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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
one years of age now, may he live to be a hundred and may his prophe- cies continue to come true.
Birmingham's Next
 Musical Season

Birmingham's Next
 Musical Season 10 IRMINGHAM's musical season 1O is not over. We have the Ala bama Glee Club tomorrow night Easter Monday-and great soprano, and a great harpist the Monday fol- lowing and another great recital soon thereafter. Or May comes grand opera.
 This will have been the most bril- liant season, notwithstanding the fact that Birmingham is without an audi torium. An auditorium will be under way before the end of the year, but before it is completed Birmingham will announce several distinct attrac- tions, including two or three sym phony orcbestras.
 The symphony is the most popular form of music and when the audi torium is reality we will have a series of. five or six of them each year. &fs
 In the meanwhile, we can look for ward to 1920-1921 as the greatest season in the history of Birming- ham.
 The chorus is wonder" Advertise ment of girl show. All the choruses are wonders until they arrive on the scene.
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 The Philadelphia Inquirer discusses. Our Grim and Forbidding Schools" which is essentially the juvenile point Of view.
 Among the unimportant news items from abroad is the announcement that Prince "Rough-House Joachim has been released from jail, but is forbidden to live in Berlin.
 There is disposition to follow the Mary and Doug affair by rounds, but tits a trifle early yet for hostilities to begin.
 Something should be done to convince the farmer that he's not the under dog. That frame of mind is not conducive to bumper crops. | IT Bela Kun heard the raucous laughter which greeted his threat to go on a hum ger strike it must have been a bit dis coursging.
 Easter greetings to the American peo- pie from President seltz of Austria is gentle reminder that Austria still has a President | A Maryland whisky warehouse has just been robbed for the sixteenth time. It is located in lonely spot. but robbers made a pathway to the door, x X X l In view of increased wages to the min CTS demand for more production and less talk sounds reasonable. l * * * 1 Candidates are for the most part prac- tical men. They might carry corkscrew around in their baggage. but never a ouija board.
 ! Kicking socialist in the seat of the pants doesn't always help him to think more clearly, but it's great tempta- tion.
 There are no more American soldiers in France, but "ma'mselle and dough- boy- verse is still going the rounds of the press.
 Herbert Hoover's hat has landed in the republican ring. where many another hat preceded it. < * k
 Mexicans continue their efforts to re- duce the number of American citizens on foreign sgil- If New York waitresses are wearing ssis fur coats, how much do chorus girls pay for their Broadway togs?
 Secretary colby \ can X at least issue pass ports without calling up tho White House
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
Appreciation

T recently took the automobile trip over the city suggested in copy of Tn Birmingham This Week." said William J. Hardaway, a visitor in Bir- mingham, and let me say that it is the prettiest drive in the south, if not in the entire country.
 T have done considerable travelling, having been in almost every large city in the country. l always take a trip through the residence district as the true indication of the prosperity of a city. Some of the palatial structures on Highland avenue I have never seen surpassed for architectural and scenic beauty.
 The greatest praise that I can say is that if my work permitted me to choose home. believe I would choose Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
An Approval

'T regard the action of the city com mission in proposing the restoration of the three-mill sinking fund levy, to be used for paying the interest on all bonds, including school bonds, and the calling of an election for the purpose of voting two mills to be used by the board of education for increasing teach of the problem that has confronted us,'' said Prof. E. E. Smith yesterday.
 This action places the payment of interest on school bonds right where it belongs, on the sinking fund. It leaves free three mills that may at some future time. if needed, be levied for such purposes as are imperative Our emergencies of the next few years cannot be Anticipated.
 This gives an opportunity to meet the emergencies if they arise and when they arise. The action also releases a sum in excess of $200.000 now being used to pay interest, for general pur- poses, and so relieves the general needs of the city in a small way, at any rate.
 This procedure on the part of the city commission was advocated by me three weeks ago in an address before the medical association, and is one Of the fundamentals in the proposition, namely, that interest and bonds belong on the sinking fund, and nowhere else, until that fund is exhausted I shall support heartily the proposed pro- cedure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
Unjust Attack Made
 On Senator Underwood

Unjust Attack Made
 On Senator Underwood
 M NE of the silliest charges made " against Senator Underwood e0nanates from Mobile where labor Headers are said to be circulating the report that MT. Underwood referred to strikers as slackers and traitors who should be stood against wall and shot.
 MT. Underwood has denied this ac- cusation. In 1918 committee rep resenting certain union organizations in the Birmingham district came to Washington to ask Senator Under woods help in strike for an. e.ght'' hour day.
 Senator Underwood refused his support and based his refusal on principles no patriotic Amer ican could question. He told the dele gation that he "did not believe man who was loyal to the country could stand for position that would limit the productive capacities of machine shops and factories to eight hours a day, or anything less than a maxi mum production during the period of war. I also told them," the senator says. ''that I could not discuss re- duced production of material in the absence of a willingness by them to nut on uniforms and make the same sacrifice for their country that was being made by the soldiers in France"
 No one who knows Senator Under wood would believe for moment that he used abusive language" to labor leaders or anybody else. His cour- tesy is proverbial. His attitude to- ward any movement that would cur tail production during the war is un- assailable. There was no eight-hour day for our soldiers in France. They were on duty twenty y-four hours day, and they were paid thirty dollars a month to fight and die for America The government was dependent or the Birmingham district to a great extent for carrying on the war. Ii was only just to ask that labor, which had been granted exemptions from military service in essential indus tries, should make some sacrifices at home.
 An unbiased study of Senator Un- derwood's record in Congress will show that he has been fair to labor Simply because he has advocated . square deal for employer as we'll as employe, whether the employer is the government or a~private concern, he has been denounced as an enemy oi the working man.
 The war was won by the man ir khaki. and the man in overalls. Pro. duction at home was just as vita as courage on the firing line. Any statement to the contrary is un- American and unpatriotic.
 Venerable Newspaper
 Publisher As Prophet
 ~ ENERAL FELIX AGNUS, pub 0 fisher of the Baltimore Amer ican,, and one of the most esteemed citizens of Maryland, is not the only newspaper man of upwards of 80 who is in good working trim, but he is the only one of note who has played the role of prophet and played it sue eessfnlly. According to the Baltimore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
FAMILY HEIRLOOM.

Whats this at the bottom of thisI old trunk?7
 "Wen?''
 "As live, it's pair of overalls with a powder rag in one pockete
 T recognize them now. They were worn by grandmother during the great war;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
NEWSSTAND ART.

The covers of the magazines Are pleasing to the eye, When beautified by bathing queens Who're wondrous trim and spry. Why view in some art gallery The female form divine When here are studies deemed to be Superb in every line?
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
NO FACILITIES

What has become of 1the old-fash- toned man who used to jot'down mem oranda on his cuff?"
 "The soft cuff proved to be his waterIoos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
IMPRACTICAL YOUTH.

50 you rejected him, Maybelle?" 'Yes. Charley would never be able to support me-
 Are you sureT'
 Quite sure. He thinks we could jazz through life together while father beat the bass drum"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
NAruRAL INFERENcE.

''This wedding in Movieland is att tracting a great deal of attention" 'T can possess myself in patience" What do you meanY'
 'Tn probably see 1t on the screen before long"
 A THORN IN THE SIDE.
 'In politics man should be care ful of the promises he makes"
 At any rate" replied the veteran campaigner, "he should be careful of the kind of people he makes them to. I've know a voter with long memory to cause an office-holder more trouble than all his relatives. his old school mates and the people who used T. --ne him money put together"
 MUST HAVE BOUGHT STOCK. This patient seems violent"
 Crazy as a loon''
 What are his symptoms?7
 He has a plan to convert abandoned oil derricks into wireless stations"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd; It is not so with him that all things knows As tis with us that square our guess by shows; But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the get of men.
 ATS Well that Ends Well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper ia Blrmingnam carrying the Associated Press dis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

-AII's Well that Ends Well
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age-Heralo VIII not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
GREAT FALLS PARK-1s2e seas
President to Hear
Hickman's Jazz Band
At the White House

Art Hickman's jazz orchestra Will
stop over at Washington on its jour
nev East and give concert at the
White House before Senators and
who are TO be gath
cred there on the night OF June 4. II
is planned to have the President hear
. few of the numbers. This statement
was made by Rennold Wolf in the
Morning Telegraph yesterday.
San Francisco. by the way. is 70
give Hickman a rousing send-on. he
has been the best advertiser of San
Francisco since the earthquake by
reEaling II with his music at the
St. Francis Hotel night after night.
A number OF prominent citizens who
haye greatly admired the music OF
the Hickman Orchestra are giving
him a public dinner tomorrow night,
A golden baton. properly inscribed
will be presented on that occasion.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Art Editors Select
Bevy of Beauties
For The Rose Girl"

About forty young women am
bilious 20 be acclaimed members of
the beauty chorus" of a new mu-
Stcal comedy called The Rose Girl"
presented themselves on the stage
Of the Lyceum Theater. New York,
on Tuesday. to be judged by a COM
mittee of artists and art editors.
A bevy of them were chosen by
the experts. and with this knowI-
edge of prefermcnt radiatinE from
the faces of the girls. they were
all charming to look at and talk
with. After all. happiness must
have a good 6eal to do with beauty.
Dhe judges were William Martin
Johnson, art editor of the Butterick
publications; Veronine Weston, John
Chapman Hilder, formerly editor of
Harper's Bosar; Paul Irite. Neysa
McMein, Alfred Cheney johnson,
Robert Ament. DR.. Arselm Goetzy,
who beside being composer of The
Rose Girl" has The Royal Vaga-
bond" to his credit: and Heyworth
Campbell. art editor of the Mast
publications.
The giIls selected were Nita
Snow. of New York; Billie SegaI,
of Russia; Jessie German. OF Prov
idence. r. l.: Helen Travers, of
Philadelphia Josie Linden. of New
Rochelle; Beth Pitt, of Ohio: Vera
DelatoIr. of Newark, n. j.: Tir-
ginia Mcdonald, Of st. Louis; Lulu
Mae Hubbard. of San Antonio, Tex;
Frances Halliday. of Ohio; Helen
Lyons. of Brooklyn. Juliet Beach.
of New York.
Misses Linden, Segal and Beach
we're the only ones who had no
previous experience on tie stage.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30

ETC., and do not try to get by with
the aamcs Of stars. And some Gay
they pick a teal winner. Cissie
Sewell in Honey Girl" is totally
unknown to me: but l fancy she
has at least o little future II she
keeps on dancing. In Betty Be
Good" there are Josephine Whit
tell and the terrific Josie intrepid.
both known to fame in their ways.
Not So Long Ago" turned out to
be a little more sentimental than
l had hoped, but Eva LIE Gallienne.
daughter of the poet, l understand,
turned out more arch and CHARM
ing than I had remembered her, so
all was we'll. Miss lie Gallienne is
one of the wonder children of the
stage, because she is near stardom,
without the backing of an adver-
tisable prettiness, and she is just
turned 81 or some such absurd age.
When she was in England, about
ten years ago. Constance Collier
saw her doing little stunts in act
ing and was so impressed that she
got the child a. chance to speak
pieces (to act Shakespeare, II one
is to be accurately before the no.
blest Shakespearean actor of our
time. The prediction he made, that
Miss lie Gallienne would carry ev-
erything before her. is beginning
to be fulfilled. All this prococity
goes with a delightful sense of hu-
NOR and with no swank. Miss lie
Gallienne has every intention of
playing Shakespeare in good time.
II she would do Juliet now. for
OnCA rntOhf n ilInQinn
There was once play called
Our Children" There is a play
now current which ought to be
called Our Daughters" although
Its real name is Respect for
Riches" In 1t appear Muriel Mar
tin Harvey and Nancy Lewis Wall
er-and the last two-thirds Of each
name will call up memories of two
famous actors of England. The
names in this play are interesting
In another way, for the villains
stage name is Louis Hirsch, and he
Is set forth as a huge spender Of
money.
Rennold Wolf (the gentleman who
writes criticism when he isn't too
busy writing reviews and things for
the stage) suggests that this name
was chosen at the instance of the
song composer of the same name
who is trying to get by with blum.
However, the real point of inter
est In the play Is Alexandra Carlisle,
an admirable actress and, as l have
stated before, an excellent delegate
to the Republican National Conven-
tion representing the Eighth Con-
sressional district of Massachusetts,.
William Devereaux wrote the play
and plays the hero; he is also part
Of the company producing the show.
Inasmuch as Miss Carlisle will have
to attend to her political duties
presently. urge those who care for
her delicate and delightful art to 60
early and see her soon.
puhue Ledger ssrviea9
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Alice to Quit Stage.

The Realart officials are an
nouncing Alice Brady's withdrawal
from the stage. According to Miss
Brady's recent letter to them, as
soon as her theatrical season ts
ended she will leave the glory OF
the footIights and devote her time
and attention TO pictures.
She is in Chicago at this writing
with Forever After" which has
been doing a tremendous business
there. Neither w. A. Brady nor the
Realert officials need ever doubt the
popularity OF Miss Brady after the
business this show has done in Bos-
ton and Chicago. to say nothing OF
New York.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Florence Xidor With Inee.

From the Coast comes word say
ing a contract has been signed oy
Florence Vidor with Thomas 1nce
for the young woman's services In
Beau Revel." a coming Ince spe-
cial Heretofore Miss Ntdor has
been starred in her husbands pic
lures. and before that she played in
Vulnerable leads for Famous Play
ers-Lasky.
Mr.. Ince says he feels he is to be
coneratulated upon obtaining her
for the leading roles, because she Is
so exactly the type he has been
searching for and was unable to
create until someone suggested Miss
Eidor
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
In New York Playhouses
By GILBERT SELDES.

New York, May 2s-If the date
line did not remind me Of the i'm
minence of summer 1 should snap
my fingers and say that a fne thea
trical season was just beginning in
New York. 1t is true that a number
of excellent plays are leaving the
boards; a number of popular players
are going out to Great Neck or
somewhere to lie in hammocks and
read perfectly useless manuscripts
against the time when a slave -driv-
ing manager cracks his whip and
summons them back to the grease
paint. But so many plays are just
opening! The town is so full OF a
number of shows, a man sees q
drama wherever he goes.
But there is a springiness in the
air for all that. Nothing else, to
my mind. can account for the in
rush of musical comedies (nothing
else except the desire to rake in
coin). There is Honey Girl" l use
the present tense, although I don't
know why. Many years ago there
was Checkers" Now there is
Honey Girl" on the same story,
with credit to the Blcssoming Henry.
at the end Of Act II there Is what
we used to call a stage effect. Alas!
1t didn't work and the little toy
horses were selling platers or what
ever the name is for the poor fell
lows that get struck just around
the curve! Still, Albert Won Tilzer
wrote some fine summer music and
there Is an amazing lot of dancing
oy a rather pretty chorus, and it's
all very nice and sentimental.
On the other hand, we have with
US a production which arrived after
nall a year or the rCad, which had
the good (businLns) sense to get
its plot out OF tho French. You
guess that from the title. Betty
Be Coed" mention only that
there is a wedding. you see, and
the man who is going to ee mar
ried. you understand. once was
friendly with an actress, so when
she comes to town, this man, he
says that his best man is the groom,
so then in the next act they are all
In the actress fiat, end so he pulls
the hre-alarn.. II ell ends happily
In The last act. That Is the way
the plots Of those ttir gs get them
selves told, and I have often won
dercd how a manager picks win
ner. still-the winning features OF
this piece are the music OF Hugo
Riesenfeld and any amount OF dane
ing, as you who have already seen
1t in Washington well know.
II you care for musical comedy
II dp-you will like tc sec shows
like, this and discover talent for
yourself. Like Honey Girr and
any number II others still to come,
these, shows recruit themselves from
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Julia Sanderson in Demand.

Now that she has just ended ner
season in The Canary" Julia San
derson finds that she Is greatly In
demand. which, one may assume. Is
a grand sensation. Already two im-
portant English managers have
cabled her urgently to come right
over and begin rehearsals In two
musical comedies shortly to be pro-
duced there. Miss Sanderson ad-
mits that she Is in q receptive mood
and is giving the offers considers
tion that contains four figures In II.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
TOday's Amuselnents.

jarrick - Garrick Players in
"Cappy Kicks"
Cosmos-Vaudeville and films.
9. +. Keith's-Vaudevill
iayetY-"The Sporting Widows"
Loew's Palace-Doris Keane in
Romance"
Moore's Rialto-Miriam Cooper
in The Deep Purple"
Crandalrs Metropolitan Pert
Lytell in Alias Jimmy VAL
Moore's Strand-"Riders Of the
Dawn"
Moore's Garden-william S. Hart
IN The Toll Gate"
Loew's Columbia-H. 3. Warner
in The White Dove"
-randall's-De Miles "oId Wives
for New"
Crandalrs Knickerbocker- - bert
Lytell in Alias Jimmy VAL
entire."
Glen Echo-Resort Attractions.
Great Falls Park-Resort Facili-
ties.
Steamer Macalester-Daily Ex-
cursions to Mount Vernon at
10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m.
Marshall Hall-Resort Amuse-
ments: Steamers at 10 a. In.
2:30 and $40 p. m.
Chesapeake Beach-Resort At
fractions.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Klaw Of to Europe.

Marc klaw is going to Europe IN
search of new material to interest
American theatergoers. Mr.. Klaw
will leave for Europe next week to
look for English and Continentl
plays, and will visit Scandinavia to
obtain plays of Norwegian ana
Swedish authors.
A few French comic operas are
also wanted by the corporation,
and while in Vienna Mr.. Klaw will
hear the Kalman operetta, which
the corporation owns and is plan
ming to bring over here.
While Marc Klaw is abroad. con-
struction on the new theater
planned by the corporation, which
will be built in West Forty-fifth
street, not far from the site of Sam
Harris proposed new playhouse.
will be begun under the supervision
of Joseph and Alonzo Klaw.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
"High and Dry" Halts.

The Sweetheart Shop" which is
the joint production of william
Moore Patch and Edgar MacGregor,
is ending its spring tour, which in
cluded Atlantic City and several
other try-out communities.
The piece is to be revised, over
hauled, and William Moore Patched
in book and cast, and will take a
whack at New York late in the
summer.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Shipman's Play in Chicago.

The latest output of Samuel Ship
man and Percival Wilde. "Tomor-
rows Price," will begin an engage
ment at A. H. Woods Theater in
Chicago on May 81. Taylor Holmes
Is the star of the piece.
On the same night, william H.
Wellman and Skipper Sinnott will
offer Clara Joel in Poker Ranch"
at the Olympia Theater,
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
Selznick Buys.Films.

The busy fountain pen of Myron
Selznick has had no opportunity to
rest these past few weeks. SO con-
stantly has 1t been in use. When
Myron hasn't been drawing checks
to pay studio expenses he has been
exercising to see how we'll he can
write figures to pay for the stories
he is buying. This weeks output
included The Fib" and Yesterdays
Wife," two stories which have en-
joyed wide popularity In two cur
rant magazines.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
The Cave Girl
To Have Tyout
Here Next Month

George Middleton and Guy Boil
ton, two OF the stages most sue
cessful writer's of comedy. have
collaborated once again, and the
result is The Cave Girl"
three-act piece with its scenes
laid in the Maine woods.
The production is being made
by +. Ray Comstock and Norris
Gest. and will receive its pre-
miere on Monday night. June 81.
1t the Belasco Theater here. The
,ast includes Grace Valentine,
Robert McWade, Leslie Palmer,
Saxon King. Arthur Barry.
Franklyn Hanna, Louis Spauld-
ing> Brandon Peters, Madeline
Marshall and ElCanor Gordon.
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30

Speaking of daughters-the press
agents urgent wire to the effect
that Adelinsi Patti Harold will join
the chorus Of Irene" lets me men
tion the two facts of throbbing in
terest, that the young lady Is the
Of orville Harold and the
goddaughter of Adelina Patti. and
that she is joining the chorus of
what Is generally comic opera of
what is generally credited With be-
ing the standard comic opera Of the
season
The Washington herald., 1920-05-30

r.,.. z --r-ses constituted the outstanding
g.-~-- ~ rfrc # asst week, just does the
Tr5.=~, grst.t r. Call the Doctor" constitute the
f-.-o~-aa. 'rz--1- unveiling of the present week.
= v-r. .s:r Do Y eoks tomorrow night at the
re,s.o the 7-=-liere of this Belasco play hnds the
old seasv1 or very last legs and from now until
fall the drama will assume the lighter summer garb
manifest in summer stock. summer opera and motion
nictures with an occasional experimental week-run
Of this that play.
Call the Doctor" appears to be a play for
Charlotte Walker 1t Is credited t. Jean Archi-
baId a writer practically unknown fame which
means that Mr.. Belasco has been playwrting again
in the role of first colaborator The propaganda
earning the play filtered to this department.
reveals practically nothing of its theme beyond the
fact that 1t is amusing comedy of today" and
what boots attempt to penetrate the veil of
RsIascan mystery with the temperature rising daily
and the ball team out OF town during the week?