The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
FiUe Brilliant Dances All In One Night Last Week

Seemed that most everybody In town went down to attend the dances the shriners put on as the five -cornered star event of the past week,
 Packed and damned happiness was the keynote of the events. and not q word of complaint from old or young alike of being tired, even when the o'clock hour sounded and the orchestra at tho Southern club left to rush off and sleep a while so that when they got back home to Georgia CT Tennessee no one would pick them as insomnia patients.
 Everywhere you turned there were potentates and nobles and high mucky- -mucks in the Shrine and Scottish Rite bodies. until 1t kept you fussed up to know what you should do to make them feel at home.
 Sometimes you'd decide that sa- naming was proper--or maybe the old-fashioned knee duck-and about the time you made up your mind to try them, you'd begin considering If something else wasn't better. so that when one was suddenly led to your presence it was such an unexpected descent that you stammered How dv. bo," or "Ain't it a pretty night3' before the heavy salutatlons could get to working.
 Everybody PrcSent.
 Nicest thing about the dances was that not Just the younger set, or the cider set, CT the medium crowd was there
 It was old and young alike-with Jaamma and papa and all the wom- enkind and men folks of the family except the children and school kids
 And they stayed up. too, we'll have you know; and we loved to see how the old-timers swung into the waltzcs with q touch now and then 5of the courtly. which is so attractive in these days when most folks dance SD close 10 one another that archl- teets don't have to make the ball rooms large any more.
 Five couples can now be accommo- dated in the space it used to take the old courtiers to swing their la dies just once in the quadrille.
 Still there's one thing If you . have anything 10 say to your part ner. he can hear you the first time. There were probably ct the dances as many as four thousand guests and mighty pretty clothes. The gar ments of the Shriners-some of whom wore flaming, desert regalia made the floors very festal in ap- pearance. And everybody had a good time, when, at the Tutwiler' inc favors for the pretty dances ; were pitched by generous gentlemen 5 who tried not to overlook any of the bunch.
 Crowds Masscd. There was a time once, near mid night, at the Tutwiler, when crowus were so massed that dancin- oe- came practically impossible on the floor. and the scene was one Tn which the guests walked or wheeled slowly in circles. Blended with tho sounds of small whistles-the call of merry voices one to another as friends met or sighted one another afar-and laughter of pretty girls. The five places the dances were put on were the Tutwilsr hotel where both the ballroom and the mezzanine dining balcony were used i; the Athletic club, the Southern club and the Hillman hotel.
 At the Athletic club Russell Bean was chairman, and through his CT forts the club was regular little oasis Of joy, housed in and made gay with slashes Of crepe paper or green and red and yellow which looked exactly as if they had been clipped out of a rainbow which had drifted too close to earth.
 The effect was lovely-and the men had made things so attractive for their guests that some of the couples stayed al the club all the evening and did not go anywhere else. The floor was good and the music excellent. and while the job was hard one, news arrived that NIr. Bean took good care 10 see thav everybody had q good time.
 over at the Southern club. wilson Harris was chairman for the ball. If you were there, you must nave liked the colorful spots of light, Ike drifting snowflakes, that shimmered across the floor and played hiae anu seek along the ceiling.
 The sehame here-where dancing was continued longer than at any Of the other assembling spots-was that of d Persian tent; and even when the sun began to send wore fasf express. the Arabs present were