The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-16
CEREMONIAL PAGEANT
Woman's Party to Stage Pageant In
The Garden of the Gods.

An Equal Rights ceremonial pag- |
cant which will be even more mag
nificent than that produced in Seneca
Falls New York, last July, will be
given by the National Woman's Party
in the Garden of the Gods in connec-
tion with the convention of the Colo
RADIO State Branch of the party, early
in September This will be the first
in series of nationwide reproduc
tions of the Seneca Falls ceremony.
Hazel MacKaye, sister of Percy
MacKaye, the playwright, herself
probably the foremost woman pag-
cant producer in the country, reached
Colorado Springs Saturday, and at
once took charge of the preparations
which are going forward at top speed.
A committee of fifty of the most
prominent women of Colorado Springs
are assisting Miss MacKaye, and
some $50 women and girls will take
part in the tableau and professional
which form part of the pageant.
The product tion of the ceremonial
pageant has brought to Colorado Alice
Paul of New Jersey, internationally
known as the head of the feminist
movement in America; Anita Pollitzer
of Charleston, South Carolina, national
secretary of the Party who has led
Equal Rights campaigns in several
state legislatures; Maude Williams,
State chairman in Nevada, Florence
Rogatz, attorney of New York City,
who is national chairman of the Stu
dents Councils of the Party; Joan
Grayson of the District of Columbia,
national organizer; and Carol A. Reh-
fisch of San Francisco, secretary of
the Woman's Party in California.
The pageant was originally present
ed in connection with the celebration
of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
first Equal Rights convention in the
world, which was called at Seneca
Falls, in 184S, and which drew up a
Declaration of Sentiments" demand
ing for women complete equality with
men in eevry possible field. 1t por.
trayed the development of the EQUAL
Rights movement, showing the pio-
neers who participated in the first
convention, Lucretia Mott, in Quaker
costume, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Martha c. Wright, Mary Ann McClin-
took, Amelia Bloomer, in the garb
she made famous. but which made her
unpopular. James Mott and about
thirty others. The Seneca Falls mao.
cant attracted so much attention
throughout the country, that it was
decided to reproduce it in every state
IN connection with the campaign for
the Lucretia Mott amendment to the
federal constitution, reading: 'Men
and women shall have equal rights
throughout the United States and
every place subject to its jurisdic-
ton"
A new feature of the Colorado Pag-
cant will be the introduction of pio-
neer women of Colorado who played
an important part in the early life
VI.
the women whose memories will be
honored in this way are Mrs. General
William J. Palmer. who taught the
first school in Colorado Springs.
named the city streets, and contrib
uted in various ways to the improve
ment of the community life; DR.. Aida
c. Avery of Denver, who was the first
woman physician in the territory, and
was also the first president of the
Territorial Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion, formed in 1876; Helen Hunt
jackson whose novels have made the
romance Of western life known
throughout the world; and Mrs. Mary
Wipfrey Epperson, the friend of Mrs.
jackson and one of the most interest
ing of the pioneer women of the state.