The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-02
Mrs. LoueH Designs Beautiful Costumes
 for Dancers
ny JOSEPHINE NIXON HENLEY

The group of Birmingham beau tiful society girls. responding to Mrs. S. L. Ledbetter's call to meet her Thursday morning on the mezzanine floor of the Tutwiler, were charmed with the plans which had been made for the dances of the semi-centenniai celebration.
 They were enthusiastic in their ad- mration of the lovely costumes which Mrs. w.. S. Lowell had designed for them to wear in these dances characteristic of Birmingham and It's surroundings.
 The gnome dance will be performed by school children and. the quaint little goblns will be costumed to represent the coal, iron and lime stone of the adjacent mines. In the calico ball. which will recall memories of one of the first of the big balls given in Birmingham, the background of the great stage, on which the dances will be given, will present the effect of an old fash toned flower garden.
 The girls with their quaint dresses made in the fashions of 1874 In gay pink, blue and yellow colors will represent the sweet old-time flow CTS, which grew in their grandmoth- CTS gardens.
 Their escorts will wear white shirts and trousers, and with their green Spanish sashes will imperson- ate the. leaves which serve as a l back ground and heighten the beauty ct the lovely blossoms.
 The girls who will participate in | this dance are
 Miss Florence Robinson, Miss vir- ginia Hassinger, Miss Elizabeth | Schooler, Miss Anita Eustis, Miss
 Lucy Thomas. Miss Dimis Wilkinson,
 Miss Mary Chambliss Dryer, Miss
 Evelyn Hoke, Miss Dorothy Dryer, 1 Miss Elizabeth Adams. Miss Marga- Josephine Harris, Miss Emmin What
 ley Miss Sarah vann. Mrs. George Headley, Mrs Ford Cromer, Mrs Ali Stafford, Mrs. Dick Wasson, Miss Anne Lanier.
 | Thirty-two young girls will take
 part in the beautiful flame and smoke" dance, which is peculiarly
 appropriate to this region. Sixteen
 in costumes of thin flimsy material | blending shades of crimson and vel
 low. in the circling figures of their | dance will simulate the flashing.
 swirling scintillating flames. | The dresses, of the other sixteen
 mingling with the flames, and i'm 1 personating the clouds of smoke, will | be fashioned with shades of gray
 lavender and green in each. In these costumes are repeated the soft | lights, glowing in the smoke which arises from Birmingham's furnaces and burning ovens, and gradually | fading into the neutral shades of l gray.
 Taking part in this spectacular dance will be: 1 Miss Edwina Thaggard, Miss Lee
 Ola shannon, Miss Augusta Dearborn Miss Mary Elizabeth Caldwell. Miss
 Ireta McCrossin Miss Laurie Oden
 Miss Elizabeth Adair. Miss Mary Ida Wood, Miss Oliva O'Neal Miss Annie 1 Hood Coulbourn. Miss Martha Col 1 Her, Miss Katherine Lynch, Miss Tor rance Redd. Miss Yankee Sibley
 Miss Josephine Johnson, Miss Ma mic Morrow. Miss Katherine Morrow Miss Martha Latady, Miss Bessie Dawson, Miss Harriet Smith. Miss 1 Willie Mae Brandon. Miss Susie Smith, Miss Grace Bradshaw. Miss Elizabeth Smith, Miss Rebecca Bauer Miss Pauline Mckenzie, Miss Letitia McNeill. Miss Annette Hoyt, Miss Dor othy Wood. Miss Evelyn Hassinger and Miss Mary Ada Tarrant.S