Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-04
ANNA HELD!
WESLEYAN!
HORRORS!
HAHAS!
Roll Those Dreamy Eyes Makes
Hit With College Girls, but
Critics Disapprove,

MACON, oct. 3.-Macon IS all
a-fiutter
There's. more merriment running
around loose on College avenue and
out in Vineville than there has been
since the old days when July George"
used to usher in independence Day
with mighty blasts of his fox hun
ter's horn.
Parbleau, What more could be ex-
peCted Put the most mischievous of
Partisan actresses in the precincts of
the worlds oldest chartered college
for women and let her sing Roll
Those Dreamy Eyes" to a crowd OF
schoolgirls and you have a situation
potent with all sorts of things. And
yet even the members Of the faculty
OF this institution viewed the per
-disapprovingly though it
may have been.
Stirs Tempest in Teapot.
Miss Anna Held and her beauty
chorus were playing at a local theater.
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only all would have been well. But
she did not. She invaded Wesleyan
College, and there. with swaying, Gid
ing step, sang to a bevy of college
girls Roll Those Dreamy Eyes" And
the girls liked it and asked her to
sing again. Mon Dieu,
Some Of the strait laced folk
have expressed criticism. The college
authorities are apologize. But the
delicious humor Of the situation has
created enough laughter to drown all
the criticism and all the apologies
According to Mrs. c. R. jenkins,
wife Of the president Of Wesleyan,
who has shouldered all the blame for
Miss Held's visit, the actress gained
admittance through mistaken identity.
Mrs. Jenkins declared that she
thought Miss Held was Macon
singer
A man, afJerward known as the
Parisienne's manager, called up the
college Saturday and asked if Miss
Held, the singer" would be permitted
TO visit Wesleyan that day.
Didn't Recognize Name.
Mrs Jenkins, who answered the
telephone, extended Miss Held, the
singer" q cordial invitation, and
hoped that she would be pleased with
the institution. Mrs. jenkins haG not
attended the theater here where Anna
Held and her beauty chorus were play
ing. and did not recognize the name,
she avowed later.
The appointment for the visit "as
fixed at 2 O'Clock, and in some mys-
FERROUS manner the words was passed
throughout the college that Miss
Held. the singer" was to come there
chat afternoon.
with lightning swiftness, Miss
Held. the singer" became Miss Anna
Held. the actress, as soon as the word
reached the domitories occupied by
the students, most Of whom had de-
voured the daily papers regarding the
Held performance. Consequently,
when 2 o'clock came round the girls
were banked ten deep on either SIDE
of the entrance 10 the college.
A taxicab brought the actress. and
az she stepped out, little gasps % ex-
citement went the rounds of the en-
eemblc.
Dressed la Parisienne.
Miss Held was dressed in the latest
of Partisan costumes Her large
brown eyes rolled invitingly over the
crowd Of girls and soon they were
crowding about her in giee
Then the chorus.
Sing for as, Miss Held; please
sing for US
II was then that members Of the
faculty began to look upon the visitor
with askauce. To those who were not
aware little whispers were passed
nat i'll was The celebrated actress.
Sion mis- information became NHOWu
to the faculty, but it was too late.