewpoint
A different approach will come
from the Hon. Robert Boothby, M. P.,
who will give the British point of
view. He will speak on "Britain Looks
to the Future" March 12. Vincent
Sheean will also discuss Asiatic prob-
lems in his lecture Dec. 5.

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