The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

Social activities beginning so va
iiantly at Eastertime have had a de-
eided lull, affairs confining themselves
chiefly during the last week to the en-
tertainment of a group of very charm
ing girls among the visitors. Contrary
to a resumption of gayeties, the pros
pect during the week TO come offers
little promise of festivities aside from
the wedding celebration of Miss Kate
Hemphill Perry and Mr. Marks, the
usual Wednesday and Saturday lunch
cons at the clubs which are more popu-
lar than ever, and few pre-nuptial
parties for Miss Margaret Latady.
The Marks Perry wedding will be one
of the very pretty nuptial celebrations
of the season, taking place at 6 o'clock
in the afternoon at that most churchly
edfice, the South Highlands Methodis,.
Afterward the families and a few very
close friends will meet the bride and
bridegroom al the Hemphill residence
for an informal reception. The Illness
of the pretty bride-elect has prevented
any parties in her honor since the an
nouncement of her engagement, but l
am told she is steadily improving, and
able to be up for little while each
day now that her temperature is almost
normal.
The chief social interest this week
everywhere in the south is the opera
engagement in Atlanta which is to draw
more than the usual quota of Birming
ham visitors. Quite number win re-
main throughout the engagement. en-
Joying the whole lovely series-"La
Traviata." "Manon Lescaut" la Tos-
ca" and Mignon"
Others will go for one or two per-
1ormances, making a flying trip as Ii
were to enjoy a bit of the opera and a
glimpse of the society events for which
the spring season of opera in Atlanta
is noted. A number of local musicians.
by the way, look forward with height
ened interest TO the presentation of
Damrosch's new opera, "Cyrano." We
all know the story-know it best here,
of course, as Richard Mansfield pre-
scented 1t some years ago.
l noted recently that Mr.. Damrosch
in telling of his opera to New York
audience stated that he had used De-
Russy's entire scale in describing the
size of Cyranos nose
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Massey motored
over to Atlanta yesterday. Mr. and
Mrs. George Connors have taken a box
with them. They will all be at the
Georgian Terrace, where Mrs. John W.
Tomlinson plans to join them at the
conclusion of her visit to Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fowlkes and AIR.
and Mrs Eugene Brown are also plan
ming to motor to Atlanta. 1t is not al
together probable that Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Q. Maben will go, though the latter has
many relatives in Atlanta and both of
them many friends, and with scores OF
delightful invitations she may go over
before the end of the opera season. Mr..
and Mrs. John Gordon Whitfield will
make the trip in their automobile and
Mr.. and Mrs George Gordon Crawford
viii go in theirs. Mr. and Mrs Sidney
Bowie, If the weather is propitious, ex-
pect to motor over during the week,
Miss Bowie joining them later by train.
Miss Edith Bowron is another Birming-
ham girl who VIII be seen at the audi
torium during the opera. She expects
to visit Mr.. and Mrs, Frank Pearson.
Miss Luetta Gregg has altered her
plans and will probably not hear any
of the operas. as was her intention q
Few days ago. Miss Virginia Handley
and Miss Corrie Handley will be among
the interesting young women in Allan
TIA during the week. Mr.. and Mrs. Craw-
ford Johnson will be among the Atlanta
opera visitors and Mrs. George Houston
Davis and Miss Mary Lee Drennen will
be guests of Mrs. Peters Miss r. B.
Clements will be Joined in Atlanta to-
morrow by Mrs Hargrove of Tusca-
ioosa and they will be with Mrs Grif-
fitn. Mrs. Horace Adams will visit her
father, Mr.. Buchanan, and Mrs. Charles
+. bowman is with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Westmoreland, and
with her delightful sister, Mrs. Julian
Prade, will be among the pretty wo-
men at the opera.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker Percy plan to
attend the opera and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Kelley and the latters sister.
Mrs. Lottie Austin Patterson, will be
with Mr.. and Mrs. Austin for opera
week, and add to the throng of beau
fifully gowned women attending the
opera. Mrs. William Jordon and her
talented young daughter, Elizabeth Jor-
dan, will be among the interesting and
interested visitors. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross c. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Melville Drennen, Miss Gladys Enslen
Mrs. Hubert Scruggs. Mrs. Borden Burr.
Mr.. r. w. Fonville, Mr.. f. Larlxin, Mr..
Hugh Martin, and scores of other people
of prominence from Birmingham will
add to the brilliance of Atlanta's beau
>-tful annual festival
Opera week will be conspicuous from
a social point of view. From the mo-
11ent the great crimson and gold cur
tains are parted tomorrow night. the
fig audience, including as it does the
beauty, the aristocracy and the culture
of the south, will enter upon period
of sustained enjoyment TO outlast the
final ringing down of the curtain on
Saturday night. for with the exquisite
notes of Caruso and Scotti and Emmy
pestinn still ringing faint. lovely
echo in the minds of all who listened
there will be a last hour at the Capital
City club, where artists and guests