The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
By MYRTLE MILES

With the constantly lengthening list of
wedding forecasts, plans for several debut
parties in the making, and with the es-
adjustment of the new press club and ad-
ditional improvements in both Southern
and Country clubs, one does not require
a vivid stretch of imagination to predict
that this will be an unusually busy sea-
son socially.
There win be scores(of pretty entertain
ments for the many popular brides, some
of whom expect to have brilliant weddings
and receptions. With Miss Fredrika Fer
guson and Mr.. Anderson, Miss Gamafel
Dixon and Mr.. Brooke, Miss Gladys Ems
len and Mr.. Lutz. Miss Mabel Wheelock
and Mr.. Gray, Miss Marjorie Weatherly
and Mr.. Cabaniss, Miss Elizabeth. Dear
born and Mr.. Croxton of Atlanta Miss
Rose Sibley and Mr.. Heidi, Miss Susie
White and Mr. Phelps of Dallas and other
prominent young people among the pros
pective bridal couples a degree of pre-
nuptial gayety is assured, for the social
courtesies extended to them will be lavish.
The Country club is to be prettier and
more inviting than ever. Workmen have
been busy for some time replacing walls
with long glass doors, extending apart
ments and adding mural decorative mo-
tives to rooms that are already cosy
places. And it is hardly probable that
the details will all be perfected before
November !, so carefully are all OF the
plans being perfected.
Mrs Walker Percy, the chairman of
the house committee, with her co-workers
on the committee, Mrs. William II. Ket-
tig, Mrs. Frank Crockard and Mrs. Craw-
ford johnson, has given almost her entire
time and attention this summer to the
club improvements. She has remained in
town for this purpose abandoning all idea
OF an extended trip and merely taking a
brief motor trip occasionally to some
nearby place for few days. She decided
some time ago that the lighting space is
inadequate, so between the reading room
and ballroom partitions have given way
to long glass doors, giving light and
cheer to the apartments. The dining room
is undergoing enlargement and easement
windows have been built in, additional
light and air making of every quarter of
the club desirable place in which to en-
tertain.
The decoration of the apartments will
be worked out with the artistic skill of
which Mrs. Percy is master. She has
not yet gone into this feature of the inn
provements, though 1t is safe to promise
that they will be in keeping with the
excellence of the other changes which are
being brought about, both in the tennis
courts and golf links and within the
building.
Miss Florence werthemer, who is
spending September in study with two of
the most famous eXponepts of dancing
III this country, writes with especial en-
thusiasm of her work with Oscar Duryea.
Duryea was formerly president of the
American National Association of Mas
ters of Dancing, and is an authority
looked to all over the country for up to
date tendencies as to the dance.
Miss Wertheimer stated in a letter this
week from New York that according to
Duryea the attempt to do exhibition dane
ing has been proved futile and altogether
jnartistic, and we shall this year settle
down to a season of moderation. I'm other
words" Miss Wertheimer says, 1.-THE tango
las been tanned for the ballroom. Mr..
Duryea is booming the Hesitation Waltz,
the 'Ostend One Step and the 'MaxiX.'
The pronounced and exaggerated dances
of last winter are things of the past.
.Ragging' is dead and without the Raging
ana turkey trot hasn't enough in it.
Other dances will take it's place.
She further says that the extreme dips
and swaying from the hips taken up in
the dances last year because they were
novelties will be abandoned, since the
idea now is to dance with the least move
ment possible. Last winter the dips
couldn't be low enough, but moderation Is
now returning, and we are getting back
to the real dance steps. THE tango is go
ing to be put into ballroom form. 1t
will be danced in the orthodox waltz po-
sition and society will dance it here the
same as society in London and Paris Is
doing Gyrations which are all right in
an exhibition dance or at a cabaret show
are often not at all possible in ball
room. The 'MaXix,' which has been
danced a great deal in Paris, and which
IL danced at the same tempo as the tango
will probably be very popular. 1t comes
from Brazil, and is an elongated two step