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'The Wild Rose' to be given by Misses Howard's pupils: Hilda Webb one of the debutantes (the cast)

27 May 1923 · The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)

Named here: Hilda Webb

The page of The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.) that carries the item
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.), 27 May 1923, page 34 · the whole page

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"THE WILD ROSE" TO BE GIVEN BY MISSES HOWARD'S PUPILS

"The Wild Rose," a charming operetta by W. Rhys-Herbert, will be presented Tuesday evening, May 29, at the Birmingham University school by the pupils of the Misses Howard's School for Girls.

The operetta will be given under the direction of Mary Emma Pearson with Bonnie Howard as accompanist.

Miss Pearson will also take the part of Rose Cloud, a popular young society belle, in the play. She will be supported by a strong cast, consisting of the following:

Mary Forsythe, her secretary and friend, Agnes Dunnavant.

Mrs. Fussy, her housekeeper, Gladys Corbet.

Lady Grey, an eccentric playwright, Mildred Leonard.

Miss Writeup and Miss Putemdown, reporters, Oliva Basenberg and Helen Montgomery.

Dora, Flora, Molly, Polly, debutantes, Frances Hopkin, Irene Thornton, Hilda Webb, Dorris Barber.

Bobbie, the buttons, Edna Floyd.

Maids, Mary Whiting MacKay, Maude Hunter Knighton, Mae Travis Fenn, Madge Williamson, Mickey Edmundson, Mary Wilkinson.

Citation: "'The Wild Rose' To Be Given By Misses Howard's Pupils," The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.), Sunday 27 May 1923, society, club and fashion section, p. 34, col. 4; image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038485/1923-05-27/ed-1/?sp=34).

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Hilda Webb Schooling A pupil of the Misses Howard's School for Girls, Birmingham, in May 1923, cast as one of four debutantes in the school's operetta "The Wild Rose" Nothing; her 1933 wedding notice calls her "a graduate of the Misses Howard's School for Girls in Birmingham" new (the earliest record of her at the school)