The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
? C ch Blossom Festival Or
 Interest

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 HHE Peach Blossom Festival. which
 is an annual event, taking place at 5 Fort Valley, Gas every spring, has be- Eeome far-famed for it's beauty. With ' thousands of peach trees in full bloom Has background a wonderful pagent is Mrs. George Bacon calpepp.r, IT,. of Fort Valley, beautiful young mstron, @will represent Alabama during the fes- @tiyal. Mrs. Culpepper is native of aAlabama and has many relatives in Bir- %mingham, Gadsden and Auburn who win @be interested in this honor conferred @on her. 2
 This is the third festival and elab- -orate plans have been made to enter @tain the 50.000 visitors who are ex- apected to witness this gorgeous event, which will take place March ?. The %following program will be given
 a. m.-Concerts. Al-Sihah Shrine .band, Fincher park Central Railroad zShop band, Railroad station.
 - $50 a. m.-Parade of floats and -decorated automobiles.
 10 a. m.-Exhibition flights, United
 States army airplanes (Interest Citizens
 Military Training camps).
 10 30 a. .>m.- Music features; street @exhibits; thrills.
 II &. m.--Address. "Reminiscences of -Military service,s Mai. Gen. David c. @Shanks, commander Fourth corps area, z @United States army.
 II 80 a. m.--Music, Twenty ninth . Infantry band Al-Sihah Shrine band i: 1Central Railroad Shop band.
 F m.-Old fashioned Georgia bar z becue. asrt
 l 50 p. m.-Pageant: Peach of the -World," Oakland Heights. Music by
 Twenty-ninth Infantry band.
 -MRs. WRIGHT GIVES
 -BEAUTIFUL CONCERT
 An experience new in musical an- V nals of Birmingham was offered music @loyers Tuesday night when the Bir- 2 mingham Conservatory of Music. pre- s@ sented Mrs. Beatrice Tate Wright, -pianist. in an aIl-Americans program : at Gable hall. ;. c It was the first time in the historS @of thistcity and, the entire south that aa strictly all-American program has been played by local artist and Mrs.
 Wright was we'll received by aglar9er @audience than that attending similar -program given in. Chicago last fall. Mrs. Wright is,,a young artist. of great @@promise and is probably the leading %young pianist of the south. Her pro 1gram was chosen from the works of Tsuch composers as Mcdowell, Critics, %Troyer, Fanny Dillon. Edna Gockel @Gussen, Burleigh, Beryl Rubinstein and SGuion. tf5
 ' She played MacDowelrs Sonata @Eroica" with remarkable interpretation, Rxrh hsnh, kusl lsnx aknr rlx,sn %Gussen's Dance of the Elves" isl a ~mosts delightful number, and the pro Mgram was happily concluded with EGuion's concert transcription of @"Tnrkey in the Straw" Q While the attendance was gratifying, Dit is not often that Birmingham has the Opportunity of hearing local artist in shueh a delightful program and all 4American programs are still rare oc- scasion. z American pianoforte music has come zint3 its own and on programs of the Future will divide honors with the @works of the old masters.
 Americanism can receive no better wdemonstration than by whole-hearted Npublic support of our own artists in
 American musical works S i; gCHURCH DINNER s 3f0 BE GIVEN yz
 The congregational dinner, to be given "Wednesday evening at the Highland sAfethodist church, will have Mrs. @ieorge Hughes band as hostesses, and Ewill be chicken dinner. The following program has been ar tFanged by Mrs. Parson: N
 A Vocal solo, by Mrs. Henry D. Clarke :; areading, by Mrs. T. l.. Hobart; vocal Esolo. MT. Owen GiIlespy; vocal duet aby Mr. Killespy and Mir. Herman Kim sbrough,5 accompanied by Mrs. L.2 H sBent
 sCURRY LITERARY
 SOCIETY MEETING %,
 %N Despite the snow and the consequent Sslesire of everyone to .'get out in ii" ," sthe Curry Literary society held it's regu- @lar meeting Friday with a good attend Sance, although considerably smaller lhan usual. Two Bew members were. Staken into the club.s K & The program, for the day consisted of sn very interesting debate, Resolved. That the bonus bill should be- accepted" :" rThe speakers on the affirmative were Mir. Strauss and Mr. Fleming. On the negative Mir Stange and Mir. Ward, Erhe judges decided ill favor of the affir- smative. Discussion of the coming banQuetswas Brought up, but was again postponed for Further investigation by the commit. 1ee appointed for this purpose.