Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-21

| ment of lifelong desire His death | took place at the Holland house in New | York.
 Miss Ethel Houston of this city, having decided to go to New York for the further | cultivation of her magnificent voice, and | for which point she will start next month, her many friends here purpose | rendering her a complimentary concert, which will take place at O'Brien's Opera l house on Tuesday, April 23.
 | Miss Houston as vocalist has been be- | fore the public ever since her advent in | this city, and her popularity is generally | recognized by all. She has on many oc- | caSions given her services gratuitously to l churches and societies, and the simple | announcement should be all that is nee | essary to secure for her an overfiowing | house All the leading musicians and vo- calists of the city have offered their ser l vices, and the concert promises to be one l of the events of the season.
 1 Among the participants are: The Mu- sicians union, Mrs. H. II. Sinnige. Miss
 Lottie Coffin, Miss Patti Ruffner, Miss | Herndon, Mrs E. G. Chandler, Miss Belle
 Mccoy, MT. and Mrs. Oliver Chalifoux, | c. c. Seals, Fred l.. Grambs and other | city celebrities.
 The following is a partial list of those
 who are active in rendering this testi 1 monial: Rabbi David Marx Charles | Wheelock, R. P. Wetmore, Frank M. l Lynch, Louis Saks, Joseph F. Johnston, T. M. Allen, Seals Bros. Ben M. Jacobs, l J. B. Cobbs, O. Chalifoux, $. E. Greene, | B. F. Roden, Herman Saks, Simon Klotz, l Caheen Bros. & Co., B. Steiner, Steiner
 Bros, H. II, Sinnige, c. F.. Meglemery, A. Latady, Colby & Roll, May & Thomas
 Hardware company M. A. Porter. Age | Herald, Fl. l.. Badham, J. H. Barr, c. w. | Williamson, w. P. G. Harding M. Well X
 Bro., P. H. Earle, William Rosenstihl, | Jr., Rufus N. Rhodes, w. J. Dan-
 gaix. John w. Tomlinson, Victor $. | Gage, c. H. Nabb, John G. Smith, Rich
 ard r. Johnston, August Hirsch, J. D. s. ] Davis and Frank P. O'Brien.
 The committee on music is Miss Orline | Arnold, Mrs Richard F. Johnston and l Mrs R. H. Pearson.
 The committee on printing is Arthur | Crowder and Mrs. H. H. Slnnige | The committee on programme is Mrs. | H. II. Sinnige and Prof. Fred l.. Grambs.
 MT. Arthur Crowder has been selected | as secretary and treasurer.
 Professor Grambs, with the delicate
 courtesy and generous kindness that al-
 ways characterizes him, was the first to | suggest this concert, which met with a
 ready response from a host of friends. | On this occasion will be sung for the | first time in Birmingham the Ave Ma ria," composed by MT. William Rosen- stihl and dedicated to that queen of song" Mrs. H. H. Sinnige
 The Art league will give Trilby en- | tertainment at Seals hall on Thursday
 night, April 25. The story of Trilby will
 be told in tabeaux from beginning to end | The Trilby music and songs will be interspersed, ,Chopn's impromptu, Nal
 bruck," and Ben Bolt" Over Q score
 of prominent society men and women
 will represent the different characters | Who the Trilby is will not be revealed | nnti1 she the Sf0Qp in her old | army coat and list slippers, "wistful and | sweet"
 The admission will be 50 cents re-
 served seats, 75 cents. By buying tick
 cts in advance 10 cents can be saved, the | reserved seats costing then 65 cents and
 the unreserved 40 cents. The tickets are
 for sale now at Seals Music store.
 Trilby at last. Trilby with both feet! | The much-heard-of, the much-talked-of
 Trilby will at last appear and be visible | to the naked eye at Seals hall on April
 25. Who will she be? I look at my
 neighbor, and she looks at me; and will | pathetic melody float to our ears from
 an unseen source, while Trilby grace l fully poses under Svengalis hypnotic
 influence? Is 1t just-is 1t fair-that any | young woman should possess models | feet and a mermaid'S voice? No, no! l
 will make rough guess that Trilby, in
 spite of Svengalfs presence, will not do | the singing.
 Then there will be talented, artistic, | little Billie; big, strong, whole-souled | Taffy; sympathetic, kind-hearted, blue | blooded Laird, and all the other charac-
 ters we know so we'll because Du
 Maurier has so magnificently introduced
 them to us; and yet in my humble opin-
 ion the foundation, the theme of this 1 gracefully written book, was not Trilby's
 love for little Billie, not the unselfsh | sacrifice of that love, not the question | of purity in her character, not the i'm | fiuence of family pride in marring the | happiness of those who love unwisely | not the Bohemian life in the Latin quar- | ter, but the occult force of hypnotism,
 that was the authors theme. Could | such a power exist and be used just as
 Svengali used it? That was his question l let the wise heads settle it-in the mean
 time Trilby we will see, with her old
 army coat, big slippers and winning | ways-who will she be? That's my ques- | tion. It is not on the map, but there Is a
 town forty-seven miles north of Denver
 called Trilby It has postoffice, saloon
 and general merchandise store-but no
 women live there-so we are left to won der why it was so called.
 The ladies of the art league have cer-