The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-08
NEW ROTARY OFFICERS

NEW ROTARY OFFICERS
Installation of officers of the Ro-
tary club will take place this week
which is the beginning Of the fis-
cal year. This will take place at the
Thursday luncheon, at which time
there will also be a program carried
out in celebration OF the city
thirty-sixth birthday anniversary.
TO HAVE CHAUTAUQUA
Alliance, Oak Grove and Johns have
combined in securing the Radcliffe
chautaqua, feat that larger towns
could have ample cause to boast of.
The chautauqua is always beneficial
to a town because of it's clean and
wholesome entertainment.
The Canvas temple of JOY
and inspiration" will be at Oak Grove
for three days, April II. IS, 10. The
program will consist of high class
vaudeville. fine music and the in
teresting educational lectures which
the chautauqua always includes in
its program. There will be orches-
cornet solos and the entire gamut of
musical rendition. The lecturers are
men of great personality ard are
thoroughly familiar with their sub
jects. Adult tickets will cost So for
the whole entertainment; children S
season tickets will be 81. There will
also be a baseball game between AL
lance and Oak Grove.
DE MOLAY MINsTRELs
A special feature is to be intro
duced. in the way of a Minstrel
Flrst-Part, in the De Molay Ministries
to be staged at the Bessemer High
school auditorium, April IL and l3.
The orenng viii be named the
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hearsal" and will be different from
the usual way of opening. The pro
gram for the first part is: Opening
chorus. open Your Arms My Ala
bamy.' Just Little Blue Caro-
lima Home" Crying for You" and
foot, loot, Tootsie, Goodby;" jokes
by Charles Ray; song, "Aggravatin'
Papa" Evans Smithson and chorus;
jokes by Fred Handy; song. Our
Yesterdays" Paul Sullivan: jokes by
John Granger; song, You've Got to
See Mama Every Night" Dago ALL
red and chorus; jokes by Dago ALI
red; song, "Who Cares" Millard
Deason and chorus; jokes by Earnest
Hasty; song, Sweet Little Woman
o Mine" Wllbert Golson; jokes by
Evans Smithson; song, shes a Mean
job" Lfllard Mcneil and chorus
jokes by Lillard Mcneil; song, For
the Sake of Aud Lang Syne," Joe
Dennis and quartet; jokes by Country
johnson. This part will close with
the singing of the Grand Finale.
AS specialties. rom Winburne. well
known as comedian in Bessemer
and a star end man with the Besse-
mer Shrine Minstrel. will be heard in
a monologue. The De Molay quartet
will also render a few numbers.
The show will close with a negro
SIX etch entitled "The Coontown Thir-
teen Club" The complications that
arise from the workings of the
RULES" and Determinations" of this
club are very funny and full of the
negro characteristics and dialect.
We would like to call the attention
OF the Bessemer public to the fact
that every single person taking part
in the minstrel is a Dc Molay with
the exception Of Mr.. Winburne. Also
the minstrel Is being staged and di-
rected by DeMolay.
DESIGNER FOLLIEs
What promises to be one of the
most enjoyable of entertainments
ever given at the high school audi
forum is the "Bessemer Follies" on
April 20 and "a, to be staged under
the professional supervision of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Casmus.
The "Follies" will be divided into
two parts. The first half will be on
the order of a minstrel. only there
will be some of Bessemer's most
beautiful girls and talented young
men instead q blackface comedians.
This part is expected to be very sue
cessful with its attractive costumes
and popular music. The other part
Will he clever comedy entitled
'"Who's Dooley?" Many humorous
situations and strange complications
Dat t1,N a y
divisions of the show there Will be
several specialties. Among them VIII
he Mrs. Charles Casmus and Miss
Marian Neal. who will sing. and Mr..
Percy Rosenberger Of Birmingham.
who is one of the best comedians IN
the district.
The Business women's club Of Bes-
semer is giving the entertainment
and the money derived will be used
for a community enterprise.
BICYCLE RACES
The Bessemer Bicycle club will
have an important part in the cele-
brations which will attend Besse--
mer's thirty sixth birthday; Some OF
tho most interesting and exciting
events of the day promise to be fur
nished by this live-wire organization.
Everyone who owns n bicycle is in
vited to enter the bicycle events.
At o'clock there will be a BIZ
cycle parade from Jap Bryant's store
on Nineteenth street. The procession
will ride to First avenue. then down
First to Twentieth street. 1t will
go down Twentieth street to Fifth
avenue and then up Nineteenth. end
ing where 1t started. Directly after
the parade the races will begin
There arc to be seven contests. with
two prizes for each contest.
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girls races. a fast and a slow con-
test for girls from years up a
small girls race for youngsters be-
tween Z and a small boys race of
the same ages; fast race for boys of
all ages; a slow race for boys of all
ages, and last an open race for ne
groes.
The club had a good meeting Fri
day night with almost full attend
ance. 1t was decided to meet at
Bryant's store Sunday afternoon at 2
o'clock and to ride to Indian cave.
MRS. HULsEY ENTERTAINs
The members of the Woodward
Bridge club were entertained yester-
day by Mrs w. II. Hulsey. The af-
fair was unique in that all the ia
vors and the prizes were articles
hand painted by Mrs. Hulsey, who is
quite talented in that way.
The prizes were won by Mrs. Harry
Jones and Mr.. Herbert Smith. A
salad and ice course was served to
four tables of players. Two new
members were elected. Mrs. j. c..
Hame1 and Mrs. j. FL Geise. The
guests other than the members were
Mrs. 7. J. McCullom and Mrs. Helen
1rby.
BANQUET
on Thursday evening. May "a. a
mother and daughter banquet will be
held at the high school lunch room.
There will be a fine inspirational
program and planning for the sum.