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Show P. G. High School Is Among First To Enter Tourney Pleasant Grove high school was one of the first to enter the tenth annual Speech Tournament and Drama Festival at Brigham Young university to be held Thursday, Friday, Fri-day, and Saturday, April 6, 7, and 8, according to Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, head of the speech department, who is in charge of the event. The contest festival offers a dozen different events in which hih school students may be entered, with an expected attendance of more than five hundred students from the inter-mountain area. Among the events in which Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove high has already entered are debate, one-act play, oration, and humorous reading. The play, "A Mountain Tragedy," will be presented. present-ed. Myrtle Henderson will act as dramatic coach for the Pleasant Grove high school teams entered in the event. The Samuel French Bronze Plaque will be awarded to the high school attaining the best general excellence in production of the one-act plays. A year's free tuition at B. Y. U. will be awarded to each of the two outstanding students stu-dents entering the event. Awards of merit will be given to the winners of the different events. Other awards will be given to those demonstrating demon-strating the best diction and to those presenting the best characterization in the plays. |