BLACKWELL FAMILY LUCY STONE SUBJECT FILE: Lucy Stone [?]SCRAP BOOK LUCY STONE Publicity- Boston Production- Comments- Pictures- fliersMRS. GUY W. STANTIAL 21 Ashmont Street, Melrose TICKET ORDER FOR "LUCY STONE" ............Orchestra Seats, at 85c . . . . . . . $.................... ............Balcony Seats, (A to H) at 55c . . . .................... ............Balcony Seats, (J to S) at 25c . . . . .................... Additional Contribution . . . . . . . . . . .................... Total . . . . . . . . . . . $.................... Make checks payable to Ethel W. Selby, Treasurer (Mrs. Howard W. Selby) PLEASE ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE "LUCY STONE" At the Copley Theatre, Tuesday, May 9, 1939 In honor of Alice Stone Blackwell and for the benefit of The Scholarship Fund for Chinese Women Students SPONSORING COMMITTEE: MRS. EVERETT O. FISK, Chairman Judge Jennie Loitman Barron Mrs. John C. Lee Mrs. Mary Livermore Barrows Rabbi Harry Levi Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer Dr. and Mrs. Leroy M. S. Miner Mr. and Mrs. LaRue Brown Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moors Mrs. Myron H. Clark Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page Dr. George W. Coleman Prof. and Mrs. George H. Parker Dr. Ada Louise Comstock Mrs. Charles Peabody Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie Mrs. William Z. Ripley Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch Mr. and Mrs. William L. Garrison, Jr. Judge Emma Fall Schofield Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Harriman Mrs. Guy W. Stantial Prof. and Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe Miss Alice P. Tapley Prof. and Mrs. Lewis J. Johnson Miss Lucy Wheelock PUBLIC SALE OF TICKETS AFTER APRIL 25 AT 146 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE [*Please Return to Edna Lamprey Stantial 21 Ashmont St. Melrose*]NOW PLAYING LUCY STONE SHUBERT COPLEY THEATRE A DRAMA OF THE CHAMPION OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS "LUCY STONE" NOW PLAYING NOW PLAYING COPLEY THEATRE ATTEND "MORGAN NIGHT" PERFORMANCE OF "LUCY STONE" HOME OF LUCY STONE IN DORCHESTER NOW OWNED AND USED BY MORGAN MEMORIAL FRI. MAY 19 CHILD LABOR - PURE FOOD SCHOOLS - SANITATION WHITE-SLAVERY CLEAN STREETS - WAGES AND ALL-MATTERS-PERTAINING TO-THE-HOME-ARE- WOMANS-BUSINESS AS-WELL-AS-MANS- MOTHERS-NEED-THE-VOTE THOUGHTS-HAVE-GONE-FORTH WHOSE-POWER-SHALL-SLEEP NO-MORE. VOTES FOR WOMEN.Please return 8 Edna L Stantial 21 Ashmont St Melrose Old wagon used by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Beachwell to Advertise the Woman's Journal The wagon is still at the Lucy Stone Home at Pope's Hill Worchester.FEDERAL THEATRE (A Division of the Works Progress Administration) LUCY STONE COPLEY THEATRE BOSTONTHE FEDERAL THEATRE USA WORK PROGRAM WPA HALLIE FLANAGAN National Director J. HOWARD MILLER Nat'l Deputy Director BLANDING SLOAN Eastern Regional Director JON B. MACK State Director Presents LUCY STONE A Chronicle Play Written By Maud Wood Park Adapted for Federal Theatre by Robert Finch STAGED BY ELIOT DUVEY THE CAST (In order of appearance) Prologue..............................................................Elsa Tashko Jim Murray..........................................................Harry E. Lowell Mrs. Stone...........................................................Ann Baker Lucy Stone...........................................................Lillian Merchal Mr. Stone.............................................................Bertram Parry Luther Stone.......................................................Jack Granfield William Spencer................................................Edward Dillon George Washington Watts...........................Charles McFarland Antoinette Brown.............................................Muriel Woodward Miss Emery..........................................................Anita Webb Mrs. Mahan.........................................................Cordelia MacDonald Professor Thome...............................................Burt Kelsey William Lloyd Garrison...................................William Warren Stephen Foster...................................................Roger MacDonald Mrs. Marianna Austin.....................................Winifred Douglas Joe Coffin.............................................................John Lyons Samuel Blackwell...............................................Basil Burwell Henry B. Blackwell.............................................Glenn Wilson Roy...........................................................................Burt Kelsey Rev. Thomas W. Higginson............................Harry Lowell Mrs. Widgery.......................................................Fern Foster Dolphus.................................................................John Lyons George...................................................................Fritz Eisenmann Senator Charles Sumner.................................Basil Burwell Horace Greeley...................................................Jack Granfield Rev. Samuel May................................................Burt Kelsey Wendell Phillips..................................................Roger MacDonald Susan B. Anthony..............................................Anita Webb Elizabeth Cady Stanton...................................Winifred Douglas President Fairchild of Oberlin College......Edward Dillon Mary Livermore..................................................Elizabeth Gerrish Alice Stone Blackwell........................................Florence Walsh Also Men and Women of a Cape Cod Town, etc.THE FEDERAL THEATRE USA WORK PROGRAM WPA HALLIE FLANAGAN National Director J. HOWARD MILLER Nat'l Deputy Director BLANDING SLOAN Eastern Regional Director JON B. MACK State Director Presents LUCY STONE A Chronicle Play Written By Maud Wood Park Adapted for Federal Theatre by Robert Finch STAGED BY ELIOT DUVEY THE CAST (In order of appearance) Prologue..............................................................Elsa Tashko Jim Murray..........................................................Harry E. Lowell Mrs. Stone...........................................................Ann Baker Lucy Stone...........................................................Lillian Merchal Mr. Stone.............................................................Bertram Parry Luther Stone.......................................................Jack Granfield William Spencer................................................Edward Dillon George Washington Watts...........................Charles McFarland Antoinette Brown.............................................Muriel Woodward Miss Emery..........................................................Anita Webb Mrs. Mahan.........................................................Cordelia MacDonald Professor Thome...............................................Burt Kelsey William Lloyd Garrison...................................William Warren Stephen Foster...................................................Roger MacDonald Mrs. Marianna Austin.....................................Winifred Douglas Joe Coffin.............................................................John Lyons Samuel Blackwell...............................................Basil Burwell Henry B. Blackwell.............................................Glenn Wilson Roy...........................................................................Burt Kelsey Rev. Thomas W. Higginson............................Harry Lowell Mrs. Widgery.......................................................Fern Foster Dolphus.................................................................John Lyons George...................................................................Fritz Eisenmann Senator Charles Sumner.................................Basil Burwell Horace Greeley...................................................Jack Granfield Rev. Samuel May................................................Burt Kelsey Wendell Phillips..................................................Roger MacDonald Susan B. Anthony..............................................Anita Webb Elizabeth Cady Stanton...................................Winifred Douglas President Fairchild of Oberlin College......Edward Dillon Mary Livermore..................................................Elizabeth Gerrish Alice Stone Blackwell........................................Florence Walsh Also Men and Women of a Cape Cod Town, etc.FEDERAL THEATRE (A Division of the Works Progress Administration) LUCY STONE COPLEY THEATRE BOSTONFEDERAL THEATRE (A Division of the Works Progress Administration) SYNOPSIS OF SCENES Prologue Scene 1. 1830. Kitchen of the Stone farmhouse, West Brookfield, Mass. Late afternoon in September. Scene 2. 1847. The Ladies' Boarding House at Oberlin College. Late afternoon in June. Scene 3. 1851. A meeting hall in a Cape Cod town. A summer afternoon. Scene 4. 1853. Henry Blackwell's hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio. An evening in late summer. Intermission - 8 minutes Scene 5. 1854. Kitchen of the Stone farmhouse again. A morning in late spring. Scene 6. 1855. The same. Evening. The last day of April. Scene 7. 1858. Living-room of the home of Henry and Lucy, Orange, N. J. A summer morning. Intermission - 8 minutes Scene. 8 1869. A committee meeting room, Washington, D. C. Afternoon. Scene 9. 1883. The Chapel at Oberlin College. Scene 10. 1893. The upstairs study of the Blackwell Home, Dorchester, Mass. Late afternoon. Autumn. Settings Constructed by.........John Buey Settings Painted by..................Thomas DeRushia Herbert Fish Costumes Executed by..........Catherine Pearson Lighting........................................by Eliot Duvey Assistant Director.....................Paul F. Sheehan Settings and Costumes..........Designed by Paul Cadorette Music by Federal Theatre Project Orchestra Charles Frank and Chester Mason, Conductors The Federal Theatre adaption of Lucy Stone was made under the personal supervision of Mr. Ben Russack, Supervisor Play Writing Department National Service Bureau, 1697 Broadway, New York City Arrangements Can Now Be Made For Theatre Parties At Reduced Rates By Contacting EUGENE C. KEENAN, PROMOTION DEPARTMENT FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT 67 Quincy Street, Roxbury Tel. Highlands 6310FEDERAL THEATRE USA WORK PROGRAM WPA MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE LILLIAN ARNOLD, Director Forum Players GEORGE BRINTON BEAL Emerson College PROF. H. W. L. DANA International Authority, Drama PROF. SAMUEL ELIOT Smith College JAMES J. HAYDEN Actor, Director, Producer ELINOR HUGHES Dramatic Critic Boston Herald ADELE HOES LEE Bishop Lee School of Expression PROF. JEANNETTE MARKS Mt. Holyoke College JOHN A. O'HEARN, Editor Lawrence Eagle-Tribune PROF. FREDERICK PACKARD Harvard University PROF. FRANK P. RAND Mass. State College DR. D. M. STALEY, President Staley College of The Spoken Word EDWARD A. SULLIVAN, President Salem Teachers College NEXT ATTRACTION --- COPLEY THEATRE TWO WEEKS ONLY Beginning Tuesday Evening, May 30, 1939 "BIG BLOW" A Vital Play of the Florida Hurricane Country Dramatized from his Novel of the Same Name by Theodore Pratt FIRE NOTICE: The exit, indicated by a red light and sign, nearest to the seat you occupy, is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency please do not run — WALK TO THAT EXIT. 60 COPLEY THEATRE BOSTONTHE FEDERAL THEATRE USA WORK PROGRAM WPA MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE LILLIAN ARNOLD, Director Forum Players GEORGE BRINTON BEAL Emerson College PROF. H. W. L. DANA International Authority, Drama PROF. SAMUEL ELIOT Smith College JAMES J. HAYDEN Actor, Director, Producer ELINOR HUGHES Dramatic Critic Boston Herald ADELE HOES LEE Bishop Lee School of Expression PROF. JEANNETTE MARKS Mt. Holyoke College JOHN A. O'HEARN, Editor Lawrence Eagle-Tribune PROF. FREDERICK PACKARD Harvard University PROF. FRANK P. RAND Mass. State College DR. D. M. STALEY, President Staley College of The Spoken Word EDWARD A. SULLIVAN, President Salem Teachers College NEXT ATTRACTION --- COPLEY THEATRE TWO WEEKS ONLY Beginning Tuesday Evening, May 30, 1939 "BIG BLOW" A Vital Play of the Florida Hurricane Country Dramatized from his Novel of the Same Name by Theodore Pratt FIRE NOTICE: The exit, indicated by a red light and sign, nearest to the seat you occupy, is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency please do not run — WALK TO THAT EXIT. 60 Prologue Scene 1. 1830. Kitchen of the Stone farmhouse, West Brookfield, Mass. Late afternoon in September. Scene 2. 1847. The Ladies' Boarding House at Oberlin College. Late afternoon in June. Scene 3. 1851. A meeting hall in a Cape Cod town. A summer afternoon. Scene 4. 1853. Henry Blackwell's hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio. An evening in late summer. Intermission - 8 minutes Scene 5. 1854. Kitchen of the Stone farmhouse again. A morning in late spring. Scene 6. 1855. The same. Evening. The last day of April. Scene 7. 1858. Living-room of the home of Henry and Lucy, Orange, N. J. A summer morning. Intermission - 8 minutes Scene. 8 1869. A committee meeting room, Washington, D. C. Afternoon. Scene 9. 1883. The Chapel at Oberlin College. Scene 10. 1893. The upstairs study of the Blackwell Home, Dorchester, Mass. Late afternoon. Autumn. Settings Constructed by.........John Buey Settings Painted by..................Thomas DeRushia Herbert Fish Costumes Executed by..........Catherine Pearson Lighting........................................by Eliot Duvey Assistant Director.....................Paul F. Sheehan Settings and Costumes..........Designed by Paul Cadorette Music by Federal Theatre Project Orchestra Charles Frank and Chester Mason, Conductors The Federal Theatre adaption of Lucy Stone was made under the personal supervision of Mr. Ben Russack, Supervisor Play Writing Department National Service Bureau, 1697 Broadway, New York City Arrangements Can Now Be Made For Theatre Parties At Reduced Rates By Contacting EUGENE C. KEENAN, PROMOTION DEPARTMENT FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT 67 Quincy Street, Roxbury Tel. Highlands 6310 Apr. 11/39 Christian Register "Lucy Stone" Friends of Alice Stone Blackwell will rejoice with her that Maud Wood Park's play, "Lucy Stone," is to open at the Copley Theater on May 9 for a two weeks' production by the Federal Theater. Boston University Women's Council is to sponsor the first night performance in honor of Miss Blackwell, and for the benefit of a scholarship fund for Chinese women students in the College of Liberal Arts. "Lucy Stone" is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement." Although the background of the play is the development and final success of the long struggle to get legal and other rights for women, the episodes -- drawn largely from the biography of Lucy Stone written by her daughter -- include the genuine romance of Lucy and Henry Blackwell, as well as some of their humorous experiences in working for the cause. In the first scene the child Lucy is started on her remarkable career by the realization of the needless hardships borne by her mother and other women; and the next scene, at Oberlin College, illustrates some of the absurd restrictions placed upon women students in the early days of coeducation. Later scenes include such famous national thinkers and leaders of their day as William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony and Mary A. Livermore. For young women today, many of whom do not know that opportunities now taken for granted were won for them by the courage and self-sacrifice of leaders in an earlier generation, this drama of real life should have special interest. Included in the sponsoring committee are Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, chairman; Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, Dr. George W. Coleman, Miss Ada Louise Comstock, Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison, Rabbi Harry Levi, Miss Alice P. Tapley and Miss Lucy Wheelock.THIS WEEK in BOSTON "SO THIS IS BOSTON" WEEK OF APRIL 16, 1939 "LUCY STONE" Federal Theatre Production for May 9, At Copley "Lucy Stone", play by Maud Wood Park, based on Alice Stone Blackwell's story of the life of her illustrious mother who was such a potent factor in achieving national ratification of Woman's Suffrage, will be produced by the Federal Theatre on Tuesday night, May 9, for a two-week's engagement. The play is said to be a faithful as well as a dramatic unfolding of the colorful career of this national fig- ure, from the time when, as a young girl, she felt the need of woman's assertion of her rights, through her courtship and married days with Henry Blackwell, and her final days of triumph, with the sympathetic co-operation of such national thinkers and leaders of the day as William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. An- thony and Mary Livermore, who figure personally in the play. Massachusetts League of Women Voters Bulletin LUCY STONE "The play "Lucy Stone" a dramatization of the life of this great woman, written by Maud Wood Park, will be produced at the Copley Theatre, Tuesday, May 9 at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. for its initial performance. The production is in honor of Alice Stone Blackwell and for the benefit of the scholarship fund for Chinese Women Students, and is sponsored by the Boston University Women's Council. Tickets are on sale at 146 Commonwealth Avenue: Orchestra 85¢, Balcony (A to H) 55¢, (J to S) 25¢. Checks should be made payable to Ethel W. Selby. Massachusetts League of Women Voters Bulletin May, 1939THE BOSTON GLOBE APRIL 27, 1939 Famous Suffragist Says "E" Still Challenge to Women Maud Wood Park Finds (E)mployment Replaces (E)qual Rights as Problem By DOROTHY WAYMAN Woman, the Eternal Feminine, can never get away from that capital letter E, it seems. I asked Maud Wood Park a question about women yesterday and she answered me with three E's. Maud Wood Park is one of the 12 best-known and admired women alive in America. Starting in 1898 as one of the two "suffragists" of that early day in Radcliffe College, she progressed through years of social work and suffrage battle to be chairman of the Legislative committee that saw the Equal Suffrage amendment through Congress, and then became first national president of the League of Women Voters. Employment Problem Now The question was, since Maud Wood Park was a leader in her own generation and has recently written a play about Lucy Stone, leader in a previous generation, what did Mrs. Park consider the outstanding problem women of today should tackle? "Employment," said Mrs. Park promptly. "In Lucy Stone's day, women's chief battle was to win a right to an education commensurate with that given men. In my own day, when I was at Radcliffe, as a result of the earlier generation winning the fight for women's education, our great fight was for Equal Suffrage. "Now, when women have achieved both education and equal suffrage, there is a new problem which demands the interests and energies of every woman if this country is to be prosperous for all its citizens. "Until America solves the problem of unemployment, we will be continually menaced with the invasion of foreign philosophies which threaten the spirit of our democracy." Mrs. Parks was speaking as guest of honor of the Boston University Women's Council at a luncheon at their quarters, 146 Commonwealth av., in connection with the Council's sponsoring of the premier of Mrs. Park's play "Lucl Stone" May 9 at the Copley Theatre, produced by the Federal Theatre players. Proceeds of the first night are for scholarships for Chinese women students at Boston University. Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, president of the B. U. Women's Council, had the unusual idea of dispensing with a set speech. Instead she placed the Globe reporter next to the guest of honor and over the chicken a la king, promoted a public "interview." Having Fun Writing Plays Maud Wood Park, after retiring as national president of the League of Women Voters, spent several years recovering from a severe physical breakdown. She lives now in Portland, spending long Summers in a charming shore home at Cape Elizabeth. "I'm having fun writing plays," she said, answering a question about her interests in her quiet retreat. "I always meant to write plays, but social work and suffrage swept me up in such a hectic current that for many years I had no time for it. At Radcliffe I studied drama under Prof. Baker. That was before the Baker 47 Workshop became famous, of course. I majored in English and my honor thesis was on the sources of Shakespeare's "King John." "After I recovered my health at Cape Elizabeth I began writing again. I write for my own pleasure so it is pure fun. It was pleasant to find that Walter M. Baker Company thought some of my one-act plays and now Lucy Stone worth publishing." "How did it happen that you gave up playwriting for suffrage?" "In my senior year I was chairman of a club and was asked to arrange MAUD WOOD PARK a debate on suffrage. I secured Alice Stone Blackwell to speak on the prosuffrage side. It was a rainy day and I still remember how Inez Gilmore (now Mrs. Will Irwin of Scituate) and I, the only two suffragists in college, stood out in the rain collaring people to fill the hall. Then an old buggy came with Henry Blackwell driving Alice Stone Blackwell over from Dorchester to give our talk. She was all bundled up against the weather and looked so little and gentle that my heart sank; I though the speech would be a fizzle. Speech Changed Her Career "Instead, that gentle little woman delivered such a fiery speech that Inez and I devoted ourselves to the cause thereafter. We organized the College Equal Suffrage League, though we could only get 14 other members. It grew to have thousands of members and chapters in 30 states." Maud Wood Park was a beautiful girl in those days just before the turn of the century, a Boston girl by birth and education. She married the late Charles Park, Boston architect, just after graduation, and following his death a few years later, did social work in the old Social Cove district of Boston for seven years, before embarking on travel and study of women's problems in foreign countries. She is still a handsome woman, looking very charming at the luncheon yesterday in a blue and white flowered print, with blue straw hat and a corsage of yellow jonquils. She has the admirable unfeminine quality of keeping personalities out of politics. The question had turned on figures prominent in the pre-World War suffrage fight in Boston. "Remember Mrs. William Lowell Putnam?" said Mrs. Park. "She was sister of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell and an ardent antisuffragist. We opposed each other for years on that question. Then, in 1920, the first year after women had won the vote, whom should I meet in Washington, one of the two Massachusetts citizens to bring the Presidential votes to Washington officially, but Mrs. Putnam. She stopped me and laughed. 'Well, Mrs. Park,' she said, in that inimitably dry way of hers, 'it's hard to tell whether this is a joke on you or on me!' Wasn't that amusing? Employment For All "But those old arguments are over. Women have won their chance at education and equal suffrage today, and now I believe it is up to women to put all their energies into the battle for economic improvement." "Do you mean employment for women?" "No, I'm talking about employment for everyone who has a living to earn, a family to support, a home to maintain. Employment is fundamental to so many of our problems. "When I lived in the South End and saw the hardships of people at close range. I used to say that people's vices never surprised and their virtues under hardships constantly amazed me. "Until we solve this situation of unemployment, we of America will not have lived up to what the founders of the nation expected. Unless we solve unemployment, we shall be in no position to avoid the dangers of the international situation of the times. We must affirm our own faith. "If I were graduating from Radcliffe this June, instead of 40 years ago, the economic problem is the work to which I would devote myself." May 7th THIS WEEK in BOSTON "SO THIS IS BOSTON" "LUCY STONE" Federal Theatre's World Premier, Tuesday, May 9 -- Copley The romance of Lucy Stone, who blazed the way to the dawn of freedom for women, written in a play titled "Lucy Stone," after the name of its heroine, by Maud Wood Park, will be given a world premier by the Federal Theatre Tuesday evening, May 9, at the Copley Theatre. The play, with its crescendos of romance, thrills, humors and solutions of life perplexities as they concerned the average woman in this country from 1830 to 1890, passes through three acts and ten scenes, tracing the daily home and public life of this "morning star of the women's rights movement" from her early teens until life's exit in her glorious autumn day in 1893 at the age of 75. The play opens in the Stone farmhouse in West Brookfield in 1830 and the second scene finds the ambitious Lucy Stone at Oberlin College where she graduated as the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. The third scene of the first act is a meeting hall in a Cape Cod town, and the fourth, Henry Blackwell's hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Lucy encounters the man who was to become her husband and valuable helper in the cause of "emancipation of woman". Following scenes include a committee room at the Capitol in Washington and the upstairs study of the Blackwell home, Dorchester, just before her passing on. "Lucy Stone" is staged by Eliot Duvey, and was specially prepared National Service Bureau. Principal roles will be played by Lillian Merchal in the title role, Glenn Wilson as Henry B. Blackwell, Florence Walsh as Alice Stone Blackwell, Muroel Woodward as Antoinette Brown, Basil Burwell as Samuel Blackwell (and Charles Sumner), William Warren as William Lloyd Garrison, Roger MacDonald as Wendell Phillips, Harry Lowell as Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Jack Granfield as Horace Greeley, Anita Webb as Susan B. Anthony. 24 This Week in Boston DRAMA COMEDY THEATRES TIME TABLE MOTION PICTURES COLONIAL THEATRE D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. SHUBERT THEATRE Frank Fay's Show. WILBUR THEATRE "The White Steed" coming May 8. COPLEY THEATRE "Lucy Stone" Transcript May 10 The Federal Theater's Next One The Federal Theater's next production at the Copley Theater, following "Lucy Stone," which opened last night, will be "Big Blow," by Theodore Pratt. It is announced for Tuesday evening, May 30. "Big Blow," a dramatization by Mr. Pratt of his own novel of the same title, had a successful production in New York this season. "Lucy Stone" May 9 At Copley Theater Mrs. Everett O. Fisk is chairman of the sponsoring committee for the opening performance of "Lucy Stone" to be given Tuesday, May 9, at the Copley Theater in honor of Alice Stone Blackwell and for the benefit of the Scholarship Fund for Chinese Women Students by the Boston University Women's Council. Other sponsors are Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, Mrs. Mary Livermore Barrows, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. LaRue Brown, Mrs. Myron H. Clark, Dr. George W. Coleman, Dr. Ada Louise Comstock, Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie, Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Garrison, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Harriman, Prof. and Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Prof. and Mrs. Lewis J. Johnson, Mrs. John C. Lee, Rabbi Harry Levi, Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh, Dr. and Mrs. Leroy M. S. Miner, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moors, Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page, Prof. and Mrs. George H. Parker, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. William Z. Ripley, Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, Judge Emma Fall Schofield, Mrs. Guy W. Stantial, Miss Alice P. Tapley and Miss Lucy Wheelock. Society Page Boston HeraldBoston Post - April 16 / 39 BUYS BENEFIT TICKETS President Daniel L. March of Boston University as he purchased tickets for the "Lucy Stone" premiere which is to be presented by the Federal Theatre on Tuesday night, May 9, at the Copley Theatre. The first night's proceeds will be for the benefit of Chinese women students at B. U. The costumed girls are Miss Helen Yee, left, and Miss Hilda Yee. Globe - May 1 1939 Invitation to the Play Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, president of Boston University, is shown receiving from the Misses Helen and Hilda Yee, an invitation to attend the opening night performance of Mrs. Maud Wood Park's play, "Lucy Stone," at the Copley Theatre, May 9, in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and for the Scholarship Fund for Chinese Women Students. MALDEN PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1939 MALDEN PATRONESSES FOR "LUCY STONE" The Maiden patroness group for the opening night of "Lucy Stone" at the Copley Theatre on May 9 include Judge Emma Fall Schofield, Miss Cora B. Browne, and Miss Ruth L. S. Child, all members of the Boston University group sponsoring the premiere of the Federal Theatre's presentation of the life of this famous pioneer. Melrose Free Press, May 11 Miss Ethel Waldron Bittner and Mrs. Guy Stantial were guests of Mrs. Maud Wood Park at a supper party at the Pioneer Club on Sunday, following a rehearsal of Mrs. Park's play, "Lucy Stone" opening at the Copley Theatre this week for a two weeks' engagement. MALDEN EVENING NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 Judge Schofield and Miss Child at Lunch to Mrs Maud Wood Park Judge Emma Fall Schofield and Miss Ruth L S Child, 226-B Washington st, were the guests of Mrs Everett O Fisk of the Boston University Women's Council at a luncheon on Wednesday in honor of Mrs Maud Wood Park, author of the play "Lucy Stone." The play, to be produced at the Copley theatre beginning May 9th, was written for the 80th birthday of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and is a dramatization of Miss Blackwell's biography of her mother. Judge Schofield and Miss Child are among the sponsors of the play for the opening night, when Boston University will take over the entire house in honor of Miss Blackwell, a trustee and former graduate. TONIGHT IN THE THEATERS COLONIAL -- The D'Olyly Carte Opera Company of London presents "Patience" by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. 8:15 P. M. COPLEY -- "Lucy Stone," a new play by Maud Wood Park, based on the biography by Alice Stone Blackwell, presentetd by the Federal Theater, 8:30 P. M. April 29 Dramatization of Lucy Stone Lights a Daughter's Career When the curtain goes up at the opening of the play, "Lucy Stone," May 9, at the Copley Theater, probably the happiest person in the audience will be Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, distinguished suffragist and author of "Lucy Stone -- Pioneer," a biography of her mother, on which the play is based. Miss Blackwell, now living in retirement in Cambridge, said with undisguised enthusiasm that she is looking forward to the performance of Mrs. Maud Wood Park's play as one of the "happiest times of my life" -- a useful life which already has been crowded with interesting, historic, and important events. From childhood, Miss Blackwell was reared in an atmosphere of suffrage and civic work. Her mother -- to quote her -- was "the morning star of the woman's rights movement," lecturing for the cause from 1847 to 57 throughout the country. She headed the call for the First National Woman's Rights Convention. She converted Susan B. Anthony and also Julia Ward Howe, who in 1868 became President of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. There are many "firsts" in Lucy Stone's family, Miss Blackwell explained. Her mother was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree, when she was graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1847. She was the first married woman to make an issue of keeping her maiden name after marriage; hence was known as Mrs. Lucy Stone rather than Mrs. Henry B. Blackwell. A woman today who prefers to retain her maiden name upon marriage is still known as a "Lucy Stoner." Miss Blackwell added that one of her mother's sisters-in-law, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree, while another, the Rev. Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- as she has written in "Lucy Stone -- Pioneer" -- was the first woman in the world to be ordained as a minister. Thus Lucy Stone was in close touch with a movement which had opened the "learned professions" to women. Miss Blackwell is known for more than her contributions to the woman's rights movement. She has brought to the American people translations and English renderings of many foreign writings, mostly poems. It was through her Association with her mother, and her father, in the early organization of the Society of American Friends of Russian Freedom that she was led into the appreciation of Russian poetry, and thence into English verse renderings of translations made by her friends. Recalling her college days at Boston University, Miss Blackwell modestly told how she was elected President of her sophomore class, which she still considers "one of the greatest honors I have ever had." Miss Blackwell is better known as a biographer than a poet. In 1917 she edited "The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution," the life and letters of Catherine Breshkovsky. For a time the book was one of the six "best sellers." "Lucy Stone -- Pioneer," the biography of her mother, came out in 1930. Years ago she compiled, in collaboration with Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Miss Lucy E. Anthony, "The Yellow-Ribbon Speaker," a book of woman suffrage readings and recitations. Living in Cambridge in the utmost simplicity, Miss Blackwell, characteristically, is surrounded by books and newspapers. Even though she has seen the realization of her efforts to establish woman suffrage, still today she is interested in the welfare of women.Post April 27, 1939 Reveals Her Inspiration in Writing 'Lucy Stone' MRS. PARK HONORED Mrs. Maud Wood Park, seated at the left, was guest of honor at a luncheon of the Boston University Women's Council yesterday. Beside her is Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch. Standing are Mrs. Arthur Gilbert Williams, Brookline, left, and Mrs. George E. Henry, Winchester. Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Portland, Me., champion of women's rights and author of the new play, "Lucy Stone," which is to be presented for the first time in Boston May 9 at the Federal Theatre, was guest of the Boston University Women's Council at a luncheon in the B. U. Women's Building at 146 Commonwealth avenue yesterday. Members of the organization have taken over Copley Theatre for the opening night, which is to be in honor of Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of the woman for whom the play has been named and whom Mrs. Parks regards as the most representative of great American women alive today. Mrs. Park was presented to members and guests of the council by their president, Mrs. Everett O. Fisk. The stimulating effect of Miss Blackwell's biography of her own mother inspired her to write a play, Mrs. Park declared. The real purpose of the production, she added, is to make the biography of the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree better known to the public. "I wrote it to call the attention of the girls in the colleges today to the biography of Lucy Stone and to interest them in reading it," she said. The script was presented to Miss Blackwell on the occasion of her 80th birthday and since that time the play has been presented by several amateur organizations, but never professionally. During the course of her informal remarks Mrs. Park stated she believed the unemployment situation and the task of making democracy function so that in itself it will constitute the answer to Fascist propaganda are the two problems with which she, as a young woman starting out in life today, would have to deal. Mrs. Park expressed herself as particularly pleased that members of the council had taken over Copley Theatre for the first night. The play will have a two-week run at the theatre. With members of the council she discussed at great length many of the highlights of the career of Miss Blackwell and hope was expressed that Miss Blackwell might be able to attend the opening performance in her honor. Mrs. Park told members of the council she hoped other ways and means would be found to acquaint young women with the life of Lucy Stone and Alice Stone Blackwell since she has found that many of the younger women are entirely unaware that these two great women leaders were such champions of women's rights. April 25 Christian Sc. Monitor B. U. Women to Sponsor 'Lucy Stone' Premiere The first performance of Maud Wood Parker's play, "Lucy Stone," at the Copley Theatre on May 9, will be sponsored by the Boston University Women's Council in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. Proceeds will be for the benefit of the scholarship fund for Chinese women students in the Boston University College of Liberal Arts. Monitor May 3 Lucy Stone -- At the Copley, beginning Tuesday, May 9, Federal Theater production of Maud Wood Park's play based on Alice Stone Blackwell's story of her distinguished mother. Monitor May 9 Opening Tonight Lucy Stone -- At the Copley Chronicle play by Maud Wood Park, staged by Eliot Duvey in a Federal Theater production. Settings and costumes designed by Paul Cadorette; supervisor of music, Charles Frank. The cast includes Lillian Merchal, Bertram Parry, Elsa Tashko, Harry E. Lowell, Ann Baker, Jack Granfield, Edward Dillon, Charles McFarland, Muriel Woodward, Anita Webb, Cordelia MacDonald, Burt Kelsey, William Warren, Roger MacDonald, Winifred Douglas, John Lyons, Basil Burwell, Glenn Wilson, Harry Lowell, Fern Foster, Fritz Eisenmann, Elizabeth Gerrish, Florence Walsh. Curtain at 8:30. Events in and Around Boston Tonight Free public lecture on Christian Science by Miss Florence Middaugh, C. S., a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Cambridge, in Robbins Memorial Auditorium, Arlington, 8 p. m. Theaters Colonial -- "The Mikado," presented by the O'Oyly Carte Opera Company of London. 8:15. Matinee Wednesday at 2:15 "Cox and Box," and "H. M. S. Pinafore." (last week.) Wilbur -- "The White Steed," comedy by P. V. Carroll. Presented by Eddie Dowling. Featuring Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Tandy and George Coulouris. 8:30 Matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2:30. Copley -- "Lucy Stone," drama of woman's rights, presented by the WPA Federal Theater. 8:30. TONIGHT IN THE THEATERS COLONIAL -- The D'Oyly Carte opera company of London presents "The Gondoliers," by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan; 8:15 P. M. COPLEY -- "Lucy Stone," a new play by Maud Wood Park, based on the biography by Alice Stone Blackwell, presented by the Federal Theater. 8:30 P. M. "LUCY STONE" -- At the Copley, Tuesday evening, the Federal Theater will present the world premiere of "Lucy Stone," by Maud Wood Park, from the life story of the famous women's suffrage leader as written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. Lucy Stone's struggle for equality for women in law and in the home, as well as her courtship by Henry Blackwell are parts of the drama of this play which introduces in the course of its action Susan B. Anthony, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley and other contemporary personalities. The cast will be drawn for the most part from players who were last part from players who were last seen in "Macbeth," and earlier in "Faustus." The engagement will be for two weeks, with evening performances Tuesday through Saturday and a Saturday matinee performance. Monitor April 11 News of the State 'Lucy Stone' Play The Federal Theater is planning to produce "Lucy Stone," a play based on Alice Stone Blackwell's story of her mother, at the Copley Theater beginning Tuesday, May 9. The engagement is expected to run two weeks. The play was written by Maud Wood Park. It follows the career of this pioneer worker for women's rights. Among the familiar figures to be introduced on the stage will be William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, and Mary Livermore. Monitor Apr 29 News of the Stage Boston's Busy May With May just around the corner, the theater season in Boston is holding up remarkably well. Next week, for instance, will find three of the downtown theater's active, with Frank Fay's Show opening at the Shubert, the D'Oyly Carte Company swinging into the third week of its engagement at the Colonial, and Eddie Dowling's production of "Our Town" beginning the second half of its fortnight at the Plymouth. Added to that list is "Lucy Stone," opening at the Copley Tuesday evening, and "He Was Born Gay," Emlyn Williams' play, which the Harvard Dramatic Club will give for the first time in the United States at the Peabody Playhouse Wednesday evening. As it happens, both of these plays are based on historical events. "Lucy Stone" is concerned with the career of one of the pioneers in the suffrage movement, and "He Was Born Gay" turns to the legend of the "Lost Dauphin."BOSTON POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939 'LUCY STONE' TO BE GIVEN HERE Story of First Champion of Women's Rights Alice Stone Blackwell is the most representative of great American women alive today, said Mrs. Maud Wood Park, American woman champion of women's rights, yesterday on her arrival in Boston. Mrs. Park came to this city to discuss the production of "Lucy Stone," her new play, which will be given for the first time in Boston, May 9, at the Federal Theatre, in honor of Miss Blackwell. Boston University Women's Council has taken over Copley Theatre for the opening night. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who is 80 years old, one year younger than Miss Blackwell, will be a guest of honor of Mrs. Park at the opening. Mrs. Park placed Mrs. Catt after Miss Blackwell as the second great American woman of the contemporary age. Jane Addams of Hull House, who died a few years ago, was a third choice. "Lucy Stone, the mother of Miss Blackwell, was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. She had to go to Oberlin College in Ohio, to study. No other college in those days would accept a woman," sad Mrs. Park. "She became the champion of women's rights in this country and lectured to great audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. She headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention and founded and edited the Women's Journal of Boston." "Lucy Stone" Play Has World Premier The Federal Theatre will present for its world premiere, at the Copley Theatre, Tuesday evening, May 9, "Lucy Stone," the thrilling life drama of that pioneer in the battle cry of "Votes for Women," titled after the maiden name of this ever-shining light in the dawn of freedom for women in America. The play, promised as a straight forward chronicle of the emancipation of women, is by Mrs. Maud Wood Park, a Radcliffe graduate, who realistically interweaves in the romance of Lucy Stone's life the progress of woman's suffrage through a century of consistent effort. "Lucy Stone" is based on the book of the name written by Alice Stone Blackwell as a life record of her illustrious mother, and is presented in honor of her 81st birthday. Federal Theatre's state director, Jon B. Mack, in announcing the engagement as limited to two weeks, assures patrons of an adequate cast and production under the direction of Eliot Duvey, who has placed in the principal roles of Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Henry Blackwell, Samuel Blackwell, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony Boston Transcript - May 13 The Lucy Stone of 1939 Lillian Merchal, who proves equal to the difficulties task of portraying the character of Lucy Stone, from 15 years of age to 75, in the play of that name which the Federal Theater is presenting at the Copley Theater, is only a little past 30 years old, but her stage experience covers a wide range in drama, comedy, farce and musical comedy to the present day. Miss Merchal began making her appearances before the footlights when stock companies were so popular and there was hardly a city or town, in the East especially, that did not have its company of local favorites. From the Norumbega Players in summer stock in 1919, followed by a 40-week season in Lynn, she divided the 1920-21 season between Manchester, N. H., the Park Theater in New York and Utica, N. Y. Boston saw her in an ingenue role in 1922 for 23 weeks at the Wilbur Theater in "As You Were," a comedy with music features in which Sam Bernard was starred with Irene Bordoni. Another important Boston engagement came during the long run of "Lightnin" at the Hollis St. Theater in 1924, with Frank Bacon. Much Traveled Too Her stock activities covered a distance from Gloucester, Mass, to Columbus O., with most of the intermediate cities included in her repertory roster, heading at one time, in Gloucester, Haverhill and Framingham, her own company known as the Merchal Players. That was in a day when theater "trouping" was good. Even Helen Hayes in "Victoria Regina," with all her vast experience in stage territory, did not find it an easy task to simulate the actions and looks of Queen Victoria from her early teens to her later years on the throne of England during the performance of the play -- a stage triumph that Miss Merchal, in spanning the years of Lucy Stone, commendably approaches. Sunday Herald April 30 In Prospect "LUCY STONE" -- At the Copley on Tuesday evening, May 9, the Federal Theater will offer the first performance of "Lucy Stone," a drama by Maud Wood Park, based on Alice Stone Blackwell's biography of her famous mother. Lucy Stone is shown as the pioneer in the struggle for "votes for women" and for women's equality in law and in private life. Her courtship by Henry Blackwell, her struggle for the principles in which she so firmly believed and her eventual triumph make up the drama. The cast will be drawn principally from the Federal Theater cast which appeared recently in "Macbeth," and the engagement is for two weeks only. FIGHTER Lucy Stone Was, As This Proves When the Federal Theater Project offers the world premiere of "Lucy Stone" next Tuesday night, it will be -- in a manner of speaking -- a homecoming for the lady whose name the play's title celebrates. It was in this city that she lived and worked for many years prior to her death here in 1893. And if someone who came in late or was born too early should ask, "Worked at what?" the play itself will be an answer. It can't furnish all the answers, because the lady's life was long and busy. Suffice it to say here that the freedom from parental restriction enjoyed by the average girl today is largely the result of diverse campaigns carried on as long ago as 1835 by Lucy Stone; and that a few other campaigns of hers concerned the right of women to vote, own property, speak in public, acquire education on a plane with men, and achieve political leadership. Furthermore, if anyone is still asking who Lucy Stone was, she was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree, lectured to immense audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857, headed the call for the first National Women's Rights Convention, founded and edited the Women's Journal of Boston (the principal suffrage paper of America for half a century), was the first married woman to keep her own name, and was instrumental in bringing Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe to her way of thinking on the suffrage question. Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, Mass. on Aug. 13, 1818, the eighth of nine children, and the family must have known that here was someone to be reckoned with, when as a girl she insisted on learning to read the Bible in the original text to satisfy herself that the passages quoted by the ministers against equal rights for women were correctly translated. In due time she proceeded to fame, although at the time of her death, women's suffrage had been granted in only two states. Lucy Stone's husband was Henry Browne Blackwell, and it is the biography by their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, on which Mrs. Maud Wood Park based the forthcoming play. Among the characters appearing in it will be William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Charles Sumner and Horace Greeley. A "name" cast, that.FEDERAL THEATRE (A Division of the Works Progress Administration) PINOCCHIO COPLEY THEATRE BOSTONTHE FEDERAL THEATRE USA WORK PROGRAM WPA HALLIE FLANAGAN National Director J. HOWARD MILLER Nat'l Deputy Director BLANDING SLOAN Eastern Regional Director JON B. MACK State Director Presents PINOCCHIO An Extravaganza with Music Adapted for the Stage by Yasha Frank from the Italian Classic by C. Collodi STAGED BY JOSH BINNEY MUSIC BY EDDISON VON OTTENFELD AND ARMANDO LOREDO THE CAST (In order of appearance) Gepetto........................................Henry McCurdy His Cat..........................................Earl Gaudet Town Crier...................................E. J. Jameson Mice..............................................Acacio Gazo, Estelle Ralston Young Father.............................Joseph Lee Pinocchio....................................John Potas Carabinier...................................George Rubin Juggler.........................................Bert Hanley Fire-eater....................................Joseph Bourdini Clarinet Player..........................Charles Rozella Accordion Player......................Edyth Hanly Guitar Player.............................Sylvester Capozzoli Tumbler........................................Bill Rogers Grandpa.......................................Bill Turner Marionette..................................Mildred Kratky Warrior Puppet.........................Richard Folsom Rag Doll.......................................Margaret Dunlea Hansel and Gretel....................Alma Sheppard, Patsy Ruth Clark Beggar Women........................Evaleen Drew, Marion Lee Blue-Haired Fairy Queen......Camille Palumbo The Fox........................................Bert Wilson The Cat Charles.........................Palumbo Jolly Coachman.........................Eddie Mumford Ringmaster.................................Jack Berry The General...............................William DeWitt Mlle. Fifi.......................................Grace McDonald Professor Schnicklefritz..........Charles Senna The Dancing Fireman.............Goldbert Hinds The Strong Man........................Ben Ferris Fried Meatty...............................Bert Bertrand The Frog.......................................Peggy Ward Ship Figurehead.........................Peggy McDonald Male Goldfish.............................Gladys Wisnoski Female Goldfish.........................Mildred Kratky Blind Woman..............................Nettie DeCoursey Soprano Soloist, Alma Sheppard Quartette Ross Lampson, Chester Griffin, Edward McLaughlin, William Jones School Children—Margaret Dunlea, Ann Shankman, Edward LaVerne; Dog—Gaffney Brown Villagers—Rose Allen, Mabel Kyle, Mabel Lorraine, Edyth Hanly, Peggy Ward, Inex Delores, Herman Fuller, Pat Gregory, Ben Ferris, Herbert Potter, Harry Jacobson, John Fagan, Gertrude Moran, Anna Kent, Patsy Ruth Clark Boobies—James Tobin, James Harmon, William Rogers, John Ciampa, Richard Folsom, Jimmy Parker Military Dancers—Leo Arch, Ace Major, James Plunkett, Chester Boudrot, George Murphy-Sergeant The Clowns—Ernest LeDoux, Fed Chagnon, James Campbell, William Maine, John Erickson; Edward Chapman-Producer Phoolharmonic Orchestra—Roy Pate, Howard Bangard, Guy Maffucci, Anthony Skerry, Sylvester Capozzoli, Leo Arch, Warren Simonds, Salvatore Mazzocca, Alphonse LeCour, Charles Rozella, Edyth Hanly, Bud Shorter Bicyclists—Thelma Cannon, Ethel Lee, James Campbell, Jeremiah Galvin, Mary Galvin Wild Animals—Gabriel Duro, Nemesio Lachico, Amado Rosales, Max Ruttman, James Harmon, Bill Turner Mermaids—Inez Delores, Margaret Dunlea, Helen Mahoney, Dorothy Houghton, Evaleen Drew, Estelle Ralston, Marion Lee, Gwen McMeekin Roustabouts—Mac Rutherford, Ben Ferris, Frank Serrilla SYNOPSIS OF SCENES Time: Long Ago Place: Italy Act I Scene 1. Gepetto's Workshop Scene 2. A Street Scene 3. A Marionette Stage Act II Scene 1. A Fork in the Road Scene 2. The Land of the Boobies Scene 3. Under the Big Top-A. B. C. D. E. F. Act III Scene 1. The Bottom of the Sea-A Year Later Scene 2. Within the Whale Scene 3. Gepetto's Cottage-The Next DayScenery and Costumes Designed by --------------------Paul Cadorette Properties and Special Effects by -----------------------Hugh Dowling Costumes Executed by ------------------------------Catherine Peasron Choreography by ----------------------------------------Nellie Murphy Military Dance Routine and Drum Dance by ----------George Murphy Special Musical Arrangement by ------------------------Charles Frank _____________ W.P.A. Federal Theatre Orchestra ----------Charles Frank, Conductor ______________ Assistant to Mr. Josh Binney -------------------------------Don Senna Stage Manager -------------------------------------Alexander Capone Ass. Stage Manager ---------------------------------------Bert Wilson NEXT ATTRACTION --- COPLEY THEATRE A Drama of the Champion of Women's Rights "LUCY STONE'' By Maud Wood Park The Thrilling Life Story of the Pioneer Whose Battle Cry was "Votes for Women" _______________________________________________________________________ FIRE NOTICE: The exit, indicated by a red light and sign, nearest to the seat you occupy, is the shortest route to the street. In the event if fire or other emergency please do not run - WALK TO THAT EXIT. 60WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939 BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, Fighting Feminist The Federal Theater Pays Honor to Lucy Stone in New Play at Copley By JOHN K. HUTCHENS BEFORE an audience that seemed astir with memories of the great lady whose career it celebrates, the chronicle play entitled "Lucy Stone" had its first performance on any stage last evening at the Copley Theater. Written by Maud Wood Park out of the biography by Alice Stone Blackwell, and adapted for the Federal Theater by Robert Finch, it is a quiet saga whose three acts and 10 scenes tell reverently of the life and divers works of its feminist-heroine. From her girlhood in Brookfield, Mass., where her life's mission first dawned on her, it takes her down the years to her death in 1893 when, if her battle was not yet over, its triumphant conclusion was just around the corner. At last night's premiere, sponsored by the Boston University Women's Council, the first audience to see it greeted it with friendly warmth and a special interest enhanced by the presence of Lucy Stone's daughter, Miss Blackwell, now 82 years old. Its interest for future audiences, one ventures to say, will also be special, for like most chronicle plays that encompass a lifetime, this one is more indicative than dramatic. Hurrying from one to another of Lucy Stone's campaigns--and if you think that she was merely the woman who believed in the retention of maiden names, you will learn better herewith--it can scarcely be more than a catalogue of causes: of old, forgotten, far-off things, like a husband's right to beat his wife with impunity, and of battles not so long ago, like women's suffrage. Calmly and without so much as raising its voice, it takes up each in its turn, and when it is over you have a sort of blow-by-blow account of the war for women's rights. Portait of a Warrior You also have a clear portrait of Lucy Stone--"the young Joan of Arc," as she is called in a prologue no more necessary than most prologues. You see her at Oberlin College, refusing to write an essay because young ladies were not allowed to appear on a platform before mixed company; quelling a jeering crowd at an Abolition meeting; marrying Henry Blackwell, but not promising to obey; holding up to scorn such old fogies as Charles Sumner and Horace Greeley. It goes along like that, pursuing its even, episodic way, gently humorous and romantic at times and always depending more upon suggestion than conflict directly seen. Indeed, it is not so much a play as a particular chapter of history seen through the eyes of the woman who was its more ardent pioneer, and, to one whose knowledge of Lucy Stone is not all that it might be, the title role performace of Lillian Merschal seemed skilfull, strong and luminous. The production as a whole, in fact, is one of the Federal Theater's smoother efforts, one scene moving easily into another with the aid of skeleton settings and simple drapes. The minor roles are competently played, despite a tendency to the sepulchral voice when it comes to portraying Eminent Characters (Mr. Greeley, Senator Sumner, Thomas W. Higginson). But that is a convention of museum pieces, of which this, in the better sense, is one. LUCY STONE, a chronicle play by Maud Wood Park, adapted by Robert Finch for production by the Federal Theater Project; staged by Eliot Duvey; settings and costumes by Paul Cadorette. At the Copley Theater. THE CAST Prologue....................... Elsa Tashko Jim Murray....................... Harry E. Lowell Mrs. Stone....................... Ann Baker Lucy Stone....................... Lillian Merchal Mr. Stone....................... Bertram Parry Luther Stone....................... Jack Granfield William Spencer....................... Edward Dillon Antoinette Brown....................... Muriel Woodward Miss Emery....................... Anita Webb Mrs. Mahan....................... Cordelia MacDonald Professor Thorne....................... Burt Kelsey William Lloyd Garrison....................... William Warren Stephen Foster....................... Roger MacDonald Samuel Blackwell....................... Basil Burwell Henry B. Blackwell....................... Glenn Wilson Rev. Thomas W. Higginson....................... Harry Lowell Mrs. Widgery....................... Fern Foster Senator Charles Sumner....................... Basil Burwell Horace Greeley....................... Jack Granfield Rev. Samuel May....................... Burt Kelsey Wendell Phillips....................... Roger MacDonald Susan B. Anthony....................... Anita Webb Elizabeth Cady Stanton....................... Winifred Douglas President Fairchild of Oberline College Edward Dillon Alice Stone Blackwell....................... Florence Walsh [*Herald Thurs May 18*] TONIGHT IN THE THEATER COPLEY--"Lucy Stone," a biographical drama by Maude Wood Parks, presented by the Federal Theater: 8:30 P. M. HUNTINGTON CHAMBERS HALL-- "Liliom," drama by Ferenc Molnar, presented by the New England Repertory Theater; 8:30 P. M. WILBUR--"The White Steed," comedy by Paul Vincent Carroll, presented by Eddie Dowling with Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Tandy and George Coulouris in the leading roles; 8:30 P. M. COPLEY THEATRE....LAST WEEK "LUCY STONE" TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W.P.A FEDERAL THEATRE.... COPLEY THEATRE..TUES. EVE. MAY 9 "LUCY STONE" DRAMA OF WOMAN'S RIGHT ....W.P.A FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*Traveler*] TONIGHT IN THE THEATERS COPLEY--"Lucy Stone," a biographical drama by Maude Wood Parks, presented by the Federal Theater: 8:30 P. M. STAGE--IN TOWN COPLEY THEATRE...NOW "LUCY STONE" TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W.P.A FEDERAL THEATRE.... COPLEY THEATRE....LAST WEEK "LUCY STONE" TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W.P.A FEDERAL THEATRE.... COPLEY THEATRE...NOW "LUCY STONE" TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W.P.A FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*Herald May 13*] TONIGHT IN THE THEATERS COLONIAL --The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company of London presents "The Yeomen of the Guard," by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: 2:15 and 8:15 P. M. COPLEY--"Lucy Stone," a new play by Maud Wood Park, based on the biography by Alice Stone Blackwell, presented by the Federal Theater; 2:30 and 8:30 P. M. [*Post*] COPLEY THEATRE...NOW LUCY STONE TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W. P. A. FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*Time May 11*] COPLEY THEATRE...NOW LUCY STONE TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W. P. A. FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*? May 8*] COPLEY THEATRE PREMIER TOM'W. EVE'G. LUCY STONE TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W. P. A. FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*globe*] STAGE--IN TOWN COPLEY THEATRE...NOW LUCY STONE TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W. P. A. FEDERAL THEATRE.... COPLEY THEATRE...NOW LUCY STONE TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE ....W. P. A. FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*Traveler May 1?*] COPLEY THEATRE..TUES. EVE. MAY 9 "LUCY STONE" DRAMA OF WOMAN'S RIGHT ....W.P.A FEDERAL THEATRE.... [*Traveler May ?*]BAKER'S PLAYS Baker's New Titles LUCY STONE. A Chronicle Play in Ten Episodes. By Maud Wood Park. Large cast. Basic scenery may be used. This is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement." Although the background of the play is the development and final success of the long struggle to get legal and other rights for women, the episodes, drawn largely from the biography of Lucy Stone written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, include the genuine romance of Lucy and Henry Blackwell, as well as some of their humorous experiences in working for the cause. For young women today, many of whom do not know that opportunities now taken for granted were won for them by the courage and self-sacrifice of leaders in an earlier generation, this drama of real life should have special interest. A Federal Theatre success, season, 1939. Royalty, on application. Price, 75 Cents. Popular Professional Stage Successes 80 A Catalogue of Baker's Plays LOVE-IN-A-MIST. Drama in 3 acts. By Amelie Rives and Gilbert Emery. 3 m., 4 w. Int. Royalty, $50.00. Price, 75 Cents. LOVE ON THE DOLE. Drama in 3 acts. By Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood. 9 m., 7 w. I int., 2 exts. Royalty, $25.00. Price, 75 Cents. LUCKY BREAK, A. Farce Comedy in 3 acts. By Zelda Sears. 9 m., 9w. Extras. May be played with 5 m., 7 w. and no extras. Int. Royalty, $25.00. Price, 75 Cents. LUCY STONE. A Chronicle Play in Ten Episodes by Maud Wood Park. Large cast. Basic scenery may be used. Royalty on application. Price, 75 Cents. MAD HOPES, THE. Comedy in 3 acts. By Romney Brent. 8 m., 5 w. Int. Royalty, $25.00. 252 An Alphabetical List of Baker's Plays Lucky Christmas Book, The . . . . . . .221 Lucky Winner . . . . . 34 Lucy Stone . . . . . 34 Madame Majesty . . . . . 64 Mad Breakfast, A . . . . . 149 Mad Hatters, The . . . . . 7 Mad Hopes, The . . . . . 80 Madman and the Wrecking Crew, The . . . . . 8 Magda . . . . .196 Maggie Fixes It . . . . . 35 Magic Bough . . . . . 35 Magic Christmas Bell, The . . . . .222 Magic of an Hour, The . . . . . 122 Magi's Gift, The . . . . .222 154 A Catalogue of Baker's Plays Anthologies of One Act Plays For Stage and Study Baker's Miniature Play Series 157 THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN By Laurence Housman Under this embracing title, the author of VICTORIA REGINA has gathered together more plays depicting the romance and realism of the age associated with the Great Queen. A dozen one-act episodes are about the Golden Sovereign and her immediate circle, but to these are added seven others, all of which fit into their place in the Victorian mosaic. This illustrated omnibus collection is priced $3.00. Royalty information in regard to these and all of Laurence Housman's Victorian Plays upon request. See also VICTORIA REGINA. Partial Contents THE WICKED UNCLES THE FIRE-LIGHTERS ECHO DE PARIS THE BED CHAMBER PLOT, 1839 THE COURT CIRCLE, 1840 FORWARD, BUT NOT TOO FAST, 1842 THE FAMILY PORTRAIT, 1846 THE ANNIVERSARY, 1862 STABLE GOVERNMENT, 1870 THE STAR FROM THE EAST, 1873 "PLEASE TO LOOK PLEASANT," 1887 ROYAL TABLE MANNERS, 1892 THE PRIMROSE WAY, 1894 √ LUCY STONE A Chronicle Play in Ten Episodes By Maud Wood Park This is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement." The dramatic sequence of the plot story is in the form of a chronicle play and the individual episodes will serve well as one-act plays or several episodes may be combined to make a full production. A wide use of the play, both in stage production and for fireside reading, will help to keep fresh the stirring story of the events that attended the long struggle before woman's rights were won. Royalty fees quoted on request. Price, 75 Cents. Contents LEADING IN THE LIGHT (1830) A MIXED AUDIENCE (1847) THIS GENTLEMAN (1851) CLOTHES AND A CAUSE (1852) COURTSHIP AND COOKING (1853) MARRIAGE CONTRACT (1855) TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION (1858) MOTHER'S FLAG (1903) MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY (1920) EXTRA SCENE (1893) TONIGHT IN THE THEATERS COPLEY— "Lucy Stone," a biographical drama by Maude Wood Parks, presented by the Federal Theater; 8:30 P. M. HUNTINGTON CHAMBERS HALL— "Lilliom," drama by Ferenc Molnar, presented by the New England Repertory Theater; 8:30 P. M. WILBUR—"The White Steed." comedy by Paul Vincent Carroll, presented by Eddie Dowling with Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Tandy and George Coulouris in the leading roles; 8:30 P. M. 'LUCY STONE' BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FRIDAY "Lucy Stone," now playing its final week at the Copley Theater, will quite fittingly have a Morgan Memorial Night, the performance of Friday evening having been designated for that purpose to augment the funds which this organization devotes to giving summer outings to needy children and their mothers at the Lucy Stone Home in Dorchester. This is the house where the woman's suffrage pioneer lived in the later years of her life and where she died. When the Morgan Memorial purchased the home it inaugurated the custom of sponsoring a series of day outings there during the summer months. Lucy Stone's daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, is still an active director of the Morgan Memorial. [*Monitor Apr 25*] Plays in Prospect Gilbert and Sullivan—The D'Oyly Carte Company of London at the Colonial Theater, continuing their engagement with the following repertory: Week of May 1—Monday, "Gondoliers"; Tuesday, "Yeomen of the Guard"; Wednesday afternoon and evening, "Trial by Jury" and "Pirates of Penzance"; Thursday, "Iolanthe"; Friday, "Cox and Box" and "Pinafore"; Saturday afternoon and evening, "Mikado." Week of May 8—Monday, "Iolanthe"; Tuesday, "Mikado"; Wednesday afternoon and evening, "Cox and Box" and "Pinafore"; Thursday, "Patience"; Friday, "Gondoliers"; Saturday afternoon and evening, "Yeomen of the Guard." Frank Fay's Show—At the Shubert, beginning Monday, May 1. Vaudeville of the "deluxe" pattern, with a bill including Elsie Janis, Eva Le Gallienne, Smith & Dale, Chester Hale Girls, Aunt Jemima, Glenn Pope, Johnny Barnes, Pedro & Louis, Fred Hildebrand, Flo Mayo, Richard Waring, Rose Kessner, and the Debutantes. Mr. Fay will act as master of ceremonies. Lucy Stone—At the Copley, beginning Tuesday, May 9. Federal Theater production of Maud Wood Park's play, based on Alice Stone Blackwell's story of her distinguished mother. BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939 THIS WEEK in BOSTON "SO THIS IS BOSTON" "LUCY STONE" At Copley Theatre, Starting May 9 The Federal Theatre will shift from the gay "Pinocchio" to the more serious " Lucy Stone" at the Copley Theatre, for a limited two-week's engagement to open Tuesday evening, May 9. "Lucy Stone" is a play by Maud Wood Park, based on the life of this famous leader in the advocacy of "votes for women" as written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. Besides the characters of Lucy Stone and her daughter there are: Henry Blackwell, who appears in the play from the time he was courting Lucy Stone until her declining years; her daughter, William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charles Sumner, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Horace Greeley. The cast will be drawn principally from the excellent players who were so acceptable in the leading roles of the Federal Theatre's "Macbeth" and "Dr. Faustus" at the Copley Theatre. WEEK OF APRIL 23, 1939 Lillian Merchal, as she appears in the title role of "Lucy Stone," a new biographical drama about the famous 19th century crusader for women's rights, which the Federal Theater will present at the Copley on Tuesday evening. [*Melrose Free Press - May 4*] MELROSE WOMAN TO BE PORTRAYED IN "LUCY STONE" "Mary A. Livermore" appears in the final scene of "Lucy Stone" in the forthcoming production of the Federal Theatre beginning May 9th at the Copley Theatre in Boston. Written by Mrs. Maud Wood Park in honor of the 80th birthday of Alice Stone Blackwell, the play is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement." For young people today, many of whom do not know that opportunities now taken for granted were won for them by the courage and self-sacrifice of leaders in an earlier generation, this drama of real life should have special interest. The Boston University Women's Council has taken over the entire theatre for the first night performance. The Council is to honor Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, a Trustee of the University and daughter of the famous woman whose life story has been dramatized. Mrs. Mary Livermore Barrows, Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Cushman, Mrs. Guy Stantial and Miss Ethel Waldron Bittner are Melrose sponsors for the production.[*Boston Post May 10*] PLAY ON THE RECORD OF LUCY STONE Alice Stone Blackwell Witnesses Premiere at Copley BY ELLIOT NORTON "Lucy Stone," Mrs. Maud Wood Park's dramatization of the life of the magnificent pioneer of the women's rights movement, had its first professional showing at the Copley Theatre, last night, with the players of the Federal Theatre as actors and with a large, pleasant and distinguished audience to applaud. MISS BLACKWELL PRESENT Mrs. Park, herself a champion of feminism, and Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, distinguished daughter of Lucy Stone, were among the watchers. Miss Blackwell, as guest of the Boston University Women's Council, spoke graciously and gracefully of the significance of the occasion, at one intermission. "Lucy Stone," which is based on Miss Blackwell's wise and moving biography of her mother, is called in this stage version a "chronicle play." It is just that. It is episodic in form, amounting to a chronological record of some of the principal events in the life of the central character. Begins at West Brookfield It follows the militant Lucy from her childhood on a farm near West Brookfield, where she first came to realize the unjust discrepancy that existed at that time between the rights of men and those of women; through an episode at Oberlin College, from which she was graduated, in 1847, first Massachusetts woman to win a college degree. It takes her to one of the thousands of meetings in which she spoke, despite the public prejudice against women on the platform, in behalf of abolition; recounts her courtship by Henry Blackwell; depicts her defiance of the New Jersey laws and her stand for no taxation without representation. To Days in Dorchester It takes her down to her last days, when she lived in Dorchester, when the first results of her long campaign for women's suffrage were, at long last, becoming apparent. It is a friendly, unpretentious chronicle, from an obviously friendly and sympathetic pen and designed, apparently, for friendly rather than critical eyes and ears; designed, very likely, for audiences which are primarily interested in the movements to which Lucy Stone lent her name and presence and in the incidents of her career rather than in their dramatic significance. THE CHRISTIAN [*Science Monitor*] "First the blade, then the ear, [*May 10*] Editorials [*May 10 1939*] Kittenish in Courtship It is content to let the lady seem a little coy and even kittenish in the course of her courtship by Henry Blackwell, which Miss Blackwell's biography does not do. The biography establishes Lucy Stone as a serene, firm, clear-headed woman who was hardly likely to be goody in the presence of any man, who loved and cherished her husband with a great and deep affection, but was only won by him after a courtship that was hardly a boy-meets-girl affair. The playwright has also been content, for the most part, to let the characters discuss and describe the incidents which constituted the drama in Miss Stone's highly dramatic life, rather than to set them down in action, which is the common practice of the professional stage. The picture of Lucy Stone that emerges from this chronicle is of a serene, kindly, friendly, warm-hearted woman; a devoted wife and mother, who moved among the famous people of her age and participated in movements, like the women's suffrage cause, which have changed the status of women in this country. Meritorious Project It might, conceivably, have gone further within the compass of the dramatic form. It might have shown the firm, militant vigor of this woman. It might have demonstrated, as Miss Blackwell's biography does, the constant conflict between this woman and her environment, of her own heroic adherence to the convictions of her own conscience, for which she bore hardships and humiliations with dignity -- not coyly, but with dignity. The Federal Theatre's presentation is sympathetic and in many ways meritorious. Miss Lillian Merschal plays Lucy with obvious feeling and, in some scenes, with rather striking effect. Glenn Wilson makes Henry Blackwell an ardent and likeable cavalier. Several of the minor players are good, especially John Lyons as a sort of Dickensian sheriff's assistant. The Boston University women's council sponsored last night's premiere, with proceeds to go to scholarships for Chinese students at B. U. [*Transcript May 10*] The Show Is On Concerts Boston Opera House - Ignace Jan Paderewsky, pianist, 8.30. Symphony Hall - Pops Concert by 20 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, conductor. 8.30. Plays Colonial - Cox and Box. H.M.S. Pinafore. 8.15. Copley - Lucy Stone, by the Federal Theater. 8.30. Her Works Praise Her At Copley Theater in Boston Alice Stone Blackwell has just had the pleasure of watching the curtain rise on a chronicle of her mother, Lucy Stone, pioneer suffragist. Five years ago Miss Blackwell was decorated at Ford Hall Forum for her own "fifty years in the service of humanity." Carrying her mother's work and interests further, Miss Blackwell early became a champion of all suppressed and oppressed peoples. The scope and quantity of her works has been far-reaching. She stimulated sympathy for Russians, Armenians and Yiddish through her English verse renderings of their native poetry. She edited the life and letters of the "Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution." From South America poets she has received much applause for her translation of Spanish-Americans' poems. Her letters to the press have been constant and pointed, ranging in their interests from pit ponies to food and prison riots. In her own lifetime Miss Blackwell has had an opportunity to see a tremendous forward movement toward real equality for women, she has also worked close enough to it to be aware of the dangers. She at one time cautioned that in politics "we are finding women can be fooled as well as men," and she said looking back over the years "greater progress should have been made by women in correcting conditions." Were her unselfed devotion and that of her famous mother characteristic of more women, and men, greater progress would have been made. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939 'Lucy Stone' in Premiere at Copley Theater Women's Rights Theme Of Federal Theater Play By Edwin F. Melvin If "Lucy Stone' were to be considered merely a play it would be possible to find technical weaknesses in the script that reached the stage at the Copley last evening in a Federal Theater production. But it is something more than a play. It is a chronicle of a woman of vision and of that whole movement in which she was a leader. It gains power from the character of its theme. Through the brief episodes that appear on the stage can be felt something of the strong convictions of Lucy Stone and the growing impetus of her demand for legal recognition of the rights of women. It was an unusual circumstance last evening that Alice Stone Blackwell should be in the audience not only to see a play about her mother but to see herself represented on the stage s she might have seemed in the earlier years of her own career. Miss Blackwell, who was introduced to the audience at the first intermission, spoke of her pleasure in the occasion. The play, which was written by Maud Wood Park and adapted by Robert Finch, is divided into 10 scenes, which begin with the girlhood of Lucy Stone at the farmhouse in West Brookfield, Mass., in 1830, and conclude in 1893 at the Blackwell home in Dorchester. In between, the play tells something of Lucy Stone's career at Oberlin College, her work for the abolition of slavery, her first meeting with Henry Blackwell at his store in Cincinnati, Ohio, her courtship and marriage, the marital agreement which she and her bridegroom inserted in the wedding ceremony, the auctioning off of their furniture because she refused to pay taxes if she was not allowed to vote, and the return of the furniture when neighbors bid it in as a gift to her, the disappointment when the right of women to vote was not inserted in the Fourteenth Amendment, the honor which was bestowed upon her as a noted alumna of Oberlin, and the peace which came to her as she neared the end of her career. In the beginning, the characters and the episodes are drawn a little awkwardly and the acting tends to be too obvious. But the play and the performance gain in power as they progress. The settings are of the simple type that are to be expected in such a play, where frequent changes of scenery are necessary. Lillian Merchal, who has the part of Lucy Stone throughout her long career, acts with an unaffected cheerfulness mingled with a sufficient degree of dignity to keep the characterization on the believable side. It is a first-rate performance. Glenn Wilson makes a sympathetic and understandable figure of Henry Blackwell. Ann Baker and Bertram Parry do well by Lucy Stone's father and mother. All sorts of familiar figures put in brief appearances. Among them are William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Rev. Samuel May, Wendell Phillips, and Susan B. Anthony. But if is Lucy Stone's play and throughout the evening she dominates the stage - quietly and pleasantly but firmly. Caption under photo: Lillian Merchal As Lucy Stone in the play of the same name given for its first performance last evening at the Copley by the Federal Theater. 'Lucy Stone' At the Copley - Federal Theater production of a new play by Maud Wood Park, staged by Eliot Duvey with settings and costumes designed by Paul Cadorette. The cast includes: Prologue ... Elsa Tashko Jim Murray ... Harry E. Lowell Mr. Stone ... Bertrum Parry Lucy Stone ... Lillian Merchal Mr. Stone ... Bertrum Barry Luther Stone ... Jack Granfield William Spencer ... Edward Granfield George Washington Watts Charles McFarland Antoinette Brown ... Muriel Woodward Mrs. Mahon ... Cordelia MacDonald Professor Thome ... Burt Kelsey William Lloyd Garrison William Warren Stephen Foster ... Roger MacDonald Mrs. Marianna Austin Winifred Douglas Joe Coffin ... John Lyons Samuel Blackwell ... Basil Burwell Henry B. Blackwell ... Glenn Wilson Rev. Thomas W. Higginson Harry Lowell Mrs. Widgery ... Fern Foster George ... Fritz Eisenmann Horace Greeley ... Jack Granfield Susan B. Anthony ... Anita Webb Mary Livermore ... Elizabeth Gerrish Alice Stone Blackwell ... Florence Walsh [*Reading Chronicle May 5 - "Ann HEARS:"*] That there is widespread interest throughout New England in the forthcoming production by the Federal Theatre of "Lucy Stone' the life story of Maude Wood Park of the famous mother of Alice Stone Blackwell. The premiere will be attended by a good many famous people, many of them associated of Miss Blackwell during her years of active work in the struggle for voices of women. The Boston (Next Column) University Women's Council is honoring Miss Blackwell, one of its trustees, by taking over the entire theatre for the opening night. A group of members of the local League of Women Voters are planning to attend on May 9. The play will have a two weeks' run. [*Social Col - Traveler - April 21st*] There will be many prominent subscribers for the opening night performance of Maud Wood Park's play, "Lucy Stone," at the Copley Theater on May 9 ... The Boston University Women's Council has taken over the entire theater in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, to benefit the Scholarship Fund for Chinese women students in the College of Liberal Arts. Mrs. Everett O. Fisk of Brookline heads the sponsoring committee. Subscribers include Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Carmichael, Mrs. Carroll L. Chase, Mrs. Louis McHenry Howe, Mrs. Lucy Jenkins Franklin, Miss Susan J. Ginn, Mrs. Edward Ingraham, Mrs. L. Cushing Kimball, Miss Lucy Lowell, Mrs. Warren T. Powell, Mrs. Lois B. Rantoul, Mrs. Arthur G. Robbins, Mrs Robert W. Sayles, Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger, Mrs. Robert K. Shaw, Mrs. Roderick Stebbins, Mrs. Irving Tomlinson, and Mrs. Eva Whiting White.Boston Transcript May 2, 1939 Long List of Patrons for 'Lucy Stone' Performance at Copley Tues., May 9 The Boston University Women's Council is arranging a performance of "Lucy Stone," to be given at the Copley Theater Tuesday, May 9, in aid of the scholarship fund for Chinese women students at the university, and in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. On the long list of patrons for this benefit is Miss Irene Armstrong, Mrs. Mary Livermore Bar-rows, Mrs. IDa Porter Boyer, Dean and Mrs. Edgar S. Brightman, Miss Ethel Waldron Bittner. Miss Cora B. Browne, Mrs. Charles F.D. Belden, Miss Alice P. Chase, Alfred E. Chase, Mrs. Myron H. Clark, Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Cushman, Dr. M. A. Cohen, Mrs. H. W. Dunning, Dr. Florence W Duckering. the Rev. Christopher R. Elliot, Mrs. George R. Ericson, Dean Lucy Jenkins Franklin, Miss Margaret Foley, Miss Susan J. Ginn, Mrs. Charles P. Huse, Mrs. Leonard Hersey, Mrs. Frank F. Hill, Mrs. Edward Ingraham. Miss Ida B. Johnson, Miss Eliza H. Kendrick, Dr. Margaret Noyes Kleinert, Mrs. Albert Levis, Mrs. Alfred C. LAne, Dr. Fredericka Moore, Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh, Mrs. C. M. Mcmurray, Miss Ellie Needham, Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page and Prof. and Mrs. George H. Parker. Others are Mrs. Charles E. Parkhurst; Professor Miguel A. Pena, Dr. Joseph Prenn, Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, Mrs. Abbie May Roland, Mrs. Frank E. Roberts, Mrs. F. A. Rugg, Mrs. Lillian Bridges Rowell, Mrs. William Z. Ripley, Mrs. Robert W. Sayles, Mrs. Louis K. Snyder, Mrs. Anthony Shallna, Mrs. Guy W. Stantial, Miss Elizabeth Sessions, Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, Mrs. W. M. Souther. Dr. Louisa Paine Tingley, Miss Alice P. Tapley, Mrs. Irving C. Tomlinson, Mrs. Ella Thompson Hall, Miss Mary E. Woolley, Miss F. Gertrude Wentworth, Miss Lucy Wheelock, Mrs. L. A. Wright, Mrs. Henry Wise, Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, Miss Alice H. Bushee, Mr. and Mrs. LaRue Brown, Mrs. Harold Bowman, Dr. Alice H. Bigelow, Mrs. William L. Benedict, Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Bunker, Dr. George W. Coleman, Miss Ruth L. S. Child, Henry W. L. Dana, Mrs. Daniel C. Dennett, Dean and Mrs. Jesse B. Davis, the Misses Louise and Mabel Earle, Miss Sarah J. Eddy, Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, Mrs. Herbert J. Gurney, Miss A. B. Gould, Miss Edith Guerrier and Miss Elizabeth Hubbard. Also Miss F. Josephine Hall, Miss Margaret Hatfield, Mrs. F. N. Hamerstrom, Prof. and Mrs. Lewis J. Johnson, Mrs. May Dickinson Kimball, Rabbi Harry Levi, Miss Lucy Lowell, Mrs. Thomas H. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. R. Gene Lopaus, Miss Jeanette Marks, Mrs. Arthur W. Moors, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moors, Miss Catherine E. McGinley, Mrs. Maude C. Nash, Miss Edith M. Perry, Miss Agnes F. Perkins, Mrs. Lois B. Rantoul, Mrs. Kenneth C. Reynolds, Dr. Eliza Taylor Ransom, Mrs. Roderick Stebbins, Judge Emma Fall Schofield, Mrs. Robert K. Shaw, Mrs. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Mrs. Howard W. Selby, Miss Florence W. Stevens, Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw, Mrs. Melville Smith, the Rev. and Mrs. William L. Stidger, Dr. Marianna Taylor, Mrs. Percy J. Trevethan, Mrs. E. A. Taylor, Mrs. Samuel Veal, Mrs. Eva Whiting White, Mrs. E. Stansbury Willmarth, Miss Agnes G. Wright and Miss Constance Williston. Transcript - Apr. 14th Next WPA Show The Federal Theater Project's next offering at the Copley, for two weeks beginning May 9, will be "Lucy Stone." a new play by Maud Wood Park. It is described as a "faithful unfolding" of the illustrious advocate of women's rights. In the meantime, the project's "Pinocchio" is reported doing nicely at the Copley, where it will remain through April 29. [*Thurs Apr 21st Traveler*] In the Offing "OUR TOWN"......PLYMOUTH Monday, April 24--Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer prize returns to Boston with Eddie Dowling starring in the role created here by Frank Craven. The play, presented by O. E. Wee and Frank McCoy, is presented without scenery, with Dowling acting as narrator. The family relationships and the everyday lives of quiet, kindly New England folk have been transplanted to the stage with remarkable fidelity. Mr. McCoy directed. "LUCY STONE.....COPLEY Tuesday, May 9--The Federal Theater will present a play by Maud Wood Park, based on Alice Stone Blackwell's story of the life of her illustrious mother who was such a potent factor in achieving national ratification of "Women's Suffrage. Honor Miss Blackwell ---------- Play About Her Mother, Lucy Stone, to Be Presented Alice Stone Blackwell is the most representative of great American women alive today, said Mrs. Maud Wood Park, American woman champion of women's rights, on her arrival in Boston last week. Mrs. Park's new play, Lucy Stone, will be given for the first time in Boston, May 9, at the Federal Theatre, in honor of Miss Blackwell, and for the benefit of the scholarship fund for Chinese women students. Boston University Women's Council has taken over the Copley Theatre for the evening. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who is 80 years old, one year younger than Miss Blackwell, will be a guest of honor of Mrs. Park at the opening. Mrs. Park placed Mrs. Catt after Miss Blackwell as the second great American woman of the contemporary age. Jane Adams of Hull House, who died a few years ago, was a third choice. "Lucy Stone, the mother of Miss Blackwell, was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. She had to go to Oberlin College in Ohio, to study. No other college in those days would accept a woman," said Mrs. Park. "She became the champion of women's rights in this country and lectured to great audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. She headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention and founded and edited the Women's Journal of Boston." Both Lucy Stone and her daughter belong to the Vineyard by adoption, having been summer residents of Chilmark where Miss Blackwell has continued to visit through the years, and many relatives of the Blackwell family also make the Island their summer home. IN THE OFFING FRANK FAY'S SHOW..SHUBERT Monday May 1--Frank Fay presents his vaudeville and variety show deluxe for a limited engagement. The show comes here direct from the 44th Street Theater, prior to its opening at the World's Fair. In addition to Mr. Fay, the artists include Elsie Janis Eva LeGallienne, Smith and Dale the Chester Hale Girls, Aunt Jemima and the Debutantes. *Traveler April 24th* "LUCY STONE.......COPLEY Monday, May 9--The Federal Theater will offer Maud Wood Park's play, based on the life story of the famous leader in the advocacy of votes for women, as written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. The cast will be drawn principally from the performers of "Macbeth" and "Dr. Faustus." THE STAGE COPLEY THEATRE "Lucy Stone" "Lucky Stone," a Chronicle Play by Maud Wood Park. Staged by Eliot Duvey. Presented by Federal Theatre. The cast: Prologue..................Elsa Tashko Jim Murray.............. Harry E. Lowell Mrs Stone................Ann Baker Lucy Stone..............Lillian Merchal Mr Stone.................Bertram Parry Luther Stone...........Jack Granfield William Spencer.......Edward Dillon George Washington Watts Charles McFarland Antoinette Brown...Muriel Woodward Miss Emery..........Anita Webb Mrs Mahan...........Cordelia MacDonald Professor Thome....Burt Kelsey William Lloyd Garrison..William Warren Stephen Foster....Roger MacDonald Mrs Marianna Austin..Winifred Douglas Joe Coffin................John Lyons Samuel Blackwell.....Basil Burwell Henry B Blackwell...Glenn Wilson Mrs Widgery....Fern Foster George...........Fritz Eisenmann Mary Livermore.....Elizabeth Gerrish Alice Stone Blackwell....Florence Walsh Also Men and Women of a Cape Cod Town, Etc. The life story of a brilliant, courageous woman, Lucy Stone, pioneer of American womanhood, was sketched in dramatic form for the first time in Maud Wood Park's play of prologue, three acts, and 10 scenes by the Federal Theatre players last night at the Copley Theatre. A pleasing personal touch which added to the interest of the play itself was the presence in the audience of a sweet old lady, Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone, who carried on her mother's fight for women's rights until the adoption of the woman's suffrage amendment in 1920. As was also fitting, the play was presented under the auspices of the Boston University Women's Council, Miss Blackwell's alma mater, and for the benefit of scholarships for two Chinese graduate students. The play, although centering around one main character, included a large cast and was thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience. In its coverage of a period of 63 years the play was quaint, humorous, romantic and forceful. The opening scene is the kitchen of the Stone farmhouse in West Brookfield, Mass. Working in the kitchen with her mother Lucy becomes sensitive to the subserviency of women to men, the fact that they have no legal rights, and must do as they are bid. She reads a sentence from the family Bible that women must be ruled over by their husbands, suddenly she decides she will go to college and study Greek and to ascertain if this is a correct translation. This embarked her on the career which led her to world renown. Lillian Merchal merits praise for a splendid performance in the role of Lucy Stone. She veritably "lived" the life of the strong, colorful personality she was portraying. Glenn Wilson was well cast as Henry Blackwell. Ann Baker made a sweet, charming Mrs. Stone, Fern Foster was delightful as Mrs. Widgery, and others lent talented support. Following the first act Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, president of the Women's Council, Boston University, introduced Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, who expressed her appreciation of the commemoration and remembrance of her mother. Miss Betsy Merrow and Miss Barbara Stantial acted as pages. *Boston Globe May 10* *Portland Me. Sunday April 16* Boston To See Play By Local Woman ---------------- "Lucy Stone," a chronicle play on the life of Lucy Stone and her activities in the women's rights movement, by Mrs. Maud Wood Park of the Hotel Eastland, will be presented in a two weeks' engagement, beginning May 9, by the Federal Theater Project at the Copley Theater at Boston. Mrs. Park is in Boston to attend rehearsals which began this week. The play, in nine episodes, was first presented by the Workshop of the Portland Players, under the direction of Allan Stuart Davis. The Oberlin scene was given by the dramatic club of the Waynflete School. under the direction of Nancy Lee Keith, and the Cumberland Country League of Women Voters sponsored a presentation here. Lucy Stone's husband, Henry A. Blackwell was at one time engaged in the beet sugar industry in Portland with George S. Hunt, the Lucy Stone once spoke at Portland City Hall. She lived from 1818 to 1893, and, with her husband, was a pioneer in the equal rights movement. 'Lucy Stone' at Copley *Traveler May 10* Story of How Women Won The Vote By HELEN EAGER The story of the birth of women's suffrage and the struggle to obtain equal rights for both sexes is revealed at the Copley Theater in "Lucy Stone." The amazing story of this valiant champion of women's rights has been lovingly transcribed into 10 episodic scenes by Maud Wood Park, who dramatized it from a book by Lucy Stone's daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. Opening in the West Brookfield home of Lucy Stone, in her late teens, the play depicts her rebellion of a woman's place in the home, her resentment of the virtual slavery to which females were subjected. It traces her through Oberlin College, where she becomes the first female student, earning her way by tutoring at 8 cents an hour and teaching for $1.39 a week, $1 of which was taken back for board. When, as a woman she is denied the right to read her own speech at graduation, she refuses to write it. A born crusader, she discards feminine attire of the day for revolutionary bloomers, laughing off the ridicule she excites. Campaigning for the abolition of slavery, she also interpolates a plea for women's rights. She is fortunate enough to fall in love and to be loved by a man wholly in sympathy with her ideas. They are married in a ceremony written by themselves and doubtless Miss Stone was the first bride to strike out the word "obey" from the ritual. Retaining her maiden name after marriage, she refuses to pay taxes on the house in her name without representation. After the civil war she and her compatriots descend on Washington to demand equal rights with the slaves, who have been granted the vote. But they discover that women, along with minors, paupers, the insane and criminals, will be given no voice in government. The final scene is just before Lucy Stone's death in Dorchester. She has lived long enough to see two states vote for women's rights and she feels confident that her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, will live to see the triumph of her cause. (Incidentally, Miss Blackwell was in the audience last evening to receive the plaudits of a crowded house.) Covering a period of 63 years, the play is necessarily sketchy, but it gives one a fair idea of a woman's single-handed battle against the world, a battle which resulted in the freedom which you and I enjoy today. Lillian Merchal is excellent in the title role. Hers is the only part which runs through the entire play. Glenn Wilson is effective as her husband, and making the most of other roles are Ann Baker, Bertram Parry, Florence Walsh, Muriel Woodward, Fern Foster, John Lyons and Fritz Eisenmann.FEDERAL THEATRE PRESENTS LUCY STONE Alice Stone Blackwell A DRAMA OF THE CHAMPION OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS BY MAUD WOOD PARK C OP L E Y T H E A T R E 5 NIGHTS OPENING MATINEE WEEKLY TUES. MAY 9 SATURDAYS TUES. to SAT. ONLYThis Week in Boston "So This Is Boston" Week of April 30, 1939 "LUCY STONE" Federal Theatre's Play Will Have World Premiere at Copley Theatre, May 9 The Federal Theatre will present for its world premiere, at the Copley Theatre Tuesday evening, May 9, "Lucy Stone," the thrilling life drama of that pioneer in the battle cry of "Votes for Women," titled after the maiden name of this ever shining light in the dawn of freedom for women in America. The play, promised as a straightforward chronicle of the emancipation of women, is by Mrs. Maud Wood Park, a Radcliffe graduate, who realistically interweaves in the romance of Lucy Stone's life the progress of woman's suffrage through a century of consistent effort. "Lucy Stone," the play, is based on the book of that name written by Alice Stone Blackwell as a life record of her illustrious mother, and is presented in honor of her 81st birthday. Federal Theatre State Director Jon B. Mack, in announcing the engagement as limited to two weeks, assures patrons of adequate cast and production under the direction of Eliot Duvey, who has placed in the principal roles of Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Livermore, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Rev. T. W. Higginson many of those who won histronic fame in the Federal Theatre's recent "Macbeth" production. The opening night performance will be under the sponsorship of the Boston University Women's Council, to be attended by Alice Stone Blackwell, a trustee of the university as well as the author of the book which inspired the play. 24 This Week In Boston Drama Comedy THEATRES Time Table Colonial Theatre D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. Shubert Theatre Frank Fay's show. Plymouth Theatre Eddie Dowling in "Our Town" Wilbur Theatre "The White Steed" coming May 8. Copley Theatre "Lucy Stone" coming May 8. COPLEY Theatre eves. at 8:30 465 Stuart St. (near Copley Square Phone KEN 4625 5 Nights Weekly, Tuesday to Saturday at 8:30 Matinees, Saturdays Only at 2:30 WORLD PREMIERE Tuesday Night, MAY 9 Beginning an engagement of 2 Weeks Only The Romance of the Champion of Women's Rights "LUCY STONE" ----------------------------- Thrilling Life Drama of the Pioneer in the Battle Cry of "VOTES FOR WOMEN" by Maud Wood Park All Seats Reserved, Now Selling for all Performances Eves. 25c, 55c, 85c. Matinees, 25c, 55c. (including tax) Presented by the Federal Theatre Project (A Division of the Works Progress Administration) Gazetta del Mass. Apr 22 1939 SERATE INN ONORE DI MISS BLACKWELL AL COPLEY THEATRE --------------- Le amiche di Alice Stone Blackwell sono liete di apprendere che il dramma "Lucy Stone" di Maud Wood Park sara rappresentato al Copley Theatre per due settimane, a cominciare dal 9 maggio, come produzione del Federal Theatre. La prima serate sarà sotto gli auspici del B. U. Women's Council in onore di Miss Blackwell e a beneficio di un fondo per borse di studio a studentesse straniere del College of Liberal Arts. "Lucy Stone" e una presentazione drammatica di scene cruciali tratte dalla vita della donna che fu giustamente chiamata "la stella matutina del movimento femminista." Benché il dramma si muove nello sfondo del finale successo della lunga lotta per la conquista del diritti legali e civici della donne gli episodi--tratti in gran parte dalla biografia di Lucy Stone scritta dalla figlia--comprendono il genuino romanzo di Lucy Stone e Henry Blackwell. Alcuni degli "sponsors" della serata inaugurale del dramma sono: Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, Dr. George W. Coleman, Miss Ada Louise Comstock, Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes, Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page, Rabbi Harri Levi, Miss Lucy Wheelock, Judge Jennir Barron, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moors. Post Apr. 14th 'LUCY STONE' TO BE GIVEN HERE --------- Story of First Champion of Women's Rights ----------- Alice Stone Blackwell is the most representative of great women alive today said Mrs. Maud Wood Park, American woman champion of women's rights, yesterday on her arrival in Boston. Mrs. Park came to this city to discuss the production of "Lucy Stone," her new play, which will be given for the first time in Boston, May 9, at the Federal Theatre, in honor of Miss Blackwell. Boston University Women's Council has taken over Copley Theatre for the opening night. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who is 80 years old, one year younger than Miss Blackwell, will be a guest of honor of Mrs. Park at the opening. Mrs. Park placed Mrs. Catt after Miss Backwell as the second great American woman of the contemporary age. Jane Addams of Hull House, who died a few years ago, was a third choice. "Lucy Stone, the mother of Miss Blackwell, was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. She had to go to Oberlin College in Ohio, to study. No other college in those days would accept a woman," said Mrs. Park. "She became the champion of women's rights in this country and lectured to great audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. She headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention and founded and edited the Women's Journal of Boston." *Sunday Post Theatre Page* FEDERAL THEATRE "Lucy Stone," by Maud Wood Park, a play based on Alice Stone Blackwell's story of the life of her illustrious mother, the companion of women's rights, will be produced by the Federal Theatre Tuesday night, May 9 for a two weeks' engagement. "Pinoochie," goes into its finale at the Copley Theatre, Tuesday night with the third and last week of this happy harlequinade of vaudeville, circus, marionette, music, song and dance. [?] [?] Apr 23 In Prospect D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY At the Colonial May 1, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company will begin the final fortnight of its four weeks stay in Boston. Schedule of performances is as follows: "The Gondoliers," Monday evening, May 1. and Friday evening, May 12; "The Yeoman of the Guard," Tuesday evening, May 2, Saturday afternoon and evening, May 13; "Trial By Jury" and "The Pirates of Penzance," Wednesday afternoon and evening,May 3; "Iolanthe," Thursday evening, May 4, and Monday evening, May 8. Friday evening, May 5, and Wednesday matinee and evening, May 10, "Cox and Box" and "H. M. S. Pinafore"; "The Mikado," Saturday afternoon and evening, May 6, and Tuesday evening, May 9; and "Patience," Thursday evening May 11. Dramatic Club will present the American premier of "He Was Born Gay." a romantic drama by Emlyn Williams, based on the legend of the "Lost Dauphin" of France, only son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Mr. Williams' play presupposes that the Dauphin was rescued from the Temple and taken to England where he grew up. His existence is not entirely a secret, and he finds himself menaced not only by plots against his life but by torturing doubts as to his own fitness for exalted position. The play was first presented in London by John Gielgud during the time of the coronation of King George VI. The Harvard production will be directed by Jock Munro. ------------- "LUCY STONE"--At the Copley on May 9, the Federal Theater will present "Lucy Stone," a drama on the life of the great feminist, written by Maud Wood Park from Alice Stone Blackwell's story of her mother's life. The play covers the life of Lucy Stone from the time when, as a young girl she felt the need of equal rights for women, her assertion of those rights after her marriage to Henry Blackwell and her final triumph.Boston Herald - Wed. Apr. 26 - B. U. HEAD GETS BID TO CHINESE BENEFIT Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, president of Boston University, receiving from Helen Yee, left, and Hilda Yee an invitation to attend the opening night performance of "Lucy Stone" at the Copley Theater may 9, in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and for the benefit of the scholarship fund for Chinese women students. TONIGHT IN THE THEATERS COLONIAL - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company of London presents "the Yeomen of the Guard." by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: 2:15 and 8:25 P. M. COPLEY - "Lucy Stone." a new play by Maud Wood Park, based on the biography by Alice Stone Blackwell, presented by the Federal Theater: 2:30 and 8:30 P. M. THEATER and SCREEN COPLEY THEATRE ... NOW LUCY STONE TUES. TO SAT. EVE. & SAT. MATINEE WPA FEDERAL THEATRE BOSTON SUNDAY POST, MAY 7, 193? GREAT CAREER AS WOMEN'S LEADER __________ Premiere of "Lucy Stone" Tuesday---Alice Stone Blackwell to Be Honored at the Copley TO BE HONORED AT "LUCY STONE" PREMIERE Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of famous leader for women's votes, who will receive honors when dramatization of her mother's life is given Tuesday at Copley Theatre. Miss Blackwell is holding a copy of the biography which inspired Mrs. Maud Wood Park's play built around the life of Miss Stone. [?]women who led in the [?] gave other women of [?] right to vote with the [?] the woman suffrage [?] to the Constitution in [?] present for the premiere [?] one," a chronicle play, [?] Theatre, on next Tues- [?] under the sponsorship [?] on University Women's --- MISS BLACKWELL [?]ist of patrons and pa- [?] responded to the coun- [?] to honor Alice Stone [?]ughter of the famous [?] life story is the central [?] dramatization. Heading [?]rs. Oakes Ames, whose [?] State road house is now [?]of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel [?]he university. [?] a dramatization of the [?] of Lucy Stone, the first [?] woman to take a college [?]o became the champion [?]ts in this country. Her [?] American women to par- [?] own government was [?]with victory under the [?] Blackwell and other [?] Mrs. Carrie Chapman [?]aud Wood Park who [?]rs after Miss Stone's [?]rk, formerly of Mas- [?]w a resident of Port- [?]e author of "Lucy Stone" It has been announced that Mrs. Catt, who is 80, and Mrs. Park will be present for the play opening, together with many other women who took leading parts in the suffrage movement, all gathering here to pay their tribute to the genius of Lucy Stone as a leader for the political rights of their sex. Carried on Indomitably Setting a pace which was followed later by her daughter. Miss Blackwell, Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Park and others, Lucy Stone was a leader who fought all over America for woman suffrage. She inspired others likewise to devote the greater parts of their lives to the cause of convincing men that women should be given the right to participate in the selection of public officials. They met with strong opposition, open contempt and public jeers, but bravely carried on, reducing opposition until fruition came with the passage of the constitutional woman suffrage amendment. Women of the United States, members of the Boston University Council declared yesterday, owe a great debt to these leaders and an expression of it on the part of Massachusetts and New England women voters will be given at the premier of "Lucy Stone." Before Lucy Stone died in 1893, she had seen a partial victory in the granting of suffrage to the women of two states. She left her work to be carried on by her husband, Henry Browne Blackwell, and their daughter. Alice Stone Blackwell, until the death of Mr. Blackwell in 1909. Miss Blackwell went on with the labors until the adoption of the amendment in 1920. Biography Basis of Play Lucy Stone, as will be dramatized in the play, headed the call for the first National Woman's Rights convention, founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston, which was the principal woman suffrage paper of America for half a century. Dr. Antoinette Browne Blackwell, the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister, was a sister-in-law. Mrs. Park was stimulated in the writing of the play by a biography of Lucy Stone written by Miss Blackwell, the purpose of the production of the play being to make the biography of the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree better known to the public and especially to the women of today who owe their right to vote to leaders such as Miss Stone and those who followed in her footsteps. Mrs. Park is a former president of the National League of Women Voters and has a fund of knowledge concerning the inside of the great drive which led to woman suffrage. After the passage of the amendment in 1920 she took part in various drives to get out the women's votes in political campaigns, holding that political indifference is a national menace and that non-voters are slacker citizens. She also takes particular pride in the fact that the leaders of the suffrage movement, by their peaceful persuasion of the legislators, actually made lobbying respectable.Prominent women who led in the fight which gave other women of America the right to vote with the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution in 1920 will be present for the premiere of "Lucy Stone," a chronicle play, at the Copley Theatre, on next Tuesday evening, under the sponsorship of the Boston University Women's Council. _____ TO HONOR MISS BLACKWELL A notable list of patrons and patronesses has responded to the Council's invitation to honor Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of the famous woman whose life story is the central theme of the dramatization. Heading the list is Mrs. Oakes Ames, whose beautiful Bay State road house is now the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh of the university. The play is a dramatization of the life and works of Lucy Stone, the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree and who became the champion of women's rights in this country. Her flight to enable American women to participate in their own government was finally crowned with victory under the leadership of Miss Blackwell and other such notables as Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and Mrs. Maud Wood Park who carried on for years after Miss Stone's passing. Mrs. Park, formerly of Massachusetts and now a resident of Portland, Me., is the author of "Lucy Stone." It has been announced that Mrs. Catt, who is 80, and Mrs. Park will be present for the play opening, together with many other women who took leading parts in the suffrage movement, all gathering here to pay their tribute to the genius of Lucy Stone as a leader for the political rights of their sex. Carried on Indomitably. Setting a pace which was followed later by her daughter. Miss Blackwell, Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Park and others, Lucy Stone was a leader who fought all over America for woman suffrage. She inspired others likewise to devote the greater parts of their lives to the cause of convincing men that women should be given the right to participate in the selection of public officials. They met with strong opposition, open contempt and public jeers, but bravely carried on, reducing opposition until fruition came with the passage of the constitutional woman suffrage amendment. Women of the United States, members of the Boston University Council declared yesterday, owe a great debt to these leaders and an expression of it on the part of Massachusetts and New England women voters will be given at the premier of "Lucy Stone." Before Lucy Stone died in 1893, she had seen a partial victory in the granting of suffrage to the women of two states. She left her work to be carried on by her husband, Henry Browne Blackwell, and their daughter. Alice Stone Blackwell, until the death of Mr. Blackwell in 1909. Miss Blackwell went on with the labors until the adoption of the amendment in 1920. Biography Basis of Play Lucy Stone, as will be dramatized in the play, headed the call for the first National Woman's Rights convention, founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston, which was the principal woman suffrage paper of America for half a century. Dr. Antoinette Browne Blackwell, the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister, was a sister-in-law. Mrs. Park was stimulated in the writing of the play by a biography of Lucy Stone written by Miss Blackwell, the purpose of the production of the play being to make the biography of the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree better known to the public and especially to the women of today who owe their right to vote to leaders such as Miss Stone and those who followed in her footsteps. Mrs. Park is a former president of the National League of Women Voters and has a fund of knowledge concerning the inside of the great drive which led to woman suffrage. After the passage of the amendment in 1920 she took part in various drives to get out the women's votes in political campaigns, holding that political indifference is a national menace and that non-voters are slacker citizens. She also takes particular pride in the fact that the leaders of the suffrage movement, by their peaceful persuasion of the legislators, actually made lobbying respectable.Council to Sponsor 'Lucy Stone' Drama University Women's Council members will sponsor the production of "Lucy Stone," a biographical drama written by Maud Park, authoress, tonight at the Copley Theater. The play will be staged in honor of Alice Stone Blackwell, University trustee and daughter of the heroine. Proceeds of tonight's performance will be added to a scholarship fund for Chinese women students at the College of Liberal Arts. The drama is an adaptation of a biography written by Miss Blackwell. Lucy Stone was a famous champion of women's suffrage. [*B U News 5/9/39*] WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1939 'LUCY STONE' PLAY AMUSEMENTS BOSTON EVENING AMERICAN--Page 15 OF MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN'S ZEAL Fight for Equal Rights Theme of Stirring Drama By PEGGY DOYLE A great and gallant Massachusetts woman and her dauntless fight for woman suffrage in the benighted days of the 19th century provided the theme for the Federal Theater production, "Lucy Stone," given last night at the Copley Theater. Present at the world premiere of Maud Wood Park's chronicle play was the white-haired daughter of the celebrated feminist, Alice Stone Blackwell, whose own contributions to the cause of equal rights have been notable. In a terse and trenchant speech last night, Miss Blackwell, a Boston University alumnus, lauded last night's B.U. Alumni benefit plan to aid Chinese war orphans. It would have pleased her mother, she said. The action of the play is concerned with the time intervening between 1830 and 1890. The play opens with a scene in the Stone farmhouse at West Brookfield (Mass). It is a late afternoon in fall and Lucy is helping her mother prepare supper. Lillian Merchal makes the girl Lucy interesting but not arresting. In Maud Wood Park's book, Lucy Stone is presented as she must have been, spirited, brave, whole-souled and fired with the zeal of a Joan d'Arc to free women from their chattel rating. MENFOLK WERE SHOCKED Lucy Stone's determination to go to college, there to prepare herself for her self-chosen battle to emancipate women, is made manifest in that first scene in the Stone kitchen. It shocked the Stone men not a little, but as Mrs. Stone said many years later when her daughter's name had become world-famous, "I have so long defended her because she was my flesh-and-blood until finally I got believing what I was saying all these years." The first act's second scene finds Lucy at Oberlin College -- she was the first Massachusetts woman to receive a college degree -- and tutoring backward male students at $1.31 a week. A dollar of this went toward her week's board. ANTI-SLAVERY SPEECHES From there she progressed to making anti-slavery speeches, at the behest of William Lloyd Garrison. Some years later, to escape the boos of Cincinnati citizens amused by her bloomer costume of black and purple, she darted into Henry Blackwell's hardware store. A year later, in the Stone kitchen, while Henry peeled potatoes and she nervously sliced carrots with their jackets on, he proposed to her. For their marriage ceremony she and Henry prepared a unique paper which gave her the equality in marriage which she eventually was to be largely instrumental in giving all women in this country. There are three acts and 10 scenes, a situation which even Orson Welles with his trick stage might find unwieldy. But last night's audience were generous of their time and applause.THE BOSTON HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939 Federal Theater Presents New Play, 'Lucy Stone', at Copley THE THEATER COPLEY By ELINOR HUGHES "Lucy Stone" "Lucy Stone," a biographical play in three acts and 10 scenes, by Maud Wood Park, adapted by the Federal Theater by Robert Finch, staged by Eliot Duvey and presented by the Federal Theater at the Copley Theater last night for the first time on any stage with the following cast: Mrs. Stone . . . Ann Baker Lucy Stone . . . Lillian Merchal Mr. Stone . . . Bertram Parry Antoinette Brown . . . Muriel Woodward William Lloyd Garrison . . . William Warren Stephen Foster . . . Roger MacDonald Mrs. Marianna Austin . . . Winifred Douglas Joe Coffin . . . John Lyons Samuel Blackwell . . . Basil Burwell Henry B. Blackwell . . . Glenn Wilson Rev. Thomas W. Higginson . . . Harry Lowell Mrs. Widgery . . . Fern Foster Senator Charles Sumner . . . Basil Burwell Horace Greeley . . . Jack Granfield Rev. Samuel May . . . Burt Kelsey Wendell Phillips . . . Roger MacDonald Susan B. Anthony . . . Anita Webb Elizabeth Cady Stanton . . . Winifred Douglas Mary Livermore . . . Elizabeth Gerrish Alice Stone Blackwell . . . Florence Walsh and others The chronicle play has never been an especially easy medium to work with, and the successful examples of this type of drama are comparatively few. Particularly if the protagonist has had a crowded and exciting life, the author is faced with the question of what to omit as well as that of what to include, and the result is apt to be a parade of salient facts embellished by actual words known to have been uttered upon special occasions, rather than a concise drama. "Lucy Stone," which had its premiere at the Copley last evening under the aegis of the Federal Theater, is no exception to the rule, and it shares the faults and the virtues of its genre. Maud Wood Park, the author, begins her play when Lucy Stone is a child, old enough to work at making shoes and to learn from the Bible that men are rulers over their wives. The lesson then learned she never forgot, and the rest of her life was spent in freeing women from inequalities in the home and under the law. She was one of the first women to graduate from Oberlin College, one of the first to give public lectures against slavery and to emancipate herself from cumberous skirts. Her happy marriage to Henry Blackwell was signalized by the omission of the word "obey" from the service and the mutual declaration of bride and groom on behalf of a woman's right not to be her husband's slave. She allowed her property to be sold rather than pay taxes concerning the disposal of which she had no voice, and she fought resolutely if in vain for the inclusion in the fourteenth amendment of women's right to vote. She did not live to see the twentieth amendment ratified, but we have her and other courageous women like her to thank for its eventual acceptance. "Lucy Stone" develops leisurely and episodically; it has frequent moments of humor and not a little feeling; the devotion of Lucy Stone and her husband is admirably indicated; the pay of women teachers back in 1847 is revealed to have been practically invisible, and the courage of Lucy and her followers in the face of desperate odds is never overlooked. If the dramatic values are periodic rather than cumulative that is hardly surprising in a play that covers a period of 63 years. Lillian Merchal plays the title role intelligently, making her woman crusader human and admirable, not cold and remote. Glenn Wilson complements her well in the role of Henry Blackwell, and the other roles are capably played. Eliot Duvey's production was simple and easily adapted to the demands of numerous scene changes.THE JEWISH ADVOCATE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1939 PANORAMA A Weekly Survey of People and Ideas By A. A. ROBACK Lucy Stone August 13th marks the 121st birthday of Lucy Stone, and next month, her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, will reach her eighty- second year. The "paterfamilias" of this trinity, Henry Blackwell, was born in May, 1825. Very, very seldom is a family so inspired by a common purpose of social justice - in other words, dominated by a holy spirit - for a full century, as was the Blackwell family. What inner harmony guided the lives of these three, who have never allowed an occasion to pass without making their influence felt? In her biography of her mother, which to a certain extent is also the biography of her father, Miss Blackwell tells us that Henry Blackwell "was a frequent speaker at the meetings held to protest against the Jewish pogroms in Russia. The great Jewish audiences stood up when he rose to speak." How this warrior on behalf of liberty would have thundered against the persecutions of the Jews today and particularly against the Coughlinites! I am writing this column under the spell of the play "Lucy Stone," which was performed recently in Boston - a play which I thought would be merely a chronicle but turned out to be a touching account of a gentle woman super-humanly strong in her convictions and efforts to realize an idea which had gripped her when she was but a youngster, to such an extent that she vowed to go to college and study Hebrew so that she could decide for herself whether the interpretation in the Bible of the clause "And he shall rule over thee" is correct. This woman became the great pioneer of woman's rights in America. She cared naught about traditions and conventions, if these were at odds with fairness and good sense. Pathetic Scenes The most moving scene in the play, skillfully brought out by the playwright, Maud Wood Park, was that in which all the furniture was taken from the house because Lucy refused to pay taxes on the principle that as a person without rights, she had no civil obligations. Even the cradle in which she was rocking the now 82-year-old Alice was removed, as the bailiff's men were wiping away a stray tear from their eyes. She held the tiny infant in her arms, and, I believe had to sit on the floor. We can imagine what she had been thinking then. Her husband was away on a business trip. Alone, she was fighting the law, the world. Perhaps she had gone too far. She was warned by her neighbors, all of whom had loved her because of her charitable and self-effacing acts. Only a few minutes after the auction began on her porch, the cradle was returned. One of the bailiff's men had bought it. Then came other furniture, the bed, the table, the chairs, the bureau yes, even the book which had so much sentimental value for her. Lucy was dazed. Was this a practical joke? I am sure that most of the audience must have experienced that wordless gulp. The neighbors had gathered and bought back all the furniture, and prevented outside bidding. What a woman Lucy Stone must have been to have brought out the best in her neighbors, and to have frustrated the administration of that unjust law which treated women as chattels. Young at 82 It must have given Miss Alice Stone Blackwell a rare thrill shared by few mortals to see herself represented on the stage as a tiny baby and a blossoming girl in her teens helping her parents' cause in no slight manner. She has been carrying on their ideal to this very day; and in spite of her age, her voice is more youthful, has more resonance than many a young girl's, and although she tells you that she sees your form as if through a mist, her eyes are transparently bright and expressive. When I first send her some Yiddish poems to versify into English for the Montreal paper which I was editing, twenty-five years ago, I envisaged Miss Blackwell as a young woman of perhaps 30. It was a dozen years later when I met her for the first time - she was nearing 70. Her New England reserve might have been anticipated, yet I was a bit disappointed, but the genuine ring of her voice compensated for the lack of personal warmth. It was the cause, the principle, which required all her devotion. At 82, she is au courant with the political situation, and can still dictate and, though denied the use of her eyes, even pencils her letters, revealing her indignation whenever an injustice is done; but the number of such injustices is mounting so rapidly that as we say in that remarkable Akdamut chant "although the heavens were parchment and all the reeds were pens, the seas and all the waters were ink," the wrongs committed against the innocent could not be recounted. May she live to see the greatest grievance of the age redressed, and celebrate in a poem the downfall of the tyrants who hold the world in their devilish grip. Lucy Stone - A Chronicle Play By Maud Wood Park Lucy Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. became the champion of women's rights in this country. lectured to immense audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention. founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston which was the principal woman suffrage paper of America for half a century. married Henry Browne Blackwell, the one man in America who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. became the sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree. also became the sister-in-law of Rev. Doctor Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister. died in 1893, after woman suffrage had been granted in only two states. left her work to be carried on by her husband and their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, until the death of Mr. Blackwell in 1909. Their daughter went on with the work until the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution in 1920. BOSTON TRAVELER, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939 _________________________________________________________________________ Future Events on Stage _________________________________________________________________________ In Current Attractions Stage Plays COPLEY FINAL THEATRE WEEK ! THE ROMANCE OF LUCY STONE BY MAUD WOOD PARK EVES. TUES. TO SAT. & SAT. MATINEE W.P.A. FEDERAL THEATRE [??rence Walsh, who appears in the Federal Theatre's "Lucy Stone," at the Copley.[marquis sign reads: NOW PLAYING LUCY STONE]April, 1938 Massachusetts League of Women Voters Bulletin --3-- CORRESPONDENCE ON PROPOSED SALES TAX MASSACHUSETTS FEDERATION OF TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATIONS, INC. 7 Water St., Boston, Mass. Mrs. G. Elliott May March 21st, 1938 31 Mt. Vernon Street Boston, Massachusetts My dear Mrs. May: Because so far as I know the Massachusetts League of Women Voters has never provided an adequate opportunity for proponents of the pending tax on sales for relief purposes to present a case I feel constrained to comment upon your article on the subject in the March issue of the Bulletin, which has just been, brought to my attention by one of your members who apparently does not like it. A second reading of the quotation from Dr. Shoup in the fourth paragraph ought to convince anyone who will bother to look at the facts that the proposal has been made with full knowledge of the point he makes and the taxation in Massachusetts has reached a degree of progression unusual in the country. The Massachusetts tax system is now so inclusive that sales taxation to the degree proposed would not be regressive. I suggest that the author be asked to prove the point made and to illustrate how in a scheme which includes taxation of real and personal property which taxes and surtaxes income, both earned and unearned, and which imposes numerous excise levies upon persons of varying abilities to pay, a sales tax of 2% becomes regressive. Here is clearly a point of view against which Dr. Shoup warns us when he says, "Certainly the sales tax must be considered as part of a tax system, and not as an isolated phenomenon." I think it is reasonable, therefore, to challenge the person who says the proposed tax is regressive to accept the dictum of his own authority and to prove the point. The use tax is admittedly hard to enforce. It is included in the bill at the insistence of retailers and for their protection. It will not be hard to enforce so far as automobiles, oil burners and manufacturing machinery is concerned. The mere statement that it is unwise legislation does not meet either the issue or the need. The contention that the imposition of a sales tax will be of no benefit to the small home owner ignores the easily ascertainable facts with which the home owner is himself confronted. It assumes that the story is told and the point proved if it can be shown that if a homeowner's tax is reduced by $20 and he pays $25 in sales tax he has lost money. Your writer cannot be so oblivious to the basic economics of home ownership as to presume the rent and market factors should be ignored, or that pegging municipal costs at their present level will not save even the smallest homeowner may times in the future more than his apparent immediate loss. The conclusion set forth in your article is completely misleading, and since it says in effect that not until a $25,000 valuation level is reached will an individual benefit, it is apparently intended to mislead. The injustice to retailers as set forth in your article is of the same stripe. His is the injustice now suffered by gasoline dealers who collect a federal and state tax on every gallon they sell. He would be as badly off as theatre managers who collect the admission tax. He would be in the same sad position as the motor car dealer who collects the federal tax. Yes, a Boston merchant would have to pay $1.00 to be registered, and in return he would get $7.66 a thousand off his tax bill. The statement about mail order competition shows again no concern for the facts. The large mail order houses now impose, collect and transit to the proper authorities the tax imposed in other states under a similar system. Why try to give the impression they would not do the same for Massachusetts. It would cost no more than a phone call to find out the facts. Your comment that the proposal would discourage new municipal services or expanding the educational system betrays at lease unfamiliar with our system of municipal finance, and with the situation existing in our cities and towns. Neither suggestion is the fact as you can easily determine for yourself if you will consult any authoritative source of information -- including the bill itself. You are quite correct in the next statement! There is no guarantee against diversion under our Constitution -- except that neither you nor I is likely to see the day when whatever sum we collect from sales taxation will be sufficient for our welfare needs. This is one of the tragic consequences for our failure to meet the situation earlier. The next point made concerning borrowings for relief purposes is so elementary that it is not clear to me why it should be regarded as a major discovery and why the Commission should be criticized for not having made more of it. The difficulty in presenting figures to show actual rate reductions if relief borrowing is taken into consideration is best illustrated by the error of your writer who predicts a $4.26 reduction for Boston. Consultation of any competent authority will show that Boston's first year reduction will be less than this and that it will be at least four years before its present borrowings for relief are paid and the full reduction realized. There is nothing misleading in the Commission's presentation, for any person can make the necessary deductions. I suggest that your writer is misleading as to the Boston situation through incomplete understanding of the situation. The next two statements cancel each other. You say on the one hand that a fractional tax is not feasible, and on the other that we will never have a fractional tax. On the meager authority of an estimate of per capita income for Massachusetts you dare to say that the yield of such a tax has been over-estimated. You seek to give the impression that the relationship between income and retail is absolute. You choose to ignore the large body of experience elsewhere in the United States. You give no consideration to the reasonable factors involved in such a computation as has been made. Such a statement as yours is thoughtless in view of the large amount of data available from thoroughly reliable resources. You ask whether the alternative of economy has been given a fair trial, and hint that it has not. The plain and incontrovertible answer, however, ought to be that the cause of economy has been defeated over and over again in Massachusetts by the inertia of groups like yours which has never been found on the side of reducing the cost of government. I have personally fought for four years with every means at my command against increasing costs in government, and in not one of those fights have I ever been conscious of the active support of the League. If you will enlist yourselves under your own banner to fight that fight in your localities and at the State House you will, I am sure, find no further need for the rhetorical question you ask here. You will perhaps forgive me if I post out how futile it is merely to say, as if it accomplished something, "Let us first absorb all sources of possible savings which can be achieved by more efficient administration before trying to tap new sources of revenue." Perhaps your authority will show both of us what technique to develop to proceed to "absorb". I am frankly at a loss so long as inertia, apathy and the curse of neutrality of attitude are with us. In this connection I cannot forbear noting that on another page you list important hearings before the Legislature and of pointing out that none of them concern themselves with the cost of government. Finally, may I express my disappointment and even discouragement that in the official publication of an organization as informed and as intelligent as your own I find in your discussion of the sales tax proposal not one single word to explain why the plan has been produced. I say discouragement because I have faith in the whole democratic process when I see an issue of this vast and fundamental importance apparently settled in your minds upon the basis of whether or not a sales tax is liked. I commend to your attention House Bill 1702, which is Part II of the Report of the Special Commission on Taxation and Public Expenditures. I hope you will refer it to H.B.E. with particular attention to the last paragraph on p. 19 which offers to objectors the challenge: "Produce an alternative which will be as substantial relief to real estate, meanwhile providing for the reasonable operation of government." Very truly yours, NORMAN MACDONALD, Executive Director ____________________ March 28, 1938 Mr. Norman MacDonald, Executive Director Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers' Associations 7 Water Street, Boston, Massachusetts My dear Mr. MacDonald: I have your letter of March 21, addressed to the editor of our Bulletin, objecting to the article in the March 1938 issue which opposed the 2% retail sales and use tax. You object to our concern over the sales tax falling most heavily on the poor, indicate that the Massachusetts tax structure has progressive aspects, and imply that Dr. Shoup would find a sales tax an acceptable addition to this structure. Let me point out that both Drs. Haig and Shoup made no sales tax recommendation in the voluminous 1932 and Shoup made no sales tax recommendation in the State in spite of the fact that the New York tax structure with its graduated income tax is more progressive than ours. Since you agree that the use tax would be difficult to enforce, the only point at issue is our use of the words "unwise legislation. Our Bulletin applied those terms properly in relation to evasion and disregard for law.Massachusetts League of Women Voters Bulletin April, 1938 CORRESPONDENCE - continued We reassert that a sales tax would be of no benefit to the small home owner whereas a $25,000 home owner would benefit. We deny that our statement was "apparently intended to mislead". In view of many variable factors - size and source of income, size of family, spending habit, ratio of assessments to value of property - determination of the exact point at which a home owner's real property tax saving would more that offset his payment in sales taxes would involve endless controversy. As for your statement that various other factors would compensate a small home owner for :his apparent immediate loss" from a sales tax, I quote Dr. Haig, distinguished expert on tax problems: "To propose the substitution of general sales taxes for taxes on real estate as a measure of relief for the small man is an insult to intelligence and an affront to common sense". Your words "the same stripe" with reference to our belief that the proposed tax is an injustice to retailers, charge us with further "intention to mislead". A flat tax per gallon of gasoline, with the easy computation involved cannot be compared with the record-keeping of a retail establishment selling a wide variety of goods. We stated that the sales tax would injure retails through intensified mail order competition. You reply that mail order houses would collect the tax for Massachusetts. The $25 exemption clause (over $100 per average family per month) would permit a large amount of tax-free purchases out of state at the expense of our merchants. Moreover, any one mail order house could not properly collect a tax unless it knew whether or not a customer's purchases from all non-Massachusetts sources had already used up his exemption allowance. Your next paragraph categorically denies that expansion of municipal services would be discouraged.. According to our study of the bill, expansion would be permitted with a 1% increase over average costs during the previous five years, plus an allowance proportionate to any increase in assessed valuation. When we characterize this is essentially a tax limit, you protest. Yet elsewhere in your letter you emphasize that "pegging municipal costs at their present level" is one of the great advantages to be derived from the bill. Your position seems inconsistent. We do not understand what is meant by your statement that inadequacy of sales tax revenues for welfare needs "is one of the tragic consequences of our failure to meet the situation earlier". Your discussion of our paragraph on tax-free reduction seems to miss entirely the point we made. Boston for the past five years has been markedly overspending its current revenues, in 1937 to the tune of $3.40 per thousand dollars of valuation. If these $3.40 worth of expenses are met out of the current revenue, the reduction promised Boston taxpayers from the sales tax distribution would be not $7.66 but $4.26. Debt service requirements for the retirement of past borrowings for current expenses are included in the 1937 tax rate. You state "there is nothing misleading in the Commission's presentation for any person can make necessary deductions" to adjust for borrowing. The average taxpayer knows his rate; he does not know the extent of borrowing for current expenses. He may not even know that there has been any such borrowing. The next two statements do not cancel each other. The impracticability of fractional sales taxes is unrelated to our fear that the proposed tax will continue permanently in force. In any event, we were covering the only two possible developments. In your propaganda for the sales tax you give the impression that the sales tax is a temporary expedient. For example, your March issue of Tax Talk broadcasts the statement: "As conditions improve the tax will be gradually eliminated." Let me set against this is a quotation from your letter: "Neither you nor I is likely to see the day when whatever sum we collect from sales taxation will be sufficient for our welfare needs." The reason we belive a $45,000,000 estimated yield from the sales tax over-optimistic was clearly stated. We note that you refrain from giving the basis of calculation for the estimated yield. One of our members tried to get this information from Tax Commissioner Long, who protested that his estimate had been between $30,000,000 and $45,000,000. You and the other members of the Commission are on unsound ground, to put it mildly, to use the maximum figure alone, particularly in the detailed tabulations of local tax reduction which may be expected if the sales tax is adopted. Your next paragraphs attack the League for not pressing more actively for economy in government. This accusation reveals your unfamiliarity with the measures the League has been working for throughout its history. Whether your accusation is true or false, however, the fact remains that we are discussing a sales bill which proposes shifting burdens from real estate to the poor in large measure. While we are willing to broaden the tax base to bring relief to real estate, we agree with Dr. Shoup that "the sales tax as an emergency form of revenue, and certainly as permanent a part of any state's tax system, marks an unnecessary and backward step in taxation." I come now to challenge with which you close your letter, namely that we should produce an alternative. With our resources that is not feasible, but we are by no means convinced that the Commission, particularly on the basis of the limited material thus far made available, has fully explored all possibilities. First of all, it should be demonstrated by your Commission why revision of our income tax system to produce an extra $9,000,000 should be favored only if the sales tax is defeated by the General Court. Have other potential sources of revenue been fully investigated including such important possibilities as taxing tax-exempt securities, taxing tax-exempt property, increasing present forms such as a tax on cigarettes? We are not taking a position in favor of any of these proposals but we would like to see further study and analysis. Your Commission might well have focussed public attention on the important problem of integrating local, state and federal system of taxation. Governor Lechman of New York last week took the lead in raising this question in a protest to Washington. These are a few fields in which we had a right to hope that your Commission would take the leadership. We are deeply disappointed that the major proposal to come out of the Commission's effort would shift the costs of the depression to the backs of those least able to bear them. Very truly yours, Elizabeth Fainsod, President TRADE AGREEMENTS - continued Another objection is often heard. because the most favored nation clause is applied to these agreements, it is urged that each concession bargained for with a particular country is extended free-of-charge to every other country, without equivalent concessions from it. This is true, so far as specific concessions, yet it should be remembered that we are extended, in return, any benefits written into trade agreements between other countries. Benefits are thus generalized and we stand to gain in the long run. Farmers sometimes claim that they are being injured by these agreements. And yet, for the most part, competitive agricultural imports, entering at reduced rates, have been limited very strictly, either as to quantity or as to the season when they may come in to the U.S. Increasing American farm income, perhaps, provides the best answer. Program and Foreign Trade As to the general stimulus to foreign trade, a few figures will prove interesting. Exports to the countries with which we have had Trade Agreements increased from 1935 - 1938 by 42%; over the same two-year period exports to the non-agreement countries as a whole increased by only 26%. There is surely significance in this comparison. League Position The League believe that increased trade between nations means increased prosperity for everyone. The stabilization of social and political factors and so is a potent force for peace. For these reasons the League gives hearty support to this Reciprocal Trade Program. Coats Capes, Cape-Coats and Suits MADE JUST FOR YOU Be Individual This Spring in a fine Quality Tweed Coat Made in a Model, Color and Material of Your Own Selection Prices are reasonable ROMANES & PATERSON 581 BOYLSTON STREET ---- IN COPLEY SQUAREProduction Division W.P.A.A Boston, MassachusettsTUESDAY EVENING "LUCY STONE" AT THE COPLEY--- This new play, written by Maud Wood Park, and to be given here first performance on any stage, is a Federal Theatre production. The play was made from Alice Stone Blackwell's story of the life of her illustrious mother who was so prominent in winning national acceptance of Woman Suffrage. The opening scene is in the Stone farmhouse in West Brookfield in 1830, and the succeeding 10 scenes are concerned with the home life and public career of the "morning star of the women's rights movement" to her death in 1893 at the age of 75. The play has been staged by Eliot Duvey under the direction of Ben Russak, supervisor of the Federal Theatre's playwriting department of the National Service Bureau. The leading roles will be acted by Lillian Merchal in the title role, Glen Wilson, Florence Walsh, Muriel Woodward, Basil Burwell, William Warren, Roger MacDonald, Harry Lowell, Jack Greenfield and Anita Webb. --2-- Massachusetts League MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS BULLETIN Lucy Stone -- A Chronicle Play Turning back to re-chronicle forgotten events and great personages of history has become a literary fashion and a very happy one. It seems that America is eager to know the shaping forces, characters, and occasions that have made her what she is. American women have particular interest in the long struggle that gave them their "rights." Some of us remember a few of the great leaders, and all desire that the lessons of their lives - the drama, the humor, the simplicity, the devotion, and their utmost sacrifice-- shall be a familiar story to the girls of today and the women of tomorrow. So with Mrs. Catt we say, "Maud Wood Park's play, 'Lucy Stone', is a gem". Based upon Miss Blackwell's biography of her mother, "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Women's Rights", Mrs. Parks has in the old form of the chronicle play, dramatized many of the revealing and amusing episodes of Mrs. Stone's life. She has mad good history as well as authentic drama. In the homely, humorous, but realistic speech of the period, the play chronicles the manners and view- points of the 19th century New England, peopled then by "plan folk" and philosophers. How Lucy Stone rebelled against the subjection of women, broke the shackles of tradition and became the "morning star" of the woman's movement makes a dramatic theme of significant human interest. Mrs. Park's play is a vivid portrayal and truly valuable chronicle. Written in honor of Miss Blackwell's eightieth birthday, Mrs. Parks special motive has been to make it possible that these scenes and this great historic struggle should be known as widely as possible by the Youth of America. The royalties received by Mrs. Park will constitute a fund which will be used for the purchase and distribution of the Lucy Stone biography. The play is published by the Walter H. Baker Company, Boston. M.E.D.W. Lillian Merchal, as she appears in the title role of "Lucy Stone," a new biographical drama about the famous 19th century crusader for women's rights, which the Federal Theater will present at the Copley on Tuesday evening. *Sunday Herald May 7* LILLIAN MERCHAL as Lucy Stone in "LUCY STONE" Copley, May 9 a Federal Theatre world premiere.WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION FOR MASSACHUSETTS JOHN J. McDONOUGH Administrator Federal Theatre Project, 67 Quincy St., Roxbury. HIGhlands 6310 EDUCATORS, DRAMA LOVERS, WOMEN'S CLUB OFFICIALS. ATTENTION: COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN. Dear Chairman: On Tuesday evening, May 9th, the Federal Theatre of Massachusetts, maintaining its policy of presenting outstanding attractions, will present for two (2) weeks only, "Lucy Stone" by Maud Wood Park, at our Boston base, the Copley Theatre near Copley Square. There will be six (6) performances weekly, Tuesday through Saturday with a continuation of our policy of eliminating Monday evening, substituting in its place a Saturday matinee. "Lucy Stone" is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes in the life of a woman long heralded as "the morning star of the women movement". Material for the play by Mrs. Park, herself an outstanding figure in women's affairs and the first national president of the League of Women Voters, has been largely drawn from the biography of Lucy Stone by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, now in her 82nd year. The enclosed material will highlight the active career of Lucy Stone, will give complete information concerning special rates for theatre parties, both as a means of raising revenue for charitable work and provides a substantial price reduction for those desiring to attend in a body. A letter or telephone call to HIGhlands 6310, Promotion Department, will enable us to arrange details. Very truly yours, JON B. MACK STATE DIRECTOR FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT By Eugene C. Keenan Supervisor of PromotionLIST FOR OPENING NIGHT "LUCY STONE'' DRAMATIC EDITORS Mr. Eliot Norton Post Left H1 H3 Miss Elinor Hughes Herald Right H2 H4 Mr.Leo Gaffney Sunday Advertiser Right J2 J4 Mr. E. F. Harkins Record Center G101 G102 Miss Peggy Doyle American Center H112 H113 Miss Helen Eager Traveler Center E112 E113 Mr. Charles Howard Globe Center E101 E102 Mr. John K. Hutchens Transcript Center F101 F102 Mr. Leslie Sloper Christian Science M Center H101 H10285 19 _____ 765 85 _____ 161.5LUCY STONE DRAMATIC FIGURE [*Sunday Post May 14th 1939*] Career of the Famous Champion of Women's Rights Was Intensely and Basically Dramatic BY ELLIOT NORTON THE Federal Theatre's "Lucy Stone" play is pleasant enough in conception and creditable in performance. It serves to outline, at least, the character of a great woman, an extraordinary pioneer, and it serves, too, to call to mind the celebrated causes for which Lucy Stone and her co-champions fought. It might well be that a play written from a somewhat different point of view, designed to fill out the character of its principal person as does Alice Stone Blackwell's biography, on which it is based, would have definite Broadway possibilities. It is the kind of thing that, with a star like Helen Hayes to create its chief part, could have power and wide significance in the theatre. ---- The Blackwell biography is written with great simplicity and directness and also with an objectivity that is remarkable when it appears that the writer is also the daughter of Lucy Stone. With easy strokes, by the sympathetic and detailed description of actual incidents, it brings the lady and her causes into sharp focus and, in so doing, makes it very plain that here was a woman - a heroine - whose life was a long, hard struggle against odds. The fundamental of drama is conflict: man against man, man against himself, man against his environment or, in the case of ancient classical tragedies, men against the gods. The story of Lucy Stone is a story of conflict between a woman and her environment, between her own serenely held convictions and the bitter prejudice of the world around her. Obviously, this was a woman of superior quality, who had all the womanly qualities except those that the crippling social conventions of her day demanded. She had a keen, clear mind, a pleasing presence, a musical speaking voice. She deeply and intensely loved the man she married and the only child of that marriage, though she had intended in her early career never to marry. She was warm and affectionate and womanly, unlike the cartoon characters which the word "reformer' sometimes, unfortunately, call to mind. ---- She had astonishing courage and willpower. She went to college in an era that intensely discouraged higher education for women, principally to study Greek, so that she could read the Bible in that language and discover for herself the actual meaning of some passages which were popularly translated to the detriment of women in her day. She endured fabulous hardships to achieve her ambition. She slept on the deck of a Lake Erie steamer, en route to Oberlin College, because she couldn't afford a stateroom. She cooked her own meals, in addition to doing housework, teaching school and sewing her own things, while at college. She learned her Greek, though she studied it at one time with book propped against a sink while she washed dishes to earn a bare living. She learned, her daughter's book reports, that a passage from St. Paul, which she had refused to credit when the clergymen had quoted it against her wish to speak in public, had been mistreated, or misinterpreted. The Pauline texts, they told her, had forbidden women to "speak in public." Her study of the original text led her to the belief that the word which they translated as "speak" could better be read as "gabble." And she went on to speak in public, to become an orator of enormous power. ---- Her battle, from the beginning, was for free speech and for the right of a conscience which she seems never to have compromised. That this kind of individualism might, in a lesser person, lead to misfortune, is granted. But Lucy Stone, though she may have been something less than "a modern Joan of Arc," as one enthusiast suggested, had clear eyes and high purpose and most of the things for which she fought are now taken for granted. It hardly seems possible now, a matter of less than 100 years later, that in her early days women were banned from all colleges but one, from all public platforms, from owning property if they were married. The married woman of that era appears to have been not only her husband's slave, but pretty much his property, without any reasonable legal rights even in her own children. ---- The Lucy Stone that the present play sets down - the fault in more, perhaps, in the direction and the action than in the writing - would seem to have been a rather simpering child, who cried and pouted when she found Biblical thunders against woman's freedom and, subsequently, became desperately cute and coy when she was courted by Henry Blackwell. The Lucy Stone of Miss Blackwell's book did not simper, nor was she coy. She herself, late in life, regretted that she never had a sense of humor and there is no evidence that she was ever without a sense of dignity and self control. ---- It is likely that in the present production Director Eliot Duvey, who has done nice things for the Federal Theatre, felt that Miss Stone's character should be somewhat romanticized, or sentimentalized, with a view to making it more theatrically palatable. It may be that he was wise in so doing. But it would seem that this character is altogether too big and strong - and altogether too beautiful - to need any dilution or exaggeration. Lucy Stone's courtship by Henry Blackwell was hardly a giddy, girlish affair. On the contrary, it seems to have been incredibly reserved, but by no means any less theatrical for that reason. When a man of intense conviction, high character and high pose sets about with absolute determination to win a woman who has said she would not marry, meets her on her own grounds, enlists in the movements which she is forwarding and eventually wins her as his bride, is that dull? Need that be altered till this extraordinary courtship has become merely a boy-meets-girl thing in which the very appearance of the boy flutters the lady's heart till she pretty nearly swoons into the dish of carrots she is preparing for supper? No. The Lucy Stone that Miss Blackwell proudly presents was no hatchet-wielding harridan with ice water in her veins, but she was serenely unafraid of any man, or woman. And her letters to Henry Blackwell would definitely indicate that the carrots she may have prepared for supper in his presence were neatly and perfectly done, not spoiled by her romantic emotionalism. ---- The play should be done, or better redone, for Broadway. It has, too, distinct Hollywood possibilities, though it might easily become distorted in the films. The chronicle method employed in the present production is effective. But the treatment should be dramatic, where it is not more apt to be narrational. And the chief character should be rescued from her present attack of coyness. THE THEATRE CALENDAR "THE WHITE STEED," Paul Vincent Carroll's exciting comedy of rural Ireland continues at the Wilbur Theatre. Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Tandy and George Couloris are the principal players. The Federal Theatre's, production of "Lucy Stone," a play about the famous feminist, is at the Copley Theatre. The New England Repertory Company will do "Liliom" for four days, beginning Tuesday, at the Huntington Chambers Theatre, 30 Huntington Avenue. "Streets of Paris," the new revue from the Shubert office, will come to the Shubert Theatre, May 29. The Federal Theatre will do "Big Blow," a drama of Florida life, form Theodore Pratt's novel of the same name, beginning May 30. COPLEY THEATRE - FINAL WEEK! THE ROMANCE OF "LUCY STONE" BY MAUD WOOD PARK EVES.TUES. to SAT.MATINEE W.P.A FEDERAL THEATREDaughter to Be Present Tonight At Play on Career of Lucy Stone A FRAGILE little woman with snowy hair, her eyes so friendly and sparkling that it seemed hard to believe they see only outlines of figures and contrasts between light and dark - penalty of a lifetime of overstrain - sat yesterday in faded old clothes among her beloved books. She wore a little shawl over her shoulders, an apron and a plaid blanket over her knees. Her living room, overlooking the top floor of a Cambridge building, bespoke the unusual. No carpets, no draperies, no decorations. Old- fashioned book cases filled with books; piles of newspapers and magazines, boxes of stamped envelopes. On the walls a few pre-Civil War portrait engravings and late '90s photographs. An odd bookcase one row high stood beneath the window, filled with tall, slender volumes, in worn leather binding, of the Woman's Journal, published in Boston by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell and later by their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. Lucy Stone, famous pioneer of women's rights, whose name has come down to this generation as symbolic of women who retain their maiden names after marriage in connection with their public careers, and her husband, less acclaimed but no less devoted to the cause of emancipation of women, have been dead for many years. She died in 1893, he in 1909. * * * THE little woman with the shawl over her shoulders is the daughter who carried on their work, known throughout this country and by people in many lands as a publicist in the cause of humanity. She will be 82 in September. Tonight Miss Blackwell will be among the most honored of many notables in the audience at the Copley Theatre, Boston, for the premiere performance of a dramatization of her biography of Lucy Stone. On the stage at the Copley the mother of Miss Blackwell will come to life as the central figure of a true-to-life play. Glimpses of the American heroine will be presented, from her rebellion as a child against woman's inferior status to the day she finished her life's work As in life, the companion figure of Lucy Stone on the stage will be Henry Blackwell, handsome, joyous, enthusiastic as his daughter remembers him in early life; and as he was in old age. Miss Blackwell herself will appear briefly as a babe in arms, and later at her mother's deathbed and in a vision in which Lucy Stone sees the procession of those who carry her fight for suffrage after she is gone. * * * THE privilege of seeing such recreation of personalities and scenes out of one's own life falls to the lot of few. And it will not fall to Miss Blackwell, in the literal sense. Though she expects to be in the audience tonight, though she is alert of her hearing, her eyesight is so impaired that the spoken word alone must carry over to her what occurs on stage. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Old friends who attend the premiere consider it an honor to Miss Blackwell, and a gala occasion for her friend, Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Portland, Me., a younger champion of woman's rights, who wrote the original dramatization of the biography. Miss Blackwell, however, explained to a Standard-Times reporter: " The first night performance is being given under auspices of the Boston University Women's Council as a benefit for two Chinese girl students, to help defray expenses of their education in this country. They will act as ushers. I know mother would have been pleased to have it so. She was interested in the Chineses and was indignant when they were persecuted - as indeed she was indignant when any persons were persecuted. She took occasion to emphasize how much better the Chinese in this country behaved than the people who were crying out that they must be driven out." * * * * MRS. PARK'S dramatization was written several years ago, Miss Blackwell explained, primarily for acting by amateurs, and was with great success in Portland. "People who attended, expecting to be bored by propaganda," she smiled, "came away delighted, I am told. When Mrs. Park took the play to the Baker Publishing Company to be published for amateur production, Baker insisted it had a real appeal and should be enlarged. It was altered then. This version had been expanded further, partly by Mrs. Park and partly by the Federal Theatre, which is presenting it. I know that the Federal Theatre inserted at least one entire scene." That scene, Miss Blackwell related, depicts the first meeting between her father and her mother. Lucy Stone was at the time ardently engaged in anti-slavery work. Henry Blackwell had a $10,000 price on his head for having aided a Negro slave girl to escape. He was then a partner in a hardware store in Cincinnati. Miss Stone came into his store to cash an Anti-Slavery Society check. "Father was very much impressed with her," Miss Blackwell said, "though she was thin and pale from typhoid, contracted nursing a brother who died of it. Father made some excuse to delay cashing the check until the next day. His brother Samuel was looking for a wife, and father thought Miss Stone would be just the wife for him. He introduced them the next day. But Samuel didn't take to her. He said she wasn't good looking enough for him." * * * SHE was good-looking enough for Henry Blackwell, but it was not until four years later that he entered the lists as a determined suitor. Lucy Stone had vowed she would never marry, Miss Blackwell explained. Indeed, the inspiration to her career had been her childhood rebellion against being expected to believe that God intended woman to be subject to man, and that the Bible said so. Her resolution to read the Bible for herself in the original Greek and Hebrew and see whether it had been properly translated impelled her to seek a college education, and led her to being the first Massachusetts woman to gain a college degree. Armed with a letter of introduction from William Lloyd Garrison, a great friend of her mother, Henry pursued the lady of his choice to her father's home in West Brookfield. "he found her standing on the kitchen table, whitewashing the ceiling," Miss Blackwell related. "She came down and they had a friendly talk, and saw each other frequently afterward. Mother told him she had no intention of getting married, but after a determined and arduous courtship he won her consent." Incidentally, Miss Blackwell mentioned, the third William Lloyd Garrison will be among the audience tonight. "The second William Lloyd Garrison was a great friend of my father. The third and his family have been very kind to me." * * * "MOTHER was small, slight, but full of health and vitality," Miss Blackwell recalled. "She had gray eyes, brown hair that had hardly a thread of gray when she died. She was extremely neat. "Father was of medium, build, a good singer, a fine speaker, an excellent writer. He was full of fun and could make everybody laugh." Miss Blackwell's family became Summer residents of Chilmark more than 70 years ago, and she continued to spend her vacations there until recently, when a cousin who lives with her became too infirm to accompany her to the Vineyard. [*New Bedford Standard Times May 9*] [*cont next page*]Standard times - cont She misses the Island, she says, but cherishes the memories of it engraved in her memory, among which are those of her first visit, as a young girl. The Blackwells probably were the first off-island summer visitors and, for lack of any other place to take them in, spent a memorable week at Gay Head Lighthouse. Asked for a message to women who would like to do things worth while, Miss Blackwell replied, "my mother's last articulate words were, 'Make the world better.' I can think of nothing more worth while." ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Boston University Women's Council to Sponsor "Lucy Stone" May 9th The Boston University Women's Council has taken over the Copley Theatre for May 9th for the opening night of the Federal Theatre production of "Lucy Stone", in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, a Trustee of the University, and daughter of the famous woman whose life story has been dramatized by Mrs. Maud Wood Park. The proceeds of this benefit are to be applied to scholarships for Chinese women students in the College of Liberal Arts. The play is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement". Although the background of the play is the development and final success of the long struggle to get legal and other rights for women, the episodes, drawn largely from the biography of Lucy Stone written by her daughter, include the genuine romance of Lucy and Henry Blackwell, as well as some of their humorous experiences in working for the cause. In the Prologue, the child Lucy is started on her remarkable career by the realization of the needless hardships borne by her mother and other women; and the next scene at Oberlin College, illustrates some of the absurd restrictions placed upon women students in the early days of co-education. Later scenes include such famous national thinkers and leaders of their day as William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony and Mary A. Livermore. For young women today, many of whom do not know that opportunites now taken for granted were won for them by the courage and self sacrifice of leaders in an earlier generation, this drama of real life should have special interest. Among the sponsors for the benefit are President and Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh, Dr. Ada L. Comstock, Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, Judge Emma Fall Schofield, Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moors, Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes, Professor and Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, Dr. George W. Coleman, Miss Alice P. Tapley, Mrs. John C. Lee, and Mrs. Guy W. Stantial. Tickets may be secured at 85 cents, 55 cents, and 25 cents from the Council headquarters at 146 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Checks should be made payable to Mrs. Howard Selby, Treasurer. Coming Events May 2 Varsity Baseball--Boston College--Nickerson Field 4 Varsity Baseball--University of New Hampshire--Nickerson Field 5 Varsity Baseball--Springfield--Nickerson Field 6 Varsity Tack--Middlebury--Middlebury 8 Body Development and Control by Anatole Chujoy, Managing Editor of Dance Magazine Jacob Sleeper Hall--688 Boylston Street, Boston--7 P.M.--Admission $1.00 9 Boston University Women's Council to sponsor "Lucy Stone"--Proceeds for the benefit of Chinese women students in the College of Liberal Arts--Tickets 85c, 55c and 25c Checks should be made payable to Mrs. Howard Selby, Treasurer, 146 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. "Bostonia" May 1939The Alice Dixon Bond Book Reviews have been a source of great interest and increased attendance as the series has progressed. There will be one more Book Review, May 8th, to which we hope many will be able to come. May 9th - CHINESE STUDENTS: At the Board meeting in March, Dean Franklin presented a request which had been given to her, to ask if the Council could receive two Chinese girls in residence. The suggestion was received with keen interest and enthusiasm. It was thought, however, that we should receive a special gift for these Chinese girls for next year and not use the Harriet Truxel Marsh Memorial Scholarship. The Fashion Show, put on in the salon of Rae Samoff on March 30th, netted us about $50 for this purpose, and more recently a most unexpected and rare opportunity has been placed before us to easily complete the rest of the money for these girls. It appears that a play was written, called "Lucy Stone" about a year ago by Maude Wood Park, and we have been given the first opportunity of putting on the first night in honor of Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone, and a most distinguished alumna of Boston University. It can be made a very "brilliant occasion" as first nights usually are, and this will be done for the benefit of the Chinese Scholarship. There are two other groups who would gladly take it if we did not, but both Mrs. Park and Miss Blackwell feel it would be peculiarly appropriate to have it put on by Boston University as it is Alice Stone Blackwell's alma mater. The Federal Theatre is putting on this play for two or three weeks in the Copley Theatre, and the first night will be May 9th, and we hope you can all come. If there is any one who cannot get out, will you not be represented by some under-graduates to whom you will make it possible for us to send tickets. All the rest of their lives, these young people will remember they had the pleasure of seeing so distinguished a woman as Alice Stone Blackwell, even as we older graduates recall the privilege of having seen some of the great women who have gone on: Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore, Julie Ware Howe and Louisa May Alcott. The author, Maude Wood Park will be there on this first night, and Carrie Chapman Catt has expressed a desire to come on from New York with a party of friends. We expect Alice Stone Blackwell to be present and members of her class as guests of honor. CANDLE BEAM GIFT SHOP - The Candle Beam Gift Shop will be open at 206 Waverly Avenue, Newton, daily, through the rest of the season even though Mrs. LeSourd may not be here, and friends are invited to examine the rare selection of special advantageously priced articles. With affectionate greetings to all members. Very sincerely, Louisa Holma Fisk, President (Mrs. Everett O.) P.S. - This Easter letter has been delayed in mailing in order that it might carry the enclosures.BOSTON UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S COUNCIL 146 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS CIRCLE 6826 MRS. EVERETT O. FISK President 135 WINTHROP ROAD, BROOKLINE MRS. HOWARD W. SELBY Treasurer 350 CHESTNUT STREET, WEST NEWTON Dear Council Member and Friend, Since there has been no continent or ocean separating us during the past year, you have not received letters from me for several months. There is a certain proportion of both life and annual members whom I see from month to month or occasionally; there are others who are more remote or who are not able to come into the Council meetings whom I particularly wish to greet and salute at this Easter tide. I often wish that I might know you all better personally. To further such acquaintance and friendship, the membership committee gave a Tea for the new members on January 18th, and we had great joy in meeting each other. There are some non-resident members whom we cannot see, and to them we send special salutation, and others who are nearer here but for reasons of health, are not able to meet with us often, and to these also we send special greetings. HARRIET TRUXEL MARSH MEMORIAL FUND: We rejoice to tell you all, whether near or distant, that your loyal co-operation and service has made possible the completion of the Harriet Truxel Marsh Scholarship. The full amount is pledged though it is not quite all paid in yet. We are very glad to report that the income from the invested funds was sufficient to take care of one young woman in the room last year, and this year we are caring for two young women in the room. Miss Eleanor McMillen has been with us two years, and Miss Margaret Louise Adams has been here the present year. They are occupying the May Bliss Dickinson Room which was furnished by Mrs. May Bliss Dickinson Kimball. We wish you could all see this most beautiful room. I take this opportunity of thanking everyone who has made any contribution toward this scholarship. FUTURE DATES - April 24th and May 8th; Our annual meeting was a very successful one, and the report of the year 1938 has gone out to each member. I hope you will carefully read the entire report. We are indebted to Mr. Courtenay Guild for a gift toward the publishing of this report. Mrs. Virginia Stickney Snow, organized a recital for 'Cello, voice and piano, which was given through the courtesy of Mrs. George Hall, in her Music Mansion in Providence. This recital cleared over $50 and a generous friend in Providence, not a member of the Council, made the amount $100, whereby Mrs. Snow was made a Life Member of the Council. On April 24th there is to be a gentlemen's night with an informal supper, when we hope members will bring their husbands and friends. The speaker for the evening will be Mr. Charles S. Tapley who will speak on Paul Revere. Mr. Tapley has given this lecture at the Women's Republican Club and several other organizations in Boston and has been well received, and the nearness of the date, April 24th to April 19th, makes it particularly appropriate."LUCY STONE" -- At the Copley, Tuesday evening, the Federal Theater will present the world premiere of "Lucy Stone," by Maud Wood Park, from the life story of the famous women's suffrage leader as written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. Lucy Stone's struggle for equality for women in law and in the home, as well as her courtship by Henry Blackwell are parts of the drama of this play which introduces in the course of its action Susan B. Anthony, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley and other contemporary personalities. The cast will be drawn for the most part from players who were last seen in "Macbeth," and earlier in "Faustus." The engagement will be for two weeks, with evening performances Tuesday through Saturday and a Saturday matinee performance.Boston University Women's Council Sponsors "Lucy Stone" May 9th Mrs. Maude Wood Park, author of the chronicle play "Lucy Stone", declined to "take the bow" at the close of the performance on Tuesday, May 9, at the Copley Theatre the evening of the opening night, when friends in the audience called "Author, Author! Mrs. Park, Mrs. Park!", because, she said, "This is Miss Blackwell's night." However, great credit was due to Mrs. Park, the author of the play, who also attended some of the rehearsals. On the following morning, Miss Blackwell said to a friend speaking to her on the telephone, "It was the happiest day of my life!" Although other organizations would have been glad to sponsor the first night of the play, Miss Blackwell was very happy indeed to have it sponsored by her own Alma Mater. The Boston University Women's Council took great pleasure in greeting an audience not only distinguished but most friendly to Alice Stone Blackwell as shown by the large number from the League of Women Voters and the still greater number of those who represented Boston University, from Deans to Dons, Trustees and wives, and Professors and wives, to almost a one hundred per cent representation of the Women's Council membership. At the first intermission, Alice Stone Blackwell was presented to the audience by Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, President of the Boston University Women's council, who said in part, "Miss Blackwell, with these flowers we offer you our love, we are proud of your high scholarship and brilliant achievements. We recognize your unremitting devotion to many good causes. You have ever been the protagonist for freedom. You have ever been the champion of the oppressed. You have ever been the friend of humanity." Miss Blackwell responded briefly with a few well-chosen words in which she disclosed the fact that Lucy Stone, in addition to her work for suffrage and emancipation, had also been very much interested in the Chinese. The proceeds from the benefit are to be used to give free residence in the Boston University Woman's Building, 146 Commonwealth Avenue, to two Chinese women graduate students. A telegram was read from Mrs. T. D. MacMillan, Secretary of the Association for China Colleges, in which she said: "Regret my inability to be present for the play pageant The Romance of Lucy Stone. The Officers of the Associated China Colleges rejoice in your happy inspiration to use the life story of a distinguished pioneer of American Womanhood to emphasize the importance of aid from the United States in preserving liberal culture in a heroic and sorely pressed Sister Republic." Miss Betsy Merrow, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts and President of Gamma Delta, was the page for Mrs. Fisk and carried the large bouquet of flowers which was presented to Miss Blackwell. Page to Miss Blackwell was Miss Barbara Stantial, the daughter of Mrs. Guy Stantial of Melrose, to whom the greatest possible credit is due in organizing the brilliant occasion of this first night performance. In the audience were seen many distinguished men and women as the list of patrons and patronesses shows on the following page. The Boston University Women's Council takes this opportunity of expressing its appreciation to all those who by their presence showed their friendship to Boston University and paid their homage to Alice Stone Blackwell. [[image]] MAUD WOOD PARK Mrs. Park, the author of "Lucy Stone", was Congressional Chairman of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington at the time the Federal Suffrage Amendment was passed by Congress and for the two preceding years. Mrs. Park was the first President of the National League of Women Voters. She took her degree at Radcliffe with highest honors after only three years work at college, then spent two years going around the world studying conditions of women, particularly in the Oriental countries. Mrs. Oakes Ames Mrs. Robert Allen Miss Mary I. Adams Miss Irene Armstrong Mrs. Alfred H. Avery Mrs. Paul V. Bacon Mrs. Charles M. Baker Judge Jennie Loitman Barron Mrs. E. S. Barker Miss Emily G. Balch Mrs. Mary Livermore Barrows Mrs. Horace Bearse Mrs. Charles F. D. Belden Mrs. William L. Benedict Mrs. William H. Benjamin Mrs. Richard Benson Miss Ethel Waldron Bittner Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird Dr. Alice H. Bigelow Mrs. J. Clark Bennett Mrs. Harold Bowman Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer Miss Alice Brown Miss Cora B. Brown Mr. and Mrs. LaRue Brown Prof. and Mrs. Edgar S. Brightman Miss Alice H. Bushee Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Bunker Mrs. Richard Cameron Mrs. Willard Carey Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Carmichael Mrs. William T. Carver Miss Alice P. Chase Mr. Alfred E. Chase Mrs. Carroll Luther Chase Misses Alice and Helen Cheever Mr. and Mrs. Myron H. Clark Miss Ruth L. S. Child Dr. Morris A. Cohen Dr. George W. Coleman President Ada L. Comstock Mrs. Richard B. Coolidge Mrs. Russell P. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Cushman Miss L. J. C. Daniels Mr. Henry W. L. Dana Mrs. John Lincoln Dearing Dean and Mrs. Jesse B. Davis Mr. Charles S. Davis Mrs. Daniel C. Dennett Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie Miss Mary E. Driscoll Dr. Florence W. Duckering Miss Zara duPont Mr. and Mrs. George A. Dunn Mrs. H. W. Dunning Misses Louise and Mabel Earle Miss Sarah J. Eddy Miss Phoebe P. Edwards Rev. Christopher R. Eliot Mrs. F. Philip Emery Mrs. George H. Ericson Mrs. Ella W. Farr Mrs. Everett O. Fisk Miss Margaret Foley Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes Dean Lucy Jenkins Franklin Mrs. Harriet Pierce Fuller Mrs. Robert Norton Ganz Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Garrison, Jr. Mrs. M. Alice Giles Miss Susan J. Ginn Miss A. B. Gould Page Fourteen Miss Edith Guerrier Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Harriman Mrs. F. N. Hamerstrom Miss F. Josephine Hall Mrs. Fosdick Harrison Miss Margaret Hatfield Mrs. Russell Hadlock Miss Frances Hayward Miss Georgia Harkness Mrs. George E. Henry Miss Ada H. Hersey Mrs. Leonard Hersey Mrs. Frank Ford Hill Mrs. Augusta Lord-Heinstein Mrs. Louis McHenry Howe Miss Jane Hobart Prof. and Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe Mrs. Charles S. Holden Miss Elizabeth Hubbard Mrs. E. E. Huse Mrs. Charles P. Huse Dr. Teyhi Hsieh Mrs. Edward Ingraham Mrs. Delbert L. Jackson Mrs. Edward H. James Mrs. Edward C. Jeffrey Miss Ida B. Johnson Prof. and Mrs. Lewis J. Johnson Miss Norma Karaian Miss Eliza H. Kendrick Mrs. May Dickinson Kimball Dr. Margaret Noyes Kleinert Dr. Mary R. Lakeman Mrs. Alfred C. Lane Mrs. Mark A. Lawton Miss J. Grace Lamont Mrs. John C. Lee Rabbi Harry Levi Mrs. Ida L. Lennox Mrs. Albert Levis Mrs. Thomas H. Logan Miss Lucy Lowell Mr. and Mrs. R. Gene Lopaus Mrs. Harrison Lyman Miss Jeanette Marks Mrs. Andrew Marshall Mrs. Eric P. Matson Mrs. Stanley O. MacMullen Miss Helen P. Margesson President and Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh Miss A. B. Metcalf Mrs. Walter L. Mendenhall Mrs. Rockwood Miles Mrs. C. M. McMurray Miss Catherine M. McGinley Dr. and Mrs. Leroy M. C. Miner Mrs. Arthur W. Moors Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moors Dr. Fredericka Moore Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O. Morrison Mrs. Ellen Maloney Mrs. H. C. Muzzey Mrs. Lyman C. Newell Miss Ellie Needham Mrs. Maude C. Nash Mrs. John R. Nichols Mrs. Robert Lincoln O'Brien Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page Prof. and Mrs. George H. Parker Mrs. James L. Paine Mrs. Charles Parkhurst Prof. Miguel A. Pena Mrs. Silas Peirce Mrs. Charles Peabody Miss Agnes F. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pierce Miss Edith Perry Mrs. Warren T. Powell Dr. Joseph Prenn Dr. Eliza Taylor Ransom Mrs. Sumner H. Remick Mrs. Kenneth C. Reynolds Mrs. Lois B. Rantoul Mrs. William Z. Ripley Miss Harriet E. Richards Mrs. Arthur G. Robbins Mrs. Frank E. Roberts Mrs. Abbie May Roland Mrs. Lillian Bridges Rowell Mrs. A. S. Romer Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch Mrs. F. A. Rugg Mrs. Robert W. Sayles Judge Emma Fall Schofield Mrs. Anna Weinstock Schneider Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger Mrs. Howard W. Selby Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw Mrs. Robert K. Shaw Miss Helena B. Shipman Mrs. Anthony Shallna Miss Elizabeth Sessions Miss Mary M. Souther Mrs. Leon C. Small Mrs. Herbert E. Schoppelry Mrs. Melville Smith Mrs. Louis K. Snyder Mrs. Henry Lawrence Southwick Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Stantial Mrs. Roderick Stebbins Rev. and Mrs. Wm. L. Stidger Miss Florence S. Stevens Mrs. Francis W. Snow Miss Alice P. Tapley Miss Marion Talbot Mrs. E. A. Taylor Dr. Marianna Taylor Mrs. Ella Thompson-Hall Dr. Louisa Paine Tingley Mrs. William L. Tisdel Mrs. Irving C. Tomlinson Mr. Percy J. Trevethan Mrs. J. M. Trotter Mrs. Samuel Veal Miss Marion D. Ward Mrs. Robert A. Ware Mrs. Edward F. Wellington Miss F. Gertrude Wentworth Miss Lucy Wheelock Mrs. Charles Lincoln White Mrs. Eva Whiting White Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman Mrs. Arthur Gilbert Williams Miss Constance Williston Mrs. Henry Wise Mrs. E. Stansbury Willmarth Mrs. Edward Willey Miss Mabel Caldwell Willard Miss Mary E. Woolley Miss Agnes G. Wright Mrs. L. A. WrightThe Radcliffe Quarterly OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE RADCLIFFE COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION VOLUME XXIII AUGUST, 1939 NUMBER 3 Our City Summer Relief Program "What about those children that you haven't room to take to the country?" - you may ask. We certainly wish that there were space and adequate facilities for all of these applications. However, through the fine generosity of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, we have available in Dorchester, only a short way from fine beaches, the Lucy Stone Home, original home of Lucy Stone, to which daily excursions are scheduled. The house itself is cool and spacious and set in fine broad grounds. Here a noonday lunch is served and carefully prepared games and organized activities are enjoyed. One day the trip may be for the Syrian mothers and their children; the next the Italian, etc. What a godsend it is for these mothers to look forward to a whole day of cooling sea breezes and restful comfort away from blistering city streets and sun-baked tenements! Is it any wonder that so many tired parents with their fretful children call this summer relief program "blessed?" In the early part of the summer, a vacation school is carried on by our Educational Department. Here the various classes in handicrafts benefit the children and provide them with interesting things to do. A new supervised playground is now available in front of our Goodwill Day Nursery which serves a delightful purpose. OUR LUCY STONE HOME IN DORCHESTER Table of Contents NEWS AND VIEWS.............................................................. 5 A LETTER FROM CHINA...................................................Marjorie Chen 7 THE BAKER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP..........................................11 REMEMBERING RADCLIFFE................................................................12 "LUCY STONE".........................................................................................13 THE NEWS AROUND THE COLLEGE..............................................14 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION.......................................................................18 THE ALUMNAE SHOW.......................................................................32 THE ALUMNAE DINNER....................................................................33 COMMENCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS....................................44 "SO HAVE I HEARD..."........................................................................47 BOOK REVIEWS....................................................................................48 THE RADCLIFFE CLUBS......................................................................51 NECROLOGY..........................................................................................56 GRADUATE CHAPTER NOTES...........................................................59 NEWS FROM THE CLASSES................................................................63 "Lucy Stone" A Chronicle Play by Maud Wood Park, 1898 A DISTINGUISHED and sympathetic audience filled the Copley Theater on the evening of May 8 for the opening of the Federal Theater's production of Lucy Stone, the play that Maud Wood Park, 1898, has made from Alice Stone Blackwell's life of her mother. The Boston University Women's Council sponsored this first performance in honor of Miss Blackwell, who was celebrating her eighty-first birthday. Friends crowded to greet her individually, and the audience rose in enthusiastic tribute when Mrs. Everett Fiske, president of the Council, introduced her and presented her with flowers. The beauty and power of her voice were in surprising contrast to her physical fragility as she expressed her pleasure in being able to share in any honor to her mother and in having a share in the Council's effort to raise money for refugee scholarships at Boston University, to which cause the Council's share of the profits of the performance were to go. The life of Lucy Stone was so rich in creative conflict, so full of dramatic action, that only its outline can be indicted in a single play. Mrs. Park begins with a vivid scene in the farmhouse kitchen is West Brookfield when Lucy realizes the difference in the treatment of boys and girls, and finds that the Bible declares that men shall rule over their wives. Her life-long fight to free women from inequalities at home and before the law began then. Charming in person, gentle and persuasive in manner, with an exceptionally sweet voice and a delightful sense of humor, she was utterly different from the contemporary idea of a "strong-minded woman," yet she was a center of controversy most of her life. She was one of the first women to graduate from Oberlin, where she refused to write a Commencement essay because she would not be allowed to read it herself on the ground that it would be unseemly for a young female to appear on a platform in mixed company; she was one of the first women to lecture publicly against slavery and to appear on the streets in Mrs. Bloomer's reformed dress. Before her wedding to Henry Blackwell, they drew up a "contract" affirming their mutual belief that no woman should be her husband's slave, and she would not promise to obey him, but their long life together was unusually happy. She allowed her property to be sold rather than pay taxes on the disposition of which she could not vote, and she fought resolutely for the inclusion of women's right to vote in the Fourteenth Amendment. Leaders in the fight for equality of rights for women had submerged their personal campaign in the work for abolition of slavery, thinking that full civil rights would be given to women when the slaves were emancipated. When they were disappointed in this, Lucy Stone realized the necessity of having a women's paper for carrying on the campaign of education that would be essential for rousing a popular demand strong enough to secure the ballot for women. The play passes over the long struggle after the founding one the Woman's Journal with only one short scene, in which Lucy Stone, white- haired but still persuasive and charming, returned to an Oberlin Commencement to make an address appealing for votes for women, and ends with a note of rejoicing and hope when Colorado granted women the right to vote. The Federal Theater gave the play an excellent production; old photographs had evidently been carefully studied for costumes and make-up, the settings were simple but suggestive, and the action was smooth and rapid. Lillian Merchall played the title role with sympathy and sincerity. Her Lucy was warm and human, as lovable as she was intelligent, persuasive and supremely earnest. Glenn Wilson played Henry Blackwell with charm and sincerity. If, in the play as a whole, the men were a trifle pompous and deaf to the higher things of life, while women were sincere, efficient, and inspired, that was in character with the particular group and its period and certainly gave no offense to the audience. During the performance Mrs. Park insisted on keeping as much in the background as possible, declaring that it was Miss Blackwell's evening, so she would not respond to the eager cries for "Author" after the final curtain, but she could not refuse to accept the lovely armful of flowers that the committee presented to express their appreciation of her inspiring play. E.K.'07RADCLIFFE CLUB OF MAINE As soon as the news came that four of the Maine candidates for Regional Scholar had passed the special April examinations, our committee met to decide upon the girl that the club would send. We had an evening meeting at the home of Margarita Bliss Kendall at South Portland. After considering all the wishes of the college and the Maine Club, seven committee members voted and Faith Foster was chosen. In the first week in June we met for lunch at the home of Miss Ellen Tryon, Pond Cove, Cape Elizabeth. The day was very clear so that we could see the ocean in the distance and the apple blossoms and lilacs in the foreground. After lunch we went inside to hear the reports of the business meeting. Mrs. Clarke gave us a short talk about one of our unsuccessful Regional Scholars candidates of two years ago. Then Florence Dale Burrage started to talk about the Conference of Radcliffe Representatives, but changed to explaining the need of helping one of our Regional Scholars. We were all interested in hearing about this girl who is not a bit afraid of hard work. The last part of the afternoon was devoted to hearing Maud Wood Park tell about some of the scenes in her play entitled Lucy Stone. She spoke informally and intimately about the whole family of Stones and about the woman's suffrage movement. She told us also of the time that Lucy Stone's daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, came to Radcliffe to speak before a group of girls who were in college at the same time as Mrs. Park. Miss Blackwell spoke in the auditorium of Fay House and made such an impression that she influenced many girls to take up the cause of women's rights. It was a privilege to hear Mrs. Park and the Radcliffe Club of Maine appreciated it. The summer meetings will be held at Marion Vinal Meisenbach's at Harpswell on July 18 and at Sorrento near Bar Harbor in August. MARGARITA Bliss KENDALL, Secretary 1898 MRS. FRANK M. LAWRENCE, Secretary 5 Ivy Road, Belmont, Massachusetts MRS. ARTHUR W. KIRKPATRICK, Class Agent 15 Water Street, Newton Center, Massachusetts Nine members of the class joined the Nineteenth Century Limited Luncheon in Agassiz House on June 17, and later attended the second performance of the Alumnae Show. It was a joy to see Ruth Delano and Josephine Sherwood Hull back on a Radcliffe stage once more. Bertha Drew Hartzell left Boston on June 10 to attend the American Library Association in San Francisco. She went by way of the Canadian Rockies, and planned to visit friends in Southern California before going to the Grand Canyon; thence she will go to Atlanta, Georgia, to visit her son and his wife, and, last but not least, to see her first grandchild, Karl Drew Hartzell Jr.,, born March 31, 1939. Gertrude Hall Kent and her husband plan to spend a few weeks in England this summer. Grace Landrum fell from the steps of one of the college buildings this spring and fractured her shoulder. This caused a good deal of inconvenience, but she was much better at last reports. In May Caroline Humphrey visited Williamsburg and dined with Grace in her new house there. Edith Sawyer Bourne and her husband also made Grace a call on their way home from Florida this spring. Sarah Sharples Olmsted is back in Nelson, New Hampshire, after her winter in Florida. Maud Wood Park's play, Lucy Stone, was given at the Copley Theater in Boston last May. Several from the class went to see it and felt very proud of its author. It was an excellent performance in every way.LUCY STONE * A CHRONICLE PLAY __________________________________________________________________________ By Maud Wood Park Lucy Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. become the champion of women's right in this country, lectured to immense audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention. founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston which was the principal woman suffrage paper of America for half a century. married Henry Browne Blackwell, the one man in America who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. became the sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree. also became the sister-in-law of Rev. Doctor Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister. died in 1893, after woman suffrage has been granted in only two states. left her work to be carried on by her husband and their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, until the death of Mr. Blackwell in 1909. Their daughter went on with the work until the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution in 1920. MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK has had the happy idea of dramatizing a series of episodes from Lucy Stone's life and my own, in a form suitable for representation on the stage. She has done this with much wit and ingenuity. The episodes illustrate the progress of the woman's rights movement, and will bring home amusingly to the younger generation many historical facts of which they are quite unaware. Information combined with fun. The dramatic sequence of the plot story is in the form of a chronicle play and the individual episodes will serve well as one-act plays, or several episodes may be combined to make a full production. A wide use of the play, both in stage production and for fireside reading, will help to keep fresh the stirring story of the events that attended the long struggle before woman's rights were won. Mrs. Park generously devotes all her royalties from the play for the purchase and distribution of Lucy Stone's biography. ALICE STONE BLACKWELLMRS. MAUD WOOD PARK has had the happy idea of dramatizing a series of episodes from Lucy Stone's life and my own, in a form suitable for representation on the stage. She has done this with much wit and ingenuity. The episodes illustrate the progress of the woman's rights movement, and will bring home amusingly to the younger generation many historical facts of which they are quite unaware. Information combined with fun. The dramatic sequence of the plot story is in the form of a chronicle play and the individual episodes will serve well as one-act plays, or several episodes may be combined to make a full production. A wide use of the play, both in stage production and for fireside reading, will help to keep fresh the stirring story of the events that attended the long struggle before woman's rights were won. Mrs. Park generously devotes all her royalties from the play for the purchase and distribution of Lucy Stone's biography. ALICE STONE BLACKWELLLUCY STONE Chronicle Play By MAUD WOOD PARK Lucy Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. became the champion of women's rights in this country. lectured to immense audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention. founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston which was the principal woman suffrage paper of America for half a century. married Henry Browne Blackwell, the one man in America who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. became the sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree. also became the sister-in-law of Rev. Doctor Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister. died in 1893, after woman suffrage had been granted in only two states. left her work to be carried on by her husband and their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, until the death of Mr. Blackwell in 1909. Their daughter went on with the work until the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution in 1920."Maud Wood Park's play LUCY STONE is a gem. It is true as to facts, picturesque in its setting and a thrilling story in its general effect. It brings both smiles and tears to the hearer and its amusingly fascinating all the way from beginning to end." CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. "Mrs. Park has done a service to history as well as to dramatic literature in writing LUCY STONE. She has recorded the heroines of the struggle for women's rights in their warm human individuality; and she has personified, without caricature or bitterness, the kind of opposition with which they had to meet. The importance of the subject matter and Mrs. Park's first-hand acquaintance with it, make this vivid play a truly valuable chronicle." ADA L. COMSTOCK. "Maud Wood Park's chronicle play portrays with clear insight a series of revealing and amusing episodes in the life of Lucy Stone, the most winning personality among the pioneers of Equal Suffrage. The situations reflect a particular viewpoint of 19th century New England, and are punctuated with a plain and pungent dialogue spoken by people who were very much in earnest. Mrs. Park's play is good history, skillfully presented. Students of the period will welcome this frank and illuminating study." WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, JR. "I have just read Mrs. Park's play about LUCY STONE 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 to 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 G. ROTCH. (MRS. ARTHUR) "I hope that Maud Wood Park's Chronicle Play LUCY STONE will be widely read. Lucy Stone was one of the pioneers of our great country and the account of her life is as interesting as any novel. Older suffragists will find it engrossing because of the great work they accomplished; and the younger women of today will be astonished to discover the changes in the status of woman which have been brought about through the efforts of an earlier generation." ROSE DABNEY FORBES. (MRS. J. MALCOLM) "Maud Wood Park has done a remarkable piece of work in dramatizing the life of Lucy Stone in honor of the eightieth birthday of Lucy's daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. The play is a great tribute to those dauntless pioneers of Woman Suffrage who paved the way to make woman free. The scenes telling of their bitter struggles and sacrifices picture a true story of these early days in an amazing way. The action is spirited, engaging, humorous, and is well worth while as drama, aside from its historical significance." MARY LIVERMORE BARROWS. LUCY STONE A Chronicle Play in Nine Episodes BY MAUD WOOD PARK Large cast but many small parts may be doubled Basic setting may be used This is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement." Although the background of the play is the development and final success of the long struggle to get legal and other rights for women, the episodes, drawn largely from the biography of Lucy Stone written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, include the genuine romance of Lucy and Henry Blackwell, as well as some of their humorous experiences in working for the cause. In the Prologue, the child Lucy is started on her remarkable career by her realization of the needless hardships borne by her mother and other women; and the next scene, at Oberlin College, illustrates some of the absurd restrictions placed upon women students in the early days of co-education. Later scenes depict a party at the house of William Lloyd Garrison at the time the "bloomer" costume was being worn; the attempt of a mob to break up a public meeting at which Lucy was a speaker; the sale of her household goods to meet taxes which she had refused to pay because women were not permitted to vote; and a woman suffrage hearing before a committee of the Massachusetts legislature. For young women today, many of whom do not know the oppurtunities now taken for granted were won for them by the courage and self sacrifice of leaders in an earlier generation, this drama of real life should have special interest. Royalty, on application Books, 75 Cents each. WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY 178 Tremont Street Boston, Massachusetts 448 So. Hill Street Los Angeles, California PUBLISHERS LUCY STONE A Chronicle Play in Nine Episodes By MAUD WOOD PARK Large cast but many small parts may be doubled Basic setting may be used This is a dramatic presentation of crucial scenes from the life of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman movement." Although the background of the play is the development and final success of the long struggle to get legal and other rights for women, the episodes, drawn largely from the biography of Lucy Stone written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, include the genuine romance of Lucy and Henry Blackwell, as well as some of their humorous experiences in working for the cause. In the Prologue, the child Lucy is started on her remarkable career by her realization of the needless hardships born by her mother and other women; and the next scene, at Oberlin College, illustrates some of the absurd restrictions placed upon women students in the early days of co-education. Later scenes depict a party at the house of William Lloyd Garrison at the time the "bloomer" costume was being worn; the attempt of a mob to break up a public meeting at which Lucy was a speaker; the sale of her household goods to meet taxes which she had refused to pay because women were not permitted to vote; and a woman suffrage hearing before a committee of the Massachusetts legislature. For young women today, many of whom do not know that opportunities now taken for granted were won for them by the courage and self sacrifice of leaders in an earlier generation, this drama of real life should have special interest. Royalty, on application. Books, 75 Cents each. WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY PUBLISHERS 178 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 448 So. Hill Street, Los Angeles, California both smiles and tears the hearer and is amusingly fascinating all the way from beginning to end." CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. "Mrs. Park has done a service to history as well as to dramatic literature in writing LUCY STONE. She has recorded the heroines of the struggle for women's rights in their warm human individuality; and she has personified, without caricature or bitterness, the kind of opposition with which they had to meet. The importance of the subject matter and Mrs. Park's first-hand acquaintance with it, make this vivid play a truly valuable chronicle." ADA L. COMSTOCK. "Maud Wood Park's chronicle play portrays with clear insight a series of revealing and amusing episodes in the life of Lucy Stone, the most winning personality among the pioneers of Equal Suffrage. The situations reflect a particular viewpoint of 19th century New England, and are punctuated with plain and pungent dialogue spoken by people who were very much in earnest. Mrs. Park's play is good history, skillfully presented. Students of the period will welcome this frank and illuminating study." WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, JR. "I have just read Mrs. Park's play about LUCY STONE 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 G. ROTCH. (MRS. ARTHUR) "I hope that Maud Wood Park's Chronicle Play LUCY STONE will be widely read. Lucy Stone was one of the pioneers of our great country and the account of her life is as interesting as any novel. Older suffragists will find it engrossing because of the great work they accomplished; and the younger women of today will be astonished to discover the changes in the status of woman which have been brought about through the efforts of an earlier generation." ROSE DABNEY FORBES. (MRS. J. MALCOLM) "Maud Wood Park has done a remarkable piece of work in dramatizing the life of Lucy Stone in honor of the eightieth birthday of Lucy's daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. The play is a great tribute to those dauntless pioneers of Woman Suffrage who paved the way to make woman free. The scenes telling of their bitter struggles and sacrifices picture a true story of these early days in an amazing way. The action is spirited, engaging, humorous, and is well worth while as drama, aside from its historical significance." MARY LIVERMORE BARROWS.LUCY STONE A CHRONICLE PLAY BY MAUD WOOD PARK PRESENTED BY THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ALLAN STUART DAVISCruises -- Tours Bermuda West Indies Europe California Florida Student Tours Mediterranean - Egypt - Holy Land Panama Canal - South America Check booklet desired and mail coupon with name and address to PORTLAND TOURIST CO. 198 Middle Street Portland, Maine Telephone 2-5424 THE CORNER SHOP 662 CONGRESS STREET Early Spring Suits in Fine Tweeds Program "Lucy Stone" is a dramatic biography of the woman who was rightly called "the morning star of the woman's movement." The historical basis of the play is found in "Lucy Stone, Pioneer," by Alice Stone Blackwell. Laureate Beauty Shoppe ROOM 322 - 142 HIGH ST. PORTLAND, MAINE FRANCES S. BISBEE L. L. Marshall Co. 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Compliments of EASTLAND HOTEL Portland, Maine in Fine Tweeds BOOKS, STATIONERY, OFFICE SUPPLIES OFFICE FURNITURE LORING, SHORT & HARMON MONUMENT SQUARE PORTLAND, MAINE Program PROLOGUE LEADING IN THE LIGHT 1830 Scene, the kitchen of a hillside farm house in Massachusetts, on a Saturday afternoon in September, 1830. Compliments of J. LAWRENCE DAY GENERAL AGENT National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont "Your Rexall Store" Whitman's Chocolates Cottage Road Pharmacy, Inc. 380 Cottage Road South Portland, Maine We make our own ice cream Prompt delivery service "Flowers that Last" ARE Minott's Flowers NOW LOCATED 493 Congress Street Near Brown Greenhouses at Broadway, South Portland --And remember we send "Flowers to All the World by Wire" Program PROLOGUE CHARACTERS Lucy...Betty Lamb Mrs. Stone...Shirley Anderson Mr. Stone...L. Deane Jenkins Luther...John Burke The New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. 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Box 378 Kennebunkport Maine Program SCENE ONE CHARACTERS Lucy Stone...................Betty Lamb Antoinette Blackwell...............Margaret Pratt George Washington Watts...............John Burke Mrs. Mahan...............Gladys Chapman For Multigraphing Mimeographing Typewriting Addressing Mailing consult HARRIS & JACKSON Ruby C. Jackson LETTER SHOP 51 1/2 Exchange Street Portland, Maine PLUMMER'S INSURANCE AGENCY PHONE DIAL 3 3838 CHAPMAN ARCADE 477 CONGRESS ST. PORTLAND, MAINEMaine's Leading Sporting Goods Store Quality Sports Apparel For Men, Women and Children THE JAMES BAILEY CO. AT MONUMENT SQUARE 264-266 Middle Street Portland, Maine Program SCENE TWO THIS GENTLEMAN 1851 Scene, a hall in a Cape Cod town in Massachusetts, where an anti-slavery meeting is being held. 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Program SCENE FOUR MARRIAGE CONTRACT 1855 Scene, the Stone kitchen, in the early evening of the day of April, 1855. Compliments of A FRIEND OLD TAVERN FARMS IRRADIATED Vitamin D MILK LABORATORY CONTROLLED PHONE DIAL 2-8361 Talbots Flowers 373 CONGRESS ST. PORTLAND-MAINE Congress Gift Shop 588 CONGRESS STREET PORTLAND, MAINE Costume Jewelry, Potter, Glass, Book Ends, Framed Pictures, Bridge Prizes, Gift Novelties Greeting Cards Program SCENE FOUR CHARACTERS Mrs. Stone ................. Shirley Anderson Lucy Stone ................. Betty Lamb Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson ....... Robert Gorrie Henry Blackwell .............. William Flynn, Jr. STATE DRUG CO. Quality Good at Popular Prices HARMON HAT SHOP 537 CONGRESS STREET PORTLAND, MAINEDyer and McLaughlin Grocers Meats and Provisions Prompt Delivery 62 Ocean St. So. Portland, Me. Dial 2-8647 ELDER'S CAFE "A Good Place to Eat" 90-92 Oak St. Portland, Me. Mildred C. Elder, Proprietor Program SCENE FIVE "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" 1858 Scene, the living-room of the Blackwell cottage in Orange, New Jersey, on a morning in 1858. During this scene, the curtain falls to mark the passing of five hours. Investments of Highest Grade TIMBERLAKE AND CO. 191 Middle Street Portland, Maine Phone 3-3878 Oakhurst Dairy Purinton's Shoe Store 15 Forest Ave. Portland, Me. Dial 2-5507 "We Specialize in Difficult Fitting" Anita Files Hat Shop 144 a High St. Portland, Me. "Quality, Smartness and Variety" "Moderately Priced" Program SCENE FIVE CHARACTERS Lucy Stone . . . . Betty Lamb Mrs. Widgery . . . . Rita Epstein Dolphus . . . . L. Deane Jenkins George . . . . Horton King Compliments of A FRIEND Braemore ... Arch Preserver Collegebred ... Foot Delight Well-Known Shoes Shown in Portland by Lamey-Wellehan 539 Congress Street Geo. C. Shaw Co. For convenient shopping use our Parking Places Free to our Patrons Scott's Park Place, Free Street Eastland Hotel Parking Place, for Congress St. customers Elm Street Parkway for Preble Street Shaw's Program Scene Six "Mine Eye Have Seen The Glory 1893 Scene, the upstairs study of the Blackwell house on Pope's hill, Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, on an October afternoon in 1893. Owen, Moore's Apparel and Accessories for Women and Children J. A. Merrill & Co. Jewelers since 1851 503 Congress Street Portland, Maine Lyman B. Chipman, Inc. Portland's Leading Food Mart 547 Congress St. Portland Program Scene Six Characters Lucy Stone ..... Betty Lamb The Nurse ..... Leota Witmer Mrs. Mary A. Livermore ... Ruth Fobes Alice Stone Blackwell .. Laura Harmon Henry Blackwell ... William Flynn, Jr. These Two Play The Leading Role in Finer Clothing Hickey-Freeman Clothes - $55 to $100 Van Guard Suits - $38.50 Exclusively at Monument Sq. Benoit's Portland VOTE FOR - CADILLAC LASALLE OLDSMOBILE CHAPLIN MOTOR CO. 79 PREBLE STREET PORTLAND, MAINE Program EXECUTIVE STAFF FOR "LUCY STONE" Allan Stuart Davis.....................Director Elizabeth Steele...............Stage Manager Myron Lamb..............Chairman for Construction Margaret Kinney..................Chairman for Properties and Lights Hazel Lord.................Chairman for Costumes Phyllis Raeburn...............Chairman for Makeup ACKNOWLEDGMENT For the loan of costumes, authentic for the period, the League is indebted to friends in Portland and vicinity: for furniture, to F. O. Bailey & Co.; and for properties, to Samuel J. Agger. After the Show is Over 20TH CENTURY LUCY STONERS AND OTHERS VISIT The Lafayette Lounge The Cumberland County League of Women Voters In the belief that citizens require a continuous, practical political education to use their votes intelligently, the League of Women Voters was organized in 1920, the year of the ratification of the 19th Amendment for the purpose of training women for responsible participation in government. The League is non-partisan in policy and composed of members of all political parties. It urges every woman to enroll in the party of her choice and does not endorse or oppose candidates for public office, but does study and publicize their qualifications and views. The Cumberland County League of Women Voters is affiliated with the Maine League, which is a branch of the National League of Women Voters. Membership, with an annual fee of $1.00, is open to any woman who is in sympathy with the purposes of the League. Officers President Mrs. William H. Bruce Vice Presidents Mrs. Estes Nichols Miss E. Estelle Spear Mrs. Joseph Wigon Mrs. Erwin H. Boody Recording Secretary Mrs. A. Frank Essie Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Bhima MacDonald Sturtevant Treasurer Mrs. Ralph A. Leavitt Auditor Mrs. Nellie F. Jost Department Chairman Mrs. James E. Barlow.....................Government and Its Operation Mrs. William H. Bruce.......................Government and Education Mrs. Joseph Wigon......................Government and Economic Welfare Mrs. Nathan C. Fay........................Government and Legal Status Mrs. Estes Nichols.......................Government and Child Welfare Mrs. Bhima MacDonald Sturtevant...................Government and International Relations Chairmen of Standing Committees Mrs. Charles F. Flagg.................Hospitality Mrs. J. Marden DeShon......................Finance Mrs. Everett . Hill.....................Membership Mrs. Robert Stroutl......................Publicity Mrs. Maud Wood Park.....................Program Chairmen of Play Committees Mrs. Ralph A. Leavitt, Ushers Mrs. Paul S. Harmon, Exchange of Tickets Mrs. J. Marden DeShon, Tickets Miss Gertrude Potter, Publicity Mrs. Frank Stone, ProgramCOMMENTS ON BOSTON PRODUCTION OF "LUCY STONE" by Mrs. Baud Wood Park "A clear portrait of Lucy Stone - 'the young Joan of Arc' as she is called." John K. Hutchens, Boston Evening Transcript. "It is the kind of thing that, with a star like Helen Hayes to create its chief part, could have power and wide significance in the theatre... It has, too, distinct Hollywood possibilities, though it might easily become distorted in the films. The chronicle method employed in the present production is effective." Elliot Norton, Boston Sunday Post. "The amazing story of this valiant champion of women's rights has been lovingly transcribed into ten episodic scenes by Maud Wood Park, who dramatized it from a book by Lucy Stone's daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell." Helen Eager, Boston Traveler. "The life story of a brilliant, courageous woman, Lucy Stone, pioneer of American womanhood, was sketched in dramatic form for the first time in Maud Wood Park's play by the Federal Theatre players. .. The play was thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience. In its coverage of a period of 63 years the play was quaint, humorous, romantic and forceful." Boston Globe. "LUCY STONE has frequent moments of humor and not a little feeling; the devotion of Lucy Stone and her husband is admirably indicated; the courage of Lucy and her followers in the face of desperate odds is never overlooked. .... production was simple, and easily adapted to the demands of numerous scene changes." Elinor Hughes, Boston Herald. William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Horace Samuel May, Wendell Phillips, and Susan B. Anthony. But it is Lucy Stone's play and throughout the evening she dominates the stage - quietly and pleasantly, but firmly." Edwin F. Melvin, The Christian Science Monitor. "A very appropriate play for the American colleges - especially the women's colleges. Unlike most chronicle plays attempting to cover a period of sixty years, Maud Wood Park's play LUCY STONE achieves a real dramatic unity by the manner in which the series of episodes all focus dramatically on the development of a charming central character. Like VICTORIA REGINA, only that the scenes are set in America rather than in England, LUCY STONE reveals with combined humor and pathos the gradual unfolding, from the 1830's down to the end of the last century, of the powerful personality of a great woman." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. "The play, LUCY STONE, interested me keenly and was not only well produced and the acting most satisfactory, but also it touched so many chords of interest and significant memories that it will long linger in my mind as a most satisfying dramatic performance." George W. Coleman, President Ford Hall Forum. "Its cumulative effect is strong; ... made a deep impression on me, as it did, I know, or many others." Ada L. Comstock, President of Radcliffe College."It is something more than a play. It is a chronicle of a woman of vision and of that whole movement in which she was a leader. It gains power from the character of its theme. Through the brief episodes that appear on the stage can be felt something of the strong convictions of Lucy Stone and the growing impetus of her demand for legal recognition of the rights of women. ...All sorts of familiar figures put in brief appearances. Among them are William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Rev. Samuel May, Wendell Phillips, and Susan B. Anthony. But it is Lucy Stone's play and throughout the evening she dominates the stage - quietly and pleasantly, but firmly." Edwin F. Melvin, The Christian Science Monitor. "A very appropriate play for the American colleges - especially the women's colleges. Unlike most chronicle plays attempting to cover a period of sixty years, Maud Wood Park's play LUCY STONE achieves a real dramatic unity by the manner in which the series of episodes all focus dramatically on the development of a charming central character. Like VICTORIA REGINA, only that the scenes are set in America rather than in England, LUCY STONE reveals with combined humor and pathos the general unfolding, from the 1830's down to the end of the last century, of the powerful personality of a great woman." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. ---- "The play, LUCY STONE, interested me keenly and was not only well produced and the acting most satisfactory, but also it touched so many chords of interest and significant memories that it will long linger in my mind as a most satisfying dramatic performance." George W. Coleman, President Ford Hall Forum. ---- "Its cumulative effect is strong; ... made a deep impression on me, as it did, I know, on so many others." Ada L. Comstock, President of Radcliffe College.