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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 2015
Page
5
The 1893 Marion concert by Effie Jessie Addie Cherry drew a packed crowd and over $100 raised as townsfolk crowded the Daniels opera house. The Cedar Rapids engagement drew sharp headlines with scathing reviews from The Gazette. The piece notes later ties to Greene's Opera House and The Olympic Theatre's history in Cedar Rapids.
World famous Cherry sisters Effie and Addie appear in a new look at the Lookout House bill with photos from their early years. They performed as a duet after Jessie died in 1903 with Carl Whyte listed as manager.
The Cherry Sisters staged at Greene's on March 14 with Davis' mock trial sentencing them to tend their farm before a full house. They later toured nationally ending at New York City's New Olympia Theater before aging into minor engagements. Effie and Addie attempted a 1933 comeback, with a Des Moines show drawing mixed reception, and the sisters died by 1944. Ella, Lizzie buried in Oak Shade. Effie, Addie in Linwood Cedar Rapids.
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