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Surprised and happy was the Hoffman household last week when Craig Hoffman, wealthy New Jersey farmer, was brought home from jail. Brooding and resentful were the Polish mill workers of Manville, N. J. when they heard of Hoffman's release. Six weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 2) four ragged children from Manville's Poletown, two little Kolesars and two little Klementoviches, made an expedition to Farmer Hoffman's cornfield to snitch a few ears of corn for a "roast." As they crept through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot...
...quote from your issue of Sept. 23, at the top of p. 42: "United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled. . . ." The statements in this quotation are 100% erroneous. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey is not a subsidiary of the United Gas Improvement Company. It is true that the latter company has been for many years a substantial minority stockholders of Public Service-its proportion of voting strength at the present time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled...
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey...
Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...
...indefinite program will probably include Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, Rubinstein's Demon and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bride of the Tsar. The Manhattan engagement ends Dec. 28 whereupon a tour will be taken through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England and into Canada...