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...electrification, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad last week announced that it would electrify 173 miles of track over 78 miles of road. Electrification will not include Lackawanna's main Buffalo-Manhattan line but will be confined to short branch lines, particularly the Morris & Essex division from Hoboken to Dover...
...train, the row of ingot-molds glow in the darkness like monuments of hardened fire. Thus steel to the steelworker. But to the steel-tycoon, to U. S. business & finance in general, it is gold that melts in the furnace and earnings that spark from the spout. To Hoboken this week went the most potent of steelmen for the annual stockholders' meeting of the most gilded of steel companies. Had all U. S. Steel Corp. stock owners attended, those present would have totaled 100,000. Most, however, stayed at home; all knew that the main business of the meeting...
Under the Gaslight. Since Christopher Morley and his three colleagues discovered, at their stunt theatres in Hoboken, the awkward charms of the dramas of the '60s, there has been a general scramble for these dusty manuscripts. This one is an Augustin Daly play, first produced in 1867, and, to make it just a little quainter, an old theatre in the Bowery has been resuscitated to house...
...broad farce portraying the woes of an unmarried father with a child on his hands. "Little Accident" is still, after many months, doing big business. And so also is that finest of mystery plays Milne's "The Perfect Alibi". Hoboken offers two revived melodramas, quite the fashionable thing to attend, and there is another resurrected thriller down on the Bowery. Just arrived in town are Drinkwater's latest play. "Bird in Hand", "Mystery Square", a dramatization of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights" and a farce, "He Walked in Her Sleep...
...Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...