The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-24
Programme of High Merit Is Announced by Com mittee-Seat Sale
 Is Large
FIRST APPEARANCE
 OF OLK QUARTET
Director of Community Sing Has Part on the Programme and Mrs. Beecher Will Give
 Readings

An appreciation concert will be ten- dered to Robert Lawrence tonight at i the Jefferson theatre, where, accord | ing to the advance seat sale, indioa- 1 tlons are that large audience will show it's appreciation of the man who made community singing in Birming 1 ham the most successful of any city in the country.
 Mir Lawrence organized community ginning last summer when every Sum ginning last smumer when every uSn- day the crowds gathered in Capitol park. This winter the Biiou theatre has been packed every Sunday aft ernoon, often for two concerts, where. under the leadership of MT. Lawrence, community singing has reached its higest development.
 It is in appreciation of these ef- forts. which MT. Lawrence has patri- otically put forth, that the concert of tonight has been arranged through a committee. of his friends. Mr. Law renee will sing two numbers. the first including two classical selections and the last comprising a number of songs o- li6 IlCI NclH+ &hIS IAOutIl 4NtWl will be at the piano. Assisting will be tho Hugo Ok quartet and Mrs. Leon ard Beecher
 STRING QUARTET
 The Hugo ok quartet is composed Of Hugo OK, first violin; Fred c. Wei gand. second violin: H. Lanznar, viola, and A. Pauli. cello. Numbers will be played from Haydn and Tschaikowsky. It will be the first time this distn- guished string quartet has been heard in Birmingham.
 Mrs. Beecher will read "The Road to France" "Christ in Flanders" and Your Flag and My Flag" Mrs Beech CT has often delighted Birmingham audiences, including the community singers themselves, and her place on the programme insures large follow ing.
 THEATRE PARTIES
 That the occasion will prove an inn poFtant social event isi shown by the nnmber of theatre parties arranged Among those who have planned par ties are Mir and Mrs. Robert Jemi- son, Jr.. MT. and Mrs. Culpepper Exum, Mir. and Mrs. J. A. Yates Mir. and Mrs. R. S. Munger. Mir and Mrs Hill Ferguson. Mir and Mrs. Herman Rich. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Oster, MT, and Mrs. John c. Henley, Jr.. MT. and Mrs Morris Adler. Mir. and Mrs. D. T. Rice MT. and Mrs. M. Lenk.
 Seats may be obtained at the Cable Shelby Burton Piano company, or at the Jefferson theatre. In addition, com mittees from the Civitan club, the Birmingham Real Estate exchange the Chamber of Commerce and other or ganizations, including the leading mu- sical associations of the city are to- day helping the seat sale in the down. town district.
 PROGRAMME
 The complete programme follows:
 Theme and Variation" (Haydn), Hugo ok quartet.
 70, Ruddier Than the Cherry' (Han- deb. with recitative. "I Rage. I Melt, I Burn" Tt Is Enough" from Eli jah" (Mendelssohn). Mir. Lawrence.
 '"The Road to France" Henderson, :: Christ in Flanders," Your Flag and My Flag" (Nesbitt). Mrs. Beecher
 Andanate Cantabile" (Tschaikow- sky), OK quartet.
 Danny Deever" (Damrosch): "Since You Went Away" (Johnson): ."The Pretty Creature" (NWilson); "The Rose" (Noel Johnson); The Years at the Spring" (Beech), Mir. Lawrence
 Mrs. Robert Newman at the piano