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Program: The Hoboken Theatre Group ,"Androcles and the Lion" by G.B. Shaw. (Hoboken, Nov. 6, 1931.)
2003.037.6001
2003.037
Heimbruch, Anita
Donation
Papers of Anita Heimbruch. Gift of Anita Heimbruch
1931 - 1931
Date(s) Created: 1931 Date(s): 1931-1931
Good
Notes: The cast apparently included mostly Hoboken residents. Directed by Harold Zantow of Stevens Prep (who also was performed in it), the featured actress was Elizabeth M. Rushe ("a graduate of the dramatic school of Columbia University... she formerly made her home in Hoboken and was a member of the Book Shop Players, which merged with the Dramatic Society of the Union Club.") The cast included a credit for a "George Spelvin" which was a traditional pseudonym used in the theater for persons not wanting their name used (possibly a union actor who could not perform under their own name in a non-union production.) Besides the cast list and the officers/committees of the organization, there is a list of "Patrons and Patronesses" which has a significant number of German names. This list suggests an association with the Hoboken Academy which had been established as a German-language school. Also the Union Club which was then primarily a public restaurant and banquet hall had formerly been the Deutscher or German Club, a private club until World War I. Notable among the patrons are executives of the Keuffel & Esser Company of Hoboken : Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Keuffel, Mr. & Mrs. W.G. Keuffel and Mrs. & Mrs. W.L.E. Keuffel. Anita Heimbruch would become an employee in 1942 and stay there for over 25 years. People in cast or affiliated with the group not including patrons: Anderson, Norman Diekhaus, Harold Diekhaus, Mary Feuerstein, Harold Feuerstein, Irma Freeman, Julius Ganz, Albert Ganz, Chrysta (or Chrystal) Granelli, Laura K. Grouls, Harold Heimbruch, Anita M. Heimbruch, Hildegard Maerlender, Edward H. Lindemann, Margaret Kotter, Gertrud (sic Koetter, Gertrude) McGraw, John Merz, Adelma Rushe, Elizabeth M. Schmidt, Carl Schmidt, Dorothea Sisserson, Langdon Stasse, Emily Sticht, Grace K. Sullivan, Agnes M. Wedluga, Norman Wisloh, Ethel Wisloh, Gordon E. Zantow, Harold A. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2009-11-11