Plainfield Theatre Delivers Dazzling Double Feature Program
The Plainfield Theatre presents a vivid mix of cinema and vaudeville with Belle Wright’s The Eyes of the World, a California romance, and the Six Milly Maids led by a full band. Murray and blackface comedians, plus the Four Sols with a 15 minute variety act, headline a varied bill. new telegrams and features bolster today and tomorrow showings.
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Plainfield Theatre
Second Street Playhouse
Murray
Sol
The Naughty Wife at Selwyn Free Next Week
The Selwyn Free at Plainfield Theatre will present The Naughty Wife by Harris West next Monday night. The production, a comedy drama, features a young novelist entangled in romantic misadventure and has drawn extended engagements in Chicago and New York.
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Selwyn Free
Wife
Plainfield Theatre
Selwyn and Campany
Harris West
Speke
Twentieth Century Maids Burlesque at Plainfield Theatre
The Plainfield Theatre presents The Twentieth Century Maids in All In Fun a two act burlesque featuring Jim Barton as Box Car Bennie praised for strong comedy routines. Writers Jermon Opp and Abe Leavitt crafted a bright burlesque with lavish scenery and six dramatic scenes across acts one and two.
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Plainfield Theatre
Jim Barton
Barton
Bennie
John G. Jermon
Oe Opp
Abe Leavitt
Colonia Hospital Christmas Celebration Gleamed
Colonia Hospital hosts a Christmas season with many passes granted for men to celebrate at home. Red Cross Y M C A and other groups organized gifts from nearby towns while parties and Christmas tree events entertained the men. Women delivered gifts through the Mercy Committee of New Jersey and Lt Fraser described a festive Christmas Day menu featuring tomato soup roast turkey dressing mashed potatoes and plum pudding.
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Colonia Hospital
Red Cross
Jewfish Welfare Board
K. of
Mercy Committee of
New Jersey
Fraser
All in Pun All Puns Chiefly In This Production
A theater piece features costumes praised for richness and uniqueness and a chorus noted for beauty speed and ability. Tuneful music and lively lyrics have been written by Coree ares o The best moments linger in memory and fitfully return to the lips in coming days.
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Cressor
Coreee
Ares
Entertaining in Camp Proves No Easy Task for Performers
Read like a vivid wartime column, the piece depicts entertainers in Y M C A houses and Red Cross venues performing before khaki crowds. The audience roars at playful skits and songs, with Pink Sisters and readers delivering lively readings and Kipling verses amid rousing encores and marching drums.
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K. of
Red Cross
Thousa
Sousa
Mile
Smith
New York
Tulsa
Daddy
The's Orchestra
Pink Sisters
Percy Vail Heads South For Winter News Job
Percy Vail of 437 East Fifth Street leaves New York aboard a Clyde liner to join Palm Beach Florida News as a linotype operator. He plans a three month Florida stint and will return north in spring after a varied career in New York Washington Perth Amboy Reading and Newark.
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Percy Vail
East Fifth Street
Daily Press
Suny South
New York
Tme
Palm Beach, Fla
Florida
Washington
Perth Amboy
Destroyer Porter Sets New Mileage Record
Secretary Daniels annual report shows the Porter covered 64 473 miles in its first year of service in European waters. Other destroyers near the mark include the Connnham at 63 952 miles and the Davis at 63 015 miles.
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Porter
Daniels
Connyham
Davis
Thinks of Me Not: A Soldier and His Letters
Diary style verse shows a woman named Patricia Mabrl knitting items and sending gifts to a soldier. She doubts his thoughts and concludes he is not thinking of her, imagining his affection while awaiting a reply. The piece contrasts hopeful tokens with the realization of her own mistaken beliefs.
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Tye
Ts Ie
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News of the Theatre
Plainfield
Reeva Green
Sumner
Gaston
Bell
D’ Arcy
Colonia
Pursell
Carney Oore
Able
Anderson
Kipling
Ieadtieild
Scotch Plains
al Sashes
Broadway
Ee Sea
Eeerusalem Road
Erly
Spring Street
Wammi E. Warner
SPAUL
OUR Optical Dept
Leo Slonim
West Front ST
Hotel
Waldorf
East Front Street
Krueger’s Beer of Draught
Chas. L. Stanley
South and
Leland Avenues
Florisiste Otten
U.S
Cline’s Garage
John FR. Cline
East Second Street
L. Moraller & Sons
Watchmakers and Jewelers
Park Ave
West End Storage Warehou
Lee Place
John Winzenried
Quaker Shop
Breyee
Be, H. Bennett
J. R. Blair
C. A. RB
Velie
G. C. Keller
Farmers’ Hotel
Jacob Blimm, Jr
Prop
Somenet St
Plainfield, WN. J
Wescott
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