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PLAY OF THE WEEK

... December, 1912, a suffragette, Miss Emily Wilding-Davidson, was sentenced for assaulting the Rev. Forbes Jackson, a Baptist minister in Aberdeen—in mistake for Lloyd George. In August, 1913, Mr Asquith was attadted by two suffragettes on the Lossiemouth ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1961
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Miss Clunas is 91

... Miss Clunas is 91 Miss Lila Clunas, the former Dundee town councillor who was prominent in the Suffragette movement (celebrating its jubilee at present), had visitors yesterday at 8 Albert Gardens, Broughty Ferry. She is 91. Her callers were Lord Provost ...

The proposal made at the Council meeting that the town, should take over the Gas Works has aroused general ..

... surprise and disappointment. Arbroath, Forfar and Montrose all show larger decreases, however. 0 0 • • The efforts of the Suffragettes could have no way succeeded. Even if a few hundred women. had escaped being enumerated a pretty good guess could nave been ...

Published: Tuesday 18 April 1961
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

B. and P. W. Club

... Forgan whose subject was ‘“The Changing Image.” She outlined the change in woman'’s status in Britain since the days of the suffragettes and spoke of the positions women held to-day in many different spheres, particularly that of public service. Mrs Graham ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1966
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ST JOHN’S

... e, who pioneered nursing as a profession; Elizabeth Fry, who did so much for the reform of prisons in her day; and the Suffragettes, to whom we owe the right to vote. There were still women of such qualities to-day, following in the footsteps of Mary ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1964
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

(.'----fl :Going to fhe= \ Pictures? \

... Norman Wisdom portrays an inept reporter on a seaside town's newspaper. He also plays his own screen mother as a militant suffragette; his screen grandfather as a young man and later, his grandfather as a Prime Minister. Aiding and abetting Norman are Derek ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1968
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

What's on at the King’s “ The Great Race”

... the world from New York to Paris by way of Bering Strait, for fame, fortune . .. and the cigar-smoking sophistication of suffragette-reporter Natalie Wood. Under the direction of Blake Edwards, the gags run a zany course, from a custardpie throwing sequence ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1967
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DAYS OF GOOD DFEDS

... are now within sight of the Suffragette Movement. This was the final outburst that drove the women of Britain to illegal and desperate measures to gain complete political freedom. Mrs Parkhurst and other prominent Suffragette leaders addressed meetings ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1960
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“ MARY POPPINS ” AT THE PALACE THEATRE

... Chaplin—Dick Van Dyke. The house at No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane is in an uproar. Mrs Banks (Glynis Johns) arrives home from a suffragette meeting to find that the sixth nanny in four months is resigning. The cook a2nd the maid are fighting, and the Banks’ children ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1966
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

ynswomen's Guild Stages Time Music Hall ►ld-Timc Music Hall 1914-18 was heme of a show put on by Montrose T

... Chalmers, secretary of Montrose Townswomen's Guild. Others taking part were —Singers—Mrs Masson. Miss McDade and Mrs E. Scott; Suffragettes—Mrs Gilbert and Mrs M. Chalmers; Nurse — Mrs F. Potter; Munitions Worker—Mrs Melville; Accompanist—Mrs Beveridge; Stage ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1962
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Players Entertain

... was given by the Studio Players, who staged o one-act comedies. The first * And Then There Were None,” a story about the suffragette movement, had a cast of nine—Pete Cargill, June Craig, Margaret Dunnachic, Harry Greig, Helen Kirk, Sheila McEwan, Anne ...

In U Years

... way ahead. On the whole, women are more intelligent, more able, and quicker-witted than men But of course, 8s a “Pm not a suffragette or a feminist or anythi like that. “The itchen sink mentality is an obsession with the small tasks to han . sometimes to ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1961
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 5 | Tags: none