The Washington herald., 1913-05-11
CENTURY Hence
IS PLAY Theme
Mrs.. Christian Hemmick' s
Work viii Be Staged
by Sufragists.
ONE HUNDRED In CAST
Audience Will Be Taken to April S,
20l3, BY the Leaders in
Society.
ONE HUNDRED in CAST

At the National Theater on the after
noon of May 90 the local suffragists
will produce Mrs. Christian Hemmick's
play, Some Years Hence" The changes,
and they are all for the best. will take
the audience to April S. 2013.
Among the many startling things OF
it's prophecy, the most startling is the
object lesson it would teach, the changed
viewpoint of those days to come, when
work well done will be form Of wor-
ship
The setting will be in a wonderful
palace of Justice. from whose corridors
view of the city of a hundred years
to come may be seen.
Cast Is Large.
From the windows of the Palace of
Justice, a building with the inscription
Certificates of Marriage and Registrar
of Health Records" will be seen. Next
20 il will stand the Bureau of Educa-
ton for Parents" while further on
Licenses for Bachelorhood of Both
Sexes will be advertised. The eugenic
marriage will have become an estab-
ished fact
More than a hundred people will be IN
he cast. They will come and go by
means of aeroplanes. casually dropping
out of the clouds above onto the broad
IL
boy will pursue his work upon an aero
plane. How these machines are to be
presented upon the stage has not been
stated.
+. Even the fashions of hundred years
hence are to represented. The dress Of
eo15 is to be loose and futtery. 1t is to
be light and plant: airy, flowing drapery.
Woman's dress will be somewhat similar
TO that of the japanese, only still more
free 1t will be lightly caught around
the body wherever such catches least
interfere with the motions of the body,
and will remold its draperies with every
movement of the wearer Men, also, will
wear these light draperies. Styles of the
men will be somewhat Turkish.
Those who on May 20 hear what the
characters in Some Years Hence" say
of us today will have no reason to feel
flattered.
We will be looked upon as the benight-
ed dwellers i'm a dark age. coarse, I'M
couth, and vulgar. Our manners. our
ways and methods, our art, our clothes.
our literature. our government, and even
our newspapers will be severely judged
and wonderment expressed that human
ity was ever able to put up with such
crude things.
The leading characters in this play and
the women of Achievement are Miss
Violet Kimball, Christian Dominick
Hemmick, Nine De Yo, Milton B. Bryan,
and Robert Bell.
List of Dancers.
In this play the following young women
will appear as dancers: Miss Helen
Buchanan, Miss c. M Pendelton. Miss
Margaret Window, Miss Mildred Bacor,
Miss Valerie Padlefcrd. Miss Leila Mac
Donald. Miss Minnie Stone, Miss Cora
Barry, Miss Agra Bennett, Miss Kath-
crime Hitchcock. Miss Mardo Peck, Miss
Emily Beatty, daughter of former COM
nandant of the Navy Yard: Miss Ruth
Anderson. Miss Emily Chase, Miss Evan
Teline Prouty, daughter of Representa-
i've Prouty from Iowa; Miss Esther Den
ny, Miss Metcalf. Miss Ruth Wheaton.
Miss Edith Goods, president of the Col
eye Suffrage League. of the District of
Columbia: Miss Margaret Howard, Miss
Edith Howard. Miss Nellie Davidson.
Mis- Estelle Crane Miss Eloise Orme,
Miss Marguerite Pilson, Miss Mary Mon
ague Miss Fife Baker, Miss Hazel MAJ
level. Miss Nellie Howard, and Miss
Marie Chapman.
The actors will include Alphonse Wash
ngton Pezet, of the Peruvian Legation:
Mrs Robert Keith Forrest, Miss Eliza
beth H6wry. daughter of Judge Charles
Howry: Miss Lee, Stanley Olmstead. Mr..
Pollock, of the Austrian Embassy; Nine.
De 10, MISS fditn Dooue. MIS- hdlp-
tus, wife of Capt. Kalbfus and daugh
:er of Prof. Brown, of the Naval Acad-
any: Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson, wife
Of Lieut.. Burleson, L. S. A, and grand
marshal of parade on March 3, and Mar
'orie Sewell. granddaughter of Robley D.
Evans, L. s. n.
The suffrage play committee is COM
posed OF Mrs. Christian Hemmick chair
man: Mrs. Glenna Smith Tinnin, Mrs.
Mary Realty Clagett. Mrs. Florence
louise Lyon, and Mrs. Abbey Scott
Baker.
The executive staff is Mrs. William
Kent. business manager; Mrs Randolph
Keith Forrest, stage manager: Mrs.
Elphalet Andrews, designer of costumes,
and Mrs. Helen II. Gardener, press
manager.
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