Donna Darling Collection – Part 92

Treasure Chest Thursday
By Don Taylor

I’m looking at a clipping from the Donna Darling Collection for this week’s Treasure Chest Tuesday.

Donna Darling Clipping

The clipping shows the venue but not the date or the location.

Key Features of Ad:

1. The Venue: The Majestic Theater.
2. The show is the “Donna Darling Revue with Sammy Clark,” so we know it is 1926 or 1927.
3. The movie playing is “Camille of the Barbary Coast.”
4. Coming soon is “Orpheum Syncopation;” it starts Sunday.

Analysis

Clipping from The Gazette (Cedar Rapids. Iowa) – January 7, 1927, Page 6.

1. Although there are many Majestic Theaters, there were only a handful of theaters under the “Direction of Alexander Frank.”
   1. 1. • The Isis in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
         • The Orpheum in Des Moines, Iowa.[i]
         • The Plaza in Waterloo, Iowa.
         • The Majestic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Thanks to Newspapers.Com, a search for “Majestic and Donna” in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1926 or 1927 quickly yielded a display ad with all of the same information shown in Donna’s clipping.

Thanks to the January 1927 issues of Variety, I had already known Donna played:

• Dec 9-11, 1926 – Clinton, IA – Orpheum
• Jan 2-5, 1927 – Des Moine, IA – Orpheum
• Jan 6-8, 1927 – Cedar Rapids, IA – Majestic
• Jan 13-15, 1927 – Davenport, IA – Capitol
• Jan 16-19, 1927 – Clinton, IA – Orpheum
• Jan 24-26 – Kitchener, Ont. – Capitol
• Jan 27-29 – Brantford, Ont. – Temple

So, this ad confirms the show.

Conclusion

January 6-8, 1927 – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Majestic Theater – Donna Darling Revue with Sammy Clark – DDC-92.

Endnotes

[i] See Donna Darling Collection – Part 68