The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
NEWS OE TIE DAY IN SOCIETY WORLD Miss Annie Tardy EntertainS
 School Friends NOTES HERE AND THERE Former Birmingham Man Wins Sue cess in Magazine Fields-The Growlers To Dance at Blount.
 Notes and Personals.
NOTES HERE AND THERE
BY MYRTLE MILES.


 Mays Ball of Atlanta will be interested in an interview that appeared this week in the Atlanta Constitution and writ ten by that clever writer and charming woman, Miss Isma Dooly. MT. Ball for merly lived in Birmingham and has vis- ited here a number of times since making Atlanta his home. A short visit in the spring will be pleasantly remembered. He Is one of the most versatile young writ CTS of the day, and his work appearing in the leading magazines, as we'll as many newspapers, and in a style at once grace ful, forceful and incislve, is bringing him more and more prominently before the reading public. Mir Ball ranks certain ly as one of the foremost magazine writ CTS of the south, and in the words Of an editorial note In leading periodical. preceding one of his articles Is one 'of the foremost writers of the day"
 Miss Dooly says, preceding her inter- view:
 '"There Is a blind credulity among cer- tain writers-aspirants for fame, that they can deceive the public more easily about
  than any other branch of the art, and they will generalize about articles placed by them at fabulous prices. until the world of the uninformed wonder at their commonplaceness in everyday life when their work is in great demand by the country's magazines.
 Tt is no easy matter to place ones wares in the magazines, while the writer who demands his own price, instead of accepting our usual rates,' is numbered with the very few.
 An interview with MT. S. Mays Ball, Atlanta, would verify this fact. AL though he now contributes to the lead ing magazines of the country, casual review of them showing the name of the young southerner over articles dealing with the vital topics of the day.
 MT. Ball tells no story of back talk to editors, or how easily he placed this story or that. He rather impresses his friends, rejoicing in his present achieve ment, that like the wounded soldier in conflict he lifts his sword and through obstacles of illness and injury and what men call hard luck, he fights his way back to the world of the moment and takes his place victorious in the ranks of the work he has chosen.
 Though isolated in the sense of physical activity, in mind and spirit MT. Ball is abreast with the livest men. He is busy in his contact with the thinkers and actors of the country's drama-com- posite in it's problems racial, reformative, destructive and constructive, and in an invalids chair he is saved the monotonous tedium of witnessing the legislative bodies of this section, their action along sev- eral lines to furnish themes for articles which MT. Ball will contribute to maga- zine literature within the year.
 Readers outside the circle of MT. Balls home will be impressed with the view point of the studious young southerner who is busy finding out the truth of things around him. Purpose, conviction and logical conclusion characterize his articles-those attracting the widest atten- ton being a series on the prohibition movement in the south, one appearing in Putnam's of March, and the first of g. series on another phase of the same sub ject in Leslie's Weekly August 5. He treats of the recent strike of the Georgia railroad and subsequent arbi- tration in the August number of the Taylor-Trotwood Magazine and his con- tracts now to be filled will keep him busy for many months.
 But Mir Balls achievement makes a broader impression upon his readers at home. It will carry with an apprecia- ton of the literary value, a tender inter est in the career of a popular young cit izen.
 Mr. Ball is the only son of MT. and Mrs. George c. Ball of Atlanta, formerly of Alabama, and represents on both sides families of aristocracy and distinc- ton since the beginning of the south's history.
 MT. Ball is member of the class of 1893 of the University of Alabama and a member of the Phi Delta Theta frater- nty He is an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engin- eers, and some of his most meritorious contributions have been in the mining and engineering magazines.
 At the point of the pen MT. Ball Is working out his life's problem, and working 1t out nobly and well.