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PI CKERT SISTERS STOCK CO. PRE-SENT SPLENDID REPERTOIRE The Pickert Sisters Stock Compan y, tieaded by Grace and Blanche Pickert , Dpened their engagement at the Hershey Park theatre on Monday evening to one af the biggest Monday evening crowds of the season. The weather was very, very warm which made it rather difficult for the performers to work , but nevertheless they presented "Playthings" in a very :reditable manner. "Playthin gs" is a drama in three acts and provided excellent opportunities for the different members of this capable com-pany. Miss Blanch Pickert as Marjorie Worth, was at her best, and Val. C. Cleary, as John Hayward, was excellent. James Marr who played Gordon Trenwith did credit to the part. Miss Jessie Lyons as Claire Morgan, Erlau Wilcox as Jerry Thompson , Ward B. McDonough as Dan Carter, and Karl S. Magee as Inspector Jones, all handled their parts in an able manner . Between acts vaudeville and pictures were shown. Heinie, the funn y Dutch man , pleased with his parodies and funny songs. The Pickert Sisters did an excellent navy specialty, introducing singing, dancing and instrumental numbers. They carry a special dro p for this act , which adds to the appearance and effectiveness of the act. Master Erlau also sang three songs- in his pleasing manner. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week the company will present the comedy "In Walked Jimmv". This plav gives the members excellent opportun-ities for comedy work. Monda y, Tuesday ajfld Wednesday, of next week , "Rich Man", Poor Man" will be presented. The author of this play is Geo. Broadhurst , and the same stor y th at ran as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. This play has also been shown in movies, starring Miss Margaret Clark. For Thursday, ^Friday and Saturday of next week, the management has decided to put on a new war play that is very sim-ilar to "Under Fire". It is full of comedy and shows an exact reproduction of the trenches as they are on the Western battle front. / The author of this play is A. A. Fox who is a member of the Pickert Stock Co. Mr. Fox has served in the tren-ches and has been discharged. It was while he was in the tr enches that he wrote the pla y, and he thus knows what he is writing about. Mr. Fox has not as yet determined on a name for his play, and the management has offered $5.00 in gold for the best name sent in after the public has seen the play. . The names sent in will be gone over by a committee to be se-lected and the award will be made on Mon-day evening following the presentation of the play New vaudeville will be presented at all of the performances by the members of the company. People were here frqm Harrisburg and Lebanon , and they were agreeably sur-prised. Another Surprise is coming. Hershey Dept. Store. The Boy Scouts of Hershey are camp ing at Valley Glen for ten days. Tw© Herslbay Boys Write Albonit Tlbeir Amnrw Life We print several letters in this issue, one from Sergt. Edwin Schwenk, of the quartermaster's department, stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington, who graphic-ally gives his impression of a trip he made to Ranier National Park. Owing to lack of space we were unable to prin t th e letter in full. The other letters are from Frank B. Saylor , better known as "Pink" who gives a few lines while on board the transport on his way over, and the other after he had reached "Somewhere In France". The letters are as follows;— Dear Friends;— In this letter I will tell you about my trip to Mt. Ranier. This mountain—Ra-nier , which , I have so often spoken about, —I have now stood at it's very base. I shall tr y to tell of some impression s and perhaps you, can picure faintly what is known as Ranier National Park and Mt. Ranier. Here I have seen, not woods, but the forest, what might be tru ly styled the "forest primeval". As implied by the name it is a reserve which has been set a-side by our National Government. Trees, princely monarchs all of them, climb into Heaven's blue, their shaggy heads reach-ing higher and higher as the days are gar-nered into the years. Noble fellows they indeed are, attaining—some of them—a height of several hundred feet, while a-round the base, measuring thirty or more feet. Many of the smaller fellows are en-shrouded, heavily, in a long drooping specie of moss, while the underbrush is made dense by a profuse growth of mosses, of lichen, of fern and a myriad of other Creations of Nature . The road, closely crowded on each side this primitive densit y, leads on and up. Making many turns and winding in de-vious fashion it steadily climbs, it crosses roaring currents which come down from the melting snows and glaciers; it clings to the side of hills, where from one may look down the almost perpendicular slopes to the valley far below. The machine rides, it seems, on the very edge of the slope, at places is as strong as seventy-five de-grees and the valley lies several hundred feet below. Thus a-climbing and a-climb-ing until coming into "Paradise Valley" and here at an altitude of 5557 feet the road ends. Big patches of snow dot the valley and lie in the ditches along the way . Where the snow has entirely melted mother Earth is carpeted with the richest growth of green and beautiful flowers I have ever seen. And now, there stands Mt. Ranier. It 's deeply wrinkled sides are filled with solid glaciers of ice, covered over with four or five feet of whitest snow. Its summit reaches almost nine thousand f eet higher, attaining in it 's rugged grandeur an alti-tude of 14,250 feet. There are numerour waterfalls, all of them pictures of fascinating beayty. They are various in height and form;— here is one two hundred feet high and narrow and here another not quite so high but the water pours over in roaring vol-umes. Can you imagine me throwing Snow-balls or Sliding over the Snow at this sea-son of the year? In party of about twenty took hike, under proper guida aero. ss the Snow-fields to the glaciers. We were equipped in prescribed mountain fashion , —calked shoes, woolen socks, canvas breeches, face paint , colored glasses and "Alpine Stocks". It is an amusing sight to see a crowd thus equipped, startin g on a hike. Women are clothed same as men and it is really difficult to distinguish even those whom one knows. With best wishes to everybody will close. Sincerely, Ed. Schwenk. "Somewhere at Sea" This is the (depleted by censor) day of our voyage "overseas " and thus far there has not been one thing to mar the pleasure of our tri p. The boat on which we are traveling is now the property of the United States and is one of the biggest used for trans porting men. The weather has been delightful while the sea has been unusually calm. Amusements are furnished thruout the entire day including Band Concerts, Box-ing bouts. Moving pictures. Spiritual services are conducted by Chaplains who are with the Division. . I ways in great demand and without . a doubt the most popular brand on the marl ket. The sad part about it is that there is so little of it available. J Would be very grateful for a Press every now and then. News papers are a scarcfe periodical here. The New York HeraldJ j Public Ledger and The Stars and Stripes' are publications issued in these parts, but there always seems to be a limited amount! and one must "go-over-the-top" to ge: his hands on one. It is surprising how hungry the fellows seem for reading I shall try to give you a word from tint j to time, keeping you informed of how [ am getting along. Sincerel y, Prt. Pink. At all times the spirit of the men are apparently bright and it looks like a crack contingent that we are going over with to trim the "Dutch. " Work on the ship has been so divided that every fellow has plenty of time to himself. Conditions on the boat are good ; the men enjoying good health, including yours truly. Sincerely, . Pink. "Somewhere In France" Our troops landed the other day after a trip that seemed ages long. Land never looked so good as it did when it first came into sight. But, Oh my! We then got more than we cared for of Terra Firma. France from ones point of view is truly wonderful in its beauty, but the roa ds on which we traveled to reach our first camp, were "Rotten". Most- of our route was nothing but hills one upon another and you may well imagine the condition of our feet after a several miles hike over these hills and cobble stones with, a full pack on our backs. The men, however , are a game lot and it was only a good night's rest until they revived ready for whatever might come. Along the streets of the villages we passed there stood many of the peasant class. It was rema rkable the few young men we saw, but there were many old women and children. As we passed along the little "tots" would form in groups, singing that familiar army song: Hail, Hail the Gan g's all here , etc. ' . Few luxuries are obtainable. Along the roads you find peasants selling oranges, figs and nuts for which they ask an ex-orbitant amount. At the Army canteens, however, one can buy tobbacco much cheaper than in America. For instance, Camel cigarrettes selling for 15 cents a pack in U. S. sell for 7 cents here. Some Chocolate is also on sale. Hershey's is al- COMMUNITY SERVICE CONTINUES TO DRAW LARGE CROWDS I The Community services held in Heij - shey Park last Sunday •afternoon " were largely attended. Hon. G. H. Mover, delivered a very able address in his inimit-able manner. The singing under the di-rectorship of Prof. Whitmoyer, was ex-cellent. I Next Sunday afternoon all of the chil-dren of Hershey are given a special invi-tation to come up on the music pavilion and sing. Prof. Whitmoyer, of Palmyra, will direct the children 's chorus. It is to be hoped that several hundred children will be present next Sunday afternoon. Rev. I. Calvin Fisher, pastor of the Re-formed Church , of Lebanon , will deliver the address. I ¦ A special duet by Mrs. William Fred-erick and A. O. Stine, will be sung, also a solo by Mrs. John Shay. | These Community services are well worthy your attending, and you will gk much inspiration by being there. There are plenty of song sheets, and plenty of benches. Why not come out next Sunda y afternoon. I AN APPEAL FOR MAGAZINES FOR SOLDIERS ' S Miss Anna Z. Baker, the librarian of the Hershey Free Library, received a liter from Anna A. MacDonald, consulting li-brarian of the Pennsylvania Free Librai y Commission, in which an appeal for mag i-zines for soldiers is made. . i We herewith publish the letter, as it e i- ? plains the matter fully, which is as follows :- j July 25, 1918. , Miss Anna Z. Baker, I Hershey, Pa. My dear Miss Baker: ., [ I have been, wondering if it would lie possible for you at Hershey and Hummel s-town to get some late magazines for tl ie camp library at Gettysburg. This camp is so scattered that there are four Y. M. C. A. tents on the camp grounds to be supp-lied with books and a Soldier's Club in tie town. As it is a temporary camp, it is im-possible for us to subscribe for magazines ' satisfactorily and also it seems impossibie ¦ to get some of the Burleson ones, that is, those having the penny stamp on them and dropped back in the post- office. So we have been asking some of the nearly towns if they could undertake to send each week a package. They want, monthlies, not over one month old and the weeklies not more than two-weeks old, with the e x-ception of Life, Punch, Judge, Natior al ( Continued on ' page 8) j ' i
Object Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1918-08-08 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 1918-08-08 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1918-08-08 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 19180808 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | PI CKERT SISTERS STOCK CO. PRE-SENT SPLENDID REPERTOIRE The Pickert Sisters Stock Compan y, tieaded by Grace and Blanche Pickert , Dpened their engagement at the Hershey Park theatre on Monday evening to one af the biggest Monday evening crowds of the season. The weather was very, very warm which made it rather difficult for the performers to work , but nevertheless they presented "Playthings" in a very :reditable manner. "Playthin gs" is a drama in three acts and provided excellent opportunities for the different members of this capable com-pany. Miss Blanch Pickert as Marjorie Worth, was at her best, and Val. C. Cleary, as John Hayward, was excellent. James Marr who played Gordon Trenwith did credit to the part. Miss Jessie Lyons as Claire Morgan, Erlau Wilcox as Jerry Thompson , Ward B. McDonough as Dan Carter, and Karl S. Magee as Inspector Jones, all handled their parts in an able manner . Between acts vaudeville and pictures were shown. Heinie, the funn y Dutch man , pleased with his parodies and funny songs. The Pickert Sisters did an excellent navy specialty, introducing singing, dancing and instrumental numbers. They carry a special dro p for this act , which adds to the appearance and effectiveness of the act. Master Erlau also sang three songs- in his pleasing manner. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week the company will present the comedy "In Walked Jimmv". This plav gives the members excellent opportun-ities for comedy work. Monda y, Tuesday ajfld Wednesday, of next week , "Rich Man", Poor Man" will be presented. The author of this play is Geo. Broadhurst , and the same stor y th at ran as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. This play has also been shown in movies, starring Miss Margaret Clark. For Thursday, ^Friday and Saturday of next week, the management has decided to put on a new war play that is very sim-ilar to "Under Fire". It is full of comedy and shows an exact reproduction of the trenches as they are on the Western battle front. / The author of this play is A. A. Fox who is a member of the Pickert Stock Co. Mr. Fox has served in the tren-ches and has been discharged. It was while he was in the tr enches that he wrote the pla y, and he thus knows what he is writing about. Mr. Fox has not as yet determined on a name for his play, and the management has offered $5.00 in gold for the best name sent in after the public has seen the play. . The names sent in will be gone over by a committee to be se-lected and the award will be made on Mon-day evening following the presentation of the play New vaudeville will be presented at all of the performances by the members of the company. People were here frqm Harrisburg and Lebanon , and they were agreeably sur-prised. Another Surprise is coming. Hershey Dept. Store. The Boy Scouts of Hershey are camp ing at Valley Glen for ten days. Tw© Herslbay Boys Write Albonit Tlbeir Amnrw Life We print several letters in this issue, one from Sergt. Edwin Schwenk, of the quartermaster's department, stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington, who graphic-ally gives his impression of a trip he made to Ranier National Park. Owing to lack of space we were unable to prin t th e letter in full. The other letters are from Frank B. Saylor , better known as "Pink" who gives a few lines while on board the transport on his way over, and the other after he had reached "Somewhere In France". The letters are as follows;— Dear Friends;— In this letter I will tell you about my trip to Mt. Ranier. This mountain—Ra-nier , which , I have so often spoken about, —I have now stood at it's very base. I shall tr y to tell of some impression s and perhaps you, can picure faintly what is known as Ranier National Park and Mt. Ranier. Here I have seen, not woods, but the forest, what might be tru ly styled the "forest primeval". As implied by the name it is a reserve which has been set a-side by our National Government. Trees, princely monarchs all of them, climb into Heaven's blue, their shaggy heads reach-ing higher and higher as the days are gar-nered into the years. Noble fellows they indeed are, attaining—some of them—a height of several hundred feet, while a-round the base, measuring thirty or more feet. Many of the smaller fellows are en-shrouded, heavily, in a long drooping specie of moss, while the underbrush is made dense by a profuse growth of mosses, of lichen, of fern and a myriad of other Creations of Nature . The road, closely crowded on each side this primitive densit y, leads on and up. Making many turns and winding in de-vious fashion it steadily climbs, it crosses roaring currents which come down from the melting snows and glaciers; it clings to the side of hills, where from one may look down the almost perpendicular slopes to the valley far below. The machine rides, it seems, on the very edge of the slope, at places is as strong as seventy-five de-grees and the valley lies several hundred feet below. Thus a-climbing and a-climb-ing until coming into "Paradise Valley" and here at an altitude of 5557 feet the road ends. Big patches of snow dot the valley and lie in the ditches along the way . Where the snow has entirely melted mother Earth is carpeted with the richest growth of green and beautiful flowers I have ever seen. And now, there stands Mt. Ranier. It 's deeply wrinkled sides are filled with solid glaciers of ice, covered over with four or five feet of whitest snow. Its summit reaches almost nine thousand f eet higher, attaining in it 's rugged grandeur an alti-tude of 14,250 feet. There are numerour waterfalls, all of them pictures of fascinating beayty. They are various in height and form;— here is one two hundred feet high and narrow and here another not quite so high but the water pours over in roaring vol-umes. Can you imagine me throwing Snow-balls or Sliding over the Snow at this sea-son of the year? In party of about twenty took hike, under proper guida aero. ss the Snow-fields to the glaciers. We were equipped in prescribed mountain fashion , —calked shoes, woolen socks, canvas breeches, face paint , colored glasses and "Alpine Stocks". It is an amusing sight to see a crowd thus equipped, startin g on a hike. Women are clothed same as men and it is really difficult to distinguish even those whom one knows. With best wishes to everybody will close. Sincerely, Ed. Schwenk. "Somewhere at Sea" This is the (depleted by censor) day of our voyage "overseas " and thus far there has not been one thing to mar the pleasure of our tri p. The boat on which we are traveling is now the property of the United States and is one of the biggest used for trans porting men. The weather has been delightful while the sea has been unusually calm. Amusements are furnished thruout the entire day including Band Concerts, Box-ing bouts. Moving pictures. Spiritual services are conducted by Chaplains who are with the Division. . I ways in great demand and without . a doubt the most popular brand on the marl ket. The sad part about it is that there is so little of it available. J Would be very grateful for a Press every now and then. News papers are a scarcfe periodical here. The New York HeraldJ j Public Ledger and The Stars and Stripes' are publications issued in these parts, but there always seems to be a limited amount! and one must "go-over-the-top" to ge: his hands on one. It is surprising how hungry the fellows seem for reading I shall try to give you a word from tint j to time, keeping you informed of how [ am getting along. Sincerel y, Prt. Pink. At all times the spirit of the men are apparently bright and it looks like a crack contingent that we are going over with to trim the "Dutch. " Work on the ship has been so divided that every fellow has plenty of time to himself. Conditions on the boat are good ; the men enjoying good health, including yours truly. Sincerely, . Pink. "Somewhere In France" Our troops landed the other day after a trip that seemed ages long. Land never looked so good as it did when it first came into sight. But, Oh my! We then got more than we cared for of Terra Firma. France from ones point of view is truly wonderful in its beauty, but the roa ds on which we traveled to reach our first camp, were "Rotten". Most- of our route was nothing but hills one upon another and you may well imagine the condition of our feet after a several miles hike over these hills and cobble stones with, a full pack on our backs. The men, however , are a game lot and it was only a good night's rest until they revived ready for whatever might come. Along the streets of the villages we passed there stood many of the peasant class. It was rema rkable the few young men we saw, but there were many old women and children. As we passed along the little "tots" would form in groups, singing that familiar army song: Hail, Hail the Gan g's all here , etc. ' . Few luxuries are obtainable. Along the roads you find peasants selling oranges, figs and nuts for which they ask an ex-orbitant amount. At the Army canteens, however, one can buy tobbacco much cheaper than in America. For instance, Camel cigarrettes selling for 15 cents a pack in U. S. sell for 7 cents here. Some Chocolate is also on sale. Hershey's is al- COMMUNITY SERVICE CONTINUES TO DRAW LARGE CROWDS I The Community services held in Heij - shey Park last Sunday •afternoon " were largely attended. Hon. G. H. Mover, delivered a very able address in his inimit-able manner. The singing under the di-rectorship of Prof. Whitmoyer, was ex-cellent. I Next Sunday afternoon all of the chil-dren of Hershey are given a special invi-tation to come up on the music pavilion and sing. Prof. Whitmoyer, of Palmyra, will direct the children 's chorus. It is to be hoped that several hundred children will be present next Sunday afternoon. Rev. I. Calvin Fisher, pastor of the Re-formed Church , of Lebanon , will deliver the address. I ¦ A special duet by Mrs. William Fred-erick and A. O. Stine, will be sung, also a solo by Mrs. John Shay. | These Community services are well worthy your attending, and you will gk much inspiration by being there. There are plenty of song sheets, and plenty of benches. Why not come out next Sunda y afternoon. I AN APPEAL FOR MAGAZINES FOR SOLDIERS ' S Miss Anna Z. Baker, the librarian of the Hershey Free Library, received a liter from Anna A. MacDonald, consulting li-brarian of the Pennsylvania Free Librai y Commission, in which an appeal for mag i-zines for soldiers is made. . i We herewith publish the letter, as it e i- ? plains the matter fully, which is as follows :- j July 25, 1918. , Miss Anna Z. Baker, I Hershey, Pa. My dear Miss Baker: ., [ I have been, wondering if it would lie possible for you at Hershey and Hummel s-town to get some late magazines for tl ie camp library at Gettysburg. This camp is so scattered that there are four Y. M. C. A. tents on the camp grounds to be supp-lied with books and a Soldier's Club in tie town. As it is a temporary camp, it is im-possible for us to subscribe for magazines ' satisfactorily and also it seems impossibie ¦ to get some of the Burleson ones, that is, those having the penny stamp on them and dropped back in the post- office. So we have been asking some of the nearly towns if they could undertake to send each week a package. They want, monthlies, not over one month old and the weeklies not more than two-weeks old, with the e x-ception of Life, Punch, Judge, Natior al ( Continued on ' page 8) j ' i |