The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
Drama League Program Leading Social EUent of Last w k

The beautiful new Sunday school room of the Independent Presby- terian church was filled Thsurday afternoon with capacity audience when the Drama League presented varied program. The entertainment .as the last to be given by local talent this year.
 The stage. with it's palms, floor lamps and handsome curtains formed an Ideal setting both in size and ap pointments for a little theatre pro- duction.
 Mrs. Henry Upson Sims, president of the Drama league, made the open ing announcements. introducing first Mrs. Ralph Barrow in a dramatic reading. The Son of Cod Mrs. Bar rows voice, always ciear and appeal ing, made this superb poem of Miss Louise Driscoll seem to live again, and for her audience no less than for the singing priestV did God lift the shade to let us see into the work shop where glory Is made"
 Coming as representatives of the Music Study club,& Mrs. Houston Davis. as accompSnist, and Miss Elm to charming numbers: T Pitched My Caravan at Night" and "A Chinese Lcve Song.
 The play of the afternoon was "A Bill of Divorcement,' presented un- der the direction of Mrs. Murray Brown, assisted by Misses Letitia McNeel and Margaret Builder, Mrs. Edmund Armes and Mir. Tom Dun ham, MT. Hubert Smith and MT. Bowen ogden.
 This play. only the first act of which was given by the local cast. is a drama in three acts. written by Clemence Dane, an English actress Her play was the feature of the 1920-21 season in London, and was presented first in New York on the evening of October 10. 1921. It Is in- teresting to know that for three weeks the play languished, then all most overnight a change took place A new firm of managers took charge, people flocked to the box office to buy seats. "A Bill of Dlvorcement was moved from the Cohen theatre to the Times Square. and for the next several months 1t was the great est kind of success.
 The play was written by Miss Dane at a time when a divorce bill was under discussion which was intended to make such changes in the exist ing English laws as seemed neces- ary to correct current abuses, many of them growing out of the hasty war marriages. She asks her audi ence therefore to imagine that the divorce bill has become the law of the land, and sets the time Of the ac- tion of the play ahead to 1885.
 The opening scene takes place in the dining room of country house in England and the time is Christmas Day. Margaret Fairfield, part taken by Mrs. Murray Brown, Is beautiful woman of 35, whose hus- hand has for Is years been confined among the incurables in a sanitarium for the insane. A divorce having been granted under the new laws Of England she is preparing to be mar ried in a week to a wealthy neigh Dor, Gray Meredith, impersonated py Mir. Tom Dunham Her aunt-in-law, Miss Hester Fairfield, opposes the marriage: she opposes also the meth cd of upbringing of the young IT. year-old daughter of Margaret, ana there occur frequent tits between the hish-minded, elderly aunt in black. and the vivacious, modern young Sydney. The two parts are taken bv Mrs Edmund Armes ana Miss Letitia McNeel.
 While the mother and her prospec, tive husband are at church, word comes to young Sydney that her father is entirely cured, and that he has escaped from the hospital. Her own sweetheart, Kit, part well played by MT. Rowen Ogden, IS sent away, and she meets her father Hilary Fairfield-Mr. Hubert smith when he reaches his old home, and