New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
Large Audiences Cheer
Between Acts Pleas
for the Cause.
COLLECTOR MALONE
TALKS AT PLAYHOUSE
Boxful of City Government
Bachelors Hear Votes PLOT
Explained at Casino.

IL was suffrage hlBhN III 90
CITY theatres last night. Between the
acts such we'll known leaders as Miss
Alice Carpenter, DR.. Katharine b.
Davis. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst and Dud-
lev Field Malone explained why on
Tuesday next women should be given
the ballot.
In these theatres the yellow and white
colors of suffrage blazed from dozens
Of boxes, which were further adorned
nv votes-for-women placards and by
charming women in evening gowns,
themselves telling argument for the
ballot. In those theatres where sur
frage speeches were made the applause
was the equivalent in length OF time 20
half dozen curtain calls.
"This is the first time ! have been
20 the theatre with my husband IN the
last twenty years when he d. dnt go out
between acts" said one woman last
night a trife jealousy.
Inasmuch as the plays where SUI
fragists were either guests or speak
ers ran the whole gamut from musicai
comedy TO grand opera, from moving
oictures 10 tragedy, there seems no
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now convinced of the Importance OF
the cause.
Here come the ballot girls!" said q
man as a suffrage speaker rose in one
of the boxes last night. 1t was bad
Joke. of course. because you nave 10
mispronounce Il to get the point But
no ballet was ever more versatile than
the woman suifragists of last night.
They trod the mazes of the votes Tor
women arguments without one mlscue'
toe-dancing daintily through the rea-
sons why the suffrage should be eX-
tended TO women. but not once losing
their balance on the slipperiness OF the
anti floor of "femininity.'
At the Manhattan Opera House Anna
Pavlowa smiled at the box with Its SUI
frage drapings where Miss Lillian nus
sell sat. The Theatre Gala Night, with
its marvellous success, was largely que
TO Miss Russell cooperation with the
theatre committee Of the Woman sur
frage party and to her influence with
theatre managers. Miss Russell did not
make a speech. but her presence with
her guests in the box spoke for her 70
the crowded opera house.
The New York idea must be that the
amendment shall pass. For some OF
the most telling argument of the whole
campaign was made when William j.
BRADY introduced Dudley Field Malone.
Collector Of the Port, Just after the
curtain went down on the last act. and
when Mr.. Malone told in way that
rivals some of the seasons best plays
in point Of view Of interest and gin
GER why women should be allowed TO
vote.
At The Playhouse four boxes were
e h. Nrp
gists. Mrs D. Clark Balch, chairman
of the theatre committee, occupied one
OF these. while Miss Ann Rhodes, Mrs
Belle de Rivera and Mrs. Raymond
Brown were in others. Mrs. Brown is
president Of the State Suffrage As
ISOLATION. and her box cOnspicuously
displayed the state suffrage banners.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, after her
efforts as chairman of the great cam
paign, relaxed at "Chin Chin" at the
Globe Theatre. With her in her box
were Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chair
man of the Woman Suffrage party, and
Miss Mary Johnston and her sister.
The applause lasted fully as long as
the speeches az the Knickerbocker
Theatre, where Miss Alice Carpenter
and Miss Sylvia P-khurst pleaded the
need Of votes for women. Here also
were Mrs. A. ]. G. Perkins, Miss Fried
man and Mrs. F. II. Cabot Between
the first and second acts the house and
audience were delivered into the hands
of the suifragists. who entertained
so Thoroughly and so thrillingly that
some were sorry when the curtain rose
again.
Six policemen Of the Patrolmen's
Benevolent Association saw the Blrth
of Nation" as the guests OF Or. Ann
Moore. in token of her appreciation OF
the police service during Saturday S
parade. At the Casino Mrs. Henry
Moskowitz entertained a party OF ad-
ministration bachelors, among them
Alexander VI. Keogh, of the Civil Ser
vice Commission; Chief James I. Ham
nett, Of the Bureau of Fire Proven
ton, and Samuel Rosensohn, Assistant
Corporation Counsel
Suffrage colors shone at Maxine El-
lot's Theatre also, where Mrs. Willard
had as guests in her box Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Willard, Miss Janet Lyle, Henry
St Claire Putnam and Miss Elizabeth
Z Putnam. "Abe and Mawruss,' at the
Lyric, were converted TO suffrage by
Mrs. William Grant Brown. the party
in her box including Mrs. Albert Z.
Bage, Mrs. William Einstein. Mrs.
Harry Rockwell and Mrs. John Ford.
Mrs. Richard Aldrich, at the Gambler,
entertained Mrs. John Granger, OF
Australia, Percy Granger, J. Wylee
and Miss Ruth Morgan. 49,
Mrs. Frank Gillette, at the vita,
graph Theatre, appropriately witnessed
"The Battle Cry OF Peace" with party,
including Mr. and Mrs. Van Vile, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred billiard. Mrs. +. c. Nor
ION and Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Reed.
The regular stars expressed them
selves as delighted with the between
act speeches and did not begrudge one
twinkle OF the suffragist galaxy.