Donna at The Lindo, Freeport, IL – August 2-5, 1926

Donna in the News
by Don Taylor

“Donna in the News” is my reporting of newly found newspaper articles and advertisements regarding my grandmother, Madonna Montran (aka Donna Montran and Donna Darling). I am always excited to find a new venue for my grandmother’s exciting show business career of the 1910s and 1920s.

This week from the Freeport Journal (Freeport, Ill.) newspaper dated August 4, 1926, I learned that Donna played at the Lindo Theatre 

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Pages 5 and 14 of the paper had clippings showing the Donna Darling Revue was at the Lindo “Tonight and Tomorrow.” It looks like she may have been the only vaudeville show along with a 50-minute silent comedy thriller, “The Savage,” starring Ben Lyon and May McAvoy.

Further research showed she played at the Lindo on August 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th (See Donna Darling Collection – Part 44)

Endnotes

My thanks to Newspapers.Com for their making this clipping available.