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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1923
Page
2
The Strand theatre will screen Booth Tarkington's The Flirt, a tale of life and consequences as seen in the popular novel. The film adaptation promises sharp wit and moral insight, with Cora Madison at its center and a wide audience familiar with the classic tale.
After a year of illness Bonner returns to film in April Showers, a story of an Irish American tenement in New York City. Director Tom Forman cast her as a poor girl with refined features, the production praised for its human, absorbing portrayal of life in the slums and the boxing world.
An all star cast led by Farle Williams Alice Calhoun Cullen Landis and Wanda Hawley stars in Masters of Men a sea adventure from Morgan Robertson. The brutal school a sailing vessel tests a boy into manhood with Earle Williams as mentor and Cullen Landis as the hot headed youth. Dick Sutherland Charles E Mason Bert Apling Jack Curtis and Martin Turner also appear.
Mary Philbin dons a little flat sailor hat with jaunty angles as director Rupert Julian reshapes its placement for effect. She plays the organ grinder role again and teases her look for the Strand and Merry Go Round.
A toned down reform tale titled The Town Scandal stars Gladys Walton and opens December 6. Director King Bag got helms the production adapted by Hugh Hoffman from Frederick Arnold Kummer’s Cosmopolitan story The Chicken that Came Home to Roost. A pretty small town girl seeks work and faces social pressure in this melodrama.
A chorus girl rises to queen of the chorus in a Broadway revue and becomes its chief draw. Back home in New York she receives praise yet faces scorn from Purity League matrons who label her immoral. When they learn their husbands’ ties to city interests they flood the town with rolling pins orders.
Emory Johnson promotes Westbound Limited at Strand Theatre on Saturday December & emphasizes strict realism. He recounts consulting multiple railroad workers to supervise all railroad scenes from switching to near collisions to ensure authentic depiction and technical accuracy. He notes the film portrays real life and trials of railroad men and New York tenement family life on the lower East Side.
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel The Flame of Life is adapted for the screen and shown at the Strand Theatre on Tuesday December 4. The cast features Miss Dean with Robert Ellis Wallace Beery Kathryn McGuire and Beatrice Burnham in principal roles.
A vivid sea tale shows on the Strand next Sunday headed by Earle Williams Alice Calhoun Cullen Landis and Wanda Hale. The story follows Dick Halpin an orphan who takes the blame for theft to spare his lover's shame then joins the navy and endures life at sea aboard the Mary Earl.
A well chosen cast of Irish actors elevates the Picture story April Showers shown at Strand Theatre on Sunday December 2. Director Tom Forman links his roots to Old Erin and Colleen Moore stars with Kenseth Irlan and Ruth Chord also in the lineup. Fight scene supervisor Kid McCoy, once a world champion, adds authentic Irish flavor to this tale set in a fervent Irish community.
Suoday Services include Sunday School at 10:00 for children. Morning Worship on the home theme with scripture about eternal dwelling in heaven. Evening Worship features The Gospel of Christ. Midweek prayer meets Wednesday at 8:00. Pastor W. M. Hughes invites all to attend and enjoy the services. Man and woman wanted for hosiery sales at GUARANTEED MILLS in Norristown, PA.
Mrs. Mike Grasso, an early Wakefield resident, died Saturday morning at the Brotherton Mine after months of ill health. Born in It ay 58 years ago, she arrived in the United States with her family in 1894, lived in Pennsylvania and Mellen before settling in this city in 1902. Funeral services were held Monday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with many attending to honor her memory. Survived by husband and three children, Mrs. Jerome Sala, Mrs. Joseph Sala, and Emil Grasso, all of Wakefield. Visitors William Gilbert, Sam Ellis, and William Rocha were in town.
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