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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1924
Page
4
First National film adaptation of Warner Fabian story opens at Strand on March. It portrays the recklessness of youth in contemporary circles and follows the youngest daughter of a pleasure-seeking family through a string of love affairs. The picture offers a cautionary view of modern romance and social conventions.
Colleen Moore delivers a commendable performance as Patricia Fenstriss the youngest daughter who loses her clothes until she meets her mother's former sweetheart. The supporting cast includes Milton Sills Elliott Dexter Myrtle Stedman Sylvia Breamer Betty Francisco Phillip Smally Walter McGrail and Ben Lyon.
Next week's Strand program features Katherine MacDonald in Money Money Money a dramatic melodrama set in a small mid western town The plot centers on Priscilla Hobbs daughter of a modest manufacturer whose social position is tested by Caroline Carter The town banker and a Chicago bidder Gray figure in the unfolding drama as fortunes and motives unfold through a tale of love and social aspiration.
Margarite de la Motte, lead in Wandering Daughters at the Strand, rose from a fifteen year old dancer in Graman's Theatre Los Angeles four years ago to film fame. An audience included Douglas Fairbanks who met her after the show and inquired about a lead role she could fill.
A young dancer urged to “dance then T have a par for you” lands a film trial the next day. She proves quickly, earning a significant role in Arizona within a month, then enjoying smooth progress in her acting career with Fairbanks praising her talent.
Mystery and comedy blend in Thomas H. Ince s new screening pairing Douglas MacLean as Trace MacAllister in a fast paced tale of diamonds deception and danger. Hidden panels and secret exits heighten the action as a fiancé forces the hero to live life fully with Bungling gangsters and a mistaken master crook driving the thrills. Raymon Hatton and Marguerite de la Motte co star in an amusing caper with a lively ensemble.
As a child Buster Keaton faced harsh tactics by his father while touring with The Three Keatons. He recounts being thrown and dropped on stage, yet claims he was never bruised. Protest letters to theatres led to state officials testing him, but no bones were found. Keaton later completed Day Dreams to be shown at the Strand on Feb 28.
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