New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-27
Suffragette Chorus Goes.
Through with Part, but
Kicks on Makeup.
MISERY MULTIPLIED
BY FIRE SPECTACLE
Women Enthusiasts and Masculine
Aids Appear at Matinee and
Evening Performances.

The chorus life Is not for the suffra-
gettes
"Well. blame our ancestors. anyway.
for getting us into a mess like ths." cried
was all over and she had at last been able
to remove the traces OF the forcible roug-
those old fogies tadn't put the word male
! into the Constitution we wouldn't have
10 be making fools OF ourselves this way"
There was much indignation i'm the
ranks of the women who acted as "super-
suffs'' In the Hppodrome suffrage parade
I yesterday afternoon, aid there WIS more
than Indignation IN the ranks of the
Mems League when they were told they
/ would have to be made up.
do US girls have to be made up, too%'
demanded Milton wendt the bugler boy
who accompanied the suffrage pilgrims on
their marches lie was told that rouge
went with the present job. When this
word was carried bach. to "Suspender
Jack" MCGEE. however. there was mu-
tiny at once.
| Many things lave ] suffered for the
! cause" he said. but this rs the limit.
refuse to be painted up like a chorus
girl"
Miss Portia Willis.i who was marshal OF
the parade and hadtits welfare at heart
and Miss Mary Donnely. who feels sis
terlv interest in Mr. McGee's welfare
since they suffered together for the
Moose. made for Mr. MCGEE. each bran
dishing a stick of Ted and a. powder puff.
Cornered. the hero Of Sara toga was COM
PEELED to submit to. forcible rouging along
with the women.
TIE trials of the suffragette chorus were
rot ended. when each had been convinced
that, however great her natural beauty,
she would not he up 10 hlppodrome
standards until she. had been treated with
artificial aids.
! 1t was after the triunIphal entry, with
Bugler Wendt a-tobtng and flags a-hying,
that the worst adventure Of the afternoon
occurred. Chief Marshal Willis and
Colonel Ida Craft were booked for a
suffrage speech" at the left of the stage
at the end OF the parade Bravely they
were mounting the soapbox, when all OF
a sudden, to their horror. the lights went
out. In the darkness they could hear the
trampling OF horses hoofs close at hand.
The wall behind them took fire. there were
screams in the dark, women at upper win
dcws framed in flames and falling drops
adding to the confusion. MISS WINS
elutched Colonel" Crafts arm ana
shrieked aloud. Her cries brought several
of the real chorus to her. They put their
arms around her and out OF the darkness
their voices comforted her.
tits all right; it's part OF the snow
they said.
'sTake me away, Take me away she
shuddered. This is worse than the san
Francisco earthquake
The suffragettes numbered exactly
tU enty-three at the afternoon perform
arce. but their ranks were augmented IN
the evening by Mrs. Inez Milholland-Bois-
sevain. Mrs. Herbert Carpenter, MIS-
RAYMOND Brown and several members oil
,ha Mems League. who could not leave
their business in the afternoon The Men
League numbered four at the nrst per
formance-Milton Wendt, Alphonse MAJOR
Arthur salter and 'Suspender Jack nc
d Gee.
Other paraders were Miss Phoebe Ha"h'
u Of the washington pilgrimage; Miss Rose
D. Livingston, Miss Irene Beach, Miss hatn-
> crime Nelson, Miss Marjorie Stuart, Mrs
Adelaide Walch, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Walch' MISS
b., Lillian d. Major, Mrs. Olive Schultz Mrs
NJ L. ogan, Miss Anna Slanner, MIS-
L. r. Cox, Mrs. Ella o. Guilford ana her
daughter. Miss Mabel Guilford, and Miss
Ineeborg Jenson. The riders included Mrs.
charles Fl. Winslow, Mrs. Adela Potter,
Nc ems Ruhlln and Miss Alberta HILL
Previous to their appearance at the MP
podrome the suffragists had paraue
from the headquarters, at No 4S East S4tn
street, UP Fifth avenue to i4th street. anu
. across TO Sixth avenue.