The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28

The Metropolitan spring season ol uonthern. opera, which opened yester- day in Atlanta, promises to be an es- pecially gay period. There will be many smart entertainments and the visitors from various southern cities compose an interesting coterie. The audiences during the last productions will be de- cidedly cosmopolitan, most of the vls- itors who find it necessary to limit their stay to a day or two choosing this period. as usual, for their visit. As two performances are invariably given on that day it is possible to com press a tremendous amount of enjoy ment into a brief space of time,
 Mr Julian Dow will leave today in his car for Atlanta, accompanied by several gentlemen, to enjoy the last productions. beginning Thursday night. It is his plan to make slow trip, stopping in Gadsden and at one of the Georgia towns en route. MT. and Mrs. Frederick Gunster, Mrs. Alfred Dow, MT. and Mrs. Hanson and Mrs. Bar rington of Montgomery will join him Thursday at the Hotel Ansley. MT and Mrs. George B. Mccormack and their daughter, Miss Katherine Mccormack, will also motor over for the opera, leav- Ing here Thursday. They will be guests of Dr. and rMs. E. E. Murray, who are delightfully."- known here through former visits. Mrs. Mccormack is former Atlantan and her visits to Mrs. Murray and to other friends and relatives are always charming.
 Mrs. Robert Thach has gone over for the entire week of opera and Is vis- iting Mrs. Frederick Brown, whose guest Miss Mayo Thach will also be Friday and Saturday. Mrs. John M Cartwright is there. also as the guest of her sister, Mrs. Scott. Mrs. Lester Fossick has gone to be with her rel atives. the fishers and Miss Margaret Griffith is to be one of the interesting opera visitors Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs and Master Hubert Scruggs, Jr, will go over Friday to hear Ma dame Butterfly that evening and "Lohengrin" and the double bill. 'Pag liacci" and "Caval1eria" the following evening. Miss Hubbert plans to spend the final days this week in Atlanta. Mrs Peter Cefalu left Sunday for to be with Mrs. A. Cefau during opera week. Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Florence Tenn left yesterday to spend the en- tire week a the Hotel Ansley and hear the six productions of the series. There will be a number of others, it is thought, to go over for the final of ferings, a number of gentlemen in the number whose business plans the last of the week will govern their attend ance on Saturday.
 Atlantas hospitality during the opera season has become proverbial. There are to be daily luncheons and dinners in private homes for the wis iting people, the opera stars sharing with delightful camarderie many of the lovely entertainments in clubs and homes. A small party that will be of interest here is the breakfast which Is to be given by Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Gray Thursday morning in Gray ston, their beautiful home. MT. Otto Kahn of New York and his party of eight will be in the party, also MT. and Mrs Richard Gray of Nashville, who are to be their house guests for the week and will assist them to en- tertain Mrs. Wilson, who was the beautiful Kate Ransom of Nashville, has many admirers in Birmingham, where she has visited before and since her marriage.
 MT. and Mrs. Kenneth Murchison of New York are also known to many Birmingham folk. They are visiting MT and Mrs. Frank s. Ellis in Atlanta, the other members of the house party being Mrs. Hurcamp of Virginia and