The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
\ Man DeScrfjug Honor

For several years I have been watch ing the work of Carl Holiday in the in terest of southern letters," said a well known literary dillettante, and it seems to me that if some of our southern in- stitutions of learning wanted to honor man in recognition of his worth to this section, they would find fitting subject for such honor in this man.
 When still student at the University of Tennessee, where he took his NJ. A. degree, MT. Holiday began his work, being awarded a prize for the best essay on Tennessee history, which was pub ished in the University magazine, edited by him. He continued his work at Chi cago university, where he pursued post graduate course, and later while lec- turing on southern literature and taking advantage of a scholarship at the Uni versity of Virginia he was awarded prize for a similar essay on Virginia history.
 "I met Carl Holiday while he was professor of English at the Jackson vile Normal college. While there he compiled "A History of Southern Liter ature,' which has circulated all over the United States and been translated into German, this work being followed by The Cotton Picker and Other Poems,' The Poets of the South and various works on the literature of the south. His latest work is Once Upon a Time series of child stories that have been very favorably reviewed.
 MT. Holiday is an indefatigable work CT and his poems or essays can be found in almost any of the magazines of the day. Recently the South Atlantic Month ly published an article on The Young Southerner and the Negro, which aroused the ire of Boston and New York papers, and the same periodical published last month an essay on Southern Poets of Today He also writes for McClures and occasionally some of his lighter vein productions appear in The Smart Set. His style is characteristic of the man. calm and well-balanced, but forcibly inn pressive.
 "Mr. Holiday is at present chief of the department of English at the South western Presbyterian university at Clarks- Vile, Tenn. He Is a young man compar- atively. and while his work has not been universally recognized in the south. it possesses that mark of intrinsic merit which cannot long go without reward. should be glad to see him honored with 6 IL. D. or a D. Lit. by some of our Alabama colleges. though he himself has spent most of his life in Tennessee Fine Bookings for the Jefferson Although the Jefferson theatre will be dark this week after the Treble Clef con- cert Monday night said Manager R. s. Douglas of the Jefferson yesterday, there will be three splendid attractions next week and two and three good shows each week thereafter until the middle of April. I mean by this that tho season is at it's best right now and some of the real stars are yet to come. The house is dark this week because of the change in dates of the Italian Grand Opera company, which will be here later on in the season and because one com- pany couldn't stand tho railroad fares" Manager Douglas got out his bookings for the-rest of the season and the first name that caught ths newspaper mans  veteran actor, who was so cordially re- ceived the last time here that he insisted on being booked for two nights and . matinee this year. MT. Crane enjoys the reputation Of being one of the actors who has a large share in keeping the stage clean and whose lives stand for | the best in everything.
 And heres another said MT. Douglas. | He handed the newspaper man a con- tract for the appearance here in March of Grace George in "A woman's Way" Thompson Buchanan's comedy of modern modes and manners.
 l Manager Douglas then went over the list and the following might be mentioned as among the best yet to be seen at the Jefferson: "The Prince of Tonight" the latest of Mort Singers musical comedies;
 "The Thief" Charles Frohmans cele- brated production of Bernstein's play
 with Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon
 in the leading roles: Tim Murphy and
 Dorothy sherrod in Cupid and the Dol
 lar." (Return engasement): Dainty Flor.
 ence Davis of Player Maid' fame, in (
 new vehicle entitled Are You q Sunra
 gette?"; return of "A Gentleman from
 Mississippi" an important production
 King Dodo." with Miss Eleanor Kent
 as the prina donna; the Three Twi1s, ,
 one of the smartest of musical comediss
 "Ruster Brown" with Mary Jane. Tig(
 and all the rest of the happy family George NJ. Cohsn's most lasting musica comedy. s'Forty-F1vs Minutss from BroaA lvay"j 1aszA cnhi,l vi&k laA oe. hsl