Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-16
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
PRAISED AS LEADER
Dramatic Sketches Depict
Life and Work of Great
Ref0rmer.

The late Susan B. Anthony wa
sxtolled as leader in three great re
form movements and important event.
in her life were depicted in series o
fsve ulavlets at celebration in com
n,enoration of the l0Sth anniverSar!
Of her birth. under the auspices o
the Susan B. Anthony Foundation. IL
the First CONGREGATIONAL Church las
night. Several hundreds Of person:
were in attendance and heartily
applauded both the speakers anC
playietS.
Representative Henry T. Rainey Of
| Illinois declared Miss Anthony was one
Of the few persons who had the distinc.
ton of being a leader in three great
reforms. namely. the woman suffrage
movement. the freedom of slaves and
work for prohibition.
The life and work OF Miss Anthony
also was praised by Mrs, Anna E
Hendley, honorary president OF the
Susan B. Anthony Foundation, and
Mrs. Lily Charles McFadden.
Titles of Sketches.
The FIVE dramatic sketches depicting
episodes in the life of Miss Anthony
were written by Mrs. Nanette B. Paul
and directed by Mrs. Carlton Savage.
The first showed Miss Anthony at a
teachers convention in New York State.
The next was entitled. "A Sons of
Temperance Convention" Next was a
scene depicting "A Hearing Before a
Committee of Congress" and then. "A
Sunday Afternoon Meeting Outside a
Sod Church in South Dakota" The
series was C!inlaXed by depicting the
t,-to Sc A,,4 l>>f -,
New York. for voting.
Miss Anthony was in1perSonated in
the playlets by Eileen Fowler Other
those who took part in the fight for
woman suffrage were depicted as fol-
lows:
Dr. Zaida Brown Hates. who ap-
peared as Elizabeth Cady Stanton;
Mrs. Katherine B. Willis as Lucretia
Mott, Judge Elmer J. Binford as Judge
Hunt in the voting trial scene. Harold
D. Mccoy as the prosecuting attorney,
Judge Rufus w. Pearson as Judge Sell
den. Miss Anthony's attorney: William
II. Hughes as the presiding officer and
George w. Stewart as Wendell Phillips.
Others on Program.
Other characters in the sketches in
Guided:
Dr.. James G. Stone. Arthur Smith,
Miss Hartley. Miss Constance Lane,
Judge Dean Franklin, Mrs. H. Mofatt
Bradley. Washington Topfam. Miss
Irnla Halves, A. T. Beane. W. B. Crowell,
Dr.. Laura S. Brennan. DR.. Charles
Healy. Paul Starkweather, DR.. Ernest j.
Stevens. Arthur H. Pilkerton, DR.. An
thony Deep. Mrs. BeSs Coston, Miss
Frances Coston. W. H. Bodnar. Miss
Joanna Stopp, S. c. Heliker. Mrs How
ard Hosmer, Armstrong Starr, Milton
A. Trenham. Mrs, Frank Elton Neeley.
Mrs. Mary Chaplin, Mrs. Mallie Roberts
Nichols and r. I. Lehew. Miss Mary
Elizabeth Skinner was interlocutor.
A bronze tablet. containing the names
OF the first contributors to the Susan
B. Anthony memorial fund, was I'M
yelled by Mrs. Virginia Peters Park
hurst, assisted by Mrs. Hendley. the
honorary president.
Mrs. McFadden was chairman in
charge Of the ushers and Miss Margue-
rlte Orme vice chairman Others
assisting as ushers were Miss Eleanor
Jordan. Miss Fanny Dial, Miss Harriet
Whitford. Miss Ellen Poole, Miss Jean.
nette Hume. Miss Rebecca Davidson.
Miss Florence Wetherill. Miss Imogene
Taylor. Miss Hester Ann lie Fevre. Mrs.
Arthur r. Pilkerton, Mrs. Gertrude
Ardinger. Miss Lottie George, Mrs. Eva
Dell Myers, Mrs. II. r. Adams and Miss
Marguerite Ames. Mrs. Leon Arnold
vas chairman Of the hospitality COM
nlittee
The program was opened with an
organ prelude by Charlotte Klein. after
which The Battle Hymn OF the Re-
public" was sung by Mrs. Ruby Smith
Stahl and invocation delivered by Rev
w. L. Darby. The program was con-
GUIDED with the singing OF a duet by
Mary Frances Glenn and John Joseph
Fisher.