The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-27


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latest book and enjoyed it, so there's
no hard feelings. Yes, Irwin is very gen
erous that way. Its dull day in
deed In New York when he, is not an
nounced to speak for some cause or
other. ;'Ss = - - y ~
) While, a cause is the surest way to
get d crowd. in the absence of a cause
or of an Organization it is still possible
to make IA neat. profit if you have IA
loose. high.sounding name of. SOME kind
to hang The. thing on. The word Club
is used in its widest, freest sense--if in
any sense at: all. If it is a luncheon
club, the key word is luncheon" +
~. Literature And Lists Z !. !,
I. If opera ting. ON this plan the ban
aueteer. must mail out 'sliterature''' !. to
list. of names which may be purchased
at so much. per hundred from some
banqueteer who has anaassed a fortune
and retired from active business; All
first class hotels also furnish + these
lists confidentially TO reputable people.
To insure success then, it is. only
necessary to arrange for a two. or three
dollar luncheon or dinner and add; a
couple of dollars to the price of the
tickets. That's what you live on-that
extra two dollars a head. ~ -
There's only one cause 4 know. of
for which it seems to be difficult to get
celebrated: speakers, because nobody
seems .passionately afor, or. passionately
against it,. That's. the Lucy Stone
League. This league has a member
ship; including Ethel Barrymore and
a number Of very celebrated women.
The passionate burning object CONCERN
ing which the flames of opposition are
supposed to rage. is ITO encourage WON
en- to keep their own names after mar
rage &. .1,'3s;f - .m.,. ~
Personally, I never could get up any
steam on this thing for the simple rea-
son that women can do it any way if
they wantsto. We don't have to get q
law passed Or get a law repealed, Or
AL ia the wide world we've
got to, do is to do it., If only some one
would say we couldn't But they just
WON'T For that reason the cause is
a little thin, but there are always five
hundred people at their banquets and
we all dearly lore to, go, The members
include not only women with husbands
but those. who. have only; husbandly
hopes. 3: - -. -
~, The Stats Department Did 1t
Ruth Hale is president and she. is
the wife of Haywood Bronn. This
latter fact she simply will not have
Haunted in her face. my life is my
own w Ruth says fervently, mo one
has a right to relabel me- And Hey
wood applauds with the rest of the five
hundred. She just won't wear the Hey
wood Broun tag. Really, Haywood is
very decent about it. He says the ad-
vantage of having a. fifty-fifty wife, is
that you know she stays. with you, she
stays because she likes you, and not
for a tnesl-ticket.
felt sorry for Ruth the other night.
She asked Amy Lowell to be guest Of
honor and chief speaker at. d league
banquet and after some. long-distance
conversations Amy said she would, un-
der certain conditions. Ruth explain
ed that she always liked to have debates
at the annual dinners. As, matter
of fact Ruth and the rest of the Lucy
Stonets are dying to argue about, it but
no, one will argue. The people who
attend the dinners are divided into two
classes-the oppressed Leaguers and
those who are married. to them. and the
regular banqueteers or fiYe-dollar-a-
platers. You see this is "a very high
power organization and the dinner al
ways attracts real people,. -
) 1t all .started-I mean the Lucy
Stone league and its cause--when Ethel
Barrymore AMI Ruth. Hale applied for
passports to so to Europe. Just after the
war. The state department said the
passports must be issued in the mar
ried names. Ruth and Ethel rebelled.
The state department was I adamant.
Ruth and Ethel said wen stay at
home first, /" and stay at home they
did. 1t is said that toward the end the
state department did loosen up and Of,
fer to issue the passport to Mrs. Hey.
wood Bfoun alias Ruth Haze YOU
can Imagine how. Ruth answered. that
proposition. In fact, the Lucy Stone
league was her answer. Now wouldn't
you think Washington would be good
afteN that?> ,g5li. ~
Amy Lowell; Has Last Say T.
Well, to get back to Amy Lowell.
She said she refused to. debate or. to- be
debated with. If she spoke at all she
must be the last speaker. She would
not refer to anything that anybody had
said and it must be understood that no
body must answer or contradict or de-
bate about anything she might, say. Her
word was to be final--ahsoluteIy final.
Like a motion to adjourn; her speech
was unbeatable. i. ~. -, /
Ruth is a fiery, little. thing and she
doubtless had to strengthen her character
by keeping sweet. After all, somebody
had to speak, and Amy is. a drawing
card. So Ruth very graciouslys called
the debate off and let Amy have her
accustomed freedom. OF course that
made it all, very. embarrassing when
Amy said things that would have made
Lucy Stone turn over in her grave. I,
Having listened in more or less ress
lively | imagine, while several people
spoke, Amy opened her unbeatable re-
marks By saying that she had not ex.
pected when she accepted the, invita-
ton that she was to speak to "a group
of ego-maniacs" such as she found
there. Considering the .pre-banquet
promises not to talk back, this OBJ
servation was received in what might
be termed riotous silence. But this
silence ewas broken by a voice from
somewhere saying sweetly--yes, it was
a feminine voice--"I should think she'd
feel perfectly at home y The third and
not, the second person was used, so,
technically, 1T really wasn't exactly
talking back to Amy.
~, As Free AS Free Verse =;
But Amy went on, to the bitter end