"Failure is Impossible" -Susan B. Anthony

"Miss Charlotte M. Wilson, Hon. Secretary of the Women's Group of the Fabian Society, writes:- It was the Fabian Society, at a member's meeting (March 14th), which passed the resolution you quote in The Common Cause last week. I make the correction because the opinion involved is that of a larger number than the Women's Group and is that of men as well as women. The Group is circulating a manifesto in the same sense."

"Written for the "New York Times" and included in the "New York History of War." Re-printed here in response to many requests...Mr. Shaw charges his compatriots with intellectual laziness, but they are not so lazy as to leave him to do their thinking for them... He has played with effect the part of jester to the British public, but when as now, his jests are empty of the kernel of good sense, the matter gets beyond a joke... "Until Home Rule emerges from its present suspended animation," says Mr. Shaw, "I shall retain my Irish capacity for criticising England with something of the detachment of a foreigner."...The Suffragettes, who have fought and suffered for their cause as no living man in the British Isles as fought and suffered for his, have during the present crisis subordinated their claim to the urgent claims of national honour and safety. So Mr. Shaw, whose campaigning is done is done generally in the armchair... ought surely to regrain from his frivilous, inconsistent, destructive, and unprofitable criticism of our country.... He unwarrentably endorses statements made by Germany in her attempt to put the Allies in the wrong. Because he is known to the German people by his dramatic work, extracts from his article will be circulated among them as an expression of the views of a representative British citizen..."

"This then is our demand- that the Government of which you are the head shall introduce and carry in the present session of Parliament a measure giving votes to women on the same terms as men."

"In view of the importance of the political situation, the Actresses' Franchise League wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to receive a deputation in order that they might learn his intentions with regard to woman suffrage and electoral reform."

"The following is the cast of Androcles and the Lion, by George Bernard Shaw, which will be produced at the St. James's Theatre on September 1 by Miss Lillah McCarthy and Mr. Granville Barker

'Mr. Shaw said that the newspapers in the last week or so had been affording the greatest encouragement to crime by describing certain gentlemen accused of robbery and murder as Anarchists, Socialists, and Terrorists."

"To-morrow comes the afternoon entertainment to be given by the Women Writers' Suffrage League, for which an attractive programme has been arranged; and to-morrow evening is the 75th performance of The Unwritten Law, when Mr. Laurence Irving will present every member of the audience at the Kingsway Theatre with a copy of "Crime and Punishment," with an introduction written by himself."

At the Aldwych Theatre on Tuesday evening, March 12, a new romantic drama on a Scottish subject by Mr. Hemmerde, K.C., entitled Proud Maisic, will be produced.

"The was has given an extraordinary impetus to the Women's movement. Old-fashioned scruples as to whether certain kinds of work were, or were not, "womanly," have been silenced by the pressure of national need... A few months before the outbreak of war in 1914, a little book was published which attempted to analyze the difficulties of women's position and the unreconciled discord between the relation of the woman to the family, and her need of individual self-reliance and self-support. It must be owned that that little book ("Conflicting Ideals," T. Murby & Co.) seems now to have scarcely more than a historical interest... More significant still is the recognition, so tardily won, and by such unexpected means, that women do, indeed, play an important part in the economy of the national life."

“A very effective protest against forcible feeding was made at His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday night (July 1), during the performance of “Pygmalion.” Women in the Upper Circle and in the Gallery stood up in the intervals and also during the performance itself, and called upon the audience to go to the trial of Grace Roe at the Old Bailey, to see to what a condition the Government allows an unconvicted prisoner to be reduced.”

“Suffragettes were present in large numbers at the St. James’ Theatre, on Wednesday night, June 24, and during the intervals speeches were made from all over the house, and numbers of handbills were thrown and distributed amongst the audience.”

“There were few theatre-goers on Friday night who did not go home talking of “Votes for Women.” At each of the following theaters speeches were made and showers of leaflets thrown: His Majesty’s Theatre, Daly’s, New Theatre, Globe, Duke of York’s, Kingsway, Comedy, Queen’s, St. James, Coliseum, Maskelyne and Devant’s at St. George’s Hall, and several others."

“Suffragettes were accorded a most sympathetic reception at the Globe Theatre on Friday last. After the 1st Act of “Kismet” a woman rose, and walking to the front of the upper circle, began to address the audience. At the conclusion of her speech there were storms of applause from all over the house, and the leaflets which fell in showers from different points of the building were eagerly collected.”

“Eight Suffragettes were ejected from the New theatre, Cardiff, on May 15, when Mr. Lloyd George was present to give his support to the Welsh national drama… At the close of the curtain-raiser a woman in the front row of the dress circle got up and called out: “Lloyd George, is it right for you to come to see a play while women are suffering in prison?” She was seized by two stewards and bustled out.”

“Later in the evening, the doctor came and wanted to know why I did these things, I told him,, as a protest. I had already argued with him through the barricaded door in the afternoon about feeding me by force. He said he couldn’t help it, he had orders from the Home Secretary not to release me, but to feed me by force.”

“A Suffragette in the audience sprang up immediately after Miss Ruth Vincent had just sang the National Anthem, and said “Your Majesty, Mrs. Pankhurst is being tortured by your Majesty’s Government.” The orchestra struck up while the Suffragette was speaking, but she was distinctly heard all over the theatre."