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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
ROBERT SCHMITZ PIANIST TO TEACH AT CONSERVATORY

E. Robert Schmitz, noted pianist, has been engaged to teach in the Birming- ham Conservatory of Music in April. MT. Schmitz is one of the few artists who is equally great as teacher. Most of his work along this line has been done in America, but his reputation is growing constantly. He is the chief rep resentative of the younger school of pianists and the authoritative interpreter of the ultra-modern compositions, espe- cially of the French school. He has known intimately all of the prominent musicians of France for the past fif- teen years, among them w. c. Debussy, Ravel, Aubert. Dubois, Dukas, Faure, Florent Schmitt, DIndy, Jean De Reszke, Saint-Saens and many others.
 Besides private lessons, Mir. Schmitz will hold technique classes and will also give several lecture recitals. He makes a speciality of the technical problems of modern and ultra modern compositions. He has also had much experience in giving lecture recitals.
 His visit to this city promises to be of great interest to all serious students of music.
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the Axis club Monday, December p, entertaining for her young daughter, Miss Katherine Grubb, who is home for the season to be with her parents.
 The annual Christmas dances to the members will be given by the Country club the evening of Thursday December 20.
 Miss Martha Morrow, the talented young daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. l.. Morrow will be queen of the ball to be given by the members of the Rambiers club the evening of December p at Cascade Plunge. Miss Morrow will lead the dance with the club president, Mir. Frank Mccormack.
 Miss Mary Rushton's dance will be given Christmas Eve at the home of her parents MT. and Mrs. J. Frank Rushton on Cliff Road.
 Miss Alberta Bush the young daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Albert Bush, will be the inspiration for a bridge tea to be given the afternoon of December g by her grandmother, Mrs. T. C.. Bush at the Axis club.
 This will be one of the many de- lightful functions to be given at the new Axis club auditorium. Misses Jane Settle and Marli Estes will enter tain jointly with home dance the evening of December "A.
 Miss Madaline Jacobs will be hon cree at an afternoon tea to be given at the Axis club by Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt December 24. This will include the members of the society set.
 The afternoon of December 25 Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt will give another tea at the Axis club.
 Mrs. Angus Taylor will entertain twelve young friends of her son Will ham at the Axis club the afternoon of December 26. The hospitality to in clude twelve of the honorees friends.
 Miss Dorothy Watkins will give a tea Friday afternoon December 26, at her home.
 Miss Laura Fowlkes will spend the holidays with her grandmother, Mrs. W. s. Brown will entertain the after noon of the twenty-seventh at the home of Mrs. Brown on Highland avenue.
 Miss Dorothy Thomas will give tea the afternoon of Thursday, December 2Bth. The same evening Miss Mildred Duncan will entertain with a dance.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Leedy will be hosts the evening of the 26 at the Country club.
 Miss Alice Oden will give a dance the twenty
 Martha Riley Selman will entertain with a tea.
 Miss Anna Dunlap will be hostess at tea.
 Mrs. Powell Noland will entertain for Miss Margaret Oliver Saturday evening, December p at the Country club.
 Miss Katherine Conner, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Donald Conner will be the honoree of a dinner the evening of December 27, when Mir. and Mrs. Her bert c. Rydang will entertain the mem bers of the young college set at the Country club.
 The Kalpa club will entertain with their annual dance Monday even ing, December %, at Cascade Plunge. The same evening the Cornell Musical clubs will present a delightful pro
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Observe State Birthday With
 Program

Alabama's birthday, December IA, has been celebrated the past week by the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion and other organizations who have given special programs for its observ- ance.
 Mrs. Idyll Sorsby King of Birming- ham originated the idea of Alabama Day." and throughout the state it is generally observed. In New York City an active organization is the society of the Daughters of Alabama of which Mrs. William La Baron Sands, for mer Mobile girl, is the president. The society was organized about four years ago in New York City by Mrs. Ed ward T. Herbert formerly Sara Foote Kennedy of Mobile.
 At big U. D. c. meeting the Ala bama women naturally formed q con- genial group and it was then that Mrs. Herbert and Mrs. Sands talked over the idea of organizing an Alabama club, which was promptly done.
 The society now has about 125 mem bers (including husbands), Mrs. Sands is anxious for the people back home to know that it is a serious, earnest or ganization doing real educational and philanthropic work and belongs to the city and state federation of women's clubs as well as to the congress of states. January s the congress of states will have big luncheon at the Pennsyl- vania hotel, when Alabama will play a conspicuous part. She has already written to different places in Ala bama for homegrown products to be served at the luncheon. Lucy Feagin of Union Springs who has achieved real success as a reader and teacher of dramatics here, is to be the elocution- ist for the occasion.
 Last year, when the congress of states had the annual luncheon the Ala bama women had secured moss and evergreens from home to decorate their table. When the orchestra began play ing Dixie in compliment to the south ern women, out hops a grasshopper from the moss, and fairly dances up and down the long table, while the audience laughed expectations of the Alabama grasshoppers enthusiasm.
 Besides sending an ex-soldier to the tuberculosis sanitarium at Birmingham, donating a COW to an orphans home in New York and various other worth while activities, the Daughters of Ala bama have recently voted to honor Gen. Robert E. Lee Bullard, who is re- tiring on January 14 from the United States army. Their honor-gift to him will take the form of a donation to his Alma Mater, at Auburn, which a most appropriate and gracious thing for them to do. These same women gave the first educational Gorgas memo rial scholarship to Chautauqua.
 They give benefit card parties, sell home made cake and raise money in all the well-known methods used by women in Alabama and perhaps every other state in the union.
 The last monthly meeting was held on December 7 at the home of Mrs. J. Norman, Boorks, of Birmingham and
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GRAY.KENNEDY WEDDING SOLEMNIZED

A lovely nuptial event occurred We'd nesday evening, November 26, when Miss Myrtle Mae Kennedy became the bride of MT. Charles B. Cray of Mo bile. The ceremony took place at the home of the brides parents, Mir. and Mrs. M. M. Kennedy, with Rev. w. K. Faust of the East Lake Methodist church officiating.
 An improvised alter was banked with white chrysanthemums, ferns and palms, with soft lights from white tapers in brass candelabra shining through.
 The first to enter was little Miss Evelyn Stringfellow, niece of the bride, dressed in golden brown velvet, who carried the ring on a white satin cushion. Next to enter was the maid of honor, Miss Margaret Douglass, wearing a smoke blue charmeuse satin and carrying an arm bouquet of sunset roses tied with tulle.
 The bride, who was given in mar riage by her father, met the groom and his best man, Mr. Bert Simpson, at the alter. She was lovely in a navy chiffon mingtoy gown with trimmings of smoke blue chiffon mingtoy. A shower of brides roses and lilies of the valley composed the wedding bou- quet.
 Policing the ceremony an informal reception was held for the wedding par ty, relatives and one hundred close friends, Misses Mildred Douglass, Elm fly Buchi, Kate Burks, Mildred Fra zier attending.
 Mir. and Mrs. Cray are now at home to their many friends at 7314 Berney.
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Mss. onc7vFpE.
ChristmasWeek TOBe FuuOf
 Interest

Another Christmas with its tradi- tions for good living and good cheer and it's widespread tradition synony- nous with the college sports has rolled around. Christmas week promises to be full of diversity of interest quite beyond the endurance of any one per son to attend.
 On the day itself society will be much divided institution with large numbers attending matinees, picture shows, and others on hunting trips to country places generally for over the day and in some cases for the en- tire week.
 There will be supper dances, teas, bridge parties, and other festivities and while the school set home from college are dancing and dining to their hearts content leaders in society-which car ries distinction-are not only busy with their entertainment but with so many other things that it takes little journeys about town to keep up with them all.
 As the Christmas season advances ones thoughts turn to the number of Birmingham girls attending school and colleges who are breathlessly antici- pating the gaities of a joyous Christ mas at home and whose return we are avidly looking forward to.
 OGONTZ SCHOOL IN NEW YORK
 A group of girls will reach home about the twentieth of December. They Oliver, Mary Shook, Luck Eastwood and Josephine Conner.
 From Spence school, Misses Una Webster, Susan Shook, Emily Ash Smith are coming from Holton Arms, in Washington.
 Returning from Vassar will be Miss Ruth Mcclellan, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Lenoir Dryer, Mildred and Helen Hamrick, Thomas McClel- Ian. Misses Margaret Jemison, Lenoir Dyer, Mildred and Helen Hamrick and Fife Davis will come from Converse.
 Louise Dabney Harrison, Margaret Oliver from Boucher.
 Elizabeth Ferry and Elizabeth Rush ton will come from Rollins.
 Miss Matilda the daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Hood, a student at Rice in Houston, will arrive this week.
 Misses Hulda McNeil and Eugenia Thompson will come on December 8 from Agnes Scott.
 Mary Claire Milner will be at home the twentieth from National Cathe- dral school as will Miss Lura Fowlkes who with her mother, Mrs. Henry Knowles, is spending the winter in Washington. She will spend the Christmas holidays with her grand mother, Mrs. w. s. Brown.
 Miss Gustrine Miner from the Uni versity of Alabama, with her will be Misses Mary Griffin Johns, Merle Mar tin and Elizabeth Brown.
 Miss Margaret Hundley is arriving from Notre Dame at Baltimore. Mar garet Miller, Katherine Grubb and Alexandria London and Katherine Conner from Smiths.
 Misses Augusta Mason and Anna
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UNIVERSITY WOMEN TO HEAR MISS LINDSAY

The Birmingham chapter of the Amer ican Association of University Women will have as it's guest, Miss Maud Lind say of Sheffield, on Thursday, December 19, at 8 80 in the Blue Triangle club rooms. Miss Lindsay is Alabama's best known writer for children. During the afternoon she will tell her own stories for the members of the club and their children. The hostesses for the meeting are Mrs. Frank Clarke, Mrs. James A. Downey, Jr., Mrs. T. A. Mcfarland, Mrs. Kate Stockham and Mrs. B. w. Finch.
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HRS S.B. FEES3o
Miss Mary Louise McTyere pretty member ot thef

} Miss Morv Louise McTyere ls pretty member 0t the 'younger set.
 Mss Helen Ror is the daughter o Mr. aud Mrs. H B. Ror She recenu served os sponsor the football team of Phillips High school. - Mrs. A. l. Boorse charming notron and her lovely stte dnuoher Evel2n Bad are deqhfM members of society They naGke ther home the Rhodes Court apartments Mrs. s. B. Reese recently left 0ith Mr. Reese tor Mlon~ FVa. to make their future home.
 Miss Glodys Whotlmgton is tue daughter ot Mrs. H. E Vhagtom, who spent tue summer m Ne0 York City st~d ing Gt Columbia university.
 -Photos bv Knox
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IMPS CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS

At the last meeting of the Imps club, Saturday evening, December 6, the fol- lowing officers were elected:
 Sam Lature, president; Ed Foster, vice president; J. B. Merrill, treasurer ; Raymond Cox. secretary.
 Roy Harris, George Gregory, Sam Lature, council representatives.
 Luke Johnson, social secretary.
 Other members of the club are:
 Messrs. Harry Jones, Harrell Jett, Robert $. Smith, Carl Crimson, Claude Boykin, Ham Perkins, Jerry Thomas, Hugh Blackwell, Hugh Morgan and R. G. Mcclure.
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MT. and Mrs. Henry Blair of Wau- kasha, Wis, are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Nelson Snow, and will be their guest until ofter the holidays. Mrs Snow and her mother, Mrs. c. E. Bigsby will give a tea Tuesday after noon at the home of Mrs. Snow for which invitations have already been ex- tended. This will be a courtesy for Mrs. Blair.
 Mrs. Hampton Smith and three charmingf daughters will be at home Tuesday afternoon at their home on Miner Crescent entertaining with tea.
 Miss Sarah Dewberry will be a host ess at tea Wednesday afternoon.
 Mrs. James Keith will be at home Wednesday, complimenting Mrs. w. F. Rison of New York, who is the guest of her sister Mrs. J. R. McGavock.
 MT. and Mrs. Horace Hammond have extended invitations to buffet supper the evening of December Is at their home on Cliff Road.
 The Rompers club will give a holiday dance the evening of Friday, December 19, the place of the entertainment to be announced later. The invitations have been extended to the members of the Council Of Clubs which includes about two hundred members of the young society set.
 Miss Martha Henderson will enter tain the evening of December 19 with dance at her home.
 Miss Katherine Leeper, bud of the winter will be introduced at tea fol- lowed by buffet supper the afternoon and evening of December 19, at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Chas. Lecper. She will share honors on this occasion with Miss Madeline Jacobs the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Solon Jacobs, who is spending her first win ter at home after receiving her degree in the spring at Smiths College.
 Interest centers in the marriage of Miss Theresa Corey the daughter of MT. and Mrs. .Chappell Cory to MT. Hudson Strode, which will be solemn ized the evening of December 20 at the Wilson Chapel at Roebuck. She will be attended by Miss Hope McMillan the groom's sister, as maid of honor.
 Miss Ethlyn Bearden will entertain with a dance at her home Saturday evening, December 20.
 Miss Elizabeth Boatwright will give a tea the afternoon of December 20 at the home of her parents on Highland Avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Smith will give an informal dinner at their home.
 Miss Imma Stovall will give tea in the afternoon.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry U. Sims will entertain with buffet supper at their home the evening of December 20, com plimenting Miss Louise Upson of Athens, Ga., who will arrive this week to be their guest.
 The evening of December 9 MT. and Mrs. W. G. Oliver will introduce their debutante daughter, Miss Bingham Oliver at a dance at the Country club.
 Miss Dale Warren will give a dance the same evening at the home of her parents on Cliff road the guests to be confined to the members of the younger college contingent.
 Mrs. W. l. Grubb will be hostess at
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LITTLE-CAHOON INVITATIONS ISSUED

The following invitations have been received by friends in Birmingham and elsewhere:
 Mir. and Mrs. William Henry Cahoon request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Jose phine, to Mir. John Hester Little on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of Decem- Der, Nineteen hundred and twenty-four. at s 30 o'clock in f > evening at 1925 Seventeenth avenue, south, Birmingham, Alabama.
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DIR. AND MRS. JONES
 TO HONOR MISS STOKES

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur Jones are entertaining with dance Monday evening, December p, at their home on their niece, Miss Adele Stokes. who is spending a few days of her Christmas holidays enroute to ner home in Louis vile, Ky, from Gulfpark college at !, Gulfport, Miss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
MISS FOWLKES TO BE HOSTESS

Miss Lura Fowlkes, the daughter of Mrs. Henry Fowlkes, who has been mak- ing her home in Washington, D. O., with her mother and attending school will arrive soon to be the Christmas guest of her grandmother, Mrs. W. S. Brown. Miss Fowlkes will entertain informally Saturday afternoon, Decem- Der 27, at the home of Mrs. Brown on Highland avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
MRS A.L.BOORSG AND DAUGHTER
 EVELYN BTR0r
Calendar Becomes Crowded As Society Completes
 Christmas Plans

WY Thanksgiving just completed society in w of Christmas planning As the day draws
 excellent for the calendar becomes more a
 the brief allotted to a their studies
 Married sons and daughters schoomaes share honors at their functio
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
RAIN HITS BALL
CLUBS in EAST
Chicago White SOx Are Out In
Front By Winning Friday

NEW YORK, April 1s.-All outdoor
sports in the east except the race pro-
gram at Havre De Grace, Nd, where
the hores siam. theiE sprfnts throug
soupy mud. were cancelled on Good
FFiday because of moist weather. The
entire days schedule Of the. Interna.-
tional league was called off and the
four major league games cast for the
eastern section of the land were set
back to fairer days In the season.
Those western ball clubs which had
their day OF idleness Thursday because
Of rain resumed play, however. In De-
troit, iris Speakers Cleveland Indians
won their first game in three starts
against the Tigers, hauling the Tigers
out of the lead. The score was to 8.
The White Sox won again from the
Browns in Chicago, 5 to /, which gives
the Sox a score OF three games won
and one lost thus far.
The third game of the series between
the Pirates and Reds In Cincinnati went
to the Reds, who have now won two
and lost one. But the important thing,
to the Reds, was The fact that Carl
Mays, discarded by the New York Yam
KEGS and ignored as worthless has
been by all the other American league
clubs, got another chance in the uni
form of the Cincinnati team and helped
to hold the Pirates to a score of s to @.
The Reds made seven errors. Jake May,
the moot recruit from Vernon of the
Coast league, also worked for the Reds.
The Cubs beat the Cardinals, s. to 8,
in st. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
JAILED
BY COAST POLICE
Manager OF Dempsey,
Drunk, Loses SIS And
Has Headache

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 1s.--Aside
from bit of headache and the loss OF
$25 In fine money, Jack Kearns, man
ager of Jack Dempsey, Is in good humor
after a hectic day spent in the city jail
and courtroom, in which he displayed
a consistently charming naivete.
The genial Kearns was arrested early
in the morning when. in the company
Of a party of friends, among whom
was Bill Russell, motion picture actor,
he was found intoxicated in an auto
mobile on one of the downtown streets.
Kearns pleaded guilty to a charge of
drunkenness. shook hands with the
Judge congratulated newspaper photog-
raphers on their enterprise, and went
home In high good numor.
81 never took drink in my life-ex-
cept liquor" Kearns said blandly at the
police station. "You know how hot 1t
Is, boys. We have all been on parties
like this; you. myself and everyone
else. @ az
81 was at the Alexandria hotel last
night when In walked Bill Russell, the
motion picture actor, and whole gang.
They had a big car outside and nat
urally Joined the party. we had nice
evening and were sitting in. the car
down on the street about breakfast
time when this copper comes up.
1.-THE bull fished big bottle Of
and began to razz us about 1t. said
to him, go on, be sport. Take drunk
and put the. bottle back
"But he got insulting and says to me:
Come on, you're drunk. Jail for YOU
And here am. That's my story,
and I'll stick to IL. Believe me, I've
been In better jails than this"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
AGGIES LOSE TO
ALABAMA RATS
Crimson Frosh Score In Every
Inning But The Fourth

UNIVERSITY, Ala. April 1S.-Nu
merous errors. mixed with Alabama
hits. accounted for a Is to 5 local vic
tory over the Mississippi A. and NJ.
Freshmen Friday. Alabama Rats scored
in every inning except the fourth to
aggregate the Is tallies. Long pitched
we'll and helped himself along with two
three-base hits. Hutto and Chadwick
also made two hits each.
A. and NJ. made seven errors. which
contributed greatly. to her defeat None
Of the pitchers used in the game showed
much control, nine men being walked,
two wild pitches and two hit batsnien.
Stewart looked the best In all depart
ments for A. and M at second base.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
Miss A. & M. Freshs.001 COZ 0O2-5 6 7
Ala. Freshmen -. 1872 022 23x-15 IL 8
Batteries - Perry Thompson and
Meek, Hill; Long and Chambers, Gold
stein.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
BIRMINGHAM Is
SECOND IN Line
New Orleans And Mem
phis Fall Behind In At
tendance Figures

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 1S.-NAtlanta
with an attendance record of 14,216
won the 1924 trophy given by John d
Martin, president of the Southern as.
ISOLATION, for the largest Opening day
attendance In the Atlanta Memphis
mingham- New Orleans division Of the
league.
Attendance records for the opening
days in the four cities, reported to-
night. show the following Atlanta
1925; Birmingham, 9814; New Or
leans, 7,700, and Memphis, 1915.
Mobile won the cup awarded by Mr.
Martin to the club recording the larg.
est attendance in that division.
Atlanta and Mobile were the winners
in the contest last season.
Figures compiled here tonight show
that the total opening day attendance
for the eight cities OF the Southern as.
ISOLATION was 66,452. as compared with
a total of 65,415 last year.
The comparative. figures for the two
years follow: M
1924 =. Atlanta. 14,216; Birmingham
1914; New orlenas, 100; Memphis
1888; Mobile, s,245; Nashville, $500;
Little Rock, 6,026; Chattanooga, 4,o46
192S-Atlanta, 1904; New Orleans
1924; Birmingham, 9.066; Memphis
s,521; Mobile, s,308; Little Rock, $40:
Nashville, 4,905; Chattanooga, 3,720.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
NEW YORK to-
SEE SLATIERY

NEW YORK, April 1s.--Jinamy Stat
terry, the dockside devastation, who al
most destroyed Young Stribling's repu-
tation and fair looks IN a six-round
fight at Buffalo few weeks ago, will
let fall his bathrobe for the first time
in New York when he meets a light
heavyweight named Jack Lynch In the
Greensboro stadium on the Same card
with Harry Wills and BARLEY Madden.
The fights are on the program Of
May ~.
Slattery had never been heard of out
side his own precinct until Pa and Ma
Stribling, carpet-bagging through the
minor league cities with their talented
son, accepted battle with Stats, be-
lieving he was just another novice.
Slattery gave Stribllng a vigorous
smashing and had him on the verge Of
knockout at the end Of the sixth and
final round.
Lynch came all the way from
Phoenix, Ariz., to let Slattery work
on him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
SEMI-FINAL OF
TENNIS TOURNEY
Mrs. Briggs And Miss Bancroft
Winners In WOmen's Play

PINEHURST, N. c., April 1s.--Mrs.
Benjamin r. Briggs of New York and
Miss Leslie Bancroft, the olympic team
alternate, won their semi-final round
matches in the women's doubles Of the
North and South lawn tennis tourna-
ment here today by defeating Mrs. H.
Stuart Green Of New York and Miss
Isabella Mumford OF Boston, 3-6.
SIS, 6--2
Saturday morning they will play Mrs.
Theodore Sohst of New York and Miss
Martha Bayard Of Short Hills, N. j.,
for the championship.
The title match between s. Howard
Vosheli, Brooklyn and G. Carlton
Shafer Of Philadelphia In the mems
singles went two sets and then was
postponed until Saturday on account Of
rain and darkness.
The score was in VosheIl'sy favor.
Rain prevented play in the women's
singles finals today and this match
will be played Saturday with Miss Mar
tina Bayard, Short Hills, ~ J.. and Miss
Leslie Bancroft, Boston, both ranked
among the first ten women players
of the country contesting for h6nors.
Mrs. Briggs and voshen defeated Miss
Bayard and Josiah Wheelwrakht, Bos-
ton, in the finals OF the mixed doubles
this morning, 6-3 as, g. "a