International Council of Women Pageant
Other names
- ‘The Mother of the League of Nations’
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Whearncliffe Rooms, Great Central Hotel (Marylebone) (Marylebone, Middlesex, England)
Year: 1929
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 2
Notes
6–7 May 1929, at 8pm
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Henry, William
- Stage Director: Miss Pamela Churton
Collins
- Property Masters: Mr D. Nye and Mr Eric
Frye
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
35 - 45Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
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Audience information
- Grandstand: No
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
10s 6d.
Associated events
Part of the International Council of Women’s annual meeting in London. Other events included a reception, lectures, exhibition, dances and a buffet supper included in the ticket price
Pageant outline
Episode 1. International Council of Women’s Conference 1888
Episode 2. International Council of Women’s Conference, 1899.
Episode 3. Press
Episode 4. Finance
Episode 5. Peace and Arbitration
Episode 6. Laws and Legal Position of Women and Equal Moral Standard
Episode 7. Suffrage
Episode 8. Public Health
Episode 9. Child Welfare
Episode 10. Education
Episode 11. Trades.
Episode 12. Arts
Key historical figures mentioned
- Austen, Jane (1775–1817) novelist
- Butler [née Grey], Josephine Elizabeth
(1828–1906) social reformer and women's activist
Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
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Other primary published materials
- International Council of Women Pageant, May 1929: Programme. London, 1929.
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Programme in London School of Economics Women’s Library Archives, 5ICW/C/02/04
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
Founded in Washington in 1888, the International Council of Women (ICW) was one of the first international women’s organisations, campaigning on women’s rights and leading the battle against gender based social injustice. During the interwar period the ICW worked extensively with the League of Nations and subsequently the United Nations.1
Footnotes
1. ^ ‘History’, International Council of Women, accessed 26 March 2017, http://www.icw-cif.com/01/03.php
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘International Council of Women Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1524/