The age-herald., 1899-05-31
MISS HOUSTON GETS
 AN ENGAGEMENT Will Succeed Madame SChalchi
 in Opera Company A WELL EARNED SUCCESS Left Yesterday to Join Brinkley Opera Company for the Summer Season
 News and Gossip of
 the Social World
A WELL EARNED SUCCESS

as pfoIeSSlOn, mas Just peSn eHSd6Su pS the International Grand Opera company, to take the leading contralto part in its operas during next season. The impor- tance of this engagement becomes appar- ent when 1t is stated that Miss Houston is to take the place which was held so long by Madame Schalci, the great Ital- Ian contralto. That singer as retired, and her place was given to Miss Houston, the contract having been closed only last Mon day.
 The International Grand Opera company is one of the best and most successful companies in America It is composed of splendid voices, all of them, among the number being Monte Griffo, the tenor who used to sing with Emma Abbott. This company's season next winter will be twenty-five weeks in length.
 Yesterday afternoon Miss Houston left for Savannah to join the Brnkley Opera company, Memphis company organized to tour through the south every summer This season will last for about two months in the principal southern cities, after which Miss Houston will go north to join the International company. The Brink ley company is one of the best summer opera companies travelling, and Miss Hous- ton, of course, has the leading contralto part. MT. Griffo is also with this com pany.
 The people of Birmingham take especial pride in the operattc career of Miss HouS- ton, or rather Miss Ethel Du Ere, as sine is known on the stage, and her recent sue cesses are very gratifying She has a wonderful voice and well deserves all Of the success she has won.
 The New York World has the following to say concerning the marriage of Pader- ewski, the famous pianist: "A dispatch to the World from Paris says: The Worlds representative here learns on unimpeacha- bic authority that Ignace Paderewski the pianist, was secretly married last Decem- Der to Mime. Elena Gorski, the divorced wife of Ladisias Gorsk a well known violinist, formerly member of the La moure orchestra. Mime. Gorski and Pader- ewsh are now living quietly in Paris to- gether, awaiting the Pope's dispensation before having an ecclesiastical marriage"
 Maude Adames, the famous actress, writ ing of her first appearance as Juliet a few weeks ago, says: Above all things, I did not want my mother in the audience. I knew just what a strain it would be on her nerves, and didn't want her present. So I had asked her to go down to our place on Long Island and stay there, and she told me she would do so. I had read over my letters and telegrams, and turning to my maid, I said: Strange, isn't it, there is nothing here from mother?' A few minutes afterward the maid left the dressing room and not long after that a telegram from my mother arrived. But she managed it very badly, for when examined it I found that 1t was dated from the telegraph of flee at the Waldorf-Astoria. Then I knew they had been playing trick on me that mother was ia the house, and that my maid had gone to her to send me a tele- gram. Mother told me after the perform ance that she couldn't stand 1t on Long Is- land, so she came up in the afternoon and took seat in the gallery where I would not be able to see her.''
 Mrs. Sloss. Baxter Sloss and Mrs Mary Fisher left yesterday for Nashville where they will spend the summer with Mrs R. H. Hill at Oak Hill.
 Miss Mary Trimble and Miss Jennie Trim ble, daughters of Captain N. w. Trimble. returned yesterday from North Carolina, where they have been attending school. This is the first time the Misses Trimble have returned home in two years.
 The opera Helena (which was so suc- cessfully presented in Montgomery a week or two ago by amateurs of that city, will be taken to Tuscaloosa for an exhibition Friday evening.
 The ladies auxiliary of the Y M C. A. will hold it's regular monthly meeting to- day. As this is the last meeting of the summer, a full attendance is expected. The following is from the Tuscaloosa Gazette, concerning very popular visitor to Birmingham
 Miss Julia Royal returned yesterday evening from Birmingham where she has been visiting for several weeks. While
 there she stood successful examination
 and was elected as a teacher in the Paul
 Hayne school at Birmingham. It is a de-
 served honor to a bright and lovely girl,
 one who is as intellectual as she is charm
 ing, and while Tuscaloosa appreciates that fact, society will regret to give her up next year. She was accompanied home by Miss Edith Buell., who always receives a
 cordial welcome to Tuscaloosa" Rabbi Morris Newfield and Bert Jacobs will leave next week for Europe, where
 they will remain for about six weeks
 The Sunday school of the South Side Bap- tist church had its annual picnic yesterday
 at Blount Springs, and that of the Simp.
 son Methodist church at North Birming
 ham, Today the Temple Emanuel Sunday
 school will have it's picnic, which was postponed from last week, at North Bir-
 mingham.
 Mrs B. O. Watkins and family have gone to Tallahassee, where they will spend the summer.
 Miss Maggie Nixon went to Tuscaloosa yesterday afternoon, where she will spend the commencement season.
 A large party of young people will leave next week for the lake country south of
 Tuscaloosa, where several weeks will be spent in camp. The party will be chaper- sned by Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. John B. Luckie, Geo. C. Harris and others. Miss w. M Allen director of the educa- tional department of the Woman's club, announces that the department will hold it's regular monthly meeting this afternoon at o'clock. All reports concerning the recent entertainment given by the depart ment will be received and the scholarship fund will be further considered.
 @Sacred Concert at East Lake