The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22

the Music Festival association may ma if advisable to take no chances Tnere will be no opera in Boston, either no beautiful big opera house there ls sNen over to moving pictures. The Cnicaso- Philadelphia opera season has also been abandoned.
 But Atlanta has hopes. It depends upon cottonl
 IT does seem a dismal thing that so ut- terly esthetic an amusement as grand opera should depend on so absolutely material a condition as the price or cot ton. But what are you going to do apool it?
 keen hearing rumors and rumors. They say that If cotton doesn't find mar ket soon, and if the market isn't l0 cents,
 we all are going to be broke before next spring.
 Woe is mel Being broke, presume that opera tickets will be calculated in sor- did competition with bacon and eggs, and the bacon and eggs will win out. Two seats at one opera would buy a peck or eggs and slab of bacon-or side, IS that it?-to say nothing of ham and sack of flour on the other side.
 Sad but true. Meticulously correct, as our reyered President would say. Also it Is an axiom that starving and grand opera are alike in at least one partic- uiar-neither can be enjoyed on an empty tummy
 I do wish MT. Bidwell, secretary of the Music Festival association, would supply some more cheering prophecies. It is too bad about the opera, if we're going to miss it. Bacon and eggs are hard to miss too when you come to that. Why can we have both? A Come on, King Cotton.
 A Washington paper has the following: The frequency with which fashionable women from widely different parts Of the country are referred to in print as inti- mate friends of Miss Alice Roosevelt when she was the leading young lady of 1 the land with the early return of the tformer White House belle, now Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. wife of a newly | elected member of Congress from Ohio, makes pertinent a short comment on Just who Mrs. Longworth's girlhood friends were. Miss Alice Roosevelt at the time of her fathers succession to the presi- dency, was just IT. She had lived some seven of those years in Washington, first as small child when her father was ! civil service commissioner, later as a clever schoolgirl when he was Secretary of the Navy. Her schoolgirl friendships :, included the daughters of leading citi- zens of the district of that time. Miss Lenore Cobb, daughter of MT. and Mrs. l Henry Ives Cobb, now of New York; Miss
 Lydia Largin, the Misses McCauley, Miss Anita Poor, Miss Alice Ward and Miss Alice Warder made up the White House circle of intimate friends of the Presi- | dents young daughter. Later the Coun- | tess Marguerite Cassini. daughter of the Russian ambassador, became the closest of Miss Roosevelt's girl friends, and still later Miss Josephine Boardman, who is now Mrs. Murray Crane of Massachusetts 1 succeeded ln this coveted place. Miss Alice Ward is now Mime. Riano, wife oi the smbas assador from Spain. Miss w ardei is Mrs. John W. Garrett, wife of the for
 mer minister to the Argentine, but now
 on special duty at Bordeaux, where Mrs
 Garrett recently joined him. Miss Alic,
 Roosevelt's debut took place January 8 1902: her marriage February r, 1906, botl being widely noted events in White Hous' history.
 "The age of Alice" as remarked owe 1 a tea table one day last week, woul,
 seem to be almost as much of a puzzl . as the age of Ann If the still youthful an
 always popular wife of the next membe l of Congress from the First Ohio distric is to be judged by her reported conten 3 porares.