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...Last week on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement, the Judiciary Committee of the House by vote of 15-to-8 killed his birth control bill. He shook his head in grief, refused to say what his next move would be. Wags suggested a processing tax. Margaret Sanger, however, refused to let her anniversary be spoiled by merely one more defeat. She celebrated anyhow...
Congressmen last week foiled Mrs. Margaret Sanger's sixth attempt to get a Federal law passed which will allow doctors to give their patients advice on birth control without running the risk of being jailed and fined. Undepressed, plump Mrs. Sanger proceeded to hold a party to celebrate the 21 years of Birth Control & Sanger history. Helping her were powerful names, among them: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. Harold L. Ickes and Mrs. Frederick A. Delano, the President's aunt. Five hundred sponsors of the dinner included Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was an easygoing, loquacious, free-thinking carver of tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once...
...When Margaret Sanger's first marriage became unhappy, she occupied herself with public health nursing and decided that poverty, debility and big families went together. In 1914 she invented the phrase Birth Control and founded a magazine, The Woman Rebel, to propagate the idea. Dumfounded police, egged on by shocked churchmen and politicians, swore out a warrant for her arrest. She ran away to England...
...performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death. Back with Sebastian again...