New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-01
RACE SUICIDE DRAMA
FINDS SPONSORS LOYAL
Some Medical Experts Waiver,
but Most of Committee Keep
True to "GuiIty Man."
EUGENICS TO BE ACTED
DR.. w. ]. Robinson, Norman
Hapgood and DR.. jacob Among
Supporters of Stage Version
of Coppee's Novel.

me committee OF sponsors for The
Guilty Man" stood fast yesterday. Fred
eric II. Robinson. president of the So
Geological fund of The Medical Review
OF Reviews" which has charge of the
intended production. has received no word
10 the contrary. with the exception Of the
three members who definitely asked that
their names be withdrawn. as was told
in Yesterdays Tribune.
Mr.. Robinson said he did not expect
any more of the committee to withdraw.
He said that DR. ira S. Vile. who was
on the fence yesterday. had reconsidered
the matter and would remain. and that
he thought DR.. Frederic c. Howe. who
also was doubtful, would make like de-
cision.
Mr.. Robinson found considerable con-
ISOLATION TO offset the loss Of Hamilton
Holt, Or. c. Ward Champion and Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman from the COM
mittee in the fact that requests had been
received for over six thousand seats for
the play and that the requests were still
flooding in. Only about three hundred
could be accommodated, he said, and the
applicants would be carefully some over
and only those who wanted to see The
Guilty Man" with a serious purpose would
be given seats.
THE play is written for the purpose OF
wildly presenting the effect OF societys
failure to meet its responsibility toward
the so-called Legitimate offspring and It's
unmarried mother" he said. 1T Is force
full and impressive. An intelligent audi
ence will be stirred TO action In correct
ing present conditions. a morbid audi
once will be grievously disappointed"
Other defenders of the production or
the play were Norman Hapgood, editor
Of "Harper's Weekly" and chairman OF
the committee: DR.. William j. Robinson.
president Of the American Society OF
Medical Sociology, and DR.. Abraham ia
cobb. From his bed in Mount Sinai Hos
p!tal, where he was operated on the day
before for appendicitis, Dr. Robinson dic-
tated the following statement:
II have investigated the SUBJECT, ara
have come 10 the conclusion that exces-
sive childbirth among the poor is one
Of the greatest curses that afiicts hu-
mainly. II IS one of the greatest causes
OF low wages poverty. ignorance 'd!e-
ness, sickness. crime and death. lhe'e
Is a simple remedy-to teach people no"
70 regulate the number Of their oifsprihS'
Our present laws regarding the lmpa'-
ing OF this kind OF information are In the
hlghee, degree brutal and Infamous.
II have not read the play" SAID Nor
man Hapgood. mot having been aDle "
get hold of II until to-day, but l ac-
cepted a position on the committee pe-
cause I had entire confidence In the peo-
ME who were arranging the production
and because I believed the two big sun
fac,s treated were worthy of serious con-
alteration by grown-up Americans.
Although peace came to the camp or
the promoters OF the Guilty Man man
Yesterday. a side attack came last hlghl
IN the form of a declaration by MISS
lillian Pastor. sister of Mrs. Rose Pastor
sto,es. az her home, No 1866 Hoe ave-
nue. The Bronx. that the big scene III
the first act Of the play was steal
from p,av named Mary" which her
sister is working on at her summer nome
"Mr. Robinson, who is managing Inc
entity Man" said Miss Pastor KNOWS
my sister and knows all about her play
when she pointed out TO him that Inc
Guilty Man was like hers he sah ne
would cut out the scenes that we're the
same"
Mr.. Robinson said last night that NC
was fully aware that the main situations
in the first acts of the two plays were
alike. but said that they grew out OF en-
tlrely different circumstances In the plots