Monday, Oct. 01, 1923
The Garden of the Gods
The National Woman's Party, having held a pageant representing the birth of the equal rights movement on the 75th anniversary of the latter as Seneca Falls, N. Y., is to repeat that pageant in the various sections of the country. The object of the celebrations is to promote the passage of the Party's "Absolute Equality" Amendment to the Constitution. The first repetition of the pageant was held in the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs, Colo.
The states of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming. Arizona, New Mexico were represented. Miss Hazel MacKaye, pageant director, said of the pageant in the Garden of Gods: "Only a noble idea is worthy of being interpreted in that awe-inspiring-spot." A chorus of 500 women's voices accompanied the presentation of the pageant. Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, President of the organization, made an address in which she said: " I would not say in so many words that marriage is a failure but it seems to me that statistics speak for themselves."