Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-25
anas1e, GAaf
Women S Clubs

NLUBWOMEN who heard Marion
Craig Wentworth's reading of
~ Votes for Women" early in the
month before the Friday Morning
club, and others to whom the memory
of Mary Shaw is dear, will be inter-
ested in the following, written by
Franklin Fyles of New York:
THE spirit of sinister commercial
ism does not cast any darksome shad-
ow over Votes for Women The black
hand OF no sordid assassin of dra-
matte art has aught to do with IT. III
is an ethic and aesthetic factor in the
uplift of women; and in some degree
its boost of beauty was anaesthetlc TO
the mastuline breast, to judge by those
men who dozed while its first perform
ance kept q thousand women engross-
edly wide awake. If a stone thrown at
q box had missed an Astor 1t would
have hit a Vanderbilt. The women OF
wealth and fashion seem really to wish
to go to the polls.
Elizabeth Robbyns, once an Ameri-
can actress, later an Ibsenian pioneer
in London. and recently suffragette
insurgent, wrote the drama to serve as
an exposition of the cause of ballots
for women. She submitted it to Charles
Frohman, who offered to buy one act
of it to put into a play two-thtrds by
another author-and man at that.
Elizabeth had not put her pleas for
women into actable form to have them
handled by a possibly unsympathetic
person. The whole of 1T or none, she
vowed, should ever be presented in
theater.
$50 New York has Votes for Women
delivered by the Actors Society of
America, an organization primarily de-
| voted to the temporal affairs of stage
folk, with the elevation of the drama
| L i. tN.1f
| tors in it's control, l think, and, any
way, Mary Shaw is up toward the top
of it, Mary is one of those actresses
whom experts dote on, but others don't
! Care for, because her merits are those
of an adept elocutionist. Also Mary is
! a strong minded woman who wants to
vote The outcome is that the Actors
! Society of America has hired theater
and brought out Elizabeth's play of
woman's rights, with Mary as it's prin-
| cipal spouter. 1t is not much of a
moving drama. Most of the time it is
motionless while the suffrage cause is
| discussed
Mrs. w. S. Taylor presided yesterday
over an interesting program at the
Ruskin Art club, which was opened by
Miss Leta Horlocker.
Miss Horlocked spoke of color scheme
| in decoration illustrating by means of
| numerous pieces of Oriental tapestry
and embroidery and Japanese prints.
Mrs. George H. Wadleigh gave an in
| teresting account of the exhibitions of
sculpture which she had seen during
her recent visit in the east, speaking
especially of the work of Helen Mears,
who did the famous statue of the late
Frances Willard, and of her most re-
| cent work, the Edward MacDowell
| statue.
Mrs. Wadleigh spoke also of the ST.
| Gaudens exhibition in the Corcoran
| gallery at Washington, but dwelt at
! length on an exhibition of George Gray
Barnard's to be seen in the building of
Fine Arts in Boston, which has had
such tremendous success, and which is
1 to be repeated in Chicago and Pitts
| burg.
Mrs. Charles E. Day reviewed the
work of the industrial art school of
Philadelphia, and Miss Wadleigh closed
| the morning with an informal talk on
different phases of decorative art.
| s.
I Mrs Josiah Evans Cowles, first vice
| president of the National Federation of
Women's Clubs, is leaving today for
San Antonio Tex. where she goes to
attend the mid-biennial council meet
| ing of the general federation, which is
| to be in session there March 81 to
April 1.
Capt. Amos Fries will address the
Los Angeles Political Equality club, of
which Mrs. George Drake Ruddy is
| president Friday afternoon at the
Woman's club house, on Greater Los
| Angeles"