The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-25
EVENTS OF TODAY

St. Paurs School Improvement associa- tioI this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
 Mrs. Lige Loy entertains Ardis Heights club this afternoon.
 The Lakeview School Improvement as- sociation meeting and presentation of the flag to the school by the womans relief corps of the G. s. R. this morning at 10 o'clock.
 The Wilcox chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, meets at 10:30 this morning at the Tutwiler.
 Mrs. Joseph McLester talks this evening at 6:45 o'clock at the Y. W. c. A. Her subject will be, Lives of Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale"
 Mrs. W. D. Hammetts Lyric party for Mrs Gordy and Mrs. Camp of Georgia.
 Red Cross drive for clothes for the peo- pie of Europe.
 The active and advisory board of ths Mercy Home will hold the bimonthly meeting today at 10:3o o'clock at the home.
 Epworth league will have a free picture slow at the Norwood Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Thirteenth avenue and Thirty-first street this evening at ?. m.
 N MOST interesting letter has been re-
 N\ ceived from young army officer z S now overseas telling of his trip to Paris with fellow officer looking for gown for his wife. The letter in part Is as follows:
 "It is superfluous to say Paris is won- derful' Of course, laid up to Americas standard, Paris is quite out of date. The city bears the earmarks of years of war, so one must make allowances.
 Its parkways, parks and gardens are & source of intending pleasure, and, of course, Versailles and Notre Dame alone are of sufficient moment to occasion visit. The treasures of the Louvre are be- ing unpacked each day, and we were for tunate in seeing many of the galleries opened for the public the first time in over four years
 If you will pardon a seemingly effemi- nlate thread, let me tell you of our visit to the spring openings at 'Pagrins & Worths'
 By way of explanation, one of my as- sociates, Lieutenant Hodges, is a newly wed. yes, technically so. He married one month before we sailed, so their honey moon is merely suspended. not ended. And, like a perfectly good husband, he wanted to buy his wife robe. So to- gether we went.
 "Of course, their saloons are gorgeous, nd fhoir especially arrayed in their fine feathers. The process Is an easy one. We merely selected a model the size of Mrs. H. and then it began. I told him the whole show was the moving picture of the sentence, Lead us not into temptation I mean we wanted every dress we saw, not every model. But at last we made our selec- ton.
 ''The gowns are very beautiful and plain. Draperies along plain, graceful. semi-Greek lines, are quite the vogue. Grays and greens are quite extensively lsed for afternoon gowns, while blues seem to hold forth for evening wear. There is a new color, sort of chocolate bronze brown, and 1t also is quite mod !sh. Yes, beads are everywhere and some If the Worth models had bags, hat orna- nents and slipper buckle ornaments all # the same pattern as that on the dresses. "We have an entirely new show now, Miss Innocence musical comedy. I till do my dance act as an interlude and lso a burlesQue in impersonation in the second act. You ought to see our cos | tunes. We copied them from Parisian gowns in less expensive materials We had two dressmakers and a tailor sewing for days. The robe I wear is magenta with an orange drape. The hat is won derful DAquin' A well-known milliner donated 1t. It is made of the same color as my costume. But I must stop; this doesn't sound one bit like an army officer, but more like debutante or bride buying | her trousseau. ''I heard several operas in Paris. Spe- | cially interesting was Castor on Pullnx, by Ramean. Tt was first produced at Versailles in | 1757 They presented the opera just as 1 it was costumed at that time. Of course, | the costuming was ingenious, but beauti- l full. The plot is laid in ancient Greece, and while the male characters wore cor rect costumes, the female characters wore hoopskirts and Marie Antoinette wigs l The opera employs a chorus which is placed behind the orchestra, immediately under the footlights. In the Opera Grand this part of stage can be removed by slid