The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIAL WORLD Attractive Calendar of Shakes
 peare Club NOTES HERE AND THERE Little Miss Emily Smith Celebrates 5irthday-Announcements-Per- sonaIs About Some We'll Known Folk.
NOTES HERE AND THERE
BY MYRTLE MILES.

Telephones: Bell 116o, Peoples 299.)
 One of the most attractive club calen- dars was issued by the Shakespeare club which will have it's opening meeting for the season next Friday afternoon. It is a charming little booklet combining in it's covers the club colors, purple and gold The president is Miss Ruth Allen; the vice president Mrs. William II. Nevins; secretary Mrs Sidney Jones; treasurer Mrs. Francis P. Lewis. Miss Margaretta Lewis is the director and Mrs. James Kennedy, orthoepist The membership is composed of 20 of Birmingham's most cultured women, and the plans outlined for work during the coming year show the most extensive research. The plays of Shakespeare have always been the cen
 tral theme an especial one being chosen to be mastered each year. For several
 seasons past the poets heaviest tragedies
 have been the objects of their efforts and a decided change will be "Romeo and Juliet" Some excellent books of ref erence are noted in the calendar, among them being Leigh Hunts "Stories From the Italian Poets," Professor Gervinus' Shakespeare; Commentaries George Elots "Romola," Bernhard Berenson's ''Venetian Painters of the Renaissance,
 and "Florentine Painters of the Renais- sance."
 Among the attractive numbers which will make up the attractive programme
 during the winter will be paper by Mrs. F'ulghum, What the Fourteenth Century Meant to Italy," when the topic of the day is Father Lawrence Scenes III and " of act II will be read. At
 another meeting the topic of study will be, "Juliet's Home Training. "A Veronese Household" with questions by Mrs. Kennedy, and a discussion of Italian folk lore by Miss Ruth Allen, with study of scenes from another act of the play. However, the work of the club is not wholly concerned with the one drama, afternoons being given to such topics as ''Is Bassanio a True Type of Italian
 Gentleman or Does He Belong in Shakes
 peare's England" and a discussion of
 Mercy, as shown by Shylock, Antonio
 and Portia." A quotation contest will be the feature of another meeting, and
 
 in Alabama"
 Afternoons with the Shakespeare club
 promise Friday the most charming day of all to the 20 who are fortunate enough to be members.
 MT. and Mrs. Samuel Quarles Hale an- | nounce the approaching marriage of their
 daughter, Carolina Gordon, to pr. Arthur Joseph Minus, the wedding to take place on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 21 at their residence( 3427 Willow avenue. Capt. and Mrs. w. H. Graves and Miss Virginia Graves have returned from Eu- | rope after an absence of four months. | Little Emily Smith, the daughter of
 MT. and Mrs. Syd Smith, was a gracious hostess yesterday afternoon to 20 of her ! small friends in celebration of her fifth
 birthday. It was pink and white party, | candles casting their soft glow through | pink shades and pink cakes, tied with white ribbons, pink and white hints and | the lace cover over pink which was spread
 over the table being among the details so charmingly carried out. Her guests | included Lida Otis, Marion Pinkard, Mar l jorie F'oust Margaret Calhoun, Marjorie 1 Thomas, Janice Joy, Dorothy Joy, Mary Frances Hughes, Will Jemison, Elizabeth | White, Florence Devers Ida Elizabeth
 Jackson, Fred Rix, Richard Brown. Jr.,
 Ned McDavid, Marcus Mcclellan, Agnes 1 Craven, Frank and Charles Bromberg,
 Elizabeth, Margaret and Alice Harding, William Preach, Virginia Adams, Evelyn Redd and Alice Dickinson.
 I A special musical programme will be | given at the silver tea Friday night from
 5 to g o'clock at the Twenty-first Avenue i Methodist church. All are invited Band No. of the Eleventh Avenue
 Methodist church composed of ten ladies
 of which Mrs. Jennie Hartwell is chair
 man, invite all their friends and the gen
 eral public to their barbecue dinner to | be served at 313 N. Nineteenth street to- | day from Il to 3 o'clock.
 The public is cordially invited to at- | tend.
 Mrs. Oscar Steele, of Statesvlle, N. C., and her little daughter, are the guests
 of Mrs. R. A. Parker.
 l Miss Hattie Mae Carter has returned 1 from Colorado Springs.
 | The wedding of Mrs. Emma Webber l of this city, and MT. Harry Durst took | place Wednesday in Jacksonville, Fla, | at the home of Mrs. Webber's sister, Mrs. | Durst was resident of Birmingham for | some time and friends will regret her | departure.
 | Miss Helen Rosa Randolph, who has l been the guest of Mrs Powell in Toledo, Ohio, is expected to return Sunday. | Mrs. Brett Randolph has returned from | Blount Springs.
 Mrs. J. H. Bankhead and Mrs. Louise
 Bankhead Perry, were in the city yes- ! terday. en route to points in the east. l They left yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Perry | will visit Boston and New York, spend- | ing some time in Washington with Mrs. 1 Bankhead before returning
 l MT. and Mrs. D. A. Farmer have taken l apartments with Mrs. W. c. Woods, 824 1 South Twentieth street
 l Mrs. B. B. Conner and Miss Eva Conner 1 who are in the east, will not return until | November.
 Mrs. T. H. Aldrich Jr., has returned from Chicago. where she had been | studying music since June with Julia
 Rive-King, the distinguished piano
 virtuoso.