New-York tribune., 1912-02-23
VOTES FOR WOMEN PLAY
Hiuh School Girls Entertain East
Side Audience.
BOYS ON THE STAGE. TOO
stuyvesant's Lifelike Limp Is
Greeted with Giggles, to
Actors Disgust.

Actor 5 Disgust.
We'll. "the cause" is stronger than any
mere man official This was proved yester-
day at the Washington's Birthday enter
tsinment of the City History Club in the
auditorium Of the Educational Alliance in
East Broadway. Here is the superintend-
ent OF the club, Frank Bergen Kelley, un-
sreraby opposed 10 votes for women. and
set four bright girls Of the Margaret Olivia
Slocum Sage Club. branch composed Of
Norman College and Wadleigh High School
pupils. before his very eyes and in his very
ears preached woman suffrage in the form
Of play for half an hour and more to the
audience Of seven hundred.
Maybe the arguments were a trife above
the heads of a large part of the audience,
they being the children Of the clubs and
mostly OF tender years, but they applauded,
ana ore boy, al least, appleuded under
standingly. He was curly haired. freckied,
"eeing on" thirteen and he nearly wore
hole in his hands claoping "the woman Of
the future" who in college gown and cap
pictured the delights Of the day when men
and women should stand together az the
polls
Which did you like best" visitor asked
him after the play, the pretty Colonial
dame who said that woman's place was
the bone or the girl in the college gown
{ Ma ster Curley Hair wriggled minute,
twisted his hands bashfully and hlushed
6erv red. Then: IT liked the one that said
man and women had the same power" he
blurted cU'.
Girls Who Took Part.
Selma LewkowitE, Jessie Lswkowitz, Fun
ME schoenfelt and Marie Mcdonald were
the four girls who gave the play, which
was called Every Woman Has Her Day.
Fannie, in Colonial costume, and Jessie, as
'hausfrsu," tried TO refute the argu-
ments OF Selma, "the woman Of tho
future" but Selma talked them down ond
captured the house. Even when she dis
claimed in girlish treble. Men have been
sfir1ded by their own conceit," the mascu-
iine portion Of the audience didn't blanch,
but clapped its grimy little hands.
Marie was the woman Of the present, who
wss supposed 10 hear the others in q
dream, and when she woke she summed up
as follows:
The women Of the past didn't fight for
the vote, because they didn't want it, and
the woman OF the future didn't fight for
It because she had It; but I think the
women Of the present have the best Of It,
because they have all the fun Of hghting
fer the vote"
With the true team spirit the girls
wouldn't admit that any one OF them had
more TO do than another with writing the
play
=, Of
them said. "Of course. there are many
more in the club than were in the play
do they all believe I'm suffrage"
Well" very seriously, eve try not 10
obtrude any political questions into the club,
because It is organized 10 study history;
but, yes, we're ell suffragists except one,
and she doesn't belong, any longer-she
dropped out"
Forty out Of the ffty-three branches of
the City History Club were represented Gt
this birthday entertainment. and as the alb
sent branches were mostly those organized
IN truant schools and the city prison, they
could hardly be expected to attend. From
all over the city came the seven hundred
who were there--frop Brooklyn and The
Bronx, from Greenwich Village and Riv-
iugton street The officers were represent
% by Mrs A. Barton Hepburn, the vice
president; by the superintendent and
Charles Kondel the assistant superintend-
snt. Mrs Robert Able, the honorary pres
ident, and Mrs. Emil L. Boas, the presi-
dent, both of whom were unable TO come,
sent letters which were read.
Boys Give a Play, Too.
The suffrage play wasn't the only play
on the programme. The boys OF the Stir
ling Club, in Brooklyn, gave "The Capture
Of New Amsterdam" written by their Iced
or, and Master Broder, as old Peter Stuy-
vesant made an immense hit with his life
like limp, Maybe it wasn't the kind of hit
he intended, for it was manifested by
storms of giggles from all over the house.
Even when. confronted with the necessity
Of Yielding 10 the English. he declaimed,
sadly: There seems no other way; but
would rather die" the seven hundred chill
dren IN the audience continued 10 giggle.
Il was hard on Master BToder, who took
his art seriously II his costume was little
mixed; but his fellow actors, manifestly
elevated in their spirits by being in the
public eve. wore broad srins which they
Vainly endesvored TO hide behind their
pipes; so It was q very jolly time despite
the melancholy subject Of the drama.
The real stars Of the afternoon were
George and Martha Washington and "od
Glory Frederick J. Allen, of Boston. who
formed history club in that city, showed
some patriotic moving pictures after the
mays and the music, and whenever George
or Martha or tho ilag appeared on the
screen the ehildren-little foreigners. many
o. them. some still rather strange TO our
Iansuage-not only olspped but cheered at
the tops Of their voices
Other great Americans were applauded
too The children didn't have 10 he told
w names. When the author of Poor
mcosrds Almanac" was shown-''that's
Benjamin Franklin cried a mite of a pri.