The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

preceding ones being notable events in the musical life of this city.
 The club has worked ambitiously ever since it's organization, developing musical tastes in the city and bringing here artists of international reputation. No other so- ciety has accomplished as much ill a musical way.
 MT. Damn Petersen is director and the membership includes a number of well known women.
 The forthcoming of Miss Mannheimer, director of the Cincinnati School of Ex- press, will be an artistic event. She will give her interpretation of merely Mary Ann at the Jefferson theatre on the even ing of May under the auspices of the Temple Emanuel chapter. This society of prominent women worked in years past for the Hillman hospital being al- ways engaged in philanthropic work. 1t Is is now interested in raising funds for the new temple and hopes to realize a large sum from the forthcoming enter tainment.
 Assisting Miss Manufacturer will be sew eral musicians, MT. and Mrs Gussen and a quartet, including Mrs. Chandler, Miss Nunnally, Mrs. Severin and Miss Con- gales Bryne.
 Miss Mannheimer is one of the noted women of America. She comes of a dis tinguislhd and talented family. Her father was president of the Hebrew col lege and her mother a. translator of note. She is herself highly gifted Merely Mary Ann was selected from a long and bril- liant repertoire, as appealing to popular taste and to the world of admirers who have seen the play. And because inter- preted by Miss Manufacturer it has satis- fled large and critical audiences who have heard her rendition of this delightful work by Zangwill.
 Entertainment-of what shall it consist There is no doubt that in the present day entertainment must not only amuse, but also instruct, and that the ideal entertainer is he that both interests and uplfts his nearer.
 Miss Manufacturer, who is recognized as one of Americas greatest readers, has made her art appeal to all audi ences-to students, and to the general public that seeks the higher forms of recreation. Her success in Carnegie Hall, New York, in the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Sciences, in London and New York drawing rooms, with the Cincinnati Symponhy Orchestra, in Albany, Roches- ter, Erie, Pittsburg, Peoria, Lexington, New Orleans and her home, Cincinnati, justifes the belief that she is adding a chapter to the history of the art of read ing. Her fascinating method of telling stories creates the impression that one is seeing a play by company of fine actors. Her originality is refreshing-she is different"
 The pleasure her recital of Merely Mary Ann gives, has caused critics to proclaim that nothing like it, so sweet ly sympathetic, so mirth provoking, SC human, has ever been offered.
 For the new season Miss Mannhemer has secured exclusive reading rights to i H. H. Davies comedy Cousin Kate, in which Ethel Barrymore met with hel greatest success. This play has beer called "a teacup and saucer Romeo and Juliet' and makes the most delightful o1 ; monologues.
 The first exhibition of the Birming' Art association will be open Tuesday in the Roll art store on First avenue Preceding the exhibition, a poster show was held the past week, to which number of Birmingham women contri' buted exceedingly artistic posters. While the noster show was so creditable, it was not a matter of surprise to those who 1 know how conscientiously Birmingham artists are at work.
 The art exhibition will attract hundreds i of art lovers. Oils, pastels and watel eolors as well as charcoal work VII l be exhibited. There will be two salol pictures. Miss Rumph will exhibit l Dutch interior, which was in the salon and MT. Hugh Martin will loan "Ahoy' 1 for the exhibition, striking canvas eX 1 hibited in the salon feW years aso l The patronesses for the exhlDition In 1 elude many well known women Mrs. Augustus Pope will entertain th 1 Fortnightly club on Tuesday afternoon 2 o'clock at her residence on Lncoli ] street
 l Owing to other engagements for Thurs
 day. Mrs. Daniel Holt Smith will en
 tertain the Little Jokers on Wednesda.
 at 1:,J o'clock at her home In Elyton. Mrs. Victor Prowell will be at hom ! with the ladies of the Central Presby | terian church on the afternoon of Apri
 20 from to o'clock at 124 Twelftl
 avenue, north
 Mrs. William Lee Sims will entertai
 the members of the Music Study clu
 on Thursday morning at 10:3o o'clock 2173 Eleventh avenue, south.
 At the South Side Baptist church tn music will be unusually attractive today
 MT. and Mrs Cole will both be hear in solos.
 Mrs. T. A. Hamilton, ST.. entertaine'
 at childrens party yesterday after noon in honor of her little grandson Hugh Montgomery Lokey, Jr., of At lanta.
 Mrs. Armes, who has been spending soma time in Washington, D. C., witt