Women seeking the vote had already become comic fodder by the time Variety began publishing in 1905. But gags about suffrage gave way to showbiz support as the women’s vote crept closer to reality.…
began publishing in 1905. But gags about suffrage gave way to showbiz support as the women’s vote crept closer to reality. Thewas finally signed into law Aug. 26, 1920, 78 years after the first women’s rights convention in this country and 144 years after the Declaration of Independence asserted that all men are created equal.
Lyricist Alfred Bryan took a more positive tack with the 1915 tune, “She’s Good Enough to Be Your Baby’s Mother and She’s Good Enough to Vote,” advertised inpages as “a novel argument of the great question of the day.” And Eddie Cantor’s tongue was presumably firmly in cheek for his rendition of “The Modern Maiden’s Prayer,” a Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 tune with verses written from the perspective of a suffragette.
The actor, married to playwright George Middleton, hosted gatherings for women, extolling the need for suffrage. In her New York Times obit, the paper quoted her as advising the women back then: “A good husband is not a substitute for the ballot.”
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