New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-25
THEATRES TO AID
SUFFRAGE FIGHT
Campaigners to Plead for
Votes from City Stages
Wednesday Night.
BLAZE OF ACTIVITY
WILL CLOSE CAMPAIGN
Many Meetings On-Culinary
Appeal To Be blade by Votes
Restaurant.

The next big suffrage event will take
place Wednesday night In all except
three theatres ia Manhattan members
OF The Woman Suffrage party will be
guests OF the management, will act as
hostesses and Will make suffrage
speeches between the acts.
Theatre nights have been held be-
fore, but never on such a large scale.
Never before have the managers of
playhouses responded so cordially TO
overtures for boxes and programme
space II is probable that>by Wednes-
day consent shall have been given for
suffrage workers TO speak IN every thea
ire in Manhattan.
Mrs. d. Clark Balch. chairman of the
theatre committee. has been assisted in
completing arrangements for theatre
night by Mrs. Charles Farley Winch.
Mrs. John Blair. Mrs. J. b. Fairchild,
Mrs. Malcolm Clephane, Mrs. Edgerton
Parsons, Mrs. Amy Corbin and Miss
Lillian Russell. Among the suffrage
hostesses IN the various theatres will
be Mrs. Charles Tiffany, Mrs. Henry
Bruere, Mrs. NJ. MoskCwitz. Mrs. Mar
Gus VI. MarKs. Mrs. Robert Adamson.
DR.. Katharine b. Davis and Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw. number Of society
women will decorate The boxes with
suffrage colors. The suffragists expect
20 make a splendid showing.
u has been announced that DR.. Davis
will speak at the Century. Mrs. Anna
koss Weeks al the handbook. MISS
Katherine Dreier at the German Thea
tire and Miss Portia Willis at tire Hip
podrome. The suffrage leaders have
also made theatre night plans for
Brooklyn and The Bronx.
The campaign for suffrage will con-
tinue with redoubled energy until Elec-
tion Day. As a special feature there
will be an open air meeting tomorrow
at Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street.
which will be opened at 10 o'clock In
the morning and last until 10 at night.
Mrs. Laidlaw will speak first and will
be followed during the day hv Mira.
Florence Brown Cotni.h, of Arkansas;
Nos nose bower. OF South DAKOTA;
Mrs. Edna Perkins. Of Illinois; Mrs.
Elsie Benedict, Of Colorado; Miss Is
Their Lee, of Virginia; Mrs. Harry
Whiteside, OF Kentucky; Mrs. Ethel
Vorce. of Ohio: Mrs. Mabel D. Curry,
of Indiana; Mrs. David Mccain, Of
California; Miss Mary Newcomb, Miss
Portia Willis. Mrs. Margaret Chanler
Aldrich. Miss Adeline Sterling, Mrs.
Mabel Keep and others. There Will be
fife and drum corps at the meeting
Tomorrow night. at S:l5, meeting
will be held at 343 Second Avenue Tor
Young men voting for the first time. IT
will be addressed by Will Irwin, Paul
Kellogg, editor Of "The Survey" and
James Lavery.
A mass meeting will be held in Car
negie Hall on Friday evening. SPEAK
ers will be Representative Edward r.
Heating, of Colorado; Rabbi Wise. Mrs.
Philip Snowden, John W. Keller, eX-
president of the National democratic
Club, and Raymond Robins. of Chicago
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait will preside.
Beginning tomorrow all who eat at
the Votes for Women lunch room at
20 Wall Street will get leafiet en-
titled. Food, What and Why" and the
suffragists in charge will provide an
espccially scientific luncheon, which
will be not the less appetizing. A man
will get $40 calories for 20 cents and
think he is getting good, square meal.
or he will get 1920 calories for Az
cents and fail to realize what lot OF
scientific good health he is swallowing
along with some good food. The sui
fragists in any case are giving 1uIl
assurance that the meal Will be satis-
factory.