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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
hand and all in it but Godiva, warned by the jester, escapes and is reunited with her avowed lover, who escapes the headman. Famous ride scene one of the highlights.
References: Reviewed issue March 25, 1922, page 1755. First run showings, pg. 2833, May 20; 619, Aug. 5, 1922.
Advertising: Pages 1568-9, Mar. 18; 2508, May 6, 1922. Lobby Displays: Page 3040, June 3, 1922.
LIGHTS OF THE DESERT. Produced and distributed by Fox. Released June 11, 1922. Star, Shirley Mason. Director, Harry Beaumont. Length, 5 reels.
Synopsis: Comedy-drama; scenes are set in and near a desert town of Nevada. Has double love interest. Deals with the social trials of a young actress in small western town where her company has been stranded. Local man comes to their assistance and asks girl to remain and become his wife. While considering she meets a man she had known in balmier days, who controls local oil company. First man's attentions incite the town gossips. Town bully excites labor troubles and endangers her friend's life. She realizes she loves him. Local man returns to country sweetheart. Ends with double wedding plans under way.
References: Reviewed issue June 24, 1922, page 3361. First run showings, pg. 1137, Sept. 2; 1187, Sept. 23, 1922.
Advertising: Page 3098, June 10, 1922.
Newspaper Displays: Page 1006, Aug. 26, 1922.
LOADED DOOR, THE. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released Aug. 14, 1922. Star, Hoot Gibson. Director, Harry A. Pollard. Length, 4,430 feet.
Synopsis: A Western melodrama. Much riding, free for all fighting and some mysterious shooting. The story is of a self-appointed revenue officer who decides to clean up the traffic in whiskey and narcotics that is being carried on by a band of smugglers along the Mexican border. Cowboy returns to his ranch to find his foreman dead and the place leased to a crowd of smugglers. His sweetheart warns him of her suspicion. The smugglers decide to "get" the hero. New boss plans to abduct the heroine. Hero learning of plot rides to the rescue. Her brother is freed of false murder charge when smugglers are rounded up.
References: Reviewed issue Aug. 19, 1922, page 918. First run showings, page 1007, Aug. 26, 1922.
LONESOME CORNERS. Produced by Edgar Jones. Distributed by Playgoers throuph Pathe. Released April 23, 1922. Featuring Edgar Jones and Edna May Sperl. Director, Edgar Jones. Length, 4,622 feet.
Synopsis: A romantic comedy-drama. Its locale is in the North Woods along the Maine-Canadian border. Man retires to the wilderness to spend ten yearn while waiting for a fortune to come to him through a certain will. Marries Ignorant little backwoods girl, and is snobbishly ashamed to take her hack to the city. Friend of husband comes along and is disgusted with the man's regard for his wife. He kidnaps her. It is then the husband realizes his love. After six months under the tutelage of himself and a governess the girl becotnen " a lady " and he returns her to her husband with her husband's son In her arms — a brand-new baby.
References: Reviewed Issue Aug. 19, 1922, page 918.
Advertising: Page 2270, Apr. 22, 1922.