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Wakefield Advocate

Location

Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1923

Page

8

East Side West Side at Strand Theatre in Dec 18

Irving Cummings directs East Side West Side a vivid slice of life set in New York City with Eileen Percy and Kenneth Harlan. The plot follows a East Side girl with strong ideals and a West Side youth whose romance tests family ambition and social divides.

East Side West Side Strand Theatre Leighton Osman Henry Hull New York City Babylon Eileen Percy Kenneth Harlan

Vanity Fair at the Strand Theatre December 13

Van ity Fair starring Mabel Ballin opens at the Strand next Thursday December 13. The film, a Goldwyn picturization of Thackeray with Beck y Sharp role for Ballin, features Tobit Bosworth Flennor Boardman Earle Poxe George Walsh Harrison Ford and others in a large starry cast.

Tingo Ballin Mabel Ballin Strand Theatre Thackeray Vanity Fair Miss Ballin Becky ‘Sharp Miss Fallin Tobit Bosworth Flennor Boardman Earle Poxe George Walsh Harrison Ford Willard Louis Robert Mack

Early Hollywood luck ends in lead roles for Ethel Shannon

Ethel Shannon recalls a casual telephone call that changed her path from a hopeful musician to a film star. In Hollywood days, a friend invited her to be an extra, leading to a brief studio stint and soon a lead role with Bert Lytell. She notes the career was not all easy money, with months of crowd scenes and mob atmosphere before her breakthrough with Charlie Ray.

Ethel Shannon Miss Shannon Glasnier Strand Theatre Los Angeles B. P. Schulberg Productions Hollywood Bert Lytell Charlie Ray

Two Popular Players Win Honors in New Picture

Buddy Messinger and Hayden Stevenson receive top recognition in Jewel’s Trifling With Honor, to be shown at Strand Theatre on December 17. Messinger, praised by a US army officer as an ideal American boy, stars as the mischievous youth in The Flirt and the dandy in The Abyssl Brute, nearly stealing scenes from the leads. The article previews how Buddy asserts his hero’s lead in the film and hints at the plot around a game and crooks.

Buddy Messinger Hayden Stevenson Strand Theatre Buddy Universal City

Trifing With Honor preview in Bat Shugrue tale

A twelve year old pleads for Bat Shugrue to win for the millions of kids who root for him. Bat Cruz is revealed as an escaped convict using baseball to earn money while a reporter crafts a sensational tale of his early life, prompting a moral overhaul. The film stars Buddy Messinger Stevenson and Rockline Fellowes with Fritzi Ridgeway, adapted from Collier's Weekly fiction by William Slavens McNutt.

Buddy Bat Shugrue Bat Crooks Buddy Messinger Stevenson Jimmy Rockline Fellowes Bat Shugroe Honor Fritzi Ridgeway Collier's Weekly William Slavens Mc Nutt

Realism the Keynote of Big Motion Picture

Emory Johnson promotes realism as essential to Westbound Limited. He says authentic railroad scenes relied on cooperation of real rail workers who supervised every detail from switches to crashes. Also recruiting ad seeks male, female or student sales agents for Watkins Products in Wakefield and nearby cities.

Emory Johnson Strand Theatre Westbound Limited Watkins Wakefield J. R. Watkins Co Winona Minn

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Life At Sea rTen Carter de Thiven Community Theatre Tours Beck Sharp Husego Ballin Vane Eng Edith Yorke Screenp Miss Yorke B. P. Schulberg Mothers IN - Law Dae Gasnier Frank Casey Agnes Chrtedine Olga Prinston A Universal Rockliffe Fellows Fritzi Ridgway Directed Harry Pollard Story Slavens Menuty Strand Community
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