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BOOKING GUIDE
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TOP OF NEW YORK, THE. Produced by Realart. Distributed by Paramount. Released Aug. 21, 19 22. Star. May McAvoy. Director, William D. Taylor. Length, 5,148 feet.
Synopsis: A romance of the New York tenement roofs. Heart interest story containing much sentiment. Juvenile appeal. Cinderella theme. Shop girl in toy department has difficult time bringing happiness to crippled brother, who must be kept on roof of home to maintain his health. She meets struggling artist on adjoining roof and they fall in love with one another. Philandering employer tries to assert his personality but fails. The little cripple is cured and the romance is brought to happy conclusion.
References: Reviewed issue July 1, 1922, page 74. First run showings, pg. 44, July 1; 510, July 29; 1135-6, 1138, Sept. 2; 1485, Sept. 23, 1922.
Advertising: Pages 1790, Mar. 25; 2751, May 20; 5, July 1; 221, July 15, 1922.
Newspaper Displays: Page 1010, Aug. 26, 1922.
TRACKED TO EARTH. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released March 6, 1922. Star, Frank Mayo. Director, William Worthington. Length, 4,477 feet.
Synopsis: Drama of the Western Deserts. Known only as " Slipper Tongue," a stranger comes into the Sand Hills Country to fall in love and also in the hands of men who accuse him of stealing horses. They postpone hanging him until after breakfast because the nearest tree is thirty miles away and they don't want to start so long a journey on empty stomachs. He escapes and hides in the desert. Is captured again but it turns out that he is a railroad agent in search of train robbers. This fact is made known by the sheriff, who frees him. The young people agree on a future together.
References: Reviewed issue Feb. 25, 1922, page 1272. First run showings, pg. 1493, March 11; 1618, March 18, 1922.
Newspaper Displays: Page 1749, March 25, 1922.
TRACKS. Produced by Western Pictures Corp. Distributed by Playgoers through Pathe. Released May 7, 1922. Featuring Bill Paton, Beatrice Burnham, Noble Johnson and George Burrell. Director, Joseph Franz. Length, 6,466 feet.
Synopsis : A Western story ' containing mystery, comedy and romance. A Texas community is troubled by repeated raids on cattle. Cow tracks in the vicinity of every raid lends mystery to the affair. An intrepid ranger, posing as a wandering cowboy, comes to town, falls in love with a ranchman's daughter and becomes suspicious of a neighboring landowner, especially When he finds him making love to the girl he has selected for himself. The ranger starts in to get his man. He eventually, after a number of thrilling adventures, proves that the bad man covered his horse's hoofs with replicas of) cows' feet to throw pursuers off the trail. The ranger wins the girl. The villain is sent to jail.
References: Reviewed issue June 24, 1922, page 3360.
Advertising: Pages 2509, May 6; 3213, June 17, 1922.
TRAIL OF THE AXE. Produced by Dustin Farnum. Distributed by American Releasing. Released July 23, 1922. Star, Dustin Farnum. Director, Ernest C. Warde. Length, 5,000 feet.
Synopsis: Lumberjack melodrama. Plot introduces brother against brother. Lumber foreman wants his brother to reform on account of his engagement to girl whom both love. But the weak youth continues his evil ways with the result that he is discharged. In revenge he dynamites the sawmill, nearly