The age-herald., 1899-08-13
SOMETHING OF HER CAREER
The Farewell of Stage Favorite. and Other News and Gossip of In- terest to Birmingham
 Society.
BY ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER

Among the notable Southern women who have attained eminence in the profes- sional world Mrs. Gielow of Alabama Is probably one of the most talked of women of the day. Her brilliant success of two seasons in New York, and her continued triumphs in London have emphasized the capabilities Of the southern woman as well as the energy and pluck of the women of this land. who presumably inherited a love of luxury. and a disapproval of tho high-bred Southern woman taking up an avocation. Mrs. Gielow, who has made such a reputation as dialect reader and @ dramatic impersonator, was a Greens boro girl and has hundreds of friends in Birmingham and throughout Alabama who are delighted to know of her great success. As Martha Sawyer she grew to young womanhood in that aristocratic old Southern town which will always be Of special significance as the birthplace of Lieutenant Hobson. The hero of the Mer- rimac and picturesque Greens nsboro are spoken of in the same breath, for no mat ter how great reputation one attains, the world is always interested in the vil- lage or city where the celebrities spent their early years. Americans in their hero worship go to the very core and make shrine of a mansion or a thatched roof cottage where all the famous folks lived and dreamed. And so with this charm ing Alabama woman of whom the London papers are writing, her birthplace. Greens boro, makes her career one of particular interest to Southerners. Mrs. Gielow has lived for a number of years in New York, where she first began her literary career. She has two charming children, daughter, Miss Eula Gielow, who is quite a musician, and a son, MT. Roland Glelow, who will go to Annapolis in the autumn.
 Mrs Gielow was a conspicuous figure last winter in New York, where she so rapidly became recognized as one of the most popular dialect readers in the coun- try At many of the smartest functions of the New York season she gave her readings and recitations, depicting that picturesque period of the South when the black mammies sang plantation luabies. She was not only in demand as dramatic impersonator, but her brilliant social qualities made her notable parsonage in the exclusive set of Gotham, and she was one Of the most popular women of the town season. In May she went to London, where her reputation in New York had preceded her, and where al once she en- joyed entree to the smart English set It was at the height of the London season and all the swell garden parties and din- ners were graced by this American woman, who charmed the Londoners with her beauty and talents. She has been sought after by the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Northcote and other personages in their set, and altogether has enjoyed a most en- viable time, She will remain abroad until September, when she will return to place her son at Annapolis. It is probable that she will come South during the season, where welcome awaits her in social and literary circles and she deserves to be feted quite as much as she has been in New York and London.
 The following extract from one of the London papers will be of great interest, giving as it does an account of Mrs. Gie- lows success:
 An entertainment as unique as 1t was Interesting was given by Mrs. Henry J. Gieland at Stafford House on Saturday af-