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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
8
Thursday July 29 features a travel and excitement serial, a Snub Pollard comedy, and a late Pathe News reel. The program promises light fare and brisk pacing with the featured film Prince accompanied by short entertainments.
A fragmentary notice notes an event on Saturday July 31st titled The Terror at Mix Star. Details are unreadable. Named entities are fragmentary and no clear organization or location is stated.
The famed screen daredevil Tom Mix, billed for a Saturday showing of The Terror at the Movie Theatre, aids a wounded crew member on location in the Sierra Nevada. He prevents gambling, tends the injured man at a hotel, and notes how interest can ease pain.
A noisy film week features Daredevil Jack a two reel comedy and A Fly on 7 Diptment plus Chicken Cabaret. In a western plot Sheriff Taylor battles the crooked Carrington over Marion’s fate, a gunfight ensues, Marion is carried off, Taylor is wounded, and the town rises to restore order with Taylor becoming sheriff and Marion accepting her father’s will.
In Dawes, Squint Taylor inherits a bequest from Larry Harlam to marry Marion Harlam. Taylor travels to Kansas City to meet the heiress, learns of two scheming companions, and then foils a train hold up while rescuing Marion from outlaw bandits.
A mixed cinema listing quotes titles like Love, Man and Wife, Sea Wolf, Treasure Island and Nazimova’s productions. Mentions Bert Lytell and Bert Lytell’s Nothing But The Truth. References the film “The Man Who Stayed” and “Why Change Your Wife” alongside Home.
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