Kitty Marion's father, a harsh German (Westphalian), would bang her childish head with the knob of his long German pipe, to show her he was family boss. When she was 15, a stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two...
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