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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1924
Page
4
Sheila Russell, heroine of Thomas H. Ince's drama, confronts a husband who forbids her career ambitions after marriage. The film explores love versus ambition as Jim Russell seeks to control her path, delivering a strong, virile tale of a primitive couple. The picture arrives at Strand Theatre on Sunday January 13.
Dorothy Phillips stars as a wild sea girl in Hurricane's Gal a First National attraction at the Strand next Saturday January 12. Hydroplanes destroyers and a three masted schooner play key roles with sea action directed from a hydroplane via radio.
The Little Church Around the Corner Warner Brothers film shown at the Strand Thursday features a stage melodrama by Charles Blaney. It depicts David Graham torn between his call to help the poor and his love for Leila Morton. The cast includes Claire Windsor Kenneth Harlan Hobart Bosworth Walter Long Alec Francis Pauline Stark and others.
A man struggles between reform and vice as he confronts his own beliefs about Morton the mine owner. His flight ends in a return to his birthplace where a catastrophic mine disaster endangers scores of miners, altering lives and exposing hypocrisy.
Katherine MacDonald stars in Refuge at the Strand Theatre on Saturday January 19. The Moravian adventure follows three weary soldiers in search of peace who meet a fast driving touring car carrying Countess Nadia. Strong performances by Hugh Thompson Eric Mayne Arthur Edmund Carewe and Grace Morse accompany sharp direction by Victor Schetzinger and B I Schulberg.
Strand Theatre presents Bright Lights of Broadway on January 22. The Zeidman production stars Lowell Sherman Doris Kenyon Harrison Ford with Edmund Breese Tyrone Power Effie Shannon and Charles Murray. Cabaret numbers feature the 16 Tiller Girls and Beauty Chorus from the Hippodrome. The plot traces a young girl’s dream of Broadway amid Green Vale and New York’s glittering lights.
The film What a Wife Learned by Thomas H. Ince and writer Bradley King presents a marriage centered drama exploring love, home, and gender roles. It screens at the Strand Community Theatre on Sunday January 13 with emphasis on enduring human drama over vamp or cave man tropes.
The piece discusses a rountee promising appeal to women worldwide from Oriental to Western emancipation and questions marriage as a remedy for divorce and low birthrates. It notes John Bowers as Jim Russell and Marguerite de la Motte as a cultured modern woman with Milton Sills as Martin in an era of changing domestic ideals.
Actor MacLean proves talent beyond aristocrats in Bell Boy 18 playing Shorty the bell hop. The comedy set in a San Francisco hotel follows a rich family member’s humorous clash with the bellhop. The Strand screening on Tuesday January 15 promises laughs thrills and a light romantic thread with a witty finale.
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