The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-03
MRS. SMITH TALKS ABOUT MEETING
 OF DRAMA LEAGUE
Will Resume Regular Activ- ities After Long Period of War Work-May Rob-
 son Guest of Honor
Fly DOLLY DALRYMPLE

That things are assuming their normal shape, and conditions are becoming more and more like they used to be before the war;" Is evidenced every day by so- cial, charitable, musical, dramatic and theatrical affairs getting into line once
 more and renewing activities.
 No more enjoyable or popular organiza- ton has ever existed in this city than the Drama league. due largely to its ca pablo president, Mrs. w. D. Smith. whose splendid leadership and untiring inter- est has brought 1t up to the highest standard of social and dramatic work. In speaking about the reopening to-
 morrow of the Birmingham chapter, Mrs Smith said yesterday: : "Of course during the war, the Drama league devoted its entire time to war work: 1t was the first organization to send out entertainers to the soldiers; it was the first organization to realize the necessity for something bright and cheerful in the lives of the lonely sol-
 diers at the camps; our best talent offered itself willingly and happily to any line of entertaining that was suggested: the results was that the open meetings and lHc TeSuldT routine WOIh WdS QiSpduu~ ed for the period of the war. Now that peace is imminent and the worlds pen dulum is swinging back Into the old routine, we feel that the time has come for the Drama league to resume it's reg ular work.
 "Then, too, the war has opened an epoch in the drama which is the greatest the world has ever known Mrs. Smith continued. "The superb possibilities for dramatists, the wealth of subjects, the broad fields never dreamed of before and never entered, now present themselves Tn magnificent array, and the stage and the drama being apportunists will un- doubtedly qualify and take advantage of every chance to uplift and promote every possible line of endeavoE
 "The Drama league local chapter" Mrs Smith continued, has really had very little from the theatre in the way of celebrities presenting the theatres side of the question. MT. Cyril Maude really Is the one we think of and the one we re- call who gave us so much valuable in formation and was such an incentive to us when he appeared here some three |syears ago: so we feel that it is appro- priate to inaugurate our season with some star who will be an inspiration to
 us-an uplift and an example--so we
 have asked Miss May Robson. the gifted
 actress who appears here on Wednesday
 evening and Thursday matinee and even-
 ing at the Jefferson in the clever play, A Little Bit Old-fashioned, to be our guest and make short talk for us on the drama. She has graciously consented through Mir. Brown Parks and his cour- tesy in communicating with her for us. and we really feel as if the meeting will be a great inspiration-a great inaugu- ration of our after the war work. Miss Robson stands for all that Ia fine and splendid on the stange; her art has been extolled in every country in which she has ever appeared. and she Is one of the really noted actresses of the day. all of which means a great deal to us. T would like to emphasize the many ways and avenues which the Drama ] league occupies in this community" Mrs Smith said. but it would take too much time, however. there is one thing would I like to speak of and that is how the elderly people enjoy and profit by the league. Few of them attend the theatre unless there are matinees but many at l tend the Drama league meetings and I have so often been told how much 1t
 means to them to keep in touch with