Waterloo sees more plays and films this spring
Busby Bros plan further attractions as Pollyanna and Three Faces Rast loom for Waterloo theatre. Gus Hill’s minstrel show thrives in the south while Ethel Barrymore sees major success. Miss Springtime, Maytime and The Heart of Humanity headline upcoming engagements and a week long feature at the Crystal theatre.
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Waterloo
Busby Bros
Waterloo Theatre
W. L. Busby
Lie
New York
Makinige
Gus Hill
South
Hill
Crystal Theatre
Heart OF Humanity
THE
Crystal
Notes of Shows And the Players on Tour and Plans
The Wanderer tours the country hailed as the era’s greatest road show since Ben Hur. A Waterloo corporation may be formed with about 200000 to build own operate theatres and related enterprises. Alexander Carlyle appears in The Country Cousin while David Warfield marches toward the coast. Busby Brothers note record business in Quincy. Beaneaters in Boston enjoy extended runs and Fred Stone’s stay grows. Two Business Before Pleasure tours abound with Carr Bernard and Yorke Leon casts.
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Waterloo
David Warfield
W. L. Busby
Busby Brothers
Quincy
Boston
Fred Stone
Alexander Carr
Barry Bernard
Gus Yorke
Robert Leon
Theatrical Adventures at Plaza and Majestic
A kaleidoscope of local showbiz chronicles with Mary the orphanage heroine, Maggie Duncan the circus mother, and Dick Morgan the cabbage-patch patron. plus Charlotte Ordway and Brandy the athlete in romantic hijinks. Also notes on Goodness Gracious Annabelle at Palace and vaudeville at Majestic and Hitchy Koo at Waterloo.
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Marguerite Clark
Mrs. Wiggs OF the
Mary
Brofield
Fhta
Tommy
Maggie Duncan
Maggie
Ommy
Dick Morgan
Hroney Morgan
Mrs. Morgan
Billy Wiggs
Gorrell’s Waterloo run to present new four act play
The Gorrell company returns to Waterloo for seven nights with an entire change of play each evening featuring a four act comedy drama The Laws of God and Man It is a novelty for Waterloo audiences and previously seen only at large fairs. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as a spring medicine and blood purifier is touted for various ailments and general debility with notes on postwar recovery and influenza effects.
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New York
Ment
Bridge Street Playhouse
Waterloo
Army of Fun
Leroy and
Dresdner
Jack Goldie
Heodare
Mattie Choate
Avanda
Brown and Wheeler
Harold Lloyd
THE
Majestic
Waterloo Theatre
A. B. White
the Waterloo
Gorrell
Hood
Mike
Ike
Garden Theatre Hood
Waterloos Evening Courier Ad Promises 1919 Comedy Board
An old Waterloo Evening Courier ad promotes a program featuring the Bunday bill Pawll ine Stark in Daughters of Angere and a Lonesome Luk comedy. It urges readers to send 35 cents for postage to Waterloo, with a note to try Phelps Ginsers for bend wire at 518 Jefferson.
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Pawlline Stark
Angele
Cory
Mocurates
Waterloo
Evenim Courter
Phelps’ Ginsers
Bend Wire
Jefferson
Rook Aids War Protesters Fined $3,000 In Espionage Case
New York March 22 The American Socialist Society was fined 3000 by Federal Judge Mayer for violating the espionage act by circulating Scott Nearing's anti war pamphlet The Great Madness. Attorneys said they would appeal.
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New York
American Socialist Society
Scott Nearing
Mayer
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London
Clail Mantle
Ethel Barrymore
San Francisco
Miss Barry
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Re East
Studebaker Theatre
Canada
Fillie Burke
Annabelle
Hitchy Koo
Alice Brady
the Crystal
the Wanderer
Ben Hur
Alexander Carlyle
Dorothy Gish
Jane
Olph Akor
Anabelle
Paramount Picture
Fatty Arbuckle
Sandy
PATHE
Charlotte Ordway
Jimmy Ordway
Jimmy
Carlotte
Brandy
Jim
Charlotte
Petruchio
Bille Burke
Palace Theatre
Wither
Annabelle Leigh
the Palace
Gen. Pershing
Chicago Tribune
General Pershing
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Sedan
Huns
Pershing
Chicago Sunday Tribune
Gauthier
Tribune
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