The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
Fly EMMA REID KYALL

, Colonel Glenn delivered the first lecture of the series. He was followed on Mon day evening in the auditorium by Gen.
 eral Wood. who spoke upon Military Preparedness" General Wood lectures
 again this morning. MT. Hudson Maxim
 lectures in the auditorium tonight His
 subjects for this and the following night
 will be "Defenseless America" and
 Weapons and Methods of War, Past
 Present and Future" The feature of
 these talks will be the presentation by
 MT. Maxim of copies of his books, De
 fenseless America and Leading Opin-
 ions Both For and Against National De
 fense," to those who attend these lec-
 lures. Tomorrow morning MT. Maxim de-
 parts from his war topics to take up the
 subject "The Science of Poetry and the
 Philosophy of Language" On Thursday
 other lectures will be given and con- ference on Preparedness" follows at the
 Il o'clock hour on Friday.
 The musical festival, the great musical
 event and programme of the season opens
 on Friday, August H. It offers an excep
 tional programme of vocal and instrument
 tai numbers and many visitors are coming
 for the occasion The musical festival
 always has been an event looked forward
 to with a great deal of interest by the
 patrons of the assembly, but it is of spe- cial interest this year because it marks
 the return after several seasons of Prof.
 Franz J. Strahm, who has been the suc- cessful director of so many festivals on the mountain. This year he has labored uncea sngly to make the affair a great success and he deserves great praise for his work The great feature of the fes- tival will be the presentation on Saturday night of the celebrated oratorio, "Abra- ham," by Molique. This great work is written in the style of Mendelssohn's Elijah"
 The orchestration has been written by MT. Strahm and has been pronounced great success by all critics who have heard the work. The soloists have been chosen with special reference to the com position Miss Elinor Beach, the soprano soloist, Is the possessor of a high lyric soprano voice and has sung the oratorio with great success. Her last appearance In it was at the Western State Normal school of Kentucky, where her audience was delighted with her beautiful voice.
 The alto part has been entrusted to Mrs Frances Morton-Crume, who is well known to MonteagIe audiences and the Nashville public. Since her appearance at Monteagle last year, she has sung with many different societies and especially was her success in New York city noticed by the eastern press. The tenor soloist, MT Walter Earnest of Pittsburg. Is very rema rllable oratorio singer and is in great demand for such appearances. MT. Ear next has his studio in Pittsburg and has appeared with both the Pittsburg and Cin- cinnati Symphony orchestras. The bass part will be taken by MT Milton Cook, who is the head of the department or voice of the Monteagle summer schools, and who has won many friends and ad- mirers during the season. MT. Cook voice is very pleasing even in all registers and his style of singing has met with the approval of all patrons of music upon the grounds. The chorus will consist of 175 voices and the regular orchestra will be augmented to 35 pieces. Besides the soloists mentioned above, some minor solos parts will be taken by MT John Dodge, bass, of Nashville, and Miss Katherine Mitchell, soprano, of Bowling Green, Ky. Mrs. Milton Cook, violinist, will play two movements of the Mendels- sohn concerto.
 Last week a party of the younger set of Wilton enjoyed a camp at Shelby Springs where dancing was one of the chief pleasures. enjoying the good band of Shelby Springs. Those included were: Miss Virginia and Miss Nellie Mae Chap pelle Miss Gay Carter Miss Ada Adams, Miss Annie Lou and Miss Jess Thomp- son, Miss Marie Campbell Miss Myrtle Vest Miss Addie Curry, Mrs. Bob Lacy (formerly Miss Leila Johnson), Miss Mary Frances Thomas, Miss Fannie Thomas and Miss Carrie Head. Dr. Cage Head, MT. Byrd Curry MT. Julian Radford, MT. Rob Lacey. Mir. Walter Thompson, MT. Jim Benford, MT. Lee Cochran, Mir Joe