The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-23

home was in Huntsville and her father. Mir. c. Leslie Allen, always plays with her In her performance here in Win ter's Tale" last week, he took the part of the old shepard. Her brother. MT. Charles w. Allen. is her manager. It was noted that after the play her fa- ther ordered supper and carriage, and they left the theatre together. This is
 said to be their custom. She is a wo-
 man of about 43 years, but Is still under the protection of her father.
 A visitor to Montgomery during tho past few days was MT. Ernest Shutter of
 New York. a young actor of note. He was the original John Lenox to the
 David Harum" of William H. Crane in Charles Frohman's production of David Harum" in New York. He is a young man of charming manner and
 bearing and is highly intellectual. It is not generally known that Flor ence Gale, the actress, now in Shake- sperian roles. who refuses to make
 Sunday engagements, and who practi- cally never plays a matinee, is a niece of Mark Hanna She will be delight fully remembered as the Princess Fla via in Howard Gould's Rudolph Ras- sendyl in The Prisoner of Zenda," when the play was produced here @ few seasons since Readers of Dra- matic News will remember. too, that she played Disdemona to Salvini's ''Othello." She refuses to play on Sum
 day from religious scruples and does
 not give matiness. because she thinks
 one of two performances given in a
 day must suffer. Her plan must work
 well, for an Eastern writer says of her: Florence Gales is like a compound of essences. So volatile in their nature and so exquisitely blended, that on any attempt to analyze them, they seem to escape us. To what shall we compare her, all-enchanting as she is? To the sil- very summer clouds, which even while
 we gaze at them, shift their hues and
 forms. dissolving into air and light
 and rainbow shadows? To the May
 morning flush with opening blossoms
 and roseate dews? To mountain
 streamlet, now smooth as a mirror in
 which the skies may glass themselves and anon leaping and dancing in tho smshfne-or rather, to the very sum- shine itself? For so her genial spirit touches into life and beauty whatever 1t shines upon."
 Miss Martha Young, the Alabama writer, entertained at a reception at her studio in New York last Monday her friends. the patrons of her affinity
 reading from her works at the Waldorf There were present at the reception many of the noted artists and literary people of New York, also a large gath ering of the most prominent and rep resentative Southern people of the city. Martha Young Is a woman of whom
 Alabama is justly proud, and her ad-
 mirers throughout the State are always interested in her success in the great city where she is achieving so much
 distinction. Her book department in
 The Advertiser gives great pleasure to it's readers.
 The Huntsville Democrat has the following to say of Mrs Bankhead: |: The appointment of Mrs. John Hollis Bankhead of Alabama on the James,
 town Exposition Committee is a compli-
 ment, not only to that lady. but to Ala
 bama. Mrs. Fairbanks, President Gen.
 eral of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
 made the appointment. Mrs. Bankhead Is prominent D. A. R., and has been unusually complimented and honored by invitations and courtesies in Wash
 ington. Mrs. Bankhead spent much of her young ladyhood in Montgomery where she Is very much beloved and
 adSlired. It was here in 1865 that she | met MT. Bankhead. She is mother of | one of Montgomery's most intellectual | and attractive women, Mrs, Thomas M. owen.
 The New Orleans Times-Democrat of yesterday has the following to say of
 Mrs. Haskell the brilliant woman who | visited Montgomery this week: Mrs Haskell's reading consisted of
 seven selections. each of a different
 character and by a different author.
 All were rendered with equal grace and
 ease. Mrs. Haskell has a comedy ap- pearance, and, with her art and per-
 feet understanding of her reading. held the close attention of her audience last night.
 The first selection on the program was the first part of Victor Hugo's
 Les Miserables,' In which was shown the emancipation of a human soul from evil by the power of love. Her | second reading was one of negro dia- lect, and was quite pathetic, calling for a play of emotions that were han l died in a masterful manner. Her third was a little boys story of a bear, | written by James Whitcomb Riley. After this followed a selection from | David Harum' that permitted Mrs. little poem, entitled Jennie" written by F. E. Brooke, was succeeded by The | Wooing of David and Dora a selec- ton from David Copperf1eld.' An ex- ceIlent laughing story concluded the | evenings program"
 CIVIC IMPROVEMENT MEETING. The attention of the members of the
 Civic Improvement League is again
 called to the Citizens Mass Meeting
 at the City Council Chamber tonight
 which begins promptly at 8 o'clock. The Acting Mayor, c. P. Mcintyre, will preside, and a delegation of mem | bers of the Commercial and Industrial Association will attend, the Association having held on Tuesday evening spe- cial meeting to consider the sanitation and beautifying of Montgomery. All interested in the subject are cor dially invited to be present. It is spe- cially urged that every member of the Women's League be promptly in at tendance, to be animated and encour- aged by the opinions and sentiments of the gentlemen who will address the meeting.
 It is coming to be recognized that promptness at public meetings is a civic duty.
 CITIZENS SHARE IN
 CLEAN STREETS. It may not be generally known that, after dark, the street sweeper sets out on its duties. and that by the wee small hours Montgomery has been swept, es- pecially the downtown districts.
 By in the morning the streets and