The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-15

happily married friend, and in response
 to your question regarding his wife, he shakes his head and replies, divorced" :" Why should all this be?
 These are question that the ablest
 minds have wrestled with for the past decade without even a mediocre answer.
 But the question will not down; 1t con fronts every thinking man and woman
 over and over again. Legal brains have tried to reply; orators have used their
 eloquence; the papers have printed reams
 of matter and the pulpit has thundered it's fulminations Still the question re-
 mains unanswered, unsolved.
 Now comes a modern play called "The Rosary" written by Edward E. Rose. Quietly and modestly, with no blaze of trumpets, it projects a quiet word into lieve will revolutionize our ethics of mar | riage and divorce.
 Look withn," 1t says. Look into the | hearts and souls of our men and women today. See if there be within the same | rugged faith that carried republic from the wilderness and raised above 1t our stars and stripes. Search for the abiding reliance on things unseen, which for | over held up our pioneers when they faltered undered privation, dangers and hardships."
 l For an illustration, "The Rosary takes | you into the heart of a typical American family. It shows the peace and happiness | there, then suddenly unmasks the can ker spot, lack of faith in the husband. | Slowly, little by little, Is seen this de- vastating power of atheism; how 1t saps the strength and melts the will, so that when doubt and suspicion creep in they | find the soil fertile for their direct de- scenants, hatred and revenge, and the | home goes down to ruin with crash. | Then comes the spiritual power of "a great man. priest, whose life Is given
 to mankind. Slowly. by sheer faith he analyses the situation and leads the two forth, the husband and wife whom he loves, out of the darkness of their despair to happiness and peace.
 Macmillen at High School Auditorium Francis Macmillen, the famous yio- | linist, is to give a recital next Wednes day afternoon at the High school audito- rium For years. in fact since the de- velopment of music on this side of the | Atlantic, critics and the American pub | lie have seen the Pole, the Hungarian, | the German, the Russian, the Bohemian | and indeed representatives of nearly every foreign country come and go, | leaving behind them artistic success | and taking with them thousands of dol lars of American cash. 1t Is only natural tnereIOro tnat AlnerlCdnS Suouiu greet with pleasure the announcement that
 Francis Macmillen, the young Ameri- can violinist, who first drew his bow in this country four years ago, Is re- turning for another tour next season,
 this time including Canada In his itin-
 erary. Macmillen is brilliant player,
 who, 1t Is not difficult to believe, is
 "the American violin virtuoso"
 If the opinions of critics are worth
 anything, Macmiilen must be great. The announcement that he is to play in the leading Canadian cities has in spired great interest. Although Mac
 millen will be only 25 years of age when he arrives in America next fall, his ca reer covers 19 years of study, travel
 and playing as a violin virtuoso. He has toured many of the leading coun- tries of Europe Eleven years were spent abroad, and not in that length of time did he set foot on his native shores. His concerts at Carnegie hall land subsequent appearances in Boston,
 Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Wash ington, Columbus Indianapolis, Chi cago. St Louis and in fact, all of the leading cities of the east and middle west, made for him at once the reputa-