The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24

Deep plety; Christian devotion that is rarely met with, either in minister or layman, is significant fact that Dr. Hendrix's taste in liter ature would run in the direction of the greatest classics of the ages; by the fireside with Lamb and Shakes peare and Tennysori, at his study table with. Dickens and Thackeray and Sir Walter Scott. Dr. Hendrix is one of the most re- markable preachers l have ever listened to; he seems in the pulpit almost detached from the world 1; | forgetful of his audience; sounding the deeps of his own heart in some still sanctuary of the recluse; the mood is unchanging; it is the mood | of one who has been through "deep waters" and has come to secure haven.
 When I hear him, I invariably think of that great line of Whit mans:
 "No array of terms can say how much
 I am that peace about Godand about death~
 Love of Dr. Hendrix and his beau tiful Christian character, his abiding faith, hope and charity, among the membership of his church (where we have a better chance to know him than others), as we'll as all over this great, growing, wonderful city-has resolved itself into "a frame of mind"; sort of Eleventh Commandment" but unlike most commandments in the constancy with which it is observed! What splendid "joy of living" does this great minister give hls flock, resolving itself into the fact ing over the "white ribbon of road" or the mountain track; nobody who will give you the same spacious sky; the same sense of the great happy enduring world that lies, for the asking, "just outside the latch string of our bickerings and scourg- ings."
 This afternoon when you hear his harmonious, euphonious voice draw ing the Christmas lesson from "The Christmas Carol" when he sings of "Scrooge" and Bob Cratchit and Old Marley and Tiny Tim, who can resist joining in these beautiful words which he will no doubt quote when Old Scrooge's nephew says:
 q have always thought of Christi mas time when it has come around apart, from the veneration due to it's sacred name and origin, if any, thing belonging to it can be apart from that-as good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time, the only time I know of in the long calendar of the years when men and women seem, by one consent, to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they were really fellow passen- gers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I be- lieve that it has done me good and will do me good and l say, God Bless itr
 What sweet thought of Christ mas-its mission and it's beauty!
 And quoting the last lines of 'The Christmas Carol":
 May that be truly said of all of us. And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us Every Onew
 My Mammy's PhiIosophy
 Ole Miss sumbody axt nah Ole Man yistiddy whut he wuz gwine ter git CHRISTMAS, an Bless Gawd he sed: FULL" Yassum.
 The Personality of Mir. Walker
 Whiteside
 There are lots of regular fellows -"he" men as it were, who are constantly singing MT. Kipling's verses:
 "Ship me somewhere east of Suez Where the best is like the worst And there ain't no Ten Command
 ments
 And man can raise thirstv'
 But being unable to make the much coveted trip the next best thing is to behold Mr. Walker Whiteside in sThe Hindu," that real, dyed-in-the-wool Oriental mys- tery melodrama, acted by one of the most finished and accomplished ac-. tors on the American stage!
 MT. Walker Whiteside is one of the few
 Eminent American Actors"- now left;
 Moreover
 MT. Walker Whiteside has ai-. ways been eminent" ever since he became "the only boy Hamlet" at the age of IA!
 From "The Melting Pot' of MT. Zangwill's, with it's Ghetto atmos- phere ;S through "The Typhoon." again it's background of-cherry blos- soms and coral; distant mountain peaks and shining sands; and the waves of the wild western ocean beating their Lorelie to and fro; even unto "Mr. Wu," that subtle, scheming, revengeful Oriental char acter which only the Chinese, can picture-I have watched the career of MT. Walker Whiteside and have found that he is the best living ex- ponent of the character actor" in Oriental oles-Japanese, Chinese, Arabs, Persians!
 Mir. Walker Whiteside's portrayal of the Hindu Prince "Tamwar" of Somnouth" in the thrilling drama of mystery, intrigue, romance and poli- tics in India today-has been de- clared by the. critics to be his very bestlrole.
 When MT. George Arliss, the popular English actor, played "The Green Goddess" considerable con-