The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-30
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ny EMMA REtD nlaIl

 1 I was just thinking that l am to give
 recital here in Paris about six weeks | from now, and if by that time l can sihe ] these songs to your satisfaction, would 1 like to put them on my programme | S They were all supplied with beauti- | ful words, language of poetry and | thoughts of mobility and (most unheard- 1 of alb all were in English language. "Yes, Clark discovered me; Clark en- l couraged me, and I shall ever be grateful
 to that artist for he said but the few i words I quoted above, but he sang my songs in Paris. London, New York, Chi cago and about S5 other American cities. once I wrote to a great American singer, a woman, and sent her some of my songs She wrote back that they were marvellous and wonderful, and even CO., lossal, and that she would use them all. She was lavish in her praise and prom ises. but the public is still awaiting to hear her sing the songs of which she could write such honeyed phrases In conjunction with Charles W
 Clark, master baritone, Mime. Aida, with Frank Le Forge at the piano, will appear as the star at the closing cor- cert of the biennial.
 Birmingham has wonderful treat in store during the entire week and the concert on Friday night will be a fitting climax to the greatest music festival ever held in Birmingham or in the south.
 Mime. Aida has been the sensation of New York since her appearance in December in the title role at the Pre- miere of Francesca da Rimini at the Metropolitan and at it's first perform ance in Philadelphia. "The best work of her career" is the verdict of the critics.
 Mime. Aida will have had 75 appear ances in opera and concert. when she l ends the season in May, will have ere ated successfully role in a new opera, the fourth in four successive seasons and the thirteenth in which she has sung and will have added materially to her popularity with the opera and concert-going public.
 This season Mime. Aida has appeared at the opera house in "Boheme," Ma non Leseaut." Prince Ijor." and Fran cesca da Rimini." Her concert and recital engagements have been num- erous and these will continue well into the spring. On several occasions she has been obliged to sing on suc-
 cessive days, and has even apepared
 in concert and opera on the same day.
 This takes her back to the time when she was a member of the royal opera in Brussels. where she sang 12 times or more each month during three sea- sons. To be a great prima donna is one thing, to be the wife of the di- rector of the greatest opera house in the world is another But when the two are combined it gives especial in- terAst to her from every standpoint
 The following programme will be car ried out this morning, beginning at 10 o'clock, at the North Alabama Presby- terial, which is being held at the South Highlands Presbyterian church: Hymn.
 Oxoxy D~1y Group conferences for officers and secre- taries of causes. -Four Square Work" Mrs. J. W. Bruce. Address, Oneness of Christ's York; Rev. David Park. Bible hour, Miss Elinor Millar. o'clock: Hymn. Prayer Roll call and report of societies by delegates. Report of con- mittees. Election of officers. Business. Address, "Fruitage of Presbyterial," Mrs. John Little, Louisville, Ky Reading Of minutes. Hymn. Adjournment.
 The following from the Atlanta Journal will be read with great in- terest by many friends of Colonel Low ry in Birmingham.
 Col. Robert J. Lowry, president or the Lowry National bank and one of the pioneer citizens of Atlanta, is 77 years young today.
 It is a tradition among the friends of Colonel Lowry that he grows young CT with each succeeding birthday, and this one today is no exception.
 Nowhere could be found a man ex- employing in greater degree the truth of the saying that a man Is as young as he feels. Colonel Lowrv's spirit of abounding youth has not been dimmed by the passing of the years, nor have his faculties waned. He still enjoys good health. still attends to his large business interests. still delights in the company of friends.
 Colonel Lowry came to Atlanta from east Tennessee in 1861 and founded the bank which bears his name, and in which he was joined short while