The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-11

with bouquet of pink roses rom : Parson Sam Hodges with the reduesl that she meet him after the show TOT dinner
 Dainty Coddie Wells. as Princess Fastina." was lovely in blue batntns i suit trimmed in red. with accessories | to match. The princess executed lhe | "Oxanna Flip" smoked under water band gave several death-defying dNes' Abner Steele was publicly thanked TOT I the pretty posies sent to Prlncess Iastina and also for the touching words of e-idearment in the note sent with thes flowers.
 Graceful C. NJ. JespersDn. as Little ! Egypt" queen of the Nile. empress or the midway. gave an exhibition or 1 Ter wonderful "swavback flop ana blew bubbles from the water wnich floated out to the audience. Liltie Egypt was attired in light blue 1 bathing costume with big band or i ribbon adorning her Titan tresses' l Poncey Acker sent roses to Q l<ittle 1 Egypt, accompanied by a tender elo- quent tribute to her girlish charms Following the aquatic stunts Jach | Stillwell was introduced as black faced person, and In the role of uncle ] EdY he showed an aptitude in the use 1 of Afro-American dialect that woula have put Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas 1 Nelson Page or Octavus Roy Cohen to 1 shame. His displacement of scrip 1 .ural allnsions and polysyllablic words i kept the audience in roar of laugh 1 ter.
 i Rotarian Rosenberger, imported from l Birmingham for the occa sion, was also l a scream. He sustained his reputa- | ton as.one of the south's best dlalec. readers and his rendition of severai 1 stunts in Italian. Irish and Hebrew lingo called for encore after encore. l Billy Woods kept the fun going witt
 his inimitable telephone stunt. in which he discourseS in negro dialec I about certain idiosyncrasies of Mis- souri mule with particularly refer 1 ence to her immortality when her head is set.
 Following these stunts. President tCrutchfield introduced Hugh White l who introduced Billy Criggs who in- troduced Charlie Smith who introduced l c A. verbeck. all of the Gadsden club the Gadsden eruption bringing | forth much merriment.
 1 Interspersed between every stunt, l regular Rotary soitcA were sung under l the leadership of Ben Sawyer. Tor l ward the close of the evening the ] guests were given genuine musical | treat as Sam Crook Tim Sproull, Wall ter Brown, Harry Weatherly and Nat Ory rendered Hail. Hail, the Gang s | All Here" They did so well that Tommy Watson. Neil Suerne and Louis Ogletree insisted upon singing a trio Neil ended up with solo. Miss Glen- his Hancock of Marietta, Ga, the guest of Donald and Mrs. Hancock added to the enjoyment of the occa- sion by playing all of the accompani- ments.
 Much credit for the success of the performance was due to the tireless
 work of Jim Barry. Evan Moon, Fred Tyler and Louis Ogletree, who, as
 stage directors and property men
 served behind the scenes.
 The introduction by each woman oi
 each man seated at her right was one of the cleverest. wittiest features each introduction bringing forth great hi
 larity.
 The most notable social event of the coming week will be the celebration at their home on Monday evening oi the fiftieth wedding anniversary oi MT. and Mrs. Charles John Houser. l No couple in Annston are more be loved than Mr and Mrs. Houser, who
 have been prominently identified witf
 everything pertaining to the welfare
 of Anniston.
 The invitation 10 their golden wed. l ding are attractively engraved in gold
 Hundreds of loyal friends will extent |
 wish that MT. and Mrs. Houser may
 enjoy many more years of happiness as their lives continue to prove a con stant blessing to the community.
 Mrs. $. c. Hodges was hostess to th' members of the Matron's Study club a her home on Wednesday afternoon.
 Mrs W Fl. Weatherly led most in teresting programme on '1mpressionistit Stories.'' using Nathaniel Hawthorne stories as an example of this type oi story.
 Mrs. Weatherly spoke of the life oi Hawthorne and Mrs. Charles Kline con- trasted IIaythorne and Poe. Mrs. Louis Kidd read Hawthornes Feather Top, and Mrs. A. J. Goodwin Rattclnr Daughter
 After the programme, Mrs. Hodges, as- sisted by Mrs Wade IT. Elam of Nash vile, served tea and cakes
 The Bienvlle chapter, D. A. R., me! on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. $. L. lGaibraith at her home on Glenwood ter race. Mrs. Jabez Curry gave report or the Huntsville convention. which she at tended as a delegate from the Annistor chapter, and also resume of the plans of the chapter for the coming year. The Bienville Daughters will again stress pa- Itriotism and Amercanization.
 | On January 15 the Choral club will pre- sent Miss Rose Fabian and Miss Mary Fabian in a concert at the Noble theatre
 Misses Fabian have just returned from l a. successful concert tour in the west Miss Mary Fabian has recently beer singing for the Columbia records ano t will make her debut next year at the Metropolitan in Madame Butterfly Miss Rose Fabian is a skilled vlolinist. X special programme on the study O. birds was presented at the Carnegis library on Saturday afternoon. Mrs " Lindsay Smith Margaret Reynoids) former popular Annistonian. gave de iljehtful talk on Bird Music and illus trated on the piano the calls or tanltia'
 birds. Mrs R. H. Dean described th' habits of birds, and Miss Myra Stern'
 exhibited collection of bird plctures Several victrola records. giving the cali of the birds and describing bird music
 were also enjoyed.
 The William Henry Forney chapter, D.. e. is looking forward to visit o' lJanuary 19 from Mrs. I. Fl. Crensna" Q
 Montgomery. state president or the lD. e.. and Mrs. A. Roundtree of Birmlng ham. who served last year as state pres l ident. The veterans of the county an'
 members of the chapter will pc ihViee' l to meet Mrs. Crenshaw and Mrs. Hc''ne,
 tree at dinner at the Alabama hotel land on the evening of January l5 n
 William Henry Forney chapter VIII en
 certain in their honor at receptlo 1 at the inn.
 ] One of the most enjoyable soclat Iuhc ltions of the week was a bridge party a