The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-02
CARNIVAL PARTIES
ARE RETURNING
Prominent Women and Patron
eSSeS for Benefit Performance
NOTES HERE AND THERE
Some Gossip of Birmingham People
Who Are Passing Winter Days
Under Other Skies.
Personals.

number of Birmingham most promi-
nent women have been asked to act as
patronesses for the two performances of
professor Napoleon" which will be pre-
scented this evening and tomorrow after
noon and night at the Jefferson theatre.
A part of the proceeds will be given to
the Hillman hospital, and this announce
ment has naturally increased the interest
in the rehearsals, which give promise of
a most finished performance. Mrs. Rob
ert Jemison was selected as chairman
of the patronesses. The audience prom
Uses to be brilliant socially.
A private car party. which included Mr..
and Mrs. Scion Jacobs, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Fowlkes, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene l.
Brown and Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey G.
woodward and Mr. Wilson Brown, have
returned from New Orleans, where they
have been since Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs
Ross C. Smith were to have been mem
bers of the party but decided at the
last minute that they would be unable
to go.
Mr.. and Mrs. Algernon Smith will re-
turn today from New orleaps, They@were
at the St Charles during the carnival.
Miss Bessie Jenfison, who is travelling
abroad with Col and Mrs. A M Shook
and Mss Shook of Nashville, is having
<ne most delightful of winters. Espe-
cially interesting have been her descrip-
tions of the Nile trip and her visit TO
Cairo. Next to Egypt and the Nile the
Riviera holds much attraction to Amer
leans and the Shook party are also en-
Toying Italy to the fullest extent.
Little Miss Madeline Jacobs has been
STAYING with Mrs. Jack Johnson during
the absence of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs in
New Orleans.
Mrs ]. D. Dabney has returned from
Mobile.
The dancing classes of Country club
members, composed Of several who nave
hitherto refrained from taking much part
in the weekend dances, have been very
popular. and preceding Lent they were
held at the Margaret Allan school, much
to the regret of many people who en-
loved looking on when the classes were
conducted in the Country club ball room.
The Clionian club will meet this after
noon at 8 o'clock with Mrs. L" j. fialey'
Mrs. Ralph Bailey is the guest of Mrs.
Samuel VIII John.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott attended the car
nival In New Orleans.
The group of Birmingham artists who
are at present formulating plans for an
art association, will be interested in some
announcements from the art world of
New York.
The New Yorker says:
Almost coincident with the announce
uent that the National Academy and So
oiety of American Artists are about to
bury the Ratchet after years of differences
GENES the statement that another or
ganization of artists will bid for public
favor. Their first exhibition will be held
at POI Fifth avenue next month and will
he called the Salon des Refuses" They
will SHOW pictures by American artists
that have been refused by the National
Academy of Design, the Society of Amer
lean artists. the Carnegie Institute and
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
The exhibition is to be held as protest
against the system of jury selection.
painters" said Mr.. Alfred Stieglitz, one
of the leaders of the photo-secession, nat
urally are biased in favor of their own
particular school of art and look with
dlsfavor upon any strong new note in
painting. That is why exhibitions simply
average well from year to year without,
however, showing any marked advance.
The men who dare are turned down. Even
though 1t be unconsciously a jury of Sc
lection is apt to be clique
"In view of the probable absorption by
the Academy of the Society of American
Artists we want to show what strong
work sometimes is rejected. for now is
the time to register a protest and make