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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1920
Page
7
The Ilo Ilo screens Ray Chambers tale Even as Eye a film adaptation of The Shining Band about a dangerous fanatical sect led by a greedy false prophet. Eileen O Hara faces coercion and danger from the group while two young lovers seek freedom amid club scenes and climactic clubhouse conflict.
In Search of a Sinner, Constance Talmadge’s Emerson Loos film, plays at the Ilo Ilo on Tuesday evening. Georgina Chadbourne, a twenty-year-old widow, has grown tired of a saintly husband and seeks zestful companionship to lift her dull life.
Keenan stars in Gates of Brass the second in a notable series shown Thursday on the big bill with Harold Lloyd and The Black Secret. A dramatic love story of a father and daughter, its tragedy follows Jim Blake from shell-work to promoter as punishment for greed, ending in a luminous, somber finale. Onions cure indigestion though no cure for onions exists. Some men create chances for others.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips: soldiers back from a near blast in World War I, a photographer’s exchange about photographing children, a fish advert joke, a London building note with McMIV, a minister misreading a gospel text, a four year old’s heaven answer, a mock courtroom moment, and police banter about a girl in a car.
The piece notes widespread unrest over wages across Australia and in the Northern Territory. It recounts Lindsay’s retelling of a migrant Chinese trader’s observation about economic change from the 1870s to the present, contrasting low wages with abundance and dissatisfaction, and ends with a domestic quip about a husband and wife shopping.
A rural church scene features Presiding Elder admonishing a boy with heaven talk while Bear Cat Johnson from Rumpus Ridge retorts with a quip about a dime, highlighting local voices and modest frontier humor.
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