The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-21
NEWS OF THE JAY IN SOCIAL WORLD Birmingham Girl Visits East
 Side NOTES HERE AND THERE Coast and Mountain Resorts Offer At fractions To Late Summer Visitors. Death of Mrs. Finck Lamented.
 Prominent Journalist.
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By MYRTLE MILES.
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 A Birmingham girl who returned this week from New York city has the usual number of wonderful experiences to re late With the wide-awake, bubbling h- terest common to the young women or our bustling city, she went fully prepared to take in anything novel that chance might offer "There was nothing, of course, in the way of music or drama' such as we saw last winter,' she said' "and I detest Coney, but New York does not die by any means in the sum- mer months. There Is certainly enough to keep one from growing dull saw Gladys Moore in the Salome dance and was agreeably surprised. There is a daintiness and refinement in her concep- tion of 1t and in her costume, which un- expectedly pleases. But," with a little gesture of repulsion, when she kissed John the Baptist's head I wished l had stayed at home. Of course, I saw that fetching little play. Girls" and "The Hits of 1908. "
 What did you see on the East Side?' asked<a girl who says she "adores Chi nese music"
 "oh, just lots of amusing things and I brought some of the dearest brasses home with me from the Chinese shops, but my sisters have claimed every piece except my tray and pitcher, which are everything I can show you. One even ing I went with some friends to an ltal- ian theatre which was the queerest. place I was ever in. I think. Before going I was told that 1t was above bakery, but I suspect that there was fish stand, too. It was small, grimy and the mustiest place imaginable. Everything, too, is the acme of crudeness. The stage, a little improvised affair, held throne for the sovereign in the play, and what do you suppose it was made of? An over turned chair covered with the red print frock of a little Italian child The play dealt evidently with mediavel happenings. There were knights in armor four ladies in distress. soldiers and a kings retinue- but none of them human. It was a marionette show, the characters all au- tomatons and propelled by machinery. As the play progressed voice behind the scenes told the story in a soft, well mod ulated voice, but as he spoke in Italian we should not have understood had it not been that a small Italian boy near interpreted for us very nicely. The hall was filled with people who listened and watched the show with the most eager attention-men, all but two Italian women who sat near the rear, and l don't know why there were no more. We stayed only short time. but spent few mo- ments with the man behind the scenes and he told us that his theatre is open about 250 nights. There Is not new play every day but the same one, if you please presented in instalments. It deals with certain periods and events in the history of Italy, which probably accounts for the deep interest manifested. But just nights! The Italians must be beauti- fully patient nation I had seen enough in very few moments, so our party spent the rest of the evening in the whitest, cleanest little Chinese restaurant trying to learn to eat with chop sticks"
 Though the month of August has passed its meridian, many still finger at the coast and mountain resorts, waiting for the first really cool weather before returning home. There are a great many attrac- tions planned at these places to lure folk from the cities to the hills and the beach. A number of vacation seekers have returned this week but others are leaving.
 Asbury Park, with It's attendant parade of 1000 babies, is holding high carnival this week, and Birmingham people in the east have made 1t convenient to go are Capt and Mrs. Frank P. O'Brien and MT. and Mrs. Barnes Morgan. Having passed through a season of formal events Long Branch and other places near are planning huge society circus. There will be a horse show at Narragansett and series of powerboat races at the Thousand Islands, while Lake George plans two big regattas and the New Eng land golf links and tennis courts are att tracting hundreds of the devotees of both pastimes. With all these pleasures to al- lure the summer folk it is no wonder there are many going at the seasons end and not few who are slow to return
 Notice has been received by friends in Birmingham of the recent death of Mrs. Anthony B. Finch of Philadelphia, who visited this city with the International League of Press Clubs last October.
 Mrs. Finck was a woman of exceptional mental ability and broad culture, and al- though over 70 years of age, was an earnest student of many subjects, one of her greatest interests being the study of geology and metallurgy.
 Having for years spent much time in- vestigating the natural resources of Penn sylvania, she was anxious to see the Birmingham district, to make her own comparisons, and no one of the league visitors left Alabama with a more thor ough understanding of our wonderful pos- sibilities or more deeply impressed than did Mrs. Finck.