The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY IN SOCIETY WORLD kossip of Prominent People
 Here and Elsewhere .sHE SOCIAL CALENDAR i'd
Entertainments for Bride and Groom Elect-Bridge at Clubs and Par ties-The Suffrage Question
 toBe Discussed-Meetings
Rv MYRTLE MILES

'. The success of the Kirmess from an
 irtistic viewpoint the numbers of partici- saants secured and trained so quickly. the fqalent which, 1t may be seen, is so easy to find in Birmingham, recall other earlier eamateur performances. They always fur onish lots of fun for everybody concerned ,r.The Mikado' which will be remem- Sbered as one of our very earliest and most ambitious efforts theatrical, was Brought to mind yesterday in coming the ,a.ages of a crown and Country" which $. Ills of a recent clever presentation of ' Pie favorite old opera by New York tal- tfeetf. It was for the benefit of little crip- snIed children and this is the way the f.,uaint little performance went, according sto the journal note:
 e .It is always a mistake for amateurs 10 sseiect an opera unless they haxe extra ,-ordinary talent to draw upon. The +spoken word has many advantages over 1.-the written one, as the old French maxim fdeaches. and often it is sweeter than the Nword that is sung What is better than sthe speaking voice when carefully trained? sEyen grand opera stars cannot speak so 11agreeably as some of our well educated girls in New York. This was demon irstrated when the opera stars all tried to oxpeak part of their roles in the famous t,performance of Die F1edermaus.' A good cepeadng voice is an especial accomplish gment The girls of the Spence School osociety, however. in spite of their superior rr.spealxng voices, again decided to sing and s,eave. <The Mikado for the annual play lin aid of the crippled children they so Sbeautifully make their charge. accord Ing to the sociological and charitable hbl.work that is practically part of the Spence school curriculum. The black stage bear oing the name of'the Spence School socie- tety is often,sseen on the streets of lower otNew York. Its passengers are little crip- ples being taken daily to the open air class in the Bellevue Hospital ferry boat JSo muchl as a bit of explanation in regard Ito the phlrpose of these performances Of nThe MilAado' given at the Plaza hotel on Friday sIhd Saturdaysof last week.
 Largely as the result of a sense for ,,humor trs. B. Happen Fairchild, a sdaughteIU of the late Frank Morgan Free man, md de a hit in the part of Ko-Ko,
 the lor& high executioner who lacked A.courageXto Xto hehead anyone, much less to commit Nbelf decapitation. Her makeup
 I',sa.s Fist formidable and only her brown
 he pi ere familiar looking out from a
 ,, l. langed by brown stain, temporary
 2" 9and a closely fitting wig. All her
 loorf partly recited to orchestral ac-
 rryhniment, were brought up to date
 U Sir references. the summary of those
 on1se decapitation would be desirable
 ,lding suffragists trust magnates, be h humble offenders those devoted =, their mint favored chewing gum and
 iiticians who change in word and deed. D ot only Mrs. Fairchlld, but the major " of the young women had so disguised
 sarnselves by brown skin stain and Jap prase elevation of eyebrow that it was a
 p mother who knew her own child. ' Ion Helen Blagden Rich as Yum Yum tiraa probably the prettiest girl tnot de-
 n ing profesSionals) who ever appeared Con nj part. She cleverly avoided dark h up so far as her skin was con- s.d. In the first act her kimono was 7 \hor gray with pink obi and flowers and He second scene she was in creamy
 te satin with yellow gold sash and If syers. Her attendants were Vouletti Y lSctor as a dainty Pitt Sing and Ma Nthalie J. Kelly as Peep Bo They were lsthe famous Three Little Maids from
 School {o When the three pretty girls danced and z lfuttered their fans archly. and sang the sweet old song, Three Little Maids from; NSchool are We all the mothers in the audience began to hum the chorus. re- T. lembering the opera in the days of it's rrst vogue. And everybody over 40 (New " ork now has this habit of joining in as m result of cabaret performances) all but
 girst into song when the chorus on the
 sage began to sing, For he's going to it- sarry Yum Yum, Yum Yum It was ob- orious that many of the mothers could seeave sung with more volume than the