From "The Moving Picture World, Volume 31, January 27, 1917":

A small house on Market Street, but one not at all less pleasant to visit, is the Carlton, a fox house, in charge of Manager Lewis P. DeWolfe.  This is the oldest picture theater in Newark now running.  It seats 850.  It charges ten cents for all shows except on Saturdays and Sundays, when the price of admission is fifteen cents.  The program is a five-reel feature and three short subjects.  The patronage at the Carlton is of the middle class and the pictures that are most popular are stores of American life and good comedy.  Costume plays are not particularly wanted unless they are markedly out of the ordinary.  The house is doing an excellent business under Mr. DeWolfe, who has been in charge since 1914.  I enjoyed my call upon the manager of the Carlton very much.