The age-herald., 1901-01-20
INTERESTING EVENTS IN BERLIN
Miss GOckeI Tells of the German CapItai-Mss Scholars Suc- cess in New York-ln
 World of Society
BY ANNIE kENpRIcK WALKER.

From New York, Paris, Berlin, wherever Birmingham girl has taken up her abode and is studying to be either, portrait painter or a piano virtuoso, or an opera singer, the most charming gossip is told of her when the American colony abroad or the Southern set in New York are being discussed. There is Edna Gockel in Ber- lin Alice Rumph in Paris, Norma Schoolar in New York. There is pretty Alice Fallon and Lillie Drennen in Dresden, and in the Southern set in New York is Amelia Mark. stein.
 Of the Americans who exhibited in the Paris Salon last spring Edna Smith of Bir- mingham enjoyed the distinction of having a portrait of her mother conspicuously 2 hung. There is Carrie Bridewell, the toast of the New York papers. Edna Gockel at No 2 Eisenacher street, Berlin, is spending her days with Scharwenka. Alice Rumph at No. rue de Chevreuse, Paris, is paint ing portraits. Norma Scholar, in Sixty fifth street, New York, is practicing so many hours a day, and Sunday her magnificent voice fills one of the largest churches there. These three charming girls are already winning distinction, and no one is at all surprised at their success
 I recall little chat that I had with AL ice Rumph just few days before she sail
 
 frank about talking of her ambitions and with Paris all untried stretching before her. she could hardly wait for her day of sail ing. She could talk of nothing else but of the work she intended to accomplish, and how very hard she meant to study from the very moment she settled in the Latin Quarter. And she has carried out her ideas about studying, and when the de- moraliZation of summer settled upon the studio in Paris, she ran off to Holland and spent two months, devoting her entire time to water colors, those pretty Dutch scenes and the heads of Holland women She has sent home, by the way, a charming head of a child, favorite model for artists in Paris There are some water color scenes that are being admired in one of the big art stores in Birmingham, and these were done when Miss Rumph was in Holland. She is of course making portrait painting her greatest study. Miss Rumph lives at the American Girls Club and in some pri- vate letters to friends in Birmingham she writes clever description of the plan of the club She has dear little habit of making sketches to illustrate her descrip- tions, and a recent letter contained a black and white drawing of the American Girls Club, together with the plan of the several floors, or '"Terse," as it is called in France. She designates her little plans, and one may know the exact spot in the little chap el where the girls say their prayers and the very door that opens into the concier- gere.
 Alice Rumph and Edna Gockel sailed to- gether The latter has been in Berlin ever since she went abroad. She Is studying with Scharwenka, and letters from Ameri- cans in Berlin speak of what a favorite she is with the great Scharwenka.
 I dropped in the other day to see her old master in Birmingham. He had just re- ceived letter from her-a long, gossipy one that told of a dance given by the American Embassy of evenings when the Herr Professor and Frau Scharwenka were 2 hoRe to the pupils of the conservatory of a little evening at tht Anglo-American Tub, of iaer craze for Wagner, of her 1earn- [ g the minor Toccatto and Fugue Bach ssrausg Her cid master was not surprised } hear anything.
 Wagner!' he exclaimed. CT knew she would go wild over nir,s' and he grew elo- s4uent himself. believe that however bril- liant Edna Gockel's future will be, that very one here will always recall her as she looked and played at the musical fes- '-ivals. Her youth, her extreme girlishness were in such striking contrast with the