2003.037

Heimbruch, Anita

Donation

Papers of Anita Heimbruch. Gift of Anita Heimbruch

1932 - 1932

Date(s) Created: 1932 Date(s): 1932-1932

Good

Notes: The cast apparently included mostly Hoboken residents. Directed by Harold Zantow of Stevens Prep (who also was performed in it.) A featured actress was Elizabeth M. Rushe (1931 newsclipping: "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.") Besides the cast list and the officers 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: Barklage, Walter Diekhaus, Harold Diekhaus, Mary Feuerstein, Harold Feuerstein, Irma Ganz, Chrysta (or Chrystal) Heimbruch, Hildegard Lindemann, Margaret Koetter, Gertrud McGraw, John Noldenburg, Billie Rushe, Elizabeth M. Schmidt, Dorothea Sisserson, Langdon Sticht, Grace K. Wisloh, Gordon E. Zantow, Harold A. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2009-11-11