The age-herald., 1901-05-23
w and SOCIETY

The brilliant event of the week will be the concert at the Auditorium tonight for the benefit of the Confederate Veterans and in which Miss Carrie Bridewell, Mrs. H. H. Sinnige, MT. Chalifoux Mir. Reed Miller and Mir. Powell will be heard.
 Miss Bridewell will arrive today at noon from New York. She comes south especially to sing for the veterans, and as sponsor of the First Regiment of the Fourth Brigade of the Alabama Division United Confederate Veterans. she will sing at the reunion in Memphis the com ing week.
 night and she will be raved over by so- ciety quite as enthusiastically as she was that wonderful night last autumn when she bowed her greetings to her old friends here who thronged the Jefferson to hear her fresh from her triumphs In New York and abroad
 And while the newspapers had recalled her great ovations, and private letters from Americans travelling abroad told of Miss Bridewell's triumphs in Dresden, when the crowds threw flowers at her carriage. and the peasants covered her hands with kisses. one was not after all prepared to> see and hear Carrie Bride well. ,rf
 Her voice, her beauty surpassed every thing, that had been said of her, and to have seen her once and heard her sing is to want to hear whenever the oppor- tunity presents itself. There is a pecu- liar cbor,,, obo,t tha ,,arsonoIstv ne Nt,. Brideweli and no one who has ever seen her but who realizes the wonderful power by which she holds her audience.
 Mrs siunige will be heard tonight in several duets with Miss BrideweII, and, she, too, will repeat her former triumphs
 Miss Bridewell Is an enthusiastic ad- mirer of Mrs. Sinniges magnificent voice, and declares that Mir. zGrau must hear Mrs. Sinnige sing.
 MT. Grau will probably have that pleas ure some day, but when the occasion presents itself 1t will only mean the de- clining of a brilliant operatic career by woman whose voice could charm two continents When Mrs. Sinnige sang for several foreign impressaries when she was abroad last summer, her voice was said to possess that rare Italian quality and magnificent career was predicted for her had she been ambitious in this direction.
 MT. and Mrs. William Horne. formerly of Washington, D. C.. are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Richard Randolph
 
 Mrs. Walker Percy will entertain at cards this morning in honor of her guest. Miss Snow, of Tennessee.
 Mrs. Charles Caldwell returned to her home in Bainbridge a few days ago 1 MT. Lloyd Guice of Eufaula is in Birm- ingham
 Mrs John Mcqueen has returned from Mrs. William B. Leedy will attend the reunion in Memphis.
 Mrs. weakley of Florence, is the guest of MT. and Mrs. S. D. Weakley, will re- turn home tomorrow.
 
 Mr and Mrs. C. P. Orr and Mrs. James Weatherly are expected to return this week from New York.
 Miss Adele Brooks of Baltimore, who Is the guest of Mrs. J. Norman Brooks, expects oreturn to Baltimore the com ing week.
 The ladies' board of the Hillman Hos pital will met this afternoon at o'clock in the vestry room of the Church of the Advent.
 The Guild of the Church of the Advent will be in charge today of the soda foun- tain at Adams drug store, and all the proceeds will go to the Guilds fund.
 
 The board of control of the Woman's o'clock. The president requests a full attendance, as business of importance will be transacted.
 Mrs A. A McNeill and daughters, Misses Catherine and Willie Polk of La- Grange, Tenn, are visiting Mrs. Mc- NeilI's daughter, Mrs. George G. Adam son. on the South Highlands.
 The Ladies Aid of Vine Street Presby- terian church at West End will give a strawberry and ice cream festival on the lawn of the school house this evening. Music will be feature of the evening. The Misses Persons. who have been the guests of Mrs. William G. Estes. have returned to their home in Georgia