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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
9
A lively description of a 1944 stage production featuring humor and musical numbers. The ensemble includes thirty five performers delivering sketches and physical gags from a riverside setting to a grand finale. The piece promises hearty laughs and audience engagement as the cast navigates knots and mishaps with light, continuous entertainment.
A fragmentary note hints at a Great Expectations style mystery with Pip like figures. A wedding dress mystery unfolds involving a Patella linked secret, undercurrents of stealth and secrecy shaping a tense plot.
A man in the orchestra seats at the street theatre collapsed his chair back and called an usher, signaling distress and pointing to a smoother faced gentleman in the box as concern rose for a possible incident during the mystery play The Thirteenth Chair.
The Winter Garden presents a lively program featuring renowned artists and dancers from various regions. Performers include Antwh, Yothine, and notable names such as Wal ter oO Wes Tom Lewis Marilynn Miller Irving Jo Mur jaher and Virginia Smith delivering entertainments praised for skill and charm.
The Wash Inetos Square Players offer a Thursday matinee headlined by Hoshida, a Japanese star, with a strong cast including Laura Hore Crews, Nernin Mitchell, Henry Kolker, W. Graham Browse, and Eu O'Brien. The show begins at 2 40, with performances on Thursday and Saturday under AE Tham aime Hoat and his wife.
The Columbia Theatre opens Monday July 15 with the Liberty Girls in a burlesque and operetta spectacle led by Jack Conway and featuring stars like Joerne Dainte Dally Barry Melton Arthur Mayer James Collin Frank Leonard and Edward Griffin. A standout number shows female company members in wake and dress with factions of Columbus and Pythios. a Three Bullava Girl act and the Liberty Four perform Broadway cabaret pieces. Soldiers and sailors invade with Her Soldier Noy, based on Victor Lagas, while Cyril Chadwick and others headline a strong cast and a chorus. Saturday matinees offered.
A vaudeville style program at the Plainfield theatre presents Jungle Kings with trained animals and a comic skit by Reading the 1 ards and Montross. Jack Marco Madge Casey perform as a musical duo while Jean Finneran closes the vaudeville segment with a novelty. The bill also includes Pearl of the Army serial episode Pathe News and Universal comedies. The year’s latest show runs with matinee and night performances, shifting to vaudeville on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Charles Pfill resumes control of the Hippodrome and unveils a record setting season. The venue hosted twelve performances weekly with 5 274 seats per show and 364 extra admissions, a reach beyond any domestic or foreign rival, signaling a brilliant and unprecedented rise in patronage despite limited weekly performances.
Pessy O Bri provides Misia Jantey with an excuse for a charming costume at Century Ms York. Miss Janis appears in white with a brimmed hat, a chiffon frock with elbow sleeves, a red rose at the girdle, and pearl accents. She also dons masculine evening wear and a wedding gown. The Chicken Water costume features an orange brown skirt and form fitting bodice with a brown and red bonnet.
Pavlowa to appear in two years after final engagement at the Teatre house on January twenty. She will perform a program including Pizzicato by Delibes and a new Stravinsky or Tancke number. The Hippodrome features weekly acts, minstrels, a real ice ballet The Doll, and matinees daily. Also presented is a romantic play Seremon da based on twelfth century Southern France with Miss Arthur as leading actress-manager.
Photoplay program at Proctor's Theatre features Under Cover with Hare Dawe and Owen Moore, based on a Broadway drama about love and mystery. Also shown are Life's Shadows with William Nigh, Jerry On the Job cartoon, and a double feature including The Matriman iac and The Scratch of Pen with Ormi Hawley and Douglas Gerard.
The sparkling American comedy arrives on the Americas stage next Monday at the Canine Theatre. Anna Held stars in a lively seven act show with Milo Claire and an international cast delivering music, song, and dance.
The ninth week of Captain Kidd features Jo in the Cohag and Harris art New York with a lively display of prosperity in house-fall and Ri Johnson Youthful comedy. Chatterton and Chatterton present a Kitchen scene at the Theatre Monday morning drawing crowds to see Joan content.
The 1916 year brought record foreign trade for the United States at 7.847 billion dollars, a gain of over 2.5 billion from 1915. Railroads reported net income surpassing a billion dollars for the first time, pig iron output rose, and overall commerce and money circulation expanded.
At a Tegimental armory meeting in Trenton on Saturday the officers of the id Regiment discussed pay issues under new Federal law. They noted a company lacking five members on its roll could drown under the provision and questioned whether the men would receive pay. An upcoming annual inspection by army officers was announced for the following Monday evening.
Hall team of the Nether churet will get into no night when it plays the National City Rank s on the local court. The state-do.
A fragment from a local society notes its annual officers including President First Vice President and others. The report mentions dates and a treasurer’s account showing receipts and expenditures, with total earnings around 227.69 and payments of about 215.68.
Fragmentary readable lines describe a celebration with pies and a group gathered along Liberty Street. The text mentions William J. Mehopey and a gathering near Tate Alleys, with a “pie” motif and uncertain terms. The OCR is garbled but suggests a social event centered on pie.
The text records social figures Roger Murphy Alec McDonald and several others, with mentions of waitresses and a reception. It notes a Munie for the sion by Profimar Sauters and announces the organization of the William J. Mahoney Association with officers and members including D. J. Gaines Thomas Hines Frank Donnelly James P. O Keatte Joseph A. Rosch and others.
A detailed 1916 report shows W Young Women’s ton group noting daily average attendance of 101 and higher social activity. Calls last month reached 215 with 415 total visits, while previous year figures were 663 and 605 respectively. A monthly meeting reported 68 attendees and additional lunches and suppers, indicating growing recognition of social service efforts.
At a meeting of the Plainfield Board of Education notification was made of appointment of Councilmen Juan A. Rabock and Thomas P. Hylan as members of the Board of School Bath water. The Board appointed as its representatives President Archibald Cox and Vice President Floyd T. Woodhull. At the February meeting organization for the coming year will be made, 255.00 cant rewards for finding who will keep your eye on the records.
Former Senator Ernest R Acker man of this city was appointed delegate of the New Jersey Glass Chamber of Commerce to a conference in New York City on January 30 to discuss a daylight-saving plan. The work is set for 5 o clock. Judge William W Codington and Mrs Codington left Wednesday with the duty and county all but that if his health is not better he may resign about the end of April.
At the annual meeting in Newark William Simon Badd of the city was elected member of the board of managers. Officers reported the society in flourishing condition with 196 new admissions during the year, bringing active membership to 1,145.
Randolph Man, long time member and now manager of the First Baptist Baseball Club, plans to recruit strong talent for a promising season. In another game, Plainfield High School’s basketball team lost 61 to 21 to Horace Mann School, a rare prep school defeat that underscores the season’s rough start.
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