The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-23
NEWS OF THE DAY IN SOCIETY WORLD Al Fresco Dance an Event of Last Evening
 ! NOTES AND PERSONALS
American Opera in Paris Discussed Miss Elise FarrIor to Entertain House Parties and Other
 Attractive Topics
BY MYRTLE MILES

BY MYRTLE MILES
 The great success attained in Paris by the Metropolitan Opera company in the six weeks season, but recently closed
 has left foreigners in state of astonish- ment, writes a correspondent. Never be- fore had the French city heard opera of such calibre. Never before have it's resdents-and visitors-been more fitting | ly shown the extent to which we have gone in this country, operaticaly. And never has the European respect for American progressivepess bowed the head more willingly. A | Up to the moment when the first per
 formance Of Aida" at the Chatelet the7 atre was over, Parisians and others who reside abroad looked in our direction with toleration when anyone mentioned opera. They would admit, in a patron | izing manner, that, without doubt our performances were very nice--which meant that they were probably, tolera- ble. But after our company had given them a fair sample of the regular oper- attic bill-of-fare (which we are accus- toned to have available for g weeks every year., the matter assumed a to- tally different aspect
 | Before the first week offerings were concluded all Paris was enthusiastic over everyone from Toscanini down and voted the presentations, as a whole, the most finished and the best balanced, artisti- cally, that Europe has ever experienced. tIaff P@II kNII "Cavelleria Rusticana,'' T Pagliacc" :" "Manon (PuccinD. 'F alstaff and La Gioconda" and each was given with a smoothness and a singing ensemble such as woke Paris to applause such as had not been heard for years.
 | It seems scarcely comprehensible that an enlightened country could fail to ap- pleciate the exact operatic status of America after all these years, especially when the roster of the Metropolitan or ganization (and for four years of the Manhattan Opera company has contain ed such a large number of the great names in this branch of music. Appar- ently this fact has either been completely overlooked or It's significance was not grasped until we went into the country of the doubters. Now that we have accomplished the task, foreigners are sur prised into the admission that no such opera has ever been heard, regularly, on the east side of the Atlantic.
 AL FRISCO DANCING PARTY
 | East Lake is a charming place for an outing these fine nights and many are enjoying little after-dinner excursions or | the moonlight picnic on the lake front. Last night one of the largest dances of the season was given in the pavilion by ! number of young men. The dancing set has been resting this week after a series of frivoities which threatened for a time to continue all summer, and thus they entered with renewed zest into last nights pleasure. The list included a hundred names. Among the girls who were invited are Miss Rebecca O'Brien, | Miss Nettie O'Brien, Miss Augusta Clark, Miss Minnie Cook. Miss Lucy Lyman Powell Miss Gamaliel Dixon, Miss Anne lla Worthington. Miss Susie White. Miss Marguerite White, Miss Alice Coughan, Miss Helen Lake Little, Miss Ruth Smith, Miss Eleanor Matthews. Miss Margaret Howell, Miss Oracle Berry, Miss Leo Jackson, Miss Mary Tardy, Miss Florence | Rogers, Miss Emily Morris, Miss Clara | Shelby, Miss Mary Cameron, Miss Kate Perry, Miss Virginia McDavid, Miss Mar garet Robertson, Miss Edith Thompson, Miss Lois Thompson, Miss Annie Blinn. Miss Fannie t.vans, Miss Ruth Evans, I Miss Madge Chisholm, Miss Hattie Mont gomery, Miss Mary Lou Wilson, Miss Sadie Gillespy, Miss Elizabeth Going, Miss Jamie Going, Miss Mary George Green, Miss Cary Johnson, Miss Virginia Abbott. Miss Elizabeth Bowie, Miss Car rie White Bean, Miss Annie Wilkerson, Miss Virginia White, Miss Leila Smith, Miss Bessie Cooper Miss Marie Lorton, | Miss Helen Thompson. Miss Mayo Thach, Miss Alice Graham. Miss Irene Clear, Miss Mary Wear, Miss Leila Wood Miss Jes- | sic Mae Perkins, Miss Rose Gillespy, Miss Ruth Haynes, Miss Isabelle Cald- well, Miss Mary George Cruikshank, Miss Joy Tomlinson, Miss Mary Kinney, Miss Margaret Latady, Miss Bessie McCrossin, | Miss Elizabeth Morris, Miss Sarah Ellen | Greene, Miss Ellen Linn Motion, Miss Kathleen Dixon, Miss Marie Pinckard, Miss Lucy Pinckard, Miss Ellen Percy, | Miss Donald Seals, Miss Agnes Terrell, Miss Kate Terrell. Miss Margaret Ter rell Miss Mildred Tyne, Miss Fannie | Dunn, Miss Hazel Dimmick, Miss Gladys | Enslen, Miss Helen Eustis. Miss May | Fox Miss Willie Vandergrift. Miss Kath- leen VanHoose, Miss Virginia Under wood Miss Aline Kirkman, Miss Kathryn | Kirlman, Miss Marion Robinson, Miss Mary Lou Cobb. Miss Annie Kolb, Miss | Elise Farrior, Miss Margaret Cosby, Miss Richardson, Miss Louise Long, Miss Ruth Gaudin, Miss Florence Coffin, Miss Sa- die. Allison, Miss Roberta Porter and | others.
 MISS ELISE FARRIORa