The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12

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 where she will endeavor to interest the f good women of the Magic City in the work into which she has entered with her whole heart and soul. Mrs. Mel win is intellectual and cultured. Be- fore entering into this work for the war department she was a writer of note, and her rare gift of expression has proven exceedingly valuable in l handling the delicate and difficult prob I lens in which she is now engaged. ] Mrs Melvin arranges to send 1ec- turers of international fame to the 1 places in which she desires to stress | this phase of women's work. In speak | ing of the educational features Mrs | Melvin says: "The effect of the educa 1 tion, clean. sane, vivid. taken to the public in all sorts of ways by the social 1 hygiene division will never die out. Men ! physicians teach men wherever men | come together in groups. Lecture rooms are made of the shops, clubs, barracks, i theatres, colleges and schooles.
 1 Women physicians teach women. Mills schools, parlors churches every place of meeting where women gather, | these authorized lectures are made free l of cost to the hearers. All one has to 1 do is to accept the invitation to attend and teaching in fundamental facts of 1 life by an accredited lecturer, with gov | ernment credentials, is there without 1 price. At standard colleges a course in hygiene, embracing the vital subjects of these lectures has long been given ! But it is not only the college student who may have this knowledge. Our l government says, Hear ye and give | this education by the best of masters, 1 With all thy getting get wisdom. A 1 permanent good is thus coming out of ! the cateclysm of the most damnable ! war of the world. 7"
 1 Dr. Crotty, d noted lecturer, writer and physician, has charmed her hear CTS with a series of lectures given in Anniston, Oxford and Jacksonville. pr. ] Crotty spoke to large audiences every 1 day during the past week in Jackson . vile. She will visit Birmingham at an early date, where she will deliver a series of talks and show the famous i picture, "The End of the Road.' 1 Dr. Crotty is the wife of the camp surgeon at Camp Mcclellan and with her two attractive children is occupy ing one of the bungalows on Sherman ! Heights near the cantonment. Her magnetic personality makes her pres ence in as great demand in the social world as on the lecture platform.
 ! One of the most gifted musicians | brought to Anniston since the estab- | lishment of Camp Mcclellan is Mrs. l Warren Gordon Fielding who is scpend- /, ing the winter here to be near her hus- l band, officer at the cantonment. 1 She was heard at the Lyric theatre last 1 week in a concert given under the l auspices of the war camp community i service. The band of the Twenty-sev- | enth regiment, like all other organiZa- l tions coming under the command of i Col. John s. Hammond, is one of the 1 best at camp. It's martial melodies were one of the most enjoyable fea- 1 lures of the concert. A trio by Corporal | Sykes, Private Dimayo and Corporal | Fish and a quartet by Corporals Col 1 land and Moss and Privates Evcer- | deene and Boat, brought forth hearty 1 applause.
 l Mrs. Fielding is the youngest prima- 1 donna who has ever sung a profess ! sional leading dramatic mezzo soprano role. Her first appearance was with 1 the Boston English Opera company In 1 The Bohemian Girl" Later premier 1 critics throughout the United States | and kCanada were most generous in 1 their praise of her voice and dramatic ability. She sings on Sunday at the l First Methodist church in Anniston, 1 besides contributing her talent con stantly to cheer the soldier boys.
 
 guests at the Red Cross building at Camp Mcclellan during the past week. l The large open fireplace in the living ] room, with huge logs burning, gave l a cheery atmosphere to the pretty re- ception room. The guests were~ greet cd by Mrs. Thomas, the Red Cross | hostess, and members of the entertain ment committee. including Sergeants
 Bowers Warren, Lycette. NcDuf 1 Rodgers, Kulat, Volrath, Thrawley
 Richer and Corporal Wallace. The pop ! ular jazz bank furnished music fol the occasion. Mrs. Ralph Hay gave
 several readings, and an interesting programme was presented by soldier
 artists. Coffee and sandwiches were
 served by the hostess
 One of the most unique dances of tn,
 season occurred in the new recreat atior
 hall of the Twenty-seventh field artil
 l9y regiment To the strains of the ar
 tillery band the visitors and soldiers
 tiipped the light fantastic. The hall was
 profusely decorated with the colors of
 the regiment, surrounded by a back ground of green pine boughs. Among the visitors were Col. and Mrs. John $
 Hammond, Maj. Walter F. Seigmund
 Lieut.. and Mrs. Walter F. Seigmund
 Lieut.. and Mrs. Goatseick, Lieut.. James
 W. Kenealy. Mrs. Edward Harvey, Lieut. |
 Mrs. Anderson, Mrs J. J. McIntire, Miss
 Belle Pearson, Mrs. H. l.. Lee and Miss
 Britton.
 The Jewish Welfare home at Caml
 Mcclellan and the recreation room il
 Al. niston were the scenes of several de
 liehtful entertainments given last weel
 under the auspices of the welfare board A sing including the traditional Jewisl
 melodies. concert given by talent iron
 the artillery regiments, an entertainment
 cor sisting of selections from classi
 operas and inimitable sketches by Her
 bert Leon Cope, the popular soldie
 reader were among the programmes ren
 dered at the Jewish camp home.
 dance and musicale at the citl recreation room were enJoyed. Mis!
 Haas, an accomplished pianist iron
 Portsmouth. Ohio. who is visiting he
 father, one of the Jewish welfare work
 CTS, added to the pleasure of the en H. L s,r<I fvr n