New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-01
RUMORS or WOMENS VARS

WHAT THE PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE HAS TO PUT
Up wITII-A PAPER on PLAY WRITING.
II all the stories that have been told OF feuds
and battles civil and foreign, OF the Professional
Womans League had been true. there would not
be two members OF the league lett by thlS t'he'
1t was born in a Storm as Is were anu tne
cradle was rocked by a whirlwind SO to speak IL
is Young yet but 1t has had its troubles u "oud
he too long a history to recount all its strifes or
rather all the strfes that are recounied OF H. Dut
1t may be said. In general terms mat whenever
nobody has attacked 1t from withoue' us o" He"-
bers have attacked one another WITHIN. vi 'ouIse
this is only common report. The people who tell
the stories pretend that they were WIZ
nesses of what they relate and whenever questions
are asked OF those who would have been VIII
nesses If there had been anything 10 witness inc
whole thing Is denied 1t Is seldom Ihueeu' ''''
anything at all Is said about the league "i'oh -"o
members Of the league do not deny. According
TO them the whole career OF the Douy mas NV"
a voyage summer seas.
The latest denias are In regard 10 an alleeen COM
hat about the music for AS You Like IT, Whit"
a company OF women IS now giving "'''i I'll, "
pces OF the league. at the Garden iHo"ie """
,ho ulav was given at Palner's Theatre In Noven
her the orchestra, well as the COMPANY was
composed Of women and led by MISS Emma
Steiner 1t was fondy supposed mat the H~''"e
Advancement would hold for the Earuen i''nu
put the Garden Theatre has an ofches"@ VI 10
&c under contract, ana IL uId"S pay
h,her II PLAYS or not. 1t therefore thoush'
,ha, Il would be IA saving of money TO let IL pay
, nat nav two orchestras when one couIu dc
o, II thcn became necessary for some one 10
,at ,be decision to Miss Steiner. Mrs. Rachael
WcAuey did it, .s,.,rd.c,s was
HT,rha, according to the correspondents VS.
- the fight began. The fight was between MISS
SW,yner and Mrs. McAuley. and Mrs T. l.. Tsrhah-
- somewhere the middle OF IL. IL" nc
count here becomes so nconcreh. ma a
cou ~ IL seem to have felt the hoieIeSsi"s1
~ ling ANYBODY believe IL, so they aDaluoh'i
81 ","rv Of the fgnt and devoted themselves 10
LING the efforts that were maze 70 hua'l We
h,a Thing up 1t all took place or dll not take
lice as the may nave beeh' az Iee" S.' ",
49,, and the notion Of making star champer
Pss r. stage OF "A theatre with hundred women hot
under oath assembled on ~ seems 10 nave oee' inc
GGmi"b,ng stroke OF narrative genus
.M'ra - npht and Mrs Fernandez could not re-
neyn,ier OF being in the middle oil any such hght ~
IT., nohody who ought 10 know az about II thtre
had been anything about " cou!d remember any
t', rh league seemed to have been In sufficiently
olanneohie condition Yesterday afternoon TO hold
Meeting and listen to paper. TOW 10 VIII, a
pIsv" ,yas the subject, ana II wa I.au ny hl7s
.Aaicr modest change in the title which she made
Wiss Ives is the author OF pay wh'ch mas Deen
recentlv brought out and she gay me League
so,nn Interesting points on the techhical work OF
d ,inc II must be the electric spark OF dramatic
Sseiing and enthusiasm. fine insuhcti Which IN
i. .,,. Hi,,nes what dramatic ana what was
sti''s hin on numerous important points she
o.ouSm, ne 81 successful playwright the knowledge
81 when 70 stop. IT required self-deniaI ana SELF.
subordnation she said. but 1t was sure mark of
genius to bring o play to timely emo