New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-22
PLAN DRAMA AND BALL
Suffragettes Will Give Closer
Version of "Lysistrata."
GET ARMORY FOR DANCE
Meantime, Mrs. Blatch Hopes
for Good News from Old
Party Conventions.

Mrs Harriet stanton Batch. president
Of the Womens Political Union. was
back nj her desk at the union headquar-
tiers. No. - East 10Th street, yesterday
with a votes-for women ball nj the fist
Regiment Armory, a votes-for-wom"n
PLAY AZ some big theatre-she doesn't
know which ono yet-the Republican con
vention at Saratoga. the Democratic con-
yention AT Syracuse and n few other little
things IKE that on her mind Ia tho In
terest Of the cause.
A few straws which Of late have
caught the eyes OF the sunragists seem TO
show, they aver. that the Democrats and
the Republicans both are going TO take a
stand-a definite stand-in regard 10 wom-
an suffrage this fall. The sufrag!sts are
going 10 see 10 II that they don't forget
this intention, II they have II.
Mrs Batch and DR.. Anna Won Sholly
are going 10 the Republican convention
which begins next Wednesday.
Miss Harriet May Mills. president OF the
New York State Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation. and Mrs. Martha Wentworth
SufYren. vice-chairman Of the Woman
Suffrage party, will also be on hand.
None OF the women will ask the old
nor,Ies 10 go az far as the Progressive
marty old and indorse woman suffrage.
"All we ask" Mrs. Blatch said yester-
day. rs TO have the candidates pledge
themselves that they will do all they can
10 get our bill out of the Judiciary COM
mlttee, through the Legislature and De-
fore the voters for the voters to pass
upon"
Mrs Nora De Forest Batch and large
sized delegation will go from the Wom-
ems Political Union to the Democratic
convention, which Will open on October i
'rbe union, by the way, sat on the door
.t.n at every single one Of the commit
tees. both Republican ana Democratic
that met in this state to designate or
ean,zation candidates for the Assembly
and for delegates and alternates 10 the
state conventions
Mrs. Blatch and Miss Caroline Lexow'
executive secretary OF the union gave UP
most of their vacations for that. The pail
w,lI take place Saturday evening Janu-
ary II. and the union engaged the Sfth
a,reet armory for IT because Murray Hill
J.vceuro proved too small for the ball they
had there Last year. They are going to
have the regimental band TO play for them
and various other features they didn't
have last time But they had TO promise
something In return-they had to promise
On tho contract not TO violate any Of the
military rules I'm force at the armory.
"And TO ask a sex they say can't fight
and therefore mustn't vote 10 conform TO
military rules does seem rather funny.
observed Mrs. Batch
After the ball is of the unions hands
q is going to put "Lysistrata," the Aristo-
rbanes comedy that was presented at
u,ss Martha Leonard's open air theatre at
Mount Kisco last Thursday. on the stage
&, New York This time lawrence Hous-
mans English translation VIII be used
and ,his version doesn't blink the sex
motif Of the plot, az does the very much
corrugated retranslatlon from the French
,bat was given Thursday.
An the parts will be taken by sufragists
and there will be n lot OF side attractions.
a,ch as some Greek dances, at the end
The date OF the first production VIII de-
Ia on when a theatre can be secured,
"a several other things.