The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

riman CMrs. Oliver Harriman's handsome son), Courtland Otis Che stunning young son of our other hostess), Edward Ke- nealy, Clarence Nordstorm of "The Honey Girl" who did some very clever songs, Rene Riano who does the wonderful dance in "The Honey Girl" while inter spersed among the gay throng here and there was the beautiful face of a Sal vation Army lassie peepng from beneath her little blue bonnet, or the manly form. of an officer wearing the regulation blue uniform of the army with the red ,n- signia. ~
 My beloved Commander Miss Booth was on the waters of the Atlantic, wend- ing her way to France and Germany, a trip she has so desired to make ever since the war, in order to plan for her soldiers. who are now the only welfare organization people left in those coun- tries.
 And just guess who I saw? Billy B. Van and James J. Corbett ("Gentleman Jim'D in their clever stunt, in What's in a Name?''
 Had a party with the after the show" and pretty little Grace Walsh, who was here with Billy B. Van the past season at the Jefferson in "rhe Rainbow Girl,'' was with us. too. "Gentleman Jim" is advisedly given as a title to the former world-famous heavyweight cham pion, for more delightful. charming gen. tleman have scarcely ever met: and he and Billy B. Van are. the whole show in John Murray Anderson's clever ''mu- scal melange." And, by the way. Billy B. Van got off "good one" referring to the nuisance of telephoning. Why asks the irresistible Billy B., "is marriage like the telephone?" Answer; 'You nearly always get the wrong party''
 Also Billy B. declares that "In Mexico, fighting is a habit, while in Ireland it is an industry"
 The Chinaman's definition of a "vamp" in East Is West:'
 "A vamp is an Amelcan bee: you go to get the honey, and you get-STUNG." :"
 Following up the doing of things in New York in the summer time, that you'd probably never dream of doing in the winter I left my own church and went to Calvary Baptist Church to hear Dr.. John Roach Straton, who has been cleaning up the s"Great White Way" advocating tar and feathers for the bodies of those persons who appear nude or nearly so in aesthetic >-~~A>>~', e'SiiOuiiSiiS UootiCSS0tSt dhu having them arrested, and generally look ing after the work that the purity squad is supposed to sponsor. had read much and heard much of Dr. Straton's methods and his pull piteering, and perhaps I went to scoff, although I am not that sort of person, being born and bred and raised up by good old Methodist doctrines, but please let me say that although pr. Straton had chOSan a cIlhiort for thof v,a ticular Sunday which seethed and burned with possibilities, "Sexitis-New York's Malady,' l was never more agreeably surprised in all my life than was at the tone and the sentiment of his ser mon.
 Tall and slender. Dr. Straton looks more like an actor than preacher; he has very pleasing speaking voice, and from the radiant stained glass windows of the sacred edifce in which every ray of light revealed a harmony of unspeakable splen- dor, so the words that fell from his lips revealed the heart of godly. saintly man, whose methods may not please New York, but whose heart is in the right place, and attuned to the "old-time re- ligion.' which is good enough for him and ought to be good enough for wicked old New York.
 The picture that pr. Straton drew of the last hours of Elwell. the "Bridge King was a classic in which he pulled aisde the curtain and asked: Gin part:
 What should be the atmosphere sur- rounding man before he enters the dark doorway of death? To set his house in order. to call his son to his bedside. pointing out to him the right path. and saying. Walk in this way To hold the hand of loyal and trusting wife. and to be able to say to her, God be praised for you You have done me good. not evil. all the days of my life.'
 Then with hearts on every side bowed with grief. and tears upon the cheeks of those who know him. with the promises of Gods Word in his heart and the songs of the church in his ear, to go out fearlessly and sereneiy to meet God This is the way that hu- man life should be lived. and this is the way that 1t should end
 But look on another picture; days