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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1924
Page
2
Betty Blythe, hailed as the best looking and best dressed star on the screen, headlines the Strand showing Sinner or Saint on July 21. The modern tale echoes the ancient Thais story with a saintly conversion and a love triangle involving Mile Liris, a famed Portuguese fortune teller, and a philanthropist.
Medievally themed torture scene features Richard Barthelmess as Karl Van Kerstenbroeck a Polish mercenary famed for dueling. He travels to Ruxshind to avenge his sister and aligns with Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads against Charles I and the Cavaliers as events unfold.
Sunday July 27 screening features a powerful scene of heavy wrist restraints and wedges driven between the youth’s wrists as two days of torment precede execution. The film depicts how pain fuels resistance, with Dorothea Mackaill opposite Barthelmess and a cast including Erick Burton Morgan Wallace Baker Parker Stuart Sa Allyn King in a historical romance.
Johnny Hines dubbed the George Cohan of the screen headlines the Community Theatre Sunday July showing of Little Johnny Jones. The Broadway turf drama follows jockey Johnny Jones facing a gangsters plot to fix the Derby while he fights to prove his innocence and win back his romance, with Anstead as gambler and horseman opposing him.
The piece cites Hygela and the Jewish Journal claiming Mah jong dermatitis is a new skin irritant linked to lacquer used on mah jong tiles. It describes cases affecting 4-Foot-Stop traffic and notes a police incident involving Jacob Starr, a nineteen year old described as four feet tall, cited in traffic court with Patrolman Andrew Geyer.
The Clark Oldfield Co. brings vaudeville to the sul Community Theatre on Tuesday July 22 with Six Royal Hawaiians as headliners. Hawaii master musicians singers and dancers appear, along with Violette in Vision D Art. Clark hits and Frankie Drew present a singing and talking act, and Harmony Quartette completes a high class vaudeville program paired with a feature film.
Duke R Lee famous horseman actor portrays Black Murdock in Universal’s Fast Steppers. Billy Sullivan stars under Edward Laemmle direction at Strand Theatre, with Lee’s racing past highlighted as essential contrast to the crooked stable owner role. Memphis gifts by Mrs Grace Rainey Rogers, and a Fox hunting camp study note.
Luis Firpo era silent film shown at Strand Community Theatre on Monday July 21 featuring the Betty Blythe feature Sinner or Saint. The program paired boxing era images with the dramatic film in a special presentation.
A columnist argues that modern business must secure repeat customers by full satisfaction and courteous service. He cites the slogan Che shando and Ohio uses, warns against rude treatment of clerks, and urges public civility toward retailers and railroads. The piece also notes signs promoting road safety and sensible driving to reduce accidents.
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