The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
Masonic Dances Real
 Carnival Events

Carnival Events
 wonder if you went to the dances the Masons put on Wednes- day night.
 If you didn't, start in to feeling sorry now.
 They were gorgeous de- lightful.
 The Masons arranged for five of them-throwin open the Ath- letic Club, the Southern Club, the Hillman and Tutwiler hotels.
 The only way we could get around was simply to join the files of the revelers, and not push, but look pleasant, please.
 Hurry? Did you speak?
 It would have taken fire en- zine to get through those crowds and then there would have been wholesale funerals.
 A raft of Athletic club men had been losing rest for week arrang- ing for the big-time at their home, and the decorations were radiant having required lot of physical, acrobatie stunts to place more than 1000 colorful streamers at the top of the ceiling, draw them to the uttermost corners of the room and drape them tenderly over the orchestra.
 It was lots of fun to see the same folk at the five dancing halls try ing out the floors, and finally de- ciding which was the l ast crowded and staying there as tenaciously as if they had discovered their mecca of happiness at last.
 An awfully pretty girl l saw at the Athletic club, as well as at the Southern club, was Miss Inez Thames, most popular with all the chaps and the younger crowd of girls.
 Herbert Cobbs-is there a more delightful person in this wn?- received regular Shrine ovations. He was waved at, yelled to, sa- laamed, saluted, given the high sign of the hot sands, and otherwise treated to the well-deserved adula tion due a popular noble in the ranks, and a poor sufferer who has labored long and faithfully to make the Shrine circus pay like that of Swinging Brothers-ez.
 He is blessed with the ready word-and l think l can say, with out fear of contradiction, that he delivers the best line of Italian dialect in either Birmingham or Bessemer-and I'll risk Ensley and Pratt City, too. Of course, l bar natives.
 Popular men also who helped to arrange for the dances were MT. Wilson Harris and MT. Russell Bean. They did themselves proud as chairmen, respectively, of the balls at the Southern and the Ath- letic clubs.
 Not only did the guests storm the Tutwiler ballroom, but they danced on the balcony dining floor as well, where the startling center of interest was lighted emblem of the Shrine.
 At the Southern club, remark able decorative effect was produced by revolving mirrors which cast colorful drifts and flecks of light upon the dancers and upon the sus- pended streamers emphasizing the colors of Masonry.
 The Hillman also attracted it's throngs of merrymakers, until, by the time the revelers had made all rounds, each looked like a young carnival by himself, One girl 1 saw was loaded down with 15 ia vors-representing "scalps," I judged, for she was pretty enough and the various colors made her look like regular Carmen, the clacking music of which was played with jazzy effect during the danc- ing program.
 Coteries of young girls invited to the parties were provided by com mittees with badges of bright red with the gay invitation, Let s Dance," upon them. This so that the visiting men might feel that they were not neglected, even though strangers in the town.
 After the first dance, stranger vas introduced prodigally to every body his partner knew.
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