Claim: The William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts (located in Rutherford, New Jersey – a borough in Bergen County that was incorporated on September 21, 1881) used to be a theatre called the Rivoli which showed silent movies and talkies until a fire destroyed part of the building in 1977.
Evidence: 1 Williams Plaza, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070 The building that the center occupies was originally built in the 1920s as a Vaudeville theater known as the Rivoli. The Rivoli soon started showing silent movies and eventually "talkies". The theater enjoyed success until a fire destroyed part of the building in 1977. Bergen September 21, 1881