The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-30
NEWS IF TIE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD Informal Events of the
 Lenten Type THE SOCIAL CALENDAR
Wedding Announcements-Reception for Visiting Physicians-Evening Party for de-Elect-Other
 Topics of Social Moment
Nv MYRTLE MILES

While Birmingham society is passing its Lenten moments in such good works as preparations for the annual Charity ball, the Kirmess, Tag Day and other events which help in the general 'uplift," Vanity Fair as it is found in other cities is engaged also upon works of similar intent, with an occasional production of grand opera introduced, as novelty From the pages of a fashionable journal yesterday was gleaned this account of one of the smart pastimes of the day in New York;
 This season we have a period of pen ance cit remains such in name at leasD including as many red letter nights as days marked for prayer and for fasting. Aside from the entertainments given in the name of charity, there have been the special performances of the Philadelphia Chicago Opera company. ''The Jewels of the Madonna" an opera of criminology rather than of any special piety suited to Lent, brought an audience that surged into the house eager for novelty. Inter- esting parties that went up the crimson carpeted stairway included trio headed by MT. Philip Lydig. He was followed by MT. Clarence Maekay, MT. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., in big gray ulster, be- ing last in order. They mounted the steps in solemn single file. trio of women, who, however, went up side by side talk ing, included Mrs. Henry Clews, in the usual costume of Parisian perfection; Mrs. Richard Stevens, with vivid green 1f t,,l1. ba, .aff nament that somehow had poetic affinity with her never fading smile, and the blonde Mrs. Howard Cushing, whose Ere ton coiffure, long earrings and long straight cloak might be transferred 70 a Mucha canvas without exaggeration to give poster effect
 Not all the interesting people. however. went up the stairway to the boxes. Via the main entrance on Broadway, to take seats in the orchestra chairs passed Mrs. E. R. Thomas followed by Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; MT Walter Damrosch fol- lowed by his tall wife; Miss May Callen- der and Mrs. Herman Le Roy Emmet, wearing most magnificent cloak of rasp- berry-red. So keen was the interest in the opera that the boxes were all occupied before the curtain fell on the first act, the finale of which included a procession with sacred banner sand images on floats, a prelate and the black garbed nuns. During the first internission some very engaging family pictures in the parterre showed Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., much absorbed in a smiling conversation with his mother-by- Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., whose guest was her sis ter, Mrs. Stephen Olin. In the next box MT. August Belmont was in even closer and more smiling converse with his motherin-law, Mrs. Madge Carr Cock, whose cherry red gown and vivacious signals to friends were in great contrast to her daughters demureness both in manner and dress
 Mrs, Harold Mccormick, whose posi- tion in the social picture was a chief p2tronness of the opera, was the very first woman at the left of the horseshoe. She wore a green gown and held a bouquet of orchids in her hands, Her guest was Mime. Campanini, the wife of the slender man who was leading the or ohestra and whose first great applause came at the close of the exquisite orches- tral music preceding the second act An other party of much interest included Mrs. Benjamin Guinness, the Princess Troubetskoy and the Baroness de Meyer. One of the most attractive of the young women in the boxes at the left was Mrs. J. K. Whitaker's daughter, Mrs. Joseph Earle Stevens, in emerald green with a green aigrette pointing back comet-like in her hair. She was in the box of Mir. William Douglas Sloane. In the Trick box sat the slender blonde. Miss Helen Prick, and Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, in very simple costume and with her sil- yer hair so nicely done. Every other per son that one meets in Philadelphia Is about 10 start on that southern cruise to Panama.