New Britain herald., 1915-03-05
(Frances England in New York
 Tribune

 l over are thinking the same thoughts and feeling the same emotions a wo- 1 man on the coast of the Pacific has i been able to give voice to the woe of her sisters on another continent. And at the same time she has crystallized the sentiment of all other women in her own country, from the western to the eastern coast. Mrs. Marion Craig Wentworth, whose play, War Brides" has given impetus to the pagranda of the woman's peace party, spoke of this great interrelation of mankind that made her play possible and made wo- men receive it with tears of both re- ioicing and woe. She comes all the way from rocky Santa Barbara, on the California coast, and she has found New York talking the same things and feeling the same way about them as they think and feel the whole coun- try over
 We are all dreaming the same big dream" she said, in her low, pleasing g voice. And it is our dream that saves humanity. You see, we become in the end that which wedream. I dream to- day of a great world republic and in- ternational peace, and thousands of others are dreaming this with me. That means we shall achieve it after this war
 After all the brotherhood of man is not destroyed. In fact, it exists more strongly than ever before. That is why the war seems so terrible to us all: it is because we care so much about each other. And it didn't come as a result of men not caring; 1t is rather that the institution created by men has turned against them, like a Frankenstein, to destroy them
 "Brotherhood of Man Stronger
 Than Ever.'
 It was because men and women the country over resented the fact that the young women of Europe were to be turned into breeding machines that Mrs. Wentworth was enabled to voice the protest of motherhood against war.
 1T can't explain how I came to write it.' she smiled ''It just came. I SUD- pose it had to be done. 1 just felt the great vibration of feeling that was moving all women to pity and protest
  I couldn't have done it. But I have given life, and I know how precious it }is, My little boy is mine now, and he has always been my companion. When the war broke out I used to look at him and think of those other mothers whose sons were gone away to be Killed And I thought of how much they had given to make fine men of their little boys, and how futile it all was. I just couldn't stand it then. So I wrote my play.'
 The Play Women Sobbed Over.
 Mrs. Wentworth was in Nevada for her child's health when the war broke out One day she read in the news papers an account of the weddings of young women and men who were leav- inr for the front. "The war brides we're cheered with enthusiasm, and the churches were crowded when the we'd ding parties spoke ceremony in con- cert" she read, and this was the finder that kindled the flame of her protest against it all. When she returned to Santa Barbara she wrote her play about these poor little war brides. And in the end she made her heroine com- init suicide rather than give birth to a son to be killed for his country. This is the play that New York has sobbed ever. and there are few plays that l move New York to tears.
 People are moved by my play be- cause it expresses what they feel in 1 their own hearts. All mothers feel as l I do about war. We hate to see our 1 men destroyed because they cost us so 1 much. It makes no difference Wheth- l CT they are our own sons or another 1 mothers sons. It hurts just the same. And it isn't the women alone who 1 feel this way. As l said before, men l and women are feeling the same way 1 about it.
 Men Made Play Possible.
 Men believed in my play from the first, or it would never have had a chance. Men read it first before it ever reached the public and it was because they were feeling what it expressed and because thcy knew other people felt the same that it was produced am glad that I was able to do it.''
 Mrs. Wentworth admits that this experience as successful playwright is very new to her. AS a writer she | was practically unknown until the l simultaneous appearance of her play in The Century Magazine" and on l the stage as a vehicle for Nazimova.
 II have never written much before this,' she explained. Some years ago l a book Of mine was published. The l Flower Shop it was called and it dealt with the economic independence of women. Oh, yes,' she said, quick ly. II do believe in the economic independence of married women Tt is just part of the general big scheme of life we women have laid out for ourselves. I don't know just how it is to be done, but there will be a way. Women must be absolutely in- 1 dependent
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