The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
THE LYCEUM COURSE AS A
 PHILANTHROPIC MOVEMENT
THE cREcHE ASKS DONATIONS. ART EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR. ANNOUNcEMENTs-soclALH HAP PENINGs OF NOTE.
By MYRTLE MILES.

Among the serious events offered TOT the consideration of Birmingham society during the winter months are those which compose the Lyceum course. Not only members of the literary clubs, nor those interested in affairs of an educational na- ture but many other cultured people in the community await the announcement of the course every fall with a great deal of interest.
 The Commonwealth Ladies' orchestra, which was heard last evening in the High school auditorium was the introduction to a group of F charming numbers to be given during the season. The idea of a lyceum course originated several years ago with Dr. J. H. Phillips and some of the public school teachers. The movement was endorsed by the board of education. Its purpose is general educa- tion and the unselfish spirit manifested by the educators who are instrumental in carrying 1t forward cannot be too highly praised. Tickets are sold at very low rate for the course as a whole, the price for a course being just double that of one of the numbers alone, though these range in cost from 50 cents to $1. The idea predominant is always to give something better than what was offered the year be- fore The motive being entirely philan- thropic. Any sum which remains after a seasons course is used for raising the class of entertainments in the succeed ing year. At the conclusion of the last course the sum which remained was $l74.
 
 from the sale of tickets this year and the group of entertainments promises to out class those of other years. They, as us- ual. have the charm of variety, embracing music, instrumental and vocal; drama, history and humorous and serious lee- lures.
 The Scotch singers of Glasgow will be the next number on the programme. Tie singers are Miss Tina Crawford, Scot tish prima donna, who Is known in her own country as "the Scottish Jenny Lind" Her voice is contralto. Miss Jean nette Cuthill is the first soprano of the group and Miss Ella Campbell sings the second soprano part and is pianist. The first contralto is Miss Agnes Hyde. She is a reader of note and those who revel in the poems of Robbie" Burns will en- joy ''the Cotter's Saturday night and other masterpieces of the Scottish poet interspersed WEh humorous selections. Among the musical numbers will be My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose in quar- tet. "Of a the airts the win can blow, a trio: "The Auld Hoose," duet, and 'sThe Dear Little Shamrock" a solo by Miss Crawford.
 Following the Scottish singers will be a superb concert by the International Symphony club, celebrated organization which will be one of the most attractive entertainments of the winter.
 Frederick Warde, the eminent trage- dian. will be an attraction early in November. He will lecture on Shakes pearean plays. He has been heard on the lecture platform in Birmingham be- fore and delighted his audience. 1t IS safe to say that one so thoroughly Ia miliar with his subject as his 3S years as an actor have made him, will not faii to captivate those who hear him at the High school.
 Father Daily, a distinguished phllan- thropist will lecture on the night of December 15. He Is the head of a school in Milwaukee and is especially interested fin boys His address will be full of in- terest in a community where so much beautiful work is done along the line which he will discuss.
 Dramatic reading is becoming more popular in this city as time goes by. There are several Birmingham girls who are making 1t a study at eastern schools this winter and it is one of the courses offered here in the girls school. Dr. Her bert Spragues Representations of Rip Van Wrinkle, David Copperfield, The Rivals, or the Merchant of Venice has reused en- thusiastic interest among those looking forward to the Lyceum season. One who has known Dr. Sprague both as a pro- or,d al friend said much when he called him "a great artist, great spirit, and a friend of all the world"
 Dr. Oscar Haywood will appear at the Auditorium during the winter He is southern orator of whom many beautiful things have been said. His lecture, The Hat vs. the Crown" Is especially popu- lar. It has, as its central theme, the ne- gro, and he speaks frequently of the wool hat as the symbol of the common people and the man of democratic spirit. seThe Hat vs the Crown" is an intimate discussion of present day social problems with special reference to the negro ques- tion and is one of peculiar appropriate ness in the south.
 Dr, Haywoods lecture is followed by that of Senator J. P. Deliver, who will come in March. His fluent speech is familiar to many in this city. Among the subjects which he has presented to his audiences are "The Working Man of Nazareth" "A Poor Mans Government and a Poor Mans Country" and Public Virtue as a Question of Politics." Gov. ernor Joseph W. Folk will also lecture in March.
 Dr. Tuy Carleton Lee) will be an attraction offered by the lyceum course. He will present several lectures this season on problems of the day, includ- ing When the People Wake" and "The Man of Sorrows" In group on his- toricaI engmas he has two, "The True Jefferson Davis" and "I Am the Queenl" in which the subject is wom- an-the woman of the past, the present and the future is discussed. Dr. Lee is a brilliant sch olar, having been a member of the faculties of both Johns Hopkins and Columbia. He is also his- torian of note.
 pr. Russell H. Conwell will lecture in April. He is the president of the Temple University in Philadelphia and pastor of the Baptist temple in that city He has written number of books of a historical and biographical character and has delivered here and abroad nearly seven thousand lectures having been in that field 48 years. He has been the intimate associate of Beecher, Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow Motley, Emerson, Wendell Phillips Garfield, Grant Sherman and others of Americas great men, contact with whom has made him doubly interest ing.
 At the close of the series of lectures