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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1925
Page
3
Ziegfeld's greatest musical comedy hit Sally starring Colleen Moore with Leon Barrol and Lloyd Hughes. The Strand offers admission at 25c and 40c, with the stars appearing in person after years of popular songs and fame.
The Night Ship comes to Strand Community theater on Sept 29 with a star lineup including Mary Carr Robert Gordon Margaret Fielding Tom Santechi Charles Sellon Willis Marka Charles Mack and Mary Frances McLain. The virile romance follows a woman who believes her fiancé lost at sea then reunites with her boyhood sweetheart in a dramatic tale of love and suspense.
Colleen Moore shifts from flapper roles to a motherly lead in So Big at Strand Community Theater starting Oct 1. She portrays Selina Peake De Jong with scenes as both a young mother and middle aged matriarch, supported by John Bowers, Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and a notable cast led by Ben Lyon as her son.
A romance filled drama titled Thief in Paradise will headline Strand Community Theater on Sunday October 4. The program promises vivid color terse drama and pictorial beauty in a big thrill experience for local audiences.
Frances Marion adapts Leonard Merrick's novel The Worldlings into a drama that follows a failed man who masquerades as another, aided by an Eurasian girlfriend who loves him. The tale moves through Hong Kong style seas to San Francisco Burlingame and Del Monte with lavish backgrounds, shark danger, and a sea floor fight. Ronald Coman stars as the masquerading Blake, with Doris Kenyon and Aileen Pringle in key roles.
Thunder the Marvel Dog headlines The Silent Pal showing at Strand Community theater on Tuesday October 6. The feature, directed by Henry McCarty, follows a dog who rescues a man from drowning saves a girl rider from a runaway horse and digs to his buried master amid a canyon rescue arc.
Norma Talmadge displays a wide range of roles in The Lady at Strand Community Theater. The film traces fashion and tech from 1900 to 1905 and ends at World War I France with London Marseilles Monaco Monte Carlo Paris and the French seacoast as backdrops. Wallace MacDonald leads opposite Norma.
Cowboys from rodeo seen in the Pathe race track serial Galloping Hoofs featuring Allene Ray and Johnnie Walker to be shown at the local theater. The short narrative features riders and rodeo action amid brisk, action filled sequences.
Mrs. Gertrude Seitz of La Belle Florida acted decisively when her husband took May Lawrence riding. She followed in another car, confronted the couple when the husband went to fetch water, handcuffed the affinity, and had her arrested in town.
The Strand in Garden City hosts a Madison Square appearance by Tex Austin’s rodeo hoofers led by Tony Pagani with nine cowboys for chapters two and three of Galloping Hoofs. Norma Talmadge stars in The Lady as a soubrette in a grand Gibson Girl era show with Eileen Pringle Doris Kenyon and Ronald Colman in a lavish World War I era set.
George Fitzmaurice, noted director, draws on undersea garden imagery for the action in his latest film A Thief in Paradise to be shown at Strand Community theater soon. The underwater visuals promise novel backgrounds for the narrative.
Adapted by Francis Merion from Leonard Merrick's The Worthings, the production opens with a pearl fisheries sequence on the China coast then moves to San Francisco Burlingame and Del Monte. A man poses as another in a bid to regain self respect and marries another woman. The play features pictorial effects exotic settings a polo game in swimsuits a sea undersea dance and a runaway horse scene culminating in a hand to hand fight.
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