Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-07

sorship there was abolished. The first
performance was to selected. small
audience In what is now known as the
Little Theater in London. The next per-
Torrance was at the Fulton Theater,
New York city. March a. which was re-
peated March 81. Yesterday afternoons
performance was the third in this coun.
try.
The physician in the play is made TO
give some startling statistics as to the
disease which it exploits. One In every
seven men. he declared, was tainted, and
100000 men We're walking the streets OF
Paris bearing its curse, outwardly unoo-
servable, while thousands We're being
treated in the hospitals. In his interview
with the father of the unfortunate young
wife he charged: When the marriage
was proposed you doubtless made inquiries
concerning your future son-in-law's in
come: you investigated his securities: you
satisfied yourself as to his character.
You omitted only one point; but 1t was
the most important of all You made no
inquiries concerning his health.
All that is needed is for man
who proposes for girls hand to add to
the other things for which he is asked
medical statement of his bodily fitness.
The sketch presents persons presumed
to be afflicted with the dread disease.
among them a girl who in revenge is TAX
ing pleasure in spreading 1t to get even
because she herself was wronged. The
physician whose practice has made him
familiar with the terrible conditions which
it is sought to expose. The purpose OF
the presentation is said to be to direct the
attention of fathers and mothers at large
to the facts, that when known new So
cial customs stronger than law may fur
nish the remedy
The committee of the Medical Review
of Reviews - Sociological Fund - Under
whose auspices the performance was
given, includes Mr.. Richard Bennett
Mrs. Richard NJ. Bent, DR.. Simon Flick
ner, Mr.. Cosmo Hamilton. Rev. John
Haynes Holmes, MIR. Frederic c. Howe.
Mrs. Charles H. Israels, Miss Helen
Marot. Mr.. Frederic H. Robinson. Mr..
Hermon A: Metz, DR.. William ]. Robin
son. Mr.. John D. Rockefeller. jr.; DR..
William Jay Schieffelin, Mrs. Rose Pas
tor Stokes. Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, ST.;
DR.. James p. Warbasse, DR.. Ira S. Vile,
Mar. Wilton Lackaye and the Society for
Social Hygiene of the District of Column
bia - President. Surgeon General c. +.
Stokes. L. S. N: first vice president. Clar-
ence Wilson; second vice president. Stanley
w. Finch; third vice president. Dr. VIII
liam c. Woodward: fourth vice president,
Mrs. III. c. Perkins,. fifth vice president.
DR.. Edward Francis; secretary. William
Knowles Cooper; treasurer. Arthur j.
Parsons; honorary vice president, Mrs.
Huntington Wilson; board OF governors,
John B Colpoys: William s Knowles 1e
Finch, DR.. Elnora c. Folkmar. DR.. Ed
ward Francis. Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs.
Hennen Jennings, Mrs. Adolph Kahn.
John B. Larner, John A. Mc1llhenny,
L. w. Page. Mrs. III. c. Perkins. Arthur
Maj. Richard Sylvester DR.. T: Way
land Vaughn. Dr. Tom A. Williams
Clarence Wilson and DR.. w. c. Wood
ward.
Those in the Audience.
Among those who accepted the invita-
tons to see the performance were.
Secretary Wilson of the Department Of
Labor, Mrs. Wilson and Miss Wilson,
Postmaster General Burleson, Alfonso
Pezet, minister from Peru, and Nine.
PeZet; Commissioners Rudolph, Johnston
and Harding of the District Of Columbia,
Justice Horace Harmon Lurton and former
Justice Brown of the United States Su-
preme Court. Justice Seth Shepard. Justice
Wendell P. Stafford, Justice Daniel Thew
Wright, Senators A. o. Bacon. Ollie
James, Catron. Chamberlain. Chiffon.
C,app, Clark of Wyoming. Gore, Gronna,
Hitchcock, Kern. McCumber. O'Gorman,
Overman, Poindexter. Shively. Simmons
and Sn1oot, Speaker Champ Clark. Rep
resentatives Adair, Aiken, Ayres, Bell.
Galloway, Carlin. Cllappool, Cline.
Cary, Copley. Cooper Crago, Gull
lop. Dent. Doushton. Dupre
Esch, Ferris. Goldfogle, Graham,
Guernsey, Hardwick, Haugen. Jacoway,
Kahn, konop, Lindberg. Linthicum. Nc
Dermott. Mann, Mott. Peters, Rainey,
Raker, Ransdell. Crisp. Rauch, E. W.
Roberts. Sisson, Small Towner, Tribble.
Underhill Webb. Witherspoon and james
Young; Mrs. Archibald Hopkins. Mrs Ar
thur J. Parsons. Surgeon General Stokes
of the navy and Mrs. Stokes, DR.. w. c.
Woodward, health officer of the District;
DIR. William A. White of the Government
Hospital for the Insane; DIR. Donald G.
Macleod. DR.. Earle Wiley. DR.. John J.
Van Schaick, jr.: DIR. L. G. B. Pierce,
Rabbi Simon, Rabbi Stern. DR.. D. S. Dun
lap, James A Tawney. Surgeon General
Blue of the marine hospital service. Miss
Constance Leupp, Miss Flora Wilson, Mr..
and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mrs.
Christian Hemmck. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Willert, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes
and Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Gibson.