The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-11
AXIS CLUB OUT TO
 BUILD BIG AUDITORIUM

Thrilling lndeeo IS Ine news ol the week!
 Society and clubwomen of thls town-members of the Axis club, to be exact-may very shortly be- gin to build an auditorium of their own!
 If they accomplish it-and up to now they have never yet failed on the magnificent plans they have set themselves to do-it will be time for a jamboree in this torrid zone of hopelessly jumbled now you-get-it and now-you-don't city auditorium scandals.
 If the ladies can put the project over, it means for them that the Axis club will not any more need to be pushed from pillar to post to find meeting place.
 The necessity for wearing out telephones or getting on their heels and seeking hotels or auditoriums where their monthly luncheons can be held-and half the time not being able to get accommodations will be what you might call to- tally obliterated.
 Will Benefit Others
 In addition, they'll be able to throw open their doors and extend wide sisterly hand to various other organizations they now bump into rounding the corners as thelr members also go distressedly seek ing dining room or place to give entertainments "their own selves"
 Therefore, the news is bound to create general rejoicing among the city's clubs, the members of which have always been deeply in- terested and deeply sympathetic with the big departmental organiza- tion.
 The building plan is this:
 Each member of the Axis club is being asked to do two things by April 1.
 Upon her action, an auditorium or no auditorium will depend.
 She is requested either to buy $2O worth of stock; to donate $20 to the club, or to raise SEQ in any way she sees fit.
 Secondly. she is asked to bring one new member into the club.
 If every person enrolled in the organization will do this, then all present indebtedness on the clubs S25,000 building will be paid off. The members can then mortgage the property and enter into a work able insurance plan by which they can get the funds to erect the as- sembly hall.
 The proposed insurance scheme has been successfully adopted by Atlanta club women who have but recently opened their S110,000 au ditorium in that up-and-doing city, which, in a number of ways, is regular New York, Jr.
 The new Axis edifice would be extremely attractive as well as serviceable. It would not be an ad- dition "tacked on" to the present structure, but the first regular unit of the commodious club house which the members have planned to own in future seasons. The unit would be fireproof, including not only the needed auditorium but banquet hall.
 Modern kitchens would flank this grill so that the club could take care of it's own luncheon par ties each month anc those of other organizations.
 At the last conclave of the Ak ians, 450 women were present. and the only place the club could obtain to meet was the balcony dining room of the Tutwiler. Here because of the lack of enclosing walls, the noise was so great the membership was unable to hear it's speakers And right now the club is seeking madly place for its coming luncheon assemblage.
 The structure planned would be of brick, it's auditorium to hold 1000 persons. Estimated cost is S40,000, and it would be built at the rear of the organizations prop erty at 1919 Eighth avenue.
 Mrs Angus Taylor, lovely and beloved president of the club, said that multigraphed letters have gone out to all members asking their inn mediate assistance in the money raising project. Their wonderful support to her during her term of office, she related, has been the inspiration for the auditorium plan.
 Each of the members-and the clubs board of directors-realizes the necessity of the structure.
 The regular board meeting is to be held this Tuesday when all plans will be fully perfected.
 Would Need Celebratoin'
 If hoped-for results are obtained, Mrs. Taylor said the Axians were bound to have a bonfire or some sort of celebration the last of April to mark their coming in sight of their own home stamping ground.'
 The present officers of the club are these splendid women: Mrs. Taylor, president; Mrs. Morris Newfield, first vice president; Hrs. Ed Rowe, second v,ce president; Mrs. w. I. Grubb, treasurer; Mrs. Willard Wheeler, recording secre-. tary. and Mrs. Karl Landgrebe, corresponding secretary.
 Other things agitating this mag nificent civic body are the forth coming April lectures of Prof. $. H. Clark, head of the department of expression in the University of Chicago. These will be at the lief ferson. All of the subjects are so famous, at least large number of us Birminghammers have heard of them: 'If Winter Comes" "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" "The Book of Job." "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Les Miserables."
 BIRMINGHAM GIRL OFF
 TO EXCITING PROM"