FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929 | HI: 39° LOW: 32°

Elmer came down about 7 P.M. & took me to a show. We went to the Aldine to see “Abie’s Irish Rose.” It was pretty good, but not what I expected. I had read the story & I was rather disappointed. After the show we walked down Chestnut Street & looked in the windows. He wouldn’t buy me anything to eat & I was wild.

Two days ago, Elmer was very nearly a full-blown pest. Today he dropped by and you go to a show with him? The Aldine, now we can start a map of some kind. We know where home is and now where Ethel and Elmer were sitting while watching Abie’s Irish Rose at 7 P.M. on Friday night, January 4, 1929. Starring 25-year-old Nancy Carroll (see Imdb), in what was called at that time a “part talkie,“ and it ran however long “12 film reels“ is, which looks like depends on, duh, frames per second and length in feet.

OK, so WILD? She was mad. He wouldn’t buy her food and she got very angry. I wonder, did he ask her if she wanted food? Or is it that, in the early 1900s, a woman had to hope it was offered, because she shouldn’t ask?

The photo up top, by the way, is Chestnut Street now. The Aldine is now a CVS pharmacy and is the building with the red awnings on the left , before the light.

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Image Credits: Some rights reserved. “At the Racetrack Nancy Carroll photo – photo 5 of 12,” clamshack.