Subject File: Lucy Stone Corresp (R)[*file*] 197 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS I have just read Mrs. Paris' play about Lucy Stone Blackwell and the early days of the Suffrage movement with great interest. It seems to me excellent that these scenes should be known and given as widely as possible, for the present generation of young people is much too oblivious of the sacrifices made by the women.who won emancipation for them. The scenes are lively and interesting and I hope that they will meet with the reception they deserve- Helen Ratch.A.A.ROBACK 3 Prescott Street Cambridge, Massachusetts May 15, 1939 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell: I must tell you how much I enjoyed the play Lucy Stone. It was really a moving series of dramatic incidents, and as my companion said, far more worthwhile than many an expensive play which had neither rhyme nor reason. The play was well performed, and the lady who impersonated your mother looked quite a bit like her. It must have been thrilling to you to find yourself represented in the cast. The auction scene must have brought a lump to many a throat. Was the slip about studying Greek so as to study the Bible in the original intended to be a realistic touch of blissful ignorance on the part of young Lucy? The portrayal of your father was even more sympathetic, if possible, than that of your mother. I shall try and write a notice in my column of this performance, and send it to you. Sincerely yours, A Roback AAR:MTDr.A.A. Roback