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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 26, 1918

Page

10

Theatre Managers Pick Fine Bills For Patrons Next Week

The Crystal Vue Theatre will present The Warrior for three days next week. The Italian frontier tale follows a comic drama path without war scenes, featuring a troupe of Italian actors filming in Austria and a detention camp episode involving Maciste cartoons and daring escapes.

Criterion Theatre Itroadway New York Rome West Austria Maciste Audienca Peta The Crystal Theatre

Movie Lots at Palace Week Highlights Classic Acts

The Palace presents a busy slate with Tom Mix in Cupid's Roundup and Ethel Barrymore in An American Widow on Sunday and Monday, followed by Hart in Hoots and Horns. Jane Grey stars Her Fighting Chance with a Fox comedy on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the Lee children perform The Two Little Imps with another Fox comedy on Thursday. Creighton, Belmont, and Creighton showcase The Mudtown Firemen and Just Odds and Ends. The week ends with Chaplin burlesque and Buffalo Bill ads, plus Angel Factory and Lonesome Ulise comedies and a lineup of serials and features through Saturday.

Tom Mix Ethel Barrymore Hart Jane Grey Fox the Lee Children Cal Dean Sorority Girls Creighton Belmont Mudtown Firemen Clifton & Dale Laypo Benjamin Hidden Hand Charlie Chaplin Buffalo Bill Antonio Moreno Donna Drew Nestor Ruth Clifford Rupert Julian Beverly Bayne Harry the Tramp Mary Anderson Wm. Duncan Bobby

Ethel Barrymore in An American Widow at Palacade Sundays

Surrounding Ethel Barrymore in An American Widow at the Palagcd, Betsy Carter is the widow and Jasper Mallory is played by Irving Cummings. Daley Hawley makes his screen debut while Arthur Lewis, Richard Mansfield, Henry Miller, Amelia Bingham and Mary Shaw also appear. Ireland-born Lewis came to this country as a war correspondent for a New York newspaper. Charles Dickson Ernest Stallard and Alfred Kappler complete the cast.

Ethel Barrymore Metro Star Betsy Carter Jasper Mallory Irving Cummings Daley Hawley Richard Mansfield Henry Miller Amelia Bingham Mary Shaw Arthur Lewis Ireland New York Charles Dickson Ernest Stallard Alfred Kappler

Majestic vaudeville bill opens with Dee Baker act

Dee Baker headlines the Majestic vaudeville bill with Polly Walker and six Magazines Girls as the main attraction. The lineup features Bets of Vaudeville with Gardner and Revere, English skit Charlie's Visit, Austin and Bailey jazz comedy, and Herbertha Beeson on wire. The Pathe news tops the bill, plus The Retreat of the Germans at Arras episode adds Monday to Wednesday.

Dee Baker Polly Walker Majestic Theatre Baker Dick Gardner Anna Revere Gardner Kubeck James Hadie Ann Hamsden Austin and Bailey Herbertha Beeson Pathe News Battle of Arras

Firms Asked to Buy Smileage for Soldiers

A smileage campaign grows with firms planning to buy monthly books for members serving in camps. Each man would receive a smileage book to recall home as they tear out coupons for laughter at liberty theaters and chautauquas. Four comedy companies are already assigned to this effort.

Liberty Theatre

Broadway Groups Promote War Effort With Entertainers

Broadway organizations present successes such as Turn to the Right Cheating Cheaters Here Comes the Bride and Inside the Lines as volunteers join plans of the council following the example of Maude Addams and William Taversham. General Manager B P Alber of the Keith circuit assembles poor vaudeville bills. Chautauqua managers plan to present their best lecturers. Rotary clubs churches and business groups are urged to boost smileage so every man in the army gets at least one smileage book a month in 1915.

Mins Maude Addams William Taversham B. P. Alber Keith Rotary Clubs

Ad Gorrell Returns to Waterloo Titheatre for One Night

Ad Gorrell, Waterloo's favorite showman, will headline the Waterloo theatre for one night on Sunday, Jan. 27. He has been touring the middle west with the screaming comedy Putting It Over. Tickets priced at 10 20 and 30 cents.

AL Gorrell Waterloo Waterloo Theatre Mr. Gorrell Middle West

Have a Heart at Waterloo Theatre Wednesday Night

The sagacious Henry W. Savage presents Have a Heart at Waterloo on Wednesday January 20. A musical comedy with Jerome Kern songs and a witty libretto by Gur Belton and P. G. Wodehouse features a young couple’s elopement mistaken for a second honeymoon, plus a department store lingerie scene and a large company of singers dancers and comedians backed by a full orchestra.

Henry W. Savage the Waterloo New York Gur Belton P. G. Woehouse Jerome*Kern

Douglas Fairbanks in A Modern Musketeer at Plaza

Douglas Fairbanks stars in A Modern Musketeer shown at Plaza for four days Sunday through Wednesday. The photoplay, released by Artcraft, blends chivalry and humor as Ned Thacker of Kansas inherits the Dumas spirit from his mother.

Douglas Fairbanks Plaza Plaza Theatre Artcraft Fairbanks Ned Thacker Kansas D’artagnan Dumas

Ned meets Marjorie Dew in a dashing romance tale

In a spirited melodrama a rival of the modern D Artagnan clashes with independent maidens who rebuke flirting. Ned's pursuit ends as Marjorie Dew, playing Dorothy Morane, rescues the girl in superhero fashion and wins the heroine's heart.

D'Artagnan Ned Marjorie Dew Dorothy Morane

Buffalo Bill film at Family theatre features 6000 troops

Adventure of Buffalo Bill presenting William S. Cody and 6000 U S troops and Indians in actual warfare shown at the Family theatre tonight only It depicts the winning of the west and the three decisive notions that led to peace with the Indians Major General Nelson A Miles Col Cody and other army figures are pictured in battle scenes including War Bonnet Summit Creek and Bad Lands battles revealing pioneer days on screen

Buffalo Bill Whham S. Cody Buffalo Ill United States Family Theatre War Bonnet Summit Creek

Lecture on Business by Wisconsin Former Faculty Member

W R Thompson urged Waterloo business men to study every detail of store operations and to install the most modern equipment. The former university of Wisconsin faculty member spoke last night in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, stressing attention to all factors that contribute to a successful business.

Ders W. R. Thompson University of Wisconsin Waterloo Chamber of Commerce Thompson

Great Dantsie violinist to perform with metropolitan company

Violinist Alex Skovgaard and his metropolitan company will appear in concert at First M. Church Tuesday night January 29. Reserved seats one dollar general admission sixty cents. Children under one year twenty five cents. Bent at Cal Miller's west side and Schuneman's east.

Tnusleal Sesson Cal Miller's Schuneman‘s

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