The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-02

his time unstintingly to building up com munity music. He went before the city commissioners this week and secured
 their promise to at once begin prepara-
 tions for taking care of the people who
 will attend the community singings at Capitol park this summer. The plan Is
 to enlarge the bandstand so that it will
 take care of 300 singers and a band.
 These singers will act as the leaders
 for the thousands who will meet there during the summer evenings and on Sun
 day afternoons to join together in
 speaking the universal language" music.
 The Tutwiler hotel gave permission to Mir Lawrence to have the rehearsals in the ballroom for the choruses. Monday evening the ballroom was crowded with singers and the evening was spent in learning to sing together and leading oth- CTS ''The general public was a little bit timid at our first singing during the biennial,' said MT. Lawrence, "but anything new as this work is has to have little education, but know that Birmingham as every other city where they have had community singing will enjoy this as they have never enjoyed music before because they will be a part of it. We will have at our first summer afternoon singing. which will take place the first Sunday in June. some solo work. By solo, in this case, I mean work done by our trained choruses and then we will sing Annie Laurie,' Lead Kindly Light" Jesus Lover of My Soul, ' There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood, '' the doxology or such familiar airs being interspersed with national airs. Owing to this work, which has been added to a life already full, since MT. Lawrence has 8 large class, and is director of the Treble Clef and Music Study choruses, he has given up his home at West End and his studio downtown and moved to 8 more convenient place on Eighteenth street South Highlands. where he will not only, with his charming little family reside, but where the Community chorus will have it's headquarters Birmingham is fortunate in having a man to direct her Community chorus and her commit nifty sings who is so public spirited as to give his services free of charge, and one interested in other lines of busi- ness and civic uplift as Mr. Lawrence.
 The Saturday evening dinner-dances at the Roebuck Golf and Automobile club will commence Saturday and will prob ably continue throughout the season. A good orchestra has been engaged, ana with Its famous country dinners, it is ex- pected these occasions will be very en- joyable to all The swimming pool is in fine shape, the marble bottom having recently been polished and new spring board put up
 MT and Mrs. William Forrest Motion have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Haywood, to MT. Cur tis Bush Hasty on Tuesday afternoon, May 15, at 5:3o o'clock, Ruhama Baptist church, Birmingham.
 The first annual spring ball given by the Alabama Dancing club at the Tut wiler last Friday evening was one of the most brilliant affairs of the season. There were over 100 couples and about that many stags. The Grand march began at 10:So and was led by Miss Grace Davis and MT. Steadham Acker Miss Mary Cum niEgham and MT. Herbert Hahn, Miss Francis Dodge and MT. Arthur Schneider, Miss Elizabeth Coleman and Mir. Jack Herman and Miss Stanley Scull and MT. Dewey Davis, The march was very pretty and ended by drawing the girls into a receiving line. Immediately after this, each girl was presented with a very pretty favor as a souvenir of the club The following boys came up from the university to attend the dance: Messrs. Rollo Steinmehl, Oliver Walker, Garrett Hagan, Herman Burchfield, Robert Strickland, Clovis Pearce, Pete Davis and Steadhann Acker. There were also many local aiumnae of the university present.
 At the tableau luncheon to be given Miss Margaret Wilson by the local suf- frage association at the Country club the following will be seated at the table: Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Ross David, Miss John Kenny of Nashville Mrs C.