Evening star., 1933-07-08
women TO HONOR
): EARLIER LEADERS
Memorial Program Will Be
Held at Monument Grounds
Tonight.

Women of leading professions and in
dustrial groups will pay tribute tonight
in the national memorial services at
the Monument Grounds to early lead
ers of the womsn's movement to whom
women owe what economic oppOrtunl-
ties they possess today.
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, chair
Fan Of the National Woman'S Party,
stated yesterday that restrictions i'm
posed at present upon women as wage
earners are bringing rapidly increasing
support to the equal rights campaign.
The ceremonies tonight are both a
pledge to the past and symbol OF a
new united effort on the part OF
women to carry forward the equal rights
campaign to its complete triumph.
35 Groups to Participate.
The ceremony this evening, in which
IS women'S organizations are particl-
pating with the National Woman'S
Party. will open with an especially
selected program of music by the United
States Marine Band at 7:30. At BIS
a professional of 1000 women carrying
banners will enter the Sylvan Theater
while the band plays the March OF
the Worlen." made famous in the suf-
frage campaign. Following the invoca-
tion, which will be delivered by Dr
the Metropolitan Opera, will sing Weep
No More" making her first appearance
in the National Capital. She will be
accompanied by the Marine Band. With
the memorial banners maSSed on the
stage of the Sylvan Theater. Miss
Marion Chace will lead group of young
women in q special ceremony OF honor
which will be followed by the Estellc
Wentworth Chorus singing Forward
Into Light
Gail Laughlin, member Of the State
legislature Of Maine and known
throughout the country. will then pay
tribute to the women of the past. Mis-;
Doris Stevens, chairman OF the Inter
American Commission Of Women, vii
pay honor to Mrs Belmont. Mrs. Hille;
then will give pledge to the future and
present the resolution adopted by the
National Woman's Party as its program
to the immediate future. The reces-
sional will be onward Glorious Wom-
en- played by the Marine Band ano
sung by Carmela Ponselle.
The line of march of the pageant
professional will be led by Mrs. du Pont
Of Wilmington carrying the American
flag, followed by Mrs. Hilles. carrying
tle DdllIleI VI IlIe NdtAOllol WoilaAA
Party. followed by the memorial BAN
ner to Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, sur
rounded by the purple, white and golo
of the Woman'S Party. and followed by
the memorial banners to 26 woman
pioneers and the memorial banners tc
members of the Woman'S Party who
have died
Banners to Follow.
Following will come the State ban
ners, the banners representing the
Uomen'S professions and the organlZa-
ton banners and last the purple
white and gold Womans Party flags.
The banners to the professions VIII
be as follows: The banner of the wom-
an physicians will be carried by Dr.
Elizabeth OMalley, president of III
Womens Medical Association ano
clinical director of St Elizabeth's Hospi-
tai: that of the lawyers, by Miss Mary
Iinkins; of the teachers. by Miss Wlllyt
Freeman; of social workers, by Miss
Dorothy DietZ of Friendship House; OF
women in Government service, by Mrs
Emma Shaw: that of the dentists. by
DR.. Leah Minkin: of the business Wom
en-, by Miss Priscilla Edgerton of th'
Business and Professional Women!
Club of All Souls Church: Of the home
makers, by Mrs. Ruth Snodgrass; @.
the writer's. by Mrs. Stanley Reed. rep
resenting the Marietta Park Women
Club: of the actresses, by Mrs. Mabe
O. Wilcox of the Shakespeare Society
of the artists, by Miss Mary Bland Bry'
ant: of the poets. by Miss Myrtle Pat
terson, and Of the musicians, by Mrs
Flora McGill Keefer.