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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1917
Page
9
Annette Kellerman headlines a busy program at Proctor's House with a week of Viagrapha features including One Vitagraph picture and a comedic week. The Winter Garden stage showcases top acts with a large cast and nightly performances by famous stars through Sunday nights.
The Hippodrome announces a limited twenty week engagement starting next Monday and featuring an aquatic stage in a portable pond. Mise Kellermann will swim and dive beyond past film fame as part of a diverse program with minstrels and pantomime, aiming to draw skating fans back to the venue.
Fragmentary text references a famous swimming house, Mr Dill, a three stage theatre design, and contributors R T Burnelde and Raymond Heb. Details are incomplete, with readers uncertain about the project status and location.
The article describes a scene from William Fox's $1,000,000 photoplay A Daughter of the Gods. Girls chosen from the Caribbean coast prove their courage by braving dangerous rocks. some return with no injuries while others bear marks as badges of bravery. The event is celebrated in New York by the film’s sister cast members.
On Tuesday evening January 2% the Manhattan Opera House hosts the first American production of The Wanderer a biblical play by Maurice V. Samuels based on Der Verlorene Sohn Scenes span the Holy Land and the prodigal son parable with collaborating credits to Wilhelm Schmittbonn A Kosloff and Anselm Goetzel Stern provides original designs The cast includes Hazel Dawn in a U S trench correspondence note Dawn also stars in The Jary Girl at the Century Theatre
The program lists Mile Pevinala with a variety of numbers, a blackface act The Kentucky Pou, Pearl White and others at the Stran Theatre Plus Strand Theatre presents Mare Doro in Lost and Won a dramatic tale with fashion, romance and a newsroom heroine The evening also includes musical performances from Knud Dahlgaard Grace Hoffmann Enrich Arenten and others and shows a Shubert tie in with Love Mike in New York history
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