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Schedules for the Colonial Theatre in Monrovia, CA
October 1923 - April 1924
I couldn't find much/any information about
this theatre on the Net, except for other people looking for information about
it. What I've posted below are the front covers to Colonial Theatre
Programs, 1923-24. At the right of the image I've copied the entire
schedule for the week as included in the program. Each program measures
approximately 5-5/8" X 9" when closed (as shown) and 11" X 9" when opened.
4-pages, single sheet, printed on both sides and folded. Mid to heavy
stock paper. Just text inside, no additional images, but three of them did
come with a color insert (shown when included).
Note: There are several images
stacked on this page and it may take some time to load. I figured anyone who's
interested won't mind the time.
Most of the films are preceded by an Organ
Solo, News Events, and sometimes a short feature. When any additional
features are mentioned I have included them. When a star's name is bolded
that star is featured on the cover of the program. Enjoy your trip back in
time, even if you're not a collector!
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Week of Sunday, October
7, 1923 October 7, 8, 9:
Pola Negri in "The Cheat" a George Fitzmaurice production with Jack
Holt supported by Charles de Roche
October 10, 11:
"Spooks and Spirits" Monty Bank's Comedy followed by "The Man Next Door"
October 12, 13:
"The Midnight Alarm" with Alice Calhoun, Percy Marmont, Cullen Landis
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Week of Sunday, November
4, 1923 November 4, 5:
Baby Peggy in "Carmen Jr." followed by King Vidor's "3 Wise Fools: A Goldwyn
Picture.
November 6:
"Felix the Cat" Cartoon Comedy and then Enid Bennett in "Keeping Up With
Lizzie"
November 7:
"The Buster" with Dustin Farnum
November 8, 9, 10:
"When Summer Comes" a comedy, then "The Apostle of Joy" followed by Douglas
MacLean, World's Comedy Ace, in "Going Up"
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Week of Sunday, November
25, 1923 November 25, 26, 27:
Mabel Normand
in "The Extra Girl (A Story of Studio Life)"
November 28, 29: Thomas Meighan in "Woman-Proof"
November 30 - December 1:
Douglas Fairbanks Presents "The Three Musketeers"
In this production "Doug" has achieved the ambition of his life--and
registers with it, what is by all odds the great, outstanding success of his
career..."
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Week of Sunday, December
2, 1923 December 2, 3:
Constance Talmadge in "The Dangerous Maid"
December 4, 5:
Emory Johnson Presents "The Mail Man" with Ralph Lewis and the same cast as
"The Midnight Alarm"
December 6, 7, 8:
"Where the North Begins" featuring RIN-TIN-TIN the Dog Wonder
*Mariam Cooper
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Week of Sunday, December
9, 1923 December 9, 10, 11:
Thomas H. Ince's Masterpiece "Hats off to the Ladies" a James Cruze
production with Edward Horton, Theodore Roberts, Helen Jerome Eddy, Louise
Dresser
December 12, 13:
"Black Fire" followed by "Moters-In_Law" with Gaston Glass, Josef Swickard,
Ruth Clifford, Crauford Kent, Edith Yorke, Viola Vale
December 14:
The return of Humanzee in his greatest comedy "Snooky's Treasure Island"
followed by "Money, Money, Money!" with Katherine MacDonald
December 15:
Harry Carey in "Desert Driven"
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Week of Sunday, December
16, 1923 December 16, 17:
D.W. Griffith's Triumph of Cheerful Mystery "One Exciting Night"
December 18, 19, 20:
Pola Negri in a Herbert Brenon Production "The Spanish Dancer" with
Antonio Moreno
December 21, 22:
"Pioneer Trails" with Alice Calhoun and Cullen Landis
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Week of Sunday, December
23, 1923 December 23, 24:
"The Light That Failed" a George Melford Production with Jacqueline Logan,
Percy Marmont, Sigfrid Holmquist and David Torrence
December 25, 26, 27: "Hollywood" A James Cruze Picture
with just about the entire Paramount Stable!
December 28, 29:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in "Stephen Steps Out" with Theodore Roberts.
Here he is folks--Douglas Fairbanks Jr.--the new star in
his first picture. He's a reg'lar feller" with a winning smile, lots
o' pep and a personality you'll love. And he's a born actor. See him
step out to the tune of gay youth.
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Week of Sunday, December
30, 1923 December 30, 31:
"The Unknown Purple" with
Henry B. Walthall and Alice Lake
January 1, 2:
Elinor Glyn's "6 Days" a Picture of Passion with
Corinne Griffith and Frank
Mayo
January 3, 4, 5:
"One Terrible Day" an Our Gang comedy followed by
Harold Lloyd in
"Why Worry"
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Week of Sunday, January
13, 1924 January 13, 14, 15:
Larry Semon in "The Busher" followed by A Spanish Romance:
Mary Pickford in
"Rosita" with Holbrook Blinn
January 16, 17:
"The Counter Jumper" followed by "The Acquittal" with a tremendous cast,
featuring Claire Windsor, Norman Kerry, Barbara Bedford, Richard Travers
January 18, 19: A DOUBLE BILL:
Hal Roach Presents Will Rogers in "Jus Passin' Through: followed by
"Unseeing Eyes" with Lionel Barrymore, Seena Owen, Louis Wolheim
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Week of Sunday, January
20, 1924 January 20, 21, 22:
"Flaming Youth" with Colleen Moore and an All-Star Cast including Milton
Sills, Elliott Dexter, Slyvia Breamer, Ben Lyon, Myrtle Stedman
January 23:
The comedy "Winter Has Came" followed by the Emmett J. Flynn Production of
"In the Palace of the King" with
Blanche Sweet, Pauline Starke, Hobart
Bosworth, Edmund Lowe
January 24, 25, 26:
"The Virginian" with Kenneth Harlan, Florence Vidor, Russell Simpson,
Raymond Hatton, Pat O'Malley
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Week of Sunday, January
27, 1924 January 27, 28, 29:
"Where is My Wandering Boy This Eve" a Ben Turpin comedy followed by Barney
Barnard and Alex Carr as Abe and Mawruss in "Potash and Perlmutter"
January 30, 31:
George Arliss in "Green Goddess" with Alice Joyce, David Powell, Harry T.
Morey
February 1, 2:
"The Huntress" featuring
Colleen Moore supported by Lloyd Hughes,
Russell Simpson, Walter Long, Chas. E. Anderson
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Week of Sunday, February
3, 1924 February 3, 4, 5:
Norma Talmadge in her most Majestic Masterpiece "Ashes of Vengeance"
with Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Courtenay Foote
February 6, 7:
"Slave of Desire" with George Walsh, Bessie Love, Carmel Myers
February 8, 9:
Part 2 of "Fighting Blood" followed by an George Melford Production "Flaming
Barriers" with Jacqueline Logan, Antonio Moreno, Walter Hiers
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Week of Sunday, February
10, 1924 February 10, 11, 12:
"Skylarking" A Mack Sennett Comedy followed by Charles Chaplin presents "A
Woman of Paris" featuring Edna Purviance
February 13, 14:
Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy, Lewis Stone in"The Stranger"
February 15, 16:
Zane Grey's "The Call of the Canyon" with Richard Dix, Louis Wilson,
Marjorie Daw
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Week of Sunday, February
17, 1924 February 17, 18, 19:
"Black Oxen" with Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle
February 20, 21:
"Temporary Marriage" with Kenneth Harland and Mildred Davis, supported by
Myrtle Stedman, Tully Marshall, Stuart Holmes, Maude George
February 22, 23:
Part 2 of "Fighting Blood" followed by
William S. Hart in "Wild Bill
Hickok"
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Week of Sunday, February
24, 1924 February 24, 25, 26: Two for One
Price!
Will Rogers in "Two Wagons - Both Covered" and Kate Jordan's "The Next
Corner" with Conway Tearle, Dorothy Mackaill,
Lon Chaney, Ricardo
Cortex, Louise Dresser
February 27, 28:
"His Children's Children" with Bebe Daniels, Dorothy Mackaill, James
Rennie, George Fawcett
February 29, March 1:
Mack Sennett's "Down to the Sea in Shoes" followed by "When a Man's a Man"
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Week of Sunday, March 2,
1924 March 2, 3:
"Midnight Cabaret" a comedy followed by
Richard Barthelmess in "21"
March 4, 5:
"Don't Call It Love" with Agnes Ayres, Jack Holt,
Nita Naldi, Theodore
Kosloff, Rod La Rocque
March 6, 7, 8:
Part 3 of "Fighting Blood" followed by "Big Brother" with Tom Moore,
Raymond Hatton, Edith Roberts, Mickey Bennett
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Week of Sunday, March 9,
1924 March 9, 10, 11:
Thomas Meighan in "Pied Piper Malone" with Lois Wilson, George
Fawcett
March 12: Thomas H. Ince Presents Douglas MacLean with
Raymond Hatton, Marguerite de la Motte in "Man of Action"
March 13, 14, 15:
Zane Grey's "The Heritage of the Desert" an Irvin Willat Production with
Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, Noah Beery, Lloyd Hughes
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Week of Sunday, March 16,
1924 March 16, 17, 18:
Will Rogers in "A Cowboy Sheik" followed by "The Eternal City" with
Lionel
Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell, Montagu Love, Richard Bennett and
20,000 Others!
March 19, 20:
Glenn Hunter in "West of the Water Tower" with Ernest Torrence & May McAvoy
March 21, 22:
Part 3 of "Fighting Blood" followed by Reginald Denny in a dazzling
story of the younger set "Sporting Youth"
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Week of Sunday, March 23,
1924
March 23, 24, 25: Gloria Swanson in "The Humming Bird"
March 26: Katherine McDonald in "Refuge"
March 27, 28, 29: "The Cobbler" and Our Gang Comedy
followed by STRONGHEART 'The Wonder Dog' in "The Love Master"
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Week of Sunday, March 30,
1924 March 30, 31:
"Lilies of the Field" with
Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle
April 1, 2:
"Always Late" with Monty Banks followed by "Painted People" with
Colleen
Moore "The Flaming Youth Girl" supported by
Anna Q. Nilsson, June Elvidge,
Mary Alden, Mary Carr, Charles Murray, Russell Simpson and Bull Montana
April 3, 4, 5:
The Dippy Doo-Dads in "Stepping Out", next Part 4 of the "Fighting Blood"
series, followed by Douglas MacLean in "Yankee Consul"
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Week of Sunday, April 6,
1924 April 6, 7:
The Val Jeans "That Versatile Duo" Presenting "A Night in the Argentine:
followed by main feature "Her Temporary Husband" with Owen Moore, Sidney
Chaplin, Sylvia Breamer
April 8:
Cartoon comedy "Felix the Cat" and "Sharazad"
April 9, 10:
"Why Men Leave Home" with Lewis B. Stone, Helen Chadwick, Mary Carr
April 11, 12:
"Flowing Gold" with Anna Q. Nilsson and Milton Sills |
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