This Day in History: 1926-07-05
The week’s films, all silent of course, at the Lafayette Theatre in Suffern included Reginald Denny in “Rolling Home”, a comedy reported to contain no slap-stick, House Peters in “Combat” containing the “biggest forest fire ever filmed, and, by popular request, Dorothy and Lillian Gish in “Romula”, billed as the “greatest actresses of the screen in the most beautiful of all pictures. Lillian Gish’s supreme triumph”. Because of the Suffern fireworks on the 5th only one performance of “Combat” was scheduled, unless it rained. (Bristow)