Community Corner

John Barrymore Birthday Fundraiser

Please come out to support the Fort Lee High School Academy for the Performing Arts and all its student actors - on February 15, 2011 from 6-8 PM at the bar at In Napoli Restaurant (116 Main St) we will celebrate the great actor John Barrymore's 129th Birthday by raising funds at the bar - tickets at the door are $15 - that includes appetizers - cash bar. All proceeds go to programs for the Academy for the Performing Arts - John Barrymore made his stage debut in 1900 at the age of 18 in a Fire House #2 fundraiser in Buckheister's Hotel which was located where the parking lot sits today across from In Napoli near the John Barrymore Way street sign on the corner of Main Street & Central Road - call (201) 693-2763 for further details.  The Fort Lee Film Commission and the Fort Lee Coalition for the Arts will celebrate Barrymore's  birthday each year as a fundraiser for the student actors of Fort Lee High School.

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