The Great Mail Robbery at Crystal and Local Theaters
Crystal presents The Great Mail Robbery a melodrama with cast Theodore von Eltz Frank Nelson Jeanne Morgan and many others Evans Revue offers new songs dances and comedy skits plus comedy and newsreels. Palace showcases The Quarterback with Esther Ralston and Mona Palma in a rain soaked football romance along with comedy and newsreels. Plaza features Running Wild with W C Fields and Mary Brian plus vaudeville acts and reels. Rialto shows The Show a side show romance with Lionel Barrymore plus Metro comedy and news. Strand presents Hard Boiled Haggerty a Paris caper with Milton Sills Molly O Day and Arthur Stone plus Fables Pathe news and a novelty film.
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Crystal
Mail Robery
Theodore von Eltz
Frank Nelson
Jeanne Morgan
Evans
Palace
Richard Dix
Esther Ralston
Harry Beresford
David Butler
Robert W. Craig
Mona Palma
Lionel Barrymore
Edward Connelly
Gertrude Short
Andy McLennan
Metro
Strand
Milton Sills
Haggerty
Paris
Molly O'Day
Arthur Stone
Mitchell Lewis
George Fawcett
Yola Avril
Pathe News
Great Mail Robbery and Evans Revue at Crystal
The Crystal presents The Great Mail Robbery film featuring marines tracking down a band of bandits with action, planes and bombs. Theodore von Eltz leads, supported by Frank Nelson and Jeanne Morgan. Evans Revue follows with The Inventor, a comedy sketch starring Harry Ike Evans, Hazel Sewell, Harvey Maxwell and the Davises, plus musical numbers and chorus.
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Evans
Crystal
Crystal Theatre
Theodore von Eltz
Frank Nelson
Jeanne Morgan
Lee Shumway
Dewitt Jennings
Evans Revue Company
the Inventor
Harry
Ike” Evans
Hazel Sewell
Harvey Maxwell
Clyde
Bess Davis
Davis
Elopement ends when girl gets hungry in Indiana
Florence Eagle Eye a 16 year old Rock Island Ill eighth grader and Louis Dudley 21 Davenport Ia fled Sunday. After car trouble in a Chicago suburb they slept in a dime movie and traveled toward Detroit with diminishing funds. In Michigan City Florence became hungry and Dudley took milk from a doorstep. they were caught and officials contacted. The couple is expected to return home.
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Michigan City
Florence Eagle Eye
Rock Island
Ill
Louis Dudley
Davenport
Chicago
Dudley
Detroit
Florence
Lillian Hendricks
Youth Who Left-Home Here Found in Des Moines
Des Moines police found George Bunt, 23, of feeble mentality, wandering abandoned without shoes or hat. He had been missing from Waterloo since Sunday night, and his mother Mrs. Hattie Bunt, 502 Commercial Street, was notified and prepared to travel to Des Moines to bring him back. It is unclear how he traveled to Des Moines, though suspected rides along the highway.
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Des Moines
George Bunt
Hattie Bunt
Commercial Street
Palmer celebrates sixty first wedding anniversary
Washington Iowa October 26. Col. David J. Palmer former commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and Mrs. Palmer marked their sixty first wedding anniversary receiving callers and congratulatory messages.
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Washington, Ia
David J. Palmer
Grand Army of the Republic
Palmer
Hair-Groom adds gloss and grooming to hair all day
An advertisement claims Hair-Groom provides a natural gloss and well groomed look with greaseless formula. It promises to tame stubborn hair, maintain style all day, and even help grow thicker, heavier hair. offered at drugstores for a few cents per jar.
White Fire Synopsis of Tabby Wynne and Mona Desmond
Tabby Wynne navigates autumnal life with his wife June as actor Mona Desmond egos and plots unfold in New York. Mona seeks industry gossip and favors from Wynne while avoiding disclosure of a past relationship with producer Arlington as she plots a stage comeback and hints at a divorce setup involving Jenny Challis and Lance.
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Tabor Wynne
June
Fairless
Wynne
Jennifer Challis
Jane
New York
Miss Challis
Lance
Jenny
Mona
Tabor
Tabby
Arlington
Havana Ribbon cigar offer sells for a nickel
A vintage style pitch promotes Havana Ribbon cigars at one nickel, claiming a superior taste and value compared to older prices. It urges shoppers to visit local cigar stores for a ripe, mild smoke praised by seasoned smokers.
Radio as Musical Instrument Question Divides Iowa Judge
Des Moines October 26 District Judge Zeuch reserved decision for several days on whether a radio is a musical instrument and immune from attachment. F H Dunbar seeks to prevent attachment claiming musical status for heads of households. Counsel for the would be attacher argues the radio is a mere reproducing machine.
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Des Moines
Zeuch
F. H. Dunbar
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Théatré
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Pansy
Misto Duff
Servahan
Jol
By Ben Batsford
Milton
Cain
Stamford
Mona Desmond
Ritz
Cafes Des Enfants
Benefii
Jennifer
Hare
Charley Arlington
Sherry's
Nigel
Aeolian
Aeolian Company
Aeolian Hall
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Weber
Supreme Musical Instrument
George Steck
Stroud Studio Upright Piano
Carl Bickley
Pioneer Bank
RADIO
5Th and
Jefferson
Polly
Terlin
East Fourth and
Water St
Parsons Music House
Waterloo
The
Smith
And
Fox News
Inventor
Armory Hall
Jesse Stone
ST. John’s Church
Bazar
Bishop Cafetferia
Ellis Hotel
Waterloo - Des Moines
Plaza Frolics
Way Watts
His Melody Masters
Orpheum
Featuring
Skatelics
Gibson
Scott Chas
Brugge
Prevost
Kenneth Thompson
Doug Fairbanks, Jr
Rial
Alma Rubens
Walter Pidgeon
Harry Norton and
Robert Agnew
Salome
Chang
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