The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12

........................... thought I was tired of it once, and when I was deprived of it for week l got so ] lonely and blue and miserable. I didn't l ever want to give it up again.
 Miss Perkins is not only gifted in music but what a charming little man. ner So sweet and gracious; so enthu- siastie and with all, so childlike, so ] brimming over with all sorts of things beside her music. Yet that always cap ping the realization of her hopes. No wonder the people of Selma, her home i town, are fond of her and hope all sorts l of good things for her. If she continues l to work and progress in the future as she has in the past, and has proper train ] ing, not only Selma, but all Alabama will some day be proud of this charming l young genius.
 Miss Perkins is a daughter of MT. and l Mrs J. & Perkins of Selma and a niece 1 of Mrs. J. Carmichael and Mrs. F. B. 1 Hawlxinson of this city. She is at pres ent guest of Judge and Mrs. J. c. Car michael and will probably remain in Bir- mingham next winter to take a course of training under one of the leading vio linists
 The Shakespearean festival to be given at the Country club Friday and Saturday 1 promises to be the truly artistic event | of the summer.
 The Coburn players is an organization of capable Shakespearean actors who 1 support the well-known stars during the | dramatic season and in summer join | forces in giving those beautiful idyllic 1 pastoral plays of Shakespeare. They will present AS You Like It. Friday night; "Twelfth Night Saturday matinee and "A Comedy of Errors preceded by the | balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet l Saturday night
 True to the time of good Queen Bess, /, when William Shakespeare's poetic per formances were given under a starlit sky | with probably a rough bench, tables, candles and a punch bowl for stage 1 properties the actors next week will have the ideal surroundings of the open woods, with the ieafy trees es background. The prospect of the garden scenes from ] "Twelfth Night" with a summer sky overhead anc the green trees around in very truth. seems allurlng prospect. 1 The balcony scene, too, from Romeo 1 and Juliet in the soft witchery of real summer garden is an attractive in novation. And these advantages prom i ise to be without the crudeness of the day when the early Shakespearean drama | was the mode, for there will be the ra diance of calcium lights vast stretches of well-clipped lawns, and horseshoe of boxes suggesting the modern opera. The players will wear the bright satins and velyets of the period.
 A spot has been chosen for the per formance at the club in front and near the entrance. It is near clump of trees
 which will afford a fitting background. Seats will be arranged on a platform to
 suggest a natural ampitheatre. Small l clumps of trees and logs will be ap- propriatey placed to heighten the effect of rusticity.
 The opportunity of seeing Shakespear- can dramas with the al fresco features added is meeting with the very evident approval of society circles in Birming-
 ham and several box parties have all
 reauy been arranged.
 Mir. and Mrs Charles Willard Mills
 will return from visit to points ir
 North Carolina.
 Mrs. Oscar Gladden. and her little sor
 are in Ohio, the guests of Mrs Gladden.
 parents for the summer.
 MT. and Mrs w. J. Richardson and Miss Alma Lide are spending the week
 end at Ingram Lithia Wells.
 The regular monthly meeting of the , Foreign Missionary society of the Firs
 Methodist church will be held tomorrow } afternoon at 4 o'clock in the parlors oi , the church.
 Miss May Chase and Miss Trythens Chase are the guests of friends in Tus caloosa.
 Mrs. H. A. Sharpe will visit her daugh ter, Mrs Albert Lynn, in Pittsburg thi' summer.
 Mrs. A. T. Henley is at present wlti 5 1 MT. and Mrs. Smollen, who have takey Mir. and Mrs. Richard Randolphs hom,
 for the summer She expects to leav' within the next 10 days for Tallulah Falls , Ga.
 MT. and Mrs. J. A. Emory have named
 their little daughter Annie Conner. MT and Mrs. Robert c. Redus have al
 their guest MT. Robert Baldwin Lear, , of Atlanta, a brother of Mrs. Redus. Mir
 Leary in en route from Lawrenceville
 N C., where he has been attending col
 lege for the past four years. He will re
 main in Birmingham several weeks.
 Miss Mary Rumph has returned iron , Baltimore where she spent the pas . winter in settlement work Miss Rumpl 7 was graduated in the Kindergarten worl | Io;rp,ipobar1 and bar addad ta bar ax