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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1928
Page
6
Chaplin brings The Circus to Chappel Plaza for an all week engagement with Merna Kennedy as lead actress. The feature pairs Chaplin’s slapstick with Technicolor Buffalo Bill's Last Fight as added attractions, including a special midnight preview.
The MGM publicity unit unveils the first talking still for The Single Man with Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle as dialogue cartoons. New York Strand runs three talking devices including Fox Movie Tone and Vitaphone shorts. first time three wired devices used simultaneously in one theater.
Calcutta August 25. Pao Wa the sacred white elephant from Ringling’s circus tour in the United States and Canada died yesterday in the Calcutta zoo. Authorities say poisoning caused by overripe bananas. Buddhists in Burma revered him as the reincarnation of Buddha. The carcass will be stuffed and taken to Ranaghat.
Boyd Trousdale announces the Waterloo theatre opening September 2 with a four day run of the comedy Gertie from Nora Bayes stock. Miss Josephine Genaro stars, L Lyell La Valliere appears in a noted role, and Robert Ripley returns as leading man with rehearsals and seat policies unchanged.
Los Angeles August 25 The final decree of divorce between Liza Grey Chaplin and Charles Spencer Chaplin, screen comedian, was entered in superior court by Judge Hahn. The interlocutory decree granted August 22 1927 cited extreme cruelty and humiliation. Mrs Chaplin receives property and cash valued at 850000 and custody of their two children.
A legal challenge in Nevada district court seeks to remove Ames council member C. J. O Neil alleging improper appointment to fill a vacancy after Frank Theis resignation. The suit claims the council lacked authority and denounces the Sunday motion picture ordinance as invalid.
Los Angeles Aug 23 An unwelcome wedding present comes from the county district attorney for film actress Jacqueline Logan. If she returns to Los Angeles and lives with her new husband Harry Winston she will face bigamy charges. She secured an interlocutory decree of divorce from Ralph Gillespie last March which does not become final until March 1925.
Advertisement offering alfalfa farming in the Black Hills District of South Dakota as a cheaper alternative to shipping alfalfa, with a call to write J C Milne Colonization Agent Chicago & North Western Railway at 226 West Jackson St Chicago NL for complete information.
Clara Bow dominates the Strand week with Ladies of the Mob, a crook melodrama pairing her with Richard Arlen as a yegg. The program includes Vitaphone shorts by the Brox Sisters and Eddie Peabody, with Pathe News and a Miss Hoover visit segment.
In Dallas on August 26 the motion picture Uncle Tom's Cabin will screen with Simon Legree dressed as a Yankee. Producers will cut cruelty footage and add a prologue to clarify prewar southern gentility. Two Confederate groups protested privately before agreement.
Palace offers Hoot Gibson as The Rawhide Kid with a Western action plot plus comedy Elephants Show and Fox news. Plaza features Margaret Lillie musical comedy in force of modern divorce The Fighting Fogartys with songs. Screen Don't Marry stars Lois Moran and Neil Hamilton. RIVIERA presents College Bus ter Keaton life on campus with Movietone. other acts and news. Strand offers Tak A Chance show with feature picture and surprises and Vitaphone acts.
The Silvertown Cord Orchestra, famed on WEAF New York radio, tours for the Music Corporation of America and will perform at Electric Park on Tuesday night August 28. The Silver Mask tenor, a masked Irish singer, will appear. The orchestra aims for legitimate popular music, avoiding jazz and hot stuff, with the dance floor opening 9 p.m. to closing, rain or shine.
Opera star Rosa Ponselle was knocked unconscious and suffered a slight brain concussion after a golf ball struck her right eye on the eighth green while playing with Maestro Romano Romani. She was taken to her lake house for care.
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