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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1926
Page
10
A young Irish sailor making good after a rough start finds success in film and theater. He transitions from hardship to steady work, gaining recognition in a world of stage and screen during a busy entertainment season.
Today shows multiple film offerings across venues including Mayers in My Son at the Park Theater, Love Pirates at Lyceum Believe Me Jimmy, Ella Cinders with Colleen Moore at Alhambra, Lorraine of the Lions at Mozart with Norman Kerry, Silence at the Strand starring Tl B Warner and Vera Reynolds, Partners Again with George Sidney and Miss Alexander Carr at Valentine, plus a Greenwich Village dance at Moonlight Ballroom and concerts at Meyers Lake Park.
Gardner James, the Irish character actor, recalls his rise from dockside poverty to stardom after signing on as a coal hand bound for Los Angeles. He was chosen from 200 applicants for the juvenile role of Lord Rollo in The Happy Warrior and has since appeared in eight films, most recently The Amateur Gentleman with Richard Barthelmess. James spent years as a child actor with a Shuts contract and once circled the world twice as crew before finding screen success.
Press note announces MOONTIGHT BALLROOM starting tonight and continuing all week with Fred Damon and his Greenwich Villagers, a well known dance band, providing social dance music.
George Sidney, famed for his stage Abe Potash portrayal, continues in the role in Partners Again at the Valentine venue. His standout impersonation of Jewish types has kept him prominent in early screen adaptations of Potash and Perl mutter.
Moonlight Ballroom remains a hotspot for Canton dance hall patrons and the big playground is open daily with all features active. The bathing beach opens with no admission charge and the picnic season begins next Saturday with the National Brotherhood of Operatives frolicking at the playground. The Alhambra screens Ella Cinders Colleen Moore’s latest First National comedy drama about a swindler sponsored contest and a Hillywood trip.
The excerpt previews Miss Moore and Lloyd Hughes in a city crowded with beauties and entry fee driven crowds. It highlights the Valentine theater program featuring a humorous Partners Again adaptation and the Potash and Perlmutter likenesses.
The Strand opens the Rupert Julian film Silence featuring Vera Reynolds H B Warner Raymond Hatton Rockliffe Fellowes Jack Muthall and Virginia Pearson. The story follows a gentlemen crook torn between love and crime as a daughter remains unaware of his secret and a murder trial leads to a death sentence and a gripping climax.
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