The Cast

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_ AS IT WAS PRODUCED AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE, LONDON, ON APRIL 26TH, 1911, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MESSRS. VEDRENNE & EADIE.

Lady Mogton               Mary Rorke
Annys Chilvers            Lena Ashwell
Phoebe Mogton             Ethel Dane
Janet Blake               Gillian Scaife
Mrs. Mountcalm Villiers   Sarah Brooke
Elizabeth Spender         Auriol Lee
Rose Merton               Esme Beringer
Mrs. Chinn                Sydney Fairbrother
Geoffrey Chilvers, M.P.   Dennis Eadie
Dorian St. Herbert        Leon Quartermaine
Ben Lamb, M.P.            A. E. Benedict
William Gordon            Edmund Gwenn
Sigsby                    Michael Sherbrooke
Hake                      H. B. Tabberer
Mr. Peekin                Gerald Mirrielees
Mr. Hopper                Stanley Logan
Mrs. Peekin               Rowena Jerome
Miss Borlasse             Cathleen Nesbitt
Miss Ricketts             Hetta Bartlett

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

GEOFFREY CHILVERS, M.P. [President Men's League for the Extension of the Franchise to Women] A loving husband, and (would-be) affectionate father. Like many other good men, he is in sympathy with the Woman's Movement: "not thinking it is coming in his time."

ANNYS CHILVERS [nee Mogton, Hon. Sec. Women's Parliamentary Franchise League] A loving wife, and (would-be) affection mother. Many thousands of years have gone to her making. A generation ago, she would have been the ideal woman: the ideal helpmeet. But new ideas are stirring in her blood, a new ideal of womanhood is forcing itself upon her.

LADY MOGTON [President W.P.F.L.] She knows she would be of more use in Parliament than many of the men who are there; is naturally annoyed at the Law's stupidity in keeping her out.

PHOEBE MOGTON [Org. Sec. W.P.F.L.] The new girl, thinking more of politics than of boys. But that will probably pass.

JANET BLAKE [Jt. Org. Sec. W.P.F.L.] She dreams of a new heaven and a new earth when woman has the vote.

MRS. MOUNTCALM VILLIERS [Vice-President W.P.F.L.] She was getting tired of flirting. The Woman's Movement has arrived just at the right moment.

ELIZABETH SPENDER [Hons. Treas. W.P.F.L.] She sees woman everywhere the slave of man: now pampered, now beaten, but ever the slave. She can see no hope of freedom but through warfare.

MRS. CHINN A mother.

JAWBONES A bill-poster. Movements that do not fit in with the essentials of life on thirty shillings a week have no message so far as Jawbones is concerned.

GINGER Whose proper name is Rose Merton, and who has to reconcile herself to the fact that so far as her class is concerned the primaeval laws still run.

DORIAN ST. HERBERT [Hon. Sec. M.L.E.F.W.] He is interested in all things, the Woman's Movement included.

BEN LAMB, M.P. As a student of woman, he admits to being in the infants' class.

SIGSBY An Election Agent. He thinks the modern woman suffers from over-indulgence. He would recommend to her the teachings of St. Paul.

HAKE A butler. He does not see how to avoid his wife being practically a domestic servant without wages.

A DEPUTATION It consists of two men and three women. Superior people would call them Cranks. But Cranks have been of some service to the world, and the use of superior people is still to be discovered.

THE FIRST ACT
SCENE: Drawing-room, 91, Russell Square.
TIME: 3 p.m.

THE SECOND ACT
SCENE: Liberal Committee Room, East India Dock Road.
TIME: 5 p.m.

THE THIRD ACT
SCENE: The Town Hall, East Poplar.
TIME: 10 p.m.

THE FOURTH ACT
SCENE: Russell Square
TIME: Midnight _

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