New-York tribune., 1913-11-06
SUFFRAGE IN 4 REELS;
MRS. PANKHURST, STAR
cause" Captures Movies y
Photo Play Being "What g.
100000 Women WANT
MILITANT MAKES A HIT
Mrs. Blatch Also Wins Stellar
Honors in Mrs. Cooley's Pict
ure Drama, Which Depicts
Triumph in 1915.

Well. the American suffrage leaders
have come around 10 Mrs Emmehne
Pankhurst at last. They selected her yes
terday to go 10 the political boss ana
plead the votes-for- women cause with him.
Yes. in What Eight Million Women
Want" the moving picture play written
by Mrs. Frances Maule Cooley, shown NJ
the Bryant Theatre yesterday, Mrs. rank
hurst does what Mrs. Henry Butterworth
and other American leaders fan IN doing
wins smile and gracious bow from
the boss Of the district. But she doesn't
win his support Instead he starts rival
street meetings with an automobile label
led Down with Petticoat Rule
Nohodv attends his meetings. and Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Rlatch and the Women's
Political Union insinuate into his once
secretary who listens at keyholes ana
gathers evidence that sends him TO prs
on, where he languishes behind the bars
while the suflragists celebrate the passage
of their amendment, it being the year I'Io'
The play is long and involved II took
lust an hour 10 show H. Mrs. Cooley
was determined to have plenty oi SUI
frage propag ganda in IT, and the managers
wanted plenty Of mclodrama to make u
co The combination required -FOUR
reel play. with more films than most au-
diences would have patience TO look al
The invitations % yesterdays snow
uere for II a. m. but II was :o5 p m.
when the thing started Mrs. Blatch and
Mrs. Cooley made speeches al intervals
durIng the wait. explaining that 1t was
all the mems fault. because the men were
lbebindhand getting the reels Delivered
one thing that made the wait eas'ei l"
hear was that Mrs. Arthur +. To"hsend'
rho well loved treasurer 81 the N"ihe"
p,litical Union. came in. II was her hrst
ornearancc since her long illness. and the
audience gave her a good round OF ap-
ulause as she took her seat
Mrs. Herbert Moody, the newly electeI
rresid.nt of the Political study CIub'
be,ped 10 beguile the wait by nominauns
Nc Harriet stanton Blatch for tnited
c,ates Senator from the State of New
yorl, Mrs. Blatch. Mrs. Moody SAID
would have to get back the citlZenship SH'
,oet when she married an Enghsh nus
hand in order 10 be eligible. but her grasp
NJ nolitics would make her fine senator
ar 60 my ambition" Mrs. Moody said,
"to see AZ least ten women in the unite'
states Senate, and New York could no.
- be,ter represented than by Dr. Anna
1Jo,,ard Shaw and Mrs. Batch / think
we should Immediately begin 10 "orh W"
ord sonding them there directly we get
the vote in this state.
Tho audience agreed with Mrs. Moody
and discussed campaign plans uh'iI those
men" arrived in taXicab WIN 'he hliHS
for the play.
Mrs. Pankhurst was shown IN pro-
,oeue. making a speech. The one scene III
rHicb she appeared had nothing to 90
uith the plot really. but she got more
onn,ause from the audience than all the
rest Of the play.
"sbe's treasure to pose one OF the
moving picture men said later Ihe DosS
of the company says TO her, say he; 'Mrs'
parkhurst. II YOU lose your suffrage JoD
come 70 me. I'd be glad to have YOU
r,ember of my troupe. Mrs. Blatch Is
good one, too. The way she feau OUT ',e
kilograms in the last scene when she
nosed. almost made me suifragette'
other suffragists who take part IN the
rlav beside Mrs. Cooley and Mrs. Butter
,rortb are Mrs John Winters Brannan'
,trs olive schultz Mrs. Emanuel Elm
stein and Miss Mary Thornton.
Members OF the moving picture troupe
took the parts of the poor young lawyer
and his suffrage sweetheart. the boss's
nrivote secretary and her sweetheart ana
the politicians, thugs, suffrage street
meeting crowds. etc A. o, -
The moor young lawyer is the tool of
,,o hoss for "A while, but his suffrage
sweetheart reforms him. The private sec
retarv's sweetheart is run over by ,ne
hose,s automobile, and, failing to get dain,
ages. he shoots the boss in ms o',ee , anu :,
is sent TO prison for it. Ultimately ne %
released everybody is happy out 'ne cor
rrn, boss. and suffrage carries the state
There is some good material III '"e
r,ay, and II most Of the court scenes are
animated and enough cutting uohe "
shorten it by one-half 1t may su'''e