Duke Ellington’s orchestra played here several times:
Sunday November 10 1957
Sunday, August 20 1961. (contract signed with Mr. Dan Belloc, and the contract shows the venue as Holiday Club Ballroom in the contract.)
Sunday September 30, 1962
Sunday May 31, 1964
The photo was likely taken around March 20 1929 when Anna Q. Nilsson’s picture “Blockade” appeared. The March 20, 1929 Indianapolis News carried an ad for ‘6 Big Vaudeville Acts, FEATURING JIMMY ALLARD AND COMPANY IN “JOURNEY’S END” A Sensational Laugh Hit" “On the Screen BLOCKADE With Anna Q. Nilsson”
The ad carries a small plug in its banner saying “where the crowds go” and it gives the theatre hours as 12:30 to 11.
The June 14 1929 Reading (Penn.) Times says the picture was a thrilling melodrama of the secret service, staged on the high seas and featured talking, music and sound effects. Typically, theatres in the 1920s and 1930s featured both live vaudeville and a film, and that is the case here.
According to the March 16 1932 Altoona Tribune, Anna Querentia Nilsson’s career began in one and two reel comedies for the Kalem company 20 years previously. She was in “countless” films, but mainly remembered for the 1923 “Panjola.” She broke her hip and returned to Sweden, and seems to have been trying to make a comeback in 1932.
The Ada Evening News of June 13 and June 14 1934 carried ads for this theatre. No address is shown, but just under the theatre name they say “Home Owned – Home Operated.”
The movie was a Paramount picture, “Hell and High Water,” starring Richard Arlen and Judith Allen.
“Added entertainment, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.” Ellington was available due to a cancelled week in Denver, and his stage show likely included some vaudeville.
Duke Ellington’s orchestra played here several times: Sunday November 10 1957 Sunday, August 20 1961. (contract signed with Mr. Dan Belloc, and the contract shows the venue as Holiday Club Ballroom in the contract.) Sunday September 30, 1962 Sunday May 31, 1964
Hmm. I should have used Google more effectively. I found the same picture on Scotty Moore’s web page, where he dates it March 23, 1929.
The photo was likely taken around March 20 1929 when Anna Q. Nilsson’s picture “Blockade” appeared. The March 20, 1929 Indianapolis News carried an ad for ‘6 Big Vaudeville Acts, FEATURING JIMMY ALLARD AND COMPANY IN “JOURNEY’S END” A Sensational Laugh Hit" “On the Screen BLOCKADE With Anna Q. Nilsson”
The ad carries a small plug in its banner saying “where the crowds go” and it gives the theatre hours as 12:30 to 11.
The June 14 1929 Reading (Penn.) Times says the picture was a thrilling melodrama of the secret service, staged on the high seas and featured talking, music and sound effects. Typically, theatres in the 1920s and 1930s featured both live vaudeville and a film, and that is the case here.
According to the March 16 1932 Altoona Tribune, Anna Querentia Nilsson’s career began in one and two reel comedies for the Kalem company 20 years previously. She was in “countless” films, but mainly remembered for the 1923 “Panjola.” She broke her hip and returned to Sweden, and seems to have been trying to make a comeback in 1932.
The Ada Evening News of June 13 and June 14 1934 carried ads for this theatre. No address is shown, but just under the theatre name they say “Home Owned – Home Operated.”
The movie was a Paramount picture, “Hell and High Water,” starring Richard Arlen and Judith Allen.
“Added entertainment, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.” Ellington was available due to a cancelled week in Denver, and his stage show likely included some vaudeville.