The age-herald., 1901-12-01
TELLS LOVE STORY sn. AND HAS DUEL SCENE
Indications Indicate a Gay Season at the Country club-Christma Co., dillon and Many Dinner
 Dances Planned.
BY ANNIE KENDRIcK WALKER.

Ice On Parle Frencais," that very clever little two-act comedy. will be pre- sented at the Country Club in December. Miss Elizabeth Shelley, Mir. George Huntington Clark and MT. George Ward to be among those who will be cast for the principal parts. The story of the play is as follows:
 The scenes are laid in Er gland, in an English boarding house, where five o'clock lea and gossip are slipped to- gether. "Spriggins,' I believe it is, who owns the house. and he is convinced that for eigners care less about something (my ( French fails me here) than do the English and he buys a little book called French Before Breakfast" and the audience gets the benefit or this investment all during the play
 ~s., The love part: Monsieur Victor Dubois of Paris comes to the boarding house In seerch of his Angelina and to deepen the intensity many complications arise.
 Mrs. Regulas Rattan, the wife of Major Eegulus Rattan, figures oonspicuously. Her husband. who is a choleric army of fieer, is insane'y jealous of her. There is a daei.
 In the end Angelina marries Monsieur Victor Dubois, and the curtain goes down on their joys.
 Society is impatient for the Dramatic Club to put on the first of a series of clever little plays to te presented during the seascn, and the play for which re- hearsals are now going on will be one of the most artistic events of the winter. The season at the club is to be made brilliant in many ways There will be a bal poudre, the mnuet to be danced by a levy of beautiful women and a number of Birminghams most prominent club men. The event of the holidays will be the cotillcn to be danced at the Country Club on Christmas evening.
 MT. Porter Walker attired as Santa Claus. will lead and the favors will be distributed from huge Christmas tree.
 For after the holiday season a series of & dinner-dances will be given which will be among the most brilliant events of the winter.
 ts' There will be a number of card parties arranged at the club. these to be fol- lowed by the dancing. The card party to rabe given at the club tomorrow evening will begin promptly at o'clock, and while late corners may enter the game, the tables will not be disarranged in or der to accomm odate late arrivals.
 While the Country Club has at all T, times been so large a part of social life, ft seems that never before has it exer- cised as strong an influence socially as it has this winter.
 And 1t could be made an even more popular rendezvous if, as in other cities, Birmingham women would occasionally entertain at the Country Club.
 The advantages of entertaining there are readily seen when the luxury and t- beauty of the club house are considered |. as well as the conveniences to be found . in the cafes. But the season will neces- sarily be gay, for the married people in the club are demanding card parties at 8 least the card playing element are the @ dancing set must have it's dances and ~aii the women who know how pretty they can look with powdered hair and r rouge and patches will not be contented E to go through the winter without bal poudre.
 one Is camoring for amateur theatricals, and I am sure that if the .s Country Club governors answered all de- Aniands of society, which I believe they really contemplate doing, there would not be an evening In the week without its gay assem plies at the club.