The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-11
YESTERDAYS EVENTS IN WORLD IF SOCIETY Musical Entertainments More
 Popular Than Ever NOTES AND PERSONALS
Mrs. Bush Returns From Mobile. Boys Club Chapter Meets This Afternoon-Moveme ments of
 We'll Known People.

WSH HHoWn FcopiSs Birmingham society is affecting music
 this winter to a greater extent than in l many seasons. Many fashionable host
 esses are entertaining with small and in l formal musicales, and no entertainment is considered complete without music.
 Tn commenting upon the popularity of | musicales an exchange says: Society women all over the country | have taken up the fad of music and at
 almost every entertainment the profes- sonal musicians of note are heard in
 the homes of the fashionable. Recently in Chicago, Mrs. Harold Mccormick in vited 200 guests to & brilliant musicale,
 when the artist of the evening was Ig-
 mace Jan Paderewski.
 Last week President and Mrs Roose- welt entertained at a dinner, followed by
 musicale at the White House. After dinner the guests repaired to the east
 room, where little gilt chairs were placed for the two or three hundred guests in- vited. The music was a programme of voice and piano by Miss Lilly Armond.
 
 White at the piano. and MT. Jan Sickesz, pianists, who played selections from Chopin, Schumann and Mendelssohn. On Monday evening Mrs. Clarence
 Mackay of New York gave a dinner, the
 second of a series, followed by music, when Miss Gerville-Reache and MT. Sam | marco, of the Metropolitan Opera com pany, sang.
 1 Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt is giving 1 8 series of nlusicales. At a. recent one | Mime. Emma Flames was the soloist at 1 a second of her series. The Philharmon- | ic orchestra played and Miss Geraldine l Farrar, the girlish operatic star. sang. 1 There will be a. meeting of the Boys l club chapter No. 1 at the residence of | Mrs. D. c. Coleman, 1637 Eleventh ave- | nue, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. 1 Mrs. Rinaldo Williams is the guest of
 Mrs. E. P. Williams in Opelika. l Mrs. T. c. Bush has returned from 1 Mobile, where she has been most de- | lightfully entertained while visiting Mr.
 and Mrs. A. P. Bush. Miss Rachel xlotz of New Orleans is visiting friends in Birmingham. l Miss Eunce Scruggs of Anniston is 1 spending a few days in this city. | Miss Blanche Bakestraw is spending l some time with friends in Cave Spring.
 Mrs. G. W. Armstrong is visiting in l Cullman.
 1 The following card has been received by the friends of Mrs. Cunning: Mrs. | Charles Mooar Cunning, at home, Tues 1, day, February Il, from 8 to at 1104 1 Twenty-ninth street. To meet Mrs Frank Marston.
 i Among the entertainments announced 1 for the week before the carnival in Mobile is a reception to be given by MT. and Mrs. N. R. Clark Tuesday, February
 20, from until 12 clock, complimentary
 to MT. and Mrs. Charles Allen Still
 man.
 The following social item is from the
 Chattanooga Times: Mrs John Mar
 shall, who is visiting in Birmingham.
 was given a party Friday by Mrs. l..
 ". Collier, who has frequently visited 1 here.''
 | ''Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Clark says the l Mobile Register, twill entertain during the carnival time MT. and Mrs. Charles Allen Stillman of Birmingham, who will arrive February "A to be their guests. Mrs. Stillman is considered one of | the most beautiful women in Alabama, l and her visit will be the occasion of
 much rejoicing in society circles as the
 rumor of her beauty and graciousness l has preceded her coming l Miss Joanna Battle, who has been yis- iting her cousin Miss Mary Battle Mo- | Cure, Ahas returned to Huntsville. l Mrs. Alex Craven is the guest of MT. and Mrs. James Murphree in Huntsville. "John Lewis and Miss Hattie Ded-
 man." says the Huntsville Morning Mer-
 cury, "were married in Birmingham yes terday. MT. and Mrs. Lewis are here on their honeymoon trip and are the | guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. w. H. Peden on Hundley avenue. Mrs. Lewis was a former resident of Huntsville where she is well known and has a large circle of friends"
 1 Mrs. Kate Spigener and Miss Carrie | Spigener of Talladega are the guests Of Mrs Simms, 592l First avenue. Wood lawn.
 The regular monthly meeting of the South Highland School Improvement as- spciation will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Plans for the 'school lunch
 con- soon to be given by the ladies of
 the association, will be discussed, and a large attendance is therefore expected. MT. w. A Currie and wife will leave tonight for Louisville, Ky. MT. Currie
 will attend the convention of the Mantel
 and Tile Dealers association. MT. and Mrs. Gus Lee have named their son Maurice Caruthers. | pr. and Mrs Robert c, Morefield have | named their little son Robert Cole I