Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1922)
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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
SON OF THE WOLF, THE. Produced by R-C Pictures. Distributed by Film Booking Offices. Released June 11, 1922. Starring Edith Roberta and Wheeler Oakman. Director, Norman Dawn. Length, 4,790 feet.
Synopsis: Melodrama of the Northwest revolving around squaw-man theme. An adaptation of story by Jack London, peopled with figures characteristic of the frozen North. Frontiersman of Alaska, tiring of loneliness, picks an Indian girl for a bride. lie goes to Dawson and becomes enamoured of a dance hall girl. Jealous rivals inform his fiancee and to win back his affections she takes up dancing. The hero follows her to the camp of her father and showers the Indians with gifts. Pacifying her people he takes the girl back to civilization and marries her. Marked for physical action, typical locations and adequate atmosphere.
References: Reviewed issue June 24, 1922, page 3362. First run showings, pg. 611, July 29; 1009, Aug. 26; 1485, Sept. 23, 1922.
Advertising: Pages 3017, June 3; 3196-7, June 17; 741, Aug. 12, 1922. Newspaper Displays: Page 1371, Sept. 16, 1922.
SONS OF THE WEST. Produced and distributed by Aywon Film Corp. Released July, 1922. Special Cast. Length, 5 reels.
Synopsis: Western melodrama dealing with man who goes west to forget faithless wife, whom he has divorced. He falls in love with young girl, and, despite efforts of former sweetheart, marries her. Former wife appears and in his absence, tells girl she is still his wife. , The girl, heart-broken, leaves. The man returns and denounces divorced wife. Brings his real wife back. She falls ill, and, unable to find work, he goes west. He receives word that $100 must be forthcoming for an operation. Desperate, he robs stagecoach, but in mailsack finds letter for him with money. Repents and returns loot. He is freed, his wife recovers, and all ends happily.
SOUTH OF SUVA. Produced by Realart. Distributed by Paramount. Released July 16, 1922. Star, Mary Miles Minter. Director, Frank Urson. Length,
4,639 feet.
Synopsis: A romantic drama of love and adventure in the South Sea Islands. Story about two planters, one who succumbs to the inevitable when he mixes tropical climate and booze. Drama arises when the heroine arrives to join the degenerating one whom she had married several years before on the eve of his sailing. Continuing his dissipation and failing to win his wife's love he gives her as a sacrifice to the natives. She is rescued by the successful planter after a fight in which the worthless husband is killed.
References: Reviewed issue June 24, 1922, page 3360. First run showings, pg. 44, July 1; 168, July 8; 258, July 15; 348, July 22; 717, Aug. 12; 1137, Sept. 2; 1259, Sept. 9; 1371, Sept 16. 1922.
Advertising: Pages 3126, Dec. 17, 1921; 1789, Mar. 25; 2621, May 13, 1922.
Lobby Displays: Page 878, Aug. 19, 1922.
Exploitation: Page 1264, Sept. 9, 1922.
Newspaper Displays: Page 169, July 8, 1922.
SPANISH JADE, THE. Produced by John S. Robertson. Distributed by Paramount. Released April 30, 1922. With David Powell. Director, John a Robertson. Length, 5,111 feet.
Synopsis: A dramatic romance of life in the Spanish hills and towns. Story is one of a modern Don Quixote, who is forever on the lookout to befriend people in distress. It deals with his rescue of a pretty young girl from a cruel alliance into which her father was forcing her and of the many adventures the pair went through before happiness ultimately caught up with them. Picturizution of Maurice Hewlett's novel produced in Spain in the actual settings of the original story.
References: Reviewed issue May 13, 1922, page 2710. First run showings, pg. 2943, May 27; 3329, June 24; 260, July 15; 512-3, July 29; 1267, Sept. 9, 1922.
Advertising: Page 1785, Mar. 25. 1922.
STAGE ROMANCE, A. Produced and distributed by Fox. Released March 5. 1922. Star, William Farnum. Director, Herbert Brenon. Length, 7 reels.
Synopsis: Based on Dumas' stage drama. Relates the adventures and romances of Edmund Keane, the famous English actor, who rose from the circus to become the great Interpreter of Shakespeare. Star has moments when he appears as Othello and Hamlet, and in the background is the tale of Keane himself — his amours — his willingness to sacrifice his fame and fortune to bring honor to the women of his heart. His Infatuation with the Countess Cioswlll Is the basis. Shows the Countess' insincerity and the r<*ul love little Anna Danby had for him.
References: Reviewed Issue Feb. 25. 1922, page 1274. First run showings, pg 1494, Mar. 11; 1620, Mar. 18; 1747-8, Mar. 26; 3330, June 24; 1008. Aug. JC. 1922.
Advertising: Pages 860-361, Jan. 7; 1318-9. Mar. 4; 1171, Mar. 18, 1182. Newspaper Displays: Pages 1117, Mar. 4; 8844, May 87, 1888.