New-York tribune., 1910-12-18

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,-,,,ls never have believed it MISS All
.,o,v had some visions in the course oi
,,,,,r and hard working life. visions o.
z,,-e uben women should vote, out II
80 had told her that in the year lSll
- ,,.o,,,6 he given tableaus for the peiie-
:. ,ha cause. with priceless tapestries
,,a.-s,,l furniture from the rares' eoi
,,..;ors of things used by the great vi 'He
-, many hundreds of years ago, eoiu
-, worm IN the Middle Ages ana SIM
-, .-,.e,,-e for stage properties sne "ouio
- .,assn her head. Things oldn nap
,,, suffrage work in Miss AnihohE
So Times have changed "heh sum Ns'
- ha advertised in the way 1t VIII "e
-, Tho curtain rises on January ~ al
:, tho Maxine Elliott Thea'fe' on tife
- Co. which Mrs. Clarence Nackay
- ,,e-,,hers of the Equal F'ranchlse
Saete+r- are enlisting the help of famous
s.,,,arers and artists in stage manage
melIt. .,o.o
1y,,- MANY persons are engaged on these
,;e+,riral pictures that are to snow what
,-rea+ women have done in past times! 1t
,,,o,,i5 be hard 10 say One OF the pest
l,noUyn dressrnakers abroad Is fashlohlhs
-be costume in which Mrs. George Nouio
VIII pose as Catherine IL Of Russia. z COS
-fr,,7e copied from the one in the great PAM
ing in the Hermitage Mrs MachaE' M
co,,rd Mrs. Rollrke Cochran and the other
women who viii appear have each plahiie'
.he4- nictures with the greatest attention
so detail after some painting OF the peru"
- most cases Everett Shinn is making
,,o- drawings for the tableaus, and VIII
fred Buckland, one Of the belasco s'asS
building the tabieduS aittH
tre drawings. ,,
4,o- -,,.,x, are really being built as uhhhe
-. ,,s,lal hastily arranged tabeaus as II
:, r-sis,la 20 conceive. The one III WHICH
- Nackay represents Florence Nisht-
,,rs1e for instance, will occupy the "ioie
100 In the middle foreground
s,-z ,1ackar will kneel, supporting
-,,.,,7o6 soldier. q real fesh-and-plood III
sf,56ual. Bodies Of the dead and dsihs WI
;. ~ either side and a trife in the pach-
,.a,,nd will be a broken cannon anu 0'lei
rim objects of the battlefield
r2acl, Of these the scene painter "oLA
,,-,as in. showing flag on broheli s'a1i'
- .te battlefield fading away in the as
,ce II, a raoonlit mist To preserve the
- 20 blend the human figures the
-, Its ard the painted objects IN one
- ,-a,ds and yards and yards oi
Ill lA used Mr.. Shinn e1plalheo
--=b,,n.= reporter yesterday seuHe
.5,5-e- son7e objects family. others more
5..,lz. bridging all gaps, ana proouolis
- ri-rts and shadows. The lantern sldiiu-
- ~ Florence Nightingale VIII give 'he
,,t,- light in the foreground OF tile 'aoieoN'
,,-licb Mrs Mackay has planned af'er ah
~, --i,+ NJ the Crimean War, with apso-
l.,e fa,thfulness TO detail
~, .J-e William h. Vanderbilt. IT., aP-
lars as Jeanne dare the audience VIII
%. her in a suit Of golden armour O. '
.,-od of Ia pucelle, and whlch she iiei 9e-i
r-bo knows2-may have worn IN pao,e
>-ozr Il is the property OF Mrs-
too is the little mailed skirt which
.b. will wear La Puselle sofneti Ii'' i
..o,er not In battle probably Also OF the
-s-sod is the heavy piece OF iaPeSuy .lo
In ba the background of Mrs hanoer-
bits picture .,,,a.,,s
-. I'm ne set in frames just like pct
- nate beautiful frames, mounted on
- +,ses And that there may De no
=. for the audience, while one tapieau
a. ,bozn another, on rollers, VIII stoHd
,,,s5or 81 The side. ready 10 be pusheo Oh
-. x,sza centre the instant the pfeceoIAs
one is removed
NJ cochran. as Mary Wollstonecraft
,-i,i nose in a blue gown. with a "ohoei
<,,l Louis XIV tapestry In piufsh uills'
loaned bv Mrs Mackay, behind hef' VII"
her hand resting on a chair from e0iiie
todv's collection, and with folos OIL eauNe
51sn5,n~ -anestrv and dress into one mar
,,,orio,s whole Mrs. Cochran ROUNDS tllS
or the Opie portrait.
All in soft browns is 10 be the pic'uto
of -ba Roman rnatron Corheila ana her
ieyrals Miss Inez Milholand and the twin
&c If 1Tre Pearce Bailey, who do THIS
viii he mounted on PEDESTAL anu 'iio
n,o1e .rir,r- Will he planned to simulate an
o}G Italian polychrome woodcarVlhs'
7-s-,aries win be brown, the flesh Will pc
- -. ,-e1lozzs and browns, and black
yar,-a- curtain will hang behind to hleno
,.s u-bole and deepen the illusions OF
statue
--ae ,ic-ure Of St Elizabeth, in which
Mrs -ofl,1 Corbin viii appear, is TO be mace
70 look ike one Of those old pictures that
hang over affairs in ancient european
churches Inside a curious gothic frame she
viii stand holding out the roses into which
a miracle has changed the loaf Of bread
Mrs. Charles Tiffany as Aspasia, with
man who IS not chosen yet as feficies'
Mrs Edward Thomas as Hypatia' stanoihg
with her hand upraised as II sne were
SAYING Give woman the vote, ana MIS-
Frederick Nathan as Sarah Siooons d.
among the smaller pictures Miss Ethe-
Watts Mumford Grant will be Madame
Roland. in a light blue brocade overgo"n
and yellow underdress. leaning against
the graz prison wall Here again gauze
vii be used 10 soften and harnonize the
tones
riot Of color Will be ''The Court OF
Love" n which Queen Eleanor, mother OF
Richard the Lionhearted, will be crowhlhg
s0me ladv OF the court in a royal froic-