The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-28
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N URING the present week MT. and
 Mrs. J. H. Eddy havs been en- ~ tertaining their attractive rela- tive, Miss Booth Chapin, who is playing Heads round at the Bijou, in the stir ing melodrama, While the City Sleeps"
 They have invited a numebr of their friends to small informal luncheons and dinner parties to meet Miss Chapin, and all those who have had that pleasure have been charmed with her grace, her keen, sparkling intellect, and her attrac- tive personality.
 Miss Chapin is the typical western girl bright. breezy. and keenly alive to all the things that make life worth while, and her career on the stage, while brief, has been accentuated by successful en- deavor, the present stock company of which she is a member, oeihg her first experience lon the road"
 Chatting about the stage and her ex- periences, Miss Chapin laushingly said:
 Tt seems awfully queer to be playing the role of the daughter of chief of po- lice, when all my training and nclinations have been toward things which are so en- tirely different; I coached with Donald Robertson of Chicago-Im Chicago girl. by the way-and anyone who knows any thing about Chicago knows that Mir Rob ertson is the Belasco of the drama there. Unfortunately, his ideals are too high for modern practical purposes; 1t is the his tory of the stage, that the 'uplifter' never succeeds commercially, and, of course, art for arts sake doesn't clothe us nor buy food for us. nor furnish us any of the frrfQ of ATr POha fcnn hl. had to renounce his ideals and take up the cudgels of warfare against grim, ev- ery-day conditions and-teach again!'
 This is my first experience outside Of Chicago, except one summer when l played in stock with Percy Haswell, dur ing a season with her of four months in Toronto, she cleared S10,000, which shows the trend of public sentiment toward farce comedy and melodrama, rather than such classics as Browning's Tn a Bal cony' The Blot on the 'Scutcheon,' and other beautiful things of that sort in which I had previously appeared under Mir Robertson's direction"
 MT Robertson had for long time the assistance of Mrs. Cyrus Mccormack of Chicago, whose millions she generously drew from to encourage him i'll his effort to uplift the stage, but unfortunately Shakespeare and the classics have given way to more modern plays, and Beetho- ven, III Wnlcn NIT. ttODefISOn nlmSelI aD- peared, creating the role some years ago, had to go by the wayside."
 How do l like Birmingham" Miss Chapin repeated the question when asked. T am delighted with the cordial recep- ton we've had and I think the audiences here are very appreciative. I've always heard the most charming things of the south, and my experience verifies all that has been said"
 The first meeting of the year of the South Highland School Improvement as- sociation was held yesterday morning at the school in the auditorium. There were more than 100 patrons of the school pres ent to welcome the new principal, MT. T. C. Young. MT. Young talked most enthusiastic cally of his plans for the work of the year and asked for the cooperation of both the father and the mother. An election of officers was held, this be- ing deferred from May Mrs. Frank P. Glass was reelected president, she hav- ing been most successful one for the past year and her reelection delighted the entire association. Mrs. Eugene Fies, one of the best workers in the association, was elected vice president, MT. Young treasurer and Mrs. John Lewis, who so very successfully filled an unexpired term. was elected secretary. The association is planning to put in 1