Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1922)

BOOKING GUIDE 49 MORE TO BE PITIED THAN SCORNED. Produced by Waldorf Productions. Distributed by C. B. C. Film Sales Corp. Released Aug. 20, 1922. Featuring Alice Lake, Rosemary Theby, J. Frank Glendon, Philo McCullough. Director, Edward Le Saint. Length, 5,800 feet. Synopsis: Heart interest melodrama, centering1 about actor who returns home to find another man with his wife. He leaves with their little daughter. His wife follows, is struck by automobile and taken to hospital. He returns, but she is gone, and he entrusts child to his leading lady, an unscrupulous woman. Wife sees them together. She demands child but actress has her placed in asylum. Convinced that his wife is dead, he marries actress. The other man, also an actor, locates the first wife, now escaped, and renews his advances. He threatens child, and she takes it to hero, leading to reunion. References: Reviewed issue Aug. 12, 1922, page 788. First run showings, pg. 1371, Sept. 16, 1922. Advertising: Pages 545, July 29; 783, Aug. 12; 899, Aug. 19, 1922. MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK. Produced and distributed by Goldwyn. Released May, 1922. Star, Tom Moore. Director, Victor Schertzinger. Length, 4,804 feet. Synopsis: Mr. Barnes, an American, travelling on the Continent, becomes involved in a duel in Corsica as a result of which an English naval officer slays a native. The slain man's sister vows vengeance. Most of Mr. Barnes' . work is taken up in preventing the murder of the brother of the girl with whom he has fallen in love and who is suspected of the murder. It develops that he had loaned his pistol to a brother officer and it was the latter who shot the Corsican. This knowledge clears way for happy ending — Barnes wins girl and Corsican beauty marries the man she had suspected. References: Reviewed issue April 29, 1922, page 2470. First run showings, pg. 258-60, July 15; 512, July 29; 1136, Sept. 2, 1922. Advertising: Pages 1428, Feb. 19, 1921; 2799, May 20; 3295, June 24; 6, July lj 116, July 8; 235, July 15; 317, July 22, 1922. MR. BINGLE. Produced by S. A. Picture Corp. Distributed by Producers' Security. Released Aug. 20, 1922. Star, Maclyn Arbuckle. Director, Leopold Wharton. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Comedy-drama, centering about faithful bookkeeper, who has difficulty in supporting his family. His cousin's children have every luxury, but are greedy and unscrupulous Their father returns, apparently penniless, and they turn him out. Bookkeeper takes him in, and when he dies, he leaves millions to him. Bookkeeper establishes orphanage and takes in children. Court ruling strips fortune from him and he loses orphans but child of his own arrives, and he again finds complete happiness. MR. POTTER OF TEXAS. Produced by S. A. Picture Corp. Distributed by Producers' Security Corp. Released June 15, 1922. Star, Maclyn Arbuckle. Director, Leopold Wharton. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Adapted from the novel of the same name by Archibald Clavering Gunter. Romantic comedy-drama dealing with the adventures of Sam Potter, who comes to Texas with a few dollars and becomes an oil millionaire. Years later, a widower, he returns to England on a visit, with his daughter. The daughter goes to Egypt with Lady Annerly, and when a revolution occurs there, he follows. He learns, meanwhile, that he is being sought for a crime he did not commit. Lord Annerly is killed, but makes a deathbed confession of the crime. Lady Annerly conceals this, but sees the error of her ways, and becomes Mrs. Potter. MY DAD. Produced by Clifford Smith. Distributed by Film Booking Offices. Released July 23, 1922. Star, Johnny Walker. Director, Clifford Smith. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Melodrama of the Candian Northwest. Tom O'Day, a dutiful son, resides with parents in the far North. His father lives under the domination of the Post Factor, the reason a mystery to Tom. The Factor's step-daughter responds to Tom's clean affection, but is warned by lustful step-father to discourage him. Failing, the Factor exposes Tom's father as the murderer of a man killed years before. The father believes himself guilty. Tom survives an unfair fight, gets evidence clearing his father and convicts Factor. Lovers find happiness. Fight scene when dog attacks man who almost finished master, among the highlights. References: Reviewed issue July 22, 1922, page 434. First run showings, J>g. 715, Aug. 12; 1006. Aug. 26, 1922. Advertising: Pages 241, July 15; 454-5. July 29; 734, Aug. 12, 1922. Exploitation: Pages 1264, Sept. 9; 1379, Sept. 23, 1922. Prologues: Pages 1492, 1496, Sept. 23, 1922.