Let's Go To the Wuerth

Let's go to the Martha tonight.

No, we always go there. What's playing at the Wuerth?

Let's see...a Charlie Chaplin picture, "A Woman of Paris."

Oh, he's funny. What's it about?

Hmm...it sounds like a melodrama. Not comedy.

That's odd. OK, let's try it. Their matinee is cheaper than at the Martha, anyways. Say, look at that picture. Is she...wearing anything?

--Ypsilanti Record ad, January 10, 1924

Wuerth Theater story in today's Courier...

...be sure to grab a paper copy (it's not online this week). The article and photos look great thanks to the Courier staff's usual wizardry. Thank you Courier folk!

UPDATE: Whoopsie, I was wrong. It IS online, sorry, I must have missed it. Buy a paper copy anyways so you can put my article in your Dusty Diary Articles Scrapbook. That thing's gonna be worth a fortune someday at Sotheby's.

Michigan Avenue's Blue and Gold Picture Palace

Enter under the glittering marquee to a cork lobby floor under two giant hanging lamps. Tickets secured, walk down the hall to the theater in the rear. Ooh, baroque blue and gold decorations. Look, leather-upholstered seats. It even has fancy-schmancy box seats, look, right over there. Wowie. Sshhh, the movie's about to start.

Ann Arbor clothing merchant J. F. Wuerth had done up his Ypsilanti theater in style! Read more in the Thursday Courier. In the meantime, see is you can puzzle out which movies were showing that day (click for larger image).