The Oskaloosa Independent, March, 21, 1930
W. A. Payne has equipment ready for DeLuxe.
Hopes To Have Installation Completed by Saturday, the 29th, But Has Considerable Changing To Do. 
Oskaloosa will have talking pictures by Saturday, the 29th, provided installation troubles do not cause delay according to W.A. Payne, DeLuxe Theater owner. Mr. Payne has his “talking” equipment purchased and in his theater, ready to be put in.
Considerable changes must be made, however, in the building, before successful operation. A sound-proof booth for the machines must be built and the walls and stage lined. The talking-picture machines are on the vitaphone principle. Disks which correspond exactly with the film rotate, like a phonograph; and a fader cuts one machine in and the other out, as the film goes from one picture machine to the other. An electric pick-up sends the sound from the disks through an amplifier into a speaker which throws the sound into the theater.
There is only one way to get good results in talking pictures, Manager Payne says, and that is to try it out and correct the defects. Until the machines work to the satisfaction he will not start the talkies, but hopes to have things in readiness by next Saturday night.
NOTE: Apparently he did not get satisfactory progress as it appears the talkies opened in Oskaloosa on April 4, 1930, with “The Phantom in the House.” That was followed on April 11 with “The Rampant Age.”
