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BOOKING GUIDE
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BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, A. Produced by Ideal Films. Distributed by Associated Exhibitors. Released Dec. 24, 1922. Star, Constance Binney. Director, Denison Clift. Length, 5.819 feet.
Synopsis: Society drama with strong human interest. From the stage play by Clemens Dane. Margaret Fairfield learns after her marriage that insanity runs in her husband's family. Soon after, he is placed in an asylum and pronounced incurable. Seventeen years pass and their daughter grows up.. Margaret falls in love with Gray Meredith and finally divorces her husband. The daughter, Sydney, is herself in love. The husband returns, his sanity restored. Margaret is torn between her sense of duty toward him and her love for Meredith. Sydney renounces her own love, sends her mother away to find happiness, and remains with her father to care for him.
References: Reviewed issue Jan. 20, 1923, page 336.
Advertising: Pages 3312-3, Dec. 30, 1922; 519, Feb. 3; 1013, March 3, 1923.
BISHOP OF THE OZARKS, THE. Distributed by Film Booking Offices. Released Feb. 4, 1923. Star, Milford Howard. Director, Finis Fox. Length,
Synopsis: Drama with a religious note. The theme of regeneration and the triumph of good over evil. The locale is chiefly the foothills and wild fastnesses of the Ozark Mountains. Escaped convict changes clothes with a minister; the latter is later killed. The convict takes up his work as pastor in the Ozark Mountains. His foster daughter is sought by two young doctors, one of whom offers her a good love while the other has her under his evil influence. She finally accepts the honorable one and her father's identity is disclosed. He wins the love and admiration of the mountain folk.
References: Reviewed issue March 17, 1923, page 1291.
Advertising: Pages 287, Jan. 20; 535, Feb. 3; 620-1, Feb. 10; 901, Feb. 24, ;1923.
BLIND BARGAIN, THE. Produced and distributed by Goldwyn. Released Dec. 10, 1922. Featuring Lon Chaney, Jacqueline Logan and Raymond McKee. Director, Wallace Worsley. Length, 4,473 feet.
Synopsis: Mystery melodrama. Star plays dual role. A mad surgeon believes he can prove theory of evolution by turning man back into a physical and mental approximation of his Simian ancestors by transferring the glands of a live monkey into his body. A struggling author agrees to allow doctor to experiment upon him in return for financial and medical aid for his mother who is dying. Unable to buy his release, after his book has been accepted, the writer escapes the fate of other victims, chained in the doctor's private dungeon, when one of these men breaks the bars encaging him and crushes the doctor to death. Romance between author and publisher's daughter.
References: Reviewed issue December 2, 1922, page 2798.
First Run Showings: Pages 3049, Dec. 16, 1922; 65, Jan. 6; 1164, March 10; 1273, March 17, 1923.
Advertising: Pages 482-3, July 29; 937, Aug. 26; 1085, 1087, Sept 2; 2S44 Dec. 9; 2981, Dec. 16, 1922; 660, Feb. 10; 875, Feb. 24, 1923.
Exploitation: Page 3196, Dec. 23, 1922.
6 reels.
BLOOD AND SAND. Produced by Famous Players-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released Sept. 10, 1922. Star. Rodolph Valentino, supported by l.Uu Lee and Nita Naldi. Director, Fred Niblo. Length, 8.110 feet.