The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-11
By EMMA REID nYAII.

interest by many friends and relatives ir
 this city:
 The most prominent wedding of the | Eastertide, uniting two of Alabama | most aristocratic families, takes place or | April 12 as on the evening of that day
 Mrs. Stanley Bell Herndon will give ir marriage her daughter, Rebecca to MT
 Edwin Hollis Bush at o'clock, at Christ church, and following the ceremony will
 entertain the bridal party at a buffet | supper at her home.
 | The ceremony will be performed by | the Rev Matthew Brewster former rec | tor of Christ church, and more recently l rector of St. Andrews parish of New Or l leans, who is coming to Mobile especially
 to officiate at Miss Herndons wedding. | Mrs. James Wade Cox, organist of l Christ church will be in charge of the
 nuptial music and Mrs. Charles B. Hervey
 will sing.
 | The bride will be attended by her youngest sister, Miss Lucy Herndon, who | will be her maid of honor and Misses
 Ethel Burgess, Celia Webb. Hilda Broad
 wood and Marguerite Festorazzi, her bridesmaids.
 MT. Morris w. Bush will be his brothers best man. The groomsmen are 1 Dr. Marion Davidson and MT. Ed Kain, both of Birmingham; MT. D. U Harris and MT. Frank Ellis of Mobile; Mir A. P. Bush, Mir. Wythe Whiting, MT. W. D. Nesbitt. of Birmingham, and Dr. Bush Du Pre- of Mobile are the ushers. The brides nephew, little Wythe Whiting, Jr., Is ring bearer, and her little niece, Eliza beth Herndon, and the grooms niece, Isa- belle Burgess Bush, are to be the lovely little flower girls.
 MT. Bush and his lovely young bride will go further south on their wedding journey and afterwards will be at home at 2360 Twenty-third street, Terrace Park, Ensley the groom, who is located in Birmingham, being engineer for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany."
 Miss Katherine Kirkman entertained a few friends at luncheon yesterday in compliment to Mrs. Herbert Bonnie of Louisville, Ky, who is the guest of Mrs. Fred Phillips.
 
 Opening day of the baseball season, Thaursday afternoon, will be quite so- cial event and there have already been number. of boxes taken and box par ties arranged. Owing to the size of the grandstand and the enthusiasm of the fans the bleachers will be filled with many of the smart set Those who will have boxes are: MT. Willard Wilson with a party of IS, MT. Crawford Johnson, MT. E. W. Barrett, MT. H. B. Gray, MT. Victor Hanson, MT George Bailey MT A. L. Boorse, MT. R. W. Morrow and others.
 Mrs. Richard Scrivener will entertain at bridge this morning at 10:30 o'clock at the home of her sister, Mrs. Luke Hunt, in honor of Mrs. E. B. Taylor of Bristol. Va, who is her guest.
 MT. and Mrs B. F. Crabbe entertained at an informal dinner last evening at their home. complimenting Mrs Frank l.. Jobson of Richmond, Va, who is the guest of Mrs A. T. Lucas. The guests were Mrs. A. T. Lucas, Mrs. Job son, MT. and Mrs Ware, MT. c. B. Lucas and MT. A. L. Lucas. After dinner the party attended the ball given by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in honor of General Harrison, at the Southern club.
 The following from the New Orleans Times-Picayune will be read with inter- est by Miss Ellis many friends in the city; she will be pleasantly remembered here, having been the guest of her aunt, Miss Sara Mallam, on several occasions: "The wedding of Miss Nellie Ellis, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Caswell P. Ellis to Mir. John Reid Murchison of Wilmington, 0-, n at o'clock in the evening Wednesday at the residence of the bride-elect's parents in Audubon Place. It will be one of the very notable weddings of the spring, not only in society here, but also in Wilmington, where the bridegroom to-be Is widely connected and prominent socially. Miss Ellis Is one of the most delightful and lovely personalities in so. ciety here, and a great favorite in the
 1fOI r11 +tA 1yxn1 xx-sIl Asf.S number of strangers here for the event. Miss Ellis will have as her only attendants her sister, Mrs. Joseph M. Woodward. as matron of honor, and Miss Madeline de Rosset of Wilmington, N. C., as maid of honor. MT. David Reid Mur- chison, brother of MT. Murchison, will be his only attendant. MT. Murchison and MT. David Murchison reached New Orleans from North Carolina yesterday. MT. Walker Ellis. 8 brother of the bride elect, will arrive today from Harvard. Miss Sara Mallam and Miss Ruth Sims of Birmingham will also arrive today and Miss de RoSSet tomorrow morning. MT David Murchison will be married in Will mipgton April IS to Miss May Carmichael, also of Wilmington, and MT. John R. Murchison and his bride will go to Will mington in time for the wedding. That several members of the Black friar company, which Is coming to Bir- mingham under the chaperonage of the Drama league on Thursday are ready to be graduated from the ranks of anna teurs is attested by the fact that four of them have had professional offers and expect to be doing work professionally during the next few months. Miss Hattie Blalock will be the first to attain this distinction, as she has accepted an offer to appear before the camera this sum- mer, and we may confidently expect to recognize her on the screen before long; that is we will recognize her if we are lucky enough to see her in ''The Im- portance of Being Earnest at the Jef- ferson Thursday. Miss Anna Boulet has received as offer from New York conn pany to appear next winter. MT. Chap pell Corey will study drama at Columbia at the same time, and also do vaudeville stunts" Miss Rogers, Birmin gam girl, expects to continue her dramatic work at an eastern college, and Is look ing confidently forward to a dramatic career. That the appearance of the dra- matic society from the University of Ala bama will be an enormous success is as- sured by the personnel of the club They realize The Importance of Being Ear nest" and are giving their finest work and efforts to that end.
 | The social features of the United States Good Roads association. which convenes | in Birmingham on April r to 20 promises | to be among the most brilliant affairs that have taken place in the south. On "Wednesday night, April T., a grand re- -