The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28
The Music estival in Retrospe-By cartoons Bacman


others which will be made later. With all the changes, however, there will be many at the reception Friday evening who will recall many happy hours spent within those walls when il was the Pear son residence, and the hospitality which | the place represented in the past Will be happy augury for the future.
 Walls have been removed, tapestries and | tints and lights have been changed and blank spaces now meet the eye where before were 'homey" grates. garret has been converted into the most interest," l ing of billiard rooms, boudoirs have be- come grill rooms, card rooms and meet ing places for directors, so that the iden- tty of the various apartments has been all but lost But taking the club all in aH everyone will be delighted with the taste, the common sense, and the skill employed when the place was remodelled, and furnishing selected. It is a great success, and the members are to be con graduated.
 The former drawing room and dining room have had their partition removed and are now become one long apartment whose connection is merged into the big hall Pleasant green walls give a rest ful tone and many globes dotted at in- tervals between the dividing arch supple ments the radiance from handsome chan deliers in the center of each apartment. These are decorative. just as the quaint square illuminator which gleams on the highest turn in the balustrade is inter esting The handsome floors and mural wood have been renewed and gisten freshly, giving the appearance of a new interior. An especially interesting place is the music room which is opposite the
 great living room. A victrola and hand
 some inner piano player are two luxuries
 which will appeal to the music lovers who are not musicians; and interest cen- ters especially in this room since the
 feminine connections of the club have re-
 ceiyed an invitation to use the music
 room at all times. Indeed, with the genial welcome that each member expresses, l there is every reason to suppose that feminine visitors will be frequent.
 It is significant of the policy of the l club that it's interior decorations are to be the best that can be bought-com- bining durability and beauty-and that they all represent a patronage of home industry. From a local merchant drap- cries. rugs and furniture were purchased, and the last was constructed partly in this city. At the warehouse of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb skilled artisans could be seen last week giving the final touches to chairs and divans-tufting and stay ing rich Spanish leather foundations of mahogany and old oak. and producing in each resting places so cosy and soft that one longs to stay in them indefinitely The general character of the first floor furniture-living room, music room and writing room-is to be Jacobean: Spanish leather to envelop chairs and French divans leaving only the smallest glimpse OF but 1, .t.z rooms from wood to mahogany Tables of hardwood are spacious and massive, and altogether in keeping with the lux urious style of the other rooms In the rear of the house is small refreshment room done in mahogany and fully equipped. A rathskeller will be installed later in the basement If one looks out from the rear veranda, a view may be had of the big space which is to be filled later with additional rooms These will be for the bachelor members who wish to live at the club. and there is ample space for many.
 l To simplify the matter of arranging for carriages and motors bearing the arriv- ing or departing guests, plan has been outlined whereby there will be no con lgestion of waiting vehicles in the narrow street in front of the club. The vehicles after stopping under the porte cochere passes on through the drive back of the house and into the alley, emerging on another street and giving room for those who follow.
 | The directors room, with business like table and chairs surrounding 1t, is one of the front apartments on the second | floor. Adjoining this are the apartments of the secretary, MT. Carl Brown who Is living at the club. Opposite is one of the most fascinatingly feminine rooms in Birmingham-the dressing room for tho women guests. Its walls as blue as the sky, and with frieze of blossoms from a summer garden. nothing could harmon ize so well as the gray French enamel | furniture which, with dressing table lchairs and innumerable mirrors, will make Miladi feel altogether at home The cir- cular alcove in the corner of the apart
 ment is cunning little spot inlaid with
 mirrors, each panel of which has facing
 it pretty enamel dressing stool. The
 rug is soft gray with a wistaria and blue
 border Dainty lace curtains hang over
 the windows which are topped with a
 lowered French crepon of harmonious tints Very different are these dainty tapestries from the rich green velours
 which droop over the sides of the down stairs windows and match in tone the
 double portieres over the arches and ooors' ana the Wilton and Oriental rugs
 which cover the floors.
 A grill room, with hunting scene
 gayly encompassing the walls is one o1
 the Interesting apartments, but it is when
 one ascends the stair to the top floor that the piece de resistance is met, in the , billiard room. It has driven away the forgotten chests. discarded furniture ana
 mayhap occasional cobwebs of an old.
 time garret. A big. sunny, well ventilated
 apartment 1t is. finished in dull brown.
 and greens, and with three billiard ta
 bles. and in the two cunning little as
 coves, Undiscovered card tables. This 1,
 the pride, too, of many members, and tt
 bring much wrathful indignation upol
 ones luckless head is but to ask if th
 is to be converted into a ball room ol
 occasion. Some patriotic member says
 This is not a dancing club, However
 we will dance when we have dances at al in the living room downstairs"
 1 This is the University club as it noy