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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1924
Page
7
Wesley Barry stars in The Printer's Devil a Warner Brothers classic written for him by Julien Josephson. He plays Brick a modern printer's devil on a country newspaper doing reporter chief engineer janitor and utility work. The Strand theatre shows it Tuesday April 17.
A brief item noting the release of Fighting Blood priced at 10 cents and 35 cents, with the inclusion of transportation or additional content indicated by the abbreviation t incl.
The production features Wesley and a colorful cast including Harry Myers Katherine McGuire Louis King Ray Cannon George Pearce Mary Halter and Tarry Rottenberg supporting his fun loving propensities.
The Strand theatre will screen The Empty Cradle on Friday April 18. Star Mary Alden and Harry T. Morey headline a drama praised for its social and domestic themes, contrasting two hilltop families with humor interlaced in tense moments.
Colleen Moore stars as a lively western frontier heroine in The Huntress a romantic comedy drama about a mischievous white girl who kidnaps a bashful man from the city amid Northwest scenery and humorous peril. The film blends humor with pathos and swift action.
The Huntress exterior scenes were filmed in the Monterey Lake area of the California and Nevada high Sierras among Monolake district mountains and lakes. Lloyd Hughes stars opposite Russell Simpson and Walter Long in principal heavy roles. The locale, famed for its beauty, recalls Mark Twain’s Roughing It and had remained untapped by filmmakers until now.
Blanche Sweet is chosen for the title role in Thomas H. Ince’s production of Anna Christie to be shown at the Strand theatre. After a two year screen layoff, she returned in Quincy Adams Sawyer and was praised, prompting negotiations for the lead in Ince’s screen adaptation.
A society drama directed and produced by Edward Dillon features BE Lincoln in a tale of a cook’s daughter raised by a rich man, a scheming secretary, and two wills that secure a happy ending. It plays Strand Theatre next Tuesday April 15.
The Buick Motor Company reports strong demand for its new one reel film Right on the Job. At about fifteen minutes, it shows a 1924 Buick sale in Portland and a couple’s drive to San Francisco with demonstrations of power to go and stop. In San Francisco, Buick tests with the fire department and braking demos engage local interest. Prints circulate via Buick branches and distributors to schools and clubs nationwide. Meanwhile the Department of Interior,
The Buick three reel film detailing the building of Buick cars is praised as a leading demonstration of American quantity production of quality product. It is widely circulated by the government library of industrial pictures and distributed through the Bureau of Mines in Pittsburgh, with copies in many foreign countries and across the United States.
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