Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1922)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture news booking guide
Date:
Oct 1922
Publisher:
New York : Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1922)
Leaf #:
00039
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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BOOKING GUIDE 39 IN THE NIGHT. Produced by Hollandia Film. Distributed by. Producers Security Corp. Released Aug. 25, 1922. With Adelqui Millar, Gladys Jennings and Hayford Hobbs. Director, Frankland Richardson. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Domestic drama, dealing with eminent lawyer who neglects wife to pay court to popular actress. Meanwhile, his wife's friendship with young man ripens into love. After visit of young man, $40,000 is found missing. To protect the wife, he signs confession. He borrows money to make good loss, when mysterious stranger appears and returns missing notes. Then, under threat of exposing affair with actress, he forces lawyer to destroy false confession and to leave wife free to find love. Advertising: Page 240, July 15, 1922. IRON TO GOLD. Produced and distributed by Fox. Released, Mar. 12, 1922. Star, Dustin Farnum. Director, Bernard Durning. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Western in characterization, plot and locale with hero being hounded by the law and forced to seek safety. He is made to appear as a murderer and outlaw. The heroine is abducted by two genuine outlaws, but is rescued by the hero. This results in a warm friendship which culminates in romance when she saves him from his enemies and nurses him back to health. The heroine's vicious husband is killed. References: Reviewed issue March 25, 1922, page 1769. First run showings, pg. 1749, Mar. 25; 2073, Apr. 8; 2fr22, Apr. 22; 2566, May 6; 2684-5, May 13; 3131, June 10, 1922. Advertising: Pages 1451, Mar. 11; 1570, Mar. 18, 1922. Lobby Displays: Page 2951, May 27, 1922. ISLAND WIVES. Produced and distributed by Vitagraph. Released March 12, 1922. Star, Corinne Griffith. Director, Webster Campbell. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Romantic adventure story of the South Seas. Plot based upon a girl's disillusionment. Discontented with life in Tahiti, Elsa Morton longs for civilization. A tropical storm brings about the wish and the girl is carried to San Francisco by a wealthy owner of a yacht. She accompanies him through the belief that her husband is drowned. He induces her to marry him, but afterwards informs her that the marriage is illegal because it was performed within the three mile limit. She returns to the South Seas and finds her husband and he becomes convinced of her faithfulness. References: Reviewed issue April 1, 1922, page 1954. First run showings, pg. 1621, March 18; 3046, June 3; 3235, June 17; 873, Aug. 19. 1922. Lobby Displays: Page 171, July 8, 1922. Newspaper Displays: Page 2438, April 29, 1922. ISLE OF ZORDA, THE. Produced by Louis Nalpas. Distributed by Pathe. Released March 26, 1922. Featuring Romuald Joube and Yvette Andreyor. Director, Henri Fescourt. Length, 9 reels. Synopsis: Adventurous melodrama based on Jules Verne's novel, " Mathias Sandorf." Enacted by a French cast against a shifting panorama of European scenery. Scenes of Monte Carlo, its Casino, and others of the slave market in Northern Africa, among the highlights. Adventurer gets possession of a secret code and co-operates with unscrupulous banker with whom he gets position as secretary to wealthy man. He decodes the message and discovers plot against the government. The three are imprisoned, but rich man escapes. Years later the wealthy man appears in the Orient. He inherits the Isle of Zorda from man he cures of disease. After adventurous experiences he wreaks vengeance on conspirators and finds happiness with his daughter and lover on the Isle of Zorda. References: Reviewed issue March 25, 1922, page 1756. First run showings, pg. 2193, Apr. 15; 2563, 2565, May 6; 512, July 29, 1922. Advertising: Pages 1310-11, Mar. 4; 1443-4-5-6, Mar. 11; 2089-90, Apr. 8; 2961, May 27; Insert, Aug. 19, 1922. Lobby Displays: Page 719, Aug. 12, 1922. Exploitation: Pages 629, Aug. 5; 1013, Aug. 26, 1922. Newspaper Displays: Page 3129, June 10, 1922. IS MATRIMONY A FAILURE? Produced by Famous Players-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released April 30, 1922. With T. Roy Barnes, Lila Lee, Lois Wilson and Walter Hlers. Director, James Cruze. Length, 5,612 feet. Synopsis: Yonng couple elope but are refused admittance at the hotel when a rejected suitor precedes them and spreads the rumor that they are not married. On their return home they are told the assistant Justice of the Peace had no authority to perform the ceremony. Several other couples who had been married by him decide they are not legally married and the husbands seize the opportunity to leave their wives. Eventually, the husbands tire of their " freedom " and return home. It is discovered that the ceremonies were legal.