Opera House

520 Whittier Street,
Whiting, IA 51063

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SethG
SethG on October 22, 2024 at 8:51 pm

I’m having the same problem with the Cahn Guide, although this town is so tiny it almost certainly wouldn’t be listed anyway.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 22, 2024 at 4:45 pm

An issue of Moving Picture World from between March and April, 1926 (I can’t be more specific right now because Internet Archive has been unavailable for much of the last couple of weeks, so all I’ve seen is a snippet from Google search results) has this line: “…Whiting, Opera House (250 seats), Whiting, Iowa, PARISIAN NIGHTS.” I suspect this line is from a capsule review of the 1925 Boris Karloff movie of that name.

The only theater listed at Whiting in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory is a house called the Cube Theatre, which I’ve been unable to find mentioned anywhere else on the Internet. No details are given for it.

SethG
SethG on October 20, 2024 at 2:56 pm

Thanks to Ken Roe for some dates on this one!