Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

42 MOTION PICTURE NEWS DARK SECRETS. Produced by Famous Players-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released Feb. 4, 1923. Star, Dorothy Dalton. Director, Victor Fleming. Length, 4,337 feet. Synopsis: Romantic drama. The scenes are laid in Egypt and Long Island, and they are touched with Oriental mysticisms, love, hatred and revenge. Ruth Rutherford, American society girl, is thrown from the saddle while going over the jumps. Knowing she will be a cripple for life, she breaks off her engagement to Lord Wallingford, who returns to Cairo, where he sinks to the depths of degradation. Hearing of his plight, Ruth decides to go to him. In Cairo she meets a famous surgeon, who promises to cure her — for a price — herself. She is cured and her servant kills the doctor as he is about to claim his reward. The lovers are reunited. References: Reviewed issue Jan. 27, 1923, page 369. First Run Showings: Pages 559, 561, Feb. 3; 686, Feb. 10; 817-8, Feb. 17; 929-30, Feb. 24, 1923. Advertising: Two-page insert Dec. 23, 1922; 5, Jan. 6; 240, Jan. 20, 1923. . DARLING OF THE RICH, THE. Produced and distributed by B. B. Productions, Inc. Released Jan. 15, 1923. Star, Betty Blythe. Director, John Adolfi. Length, 6 reels. Synopsis: Society melodrama, Charmion Winship inherits an Invention sought by Peyton Martin, New York's richest man, whose agent, Torrence Welch, seeks to buy it. Welch attempts to get it instead by marry inc Charmion* The latter loAes Mason Lawrence, who rescues her from an accident. Charmion unknowingly enters into a scheme to sell stolen jewelry. When revealed to her she agrees to marry the highest bidder. Martin bid'* five million dollars, but Charmion refuses to go through with the deal. Eventually she marries Lawrence, her crippled sister is cured and the story ends happily. References: Reviewed issue Feb. 3, 1923, page 585. First Run Showings: Pages 1271-2, Mar. 17, 1923. Advertising: Pages 3306, June 24; 3325, Dec. 30, 1922. DAUGHTER OF LUXURY, A. Produced by Famous Players-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released Dec. 25, 1922. Star, Agnes Ayres. Director, Paul Powell. Length. 4,538 feet. Synopsis: Adapted from stage play, " The Imposter." Comedy-drama detailing the adventures of a girl, who reared in wealth, is left destitute by the death of her parents. The penniless girl accepts her trials with a keen sense of humor. Among her experiences she is forced to pose as a wealthy heiress and is involved in a burglar insurance fraud. Family of social climbers take her to their home, thinking she is an heiress. She meets their son and romance triumphs when she unmasks his father, who would burglarize his own home lo collect the insurance. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 16, 1922, page 3063. First Run Showings: Pages 3049, Dec. 16; 3210, Dec. 23; 3370. Dec. 30, 1922; 186, Jan. 13; 560, 562, Feb. 3; 930, Feb. 24; 1165, Mar. 10. 1923. Advertising: Pages 2777, May 20; 2906, May 27; 5, July 1; 2722, Dec. 2. 192: Exploitation: Page 823, Feb. 17, 1923. DAWN OF REVENGE. Produced by Charles E. Bartlett Prod. Distributed hy Aywon Film Corp. Released Oct. 1, 1922. Star and director, Richard Travers. Length, 4,700 feet. Synopsis: Western melodrama. Ace Hall, disappointed in love, goes west to seek fortune in gold field. His housekeeper, a widow, falls in love with him, but Ace remembers the girl he left behind. Just as Ace strikes gold, he learns girl he loves has married hated rival. Later, having suffered accident and become a hunchback, he steals little son of happy couple. Years later, justice rights situation following a battle for gold mine. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 9, 1922, page 2939. DESERTED AT THE ALTAR. Produced and distributed by Phil Goldstone. Released Dec. 1, 1922. Special cast. Director. William K. Howard. Length, 6 reels. Synopsis: Rural melodrama. Ann and Tommy Moore, orphans, are unhappily obliged to remain in the home of their guardian. Squire Simpson. When Ann is admired and wooed by young man, her wedding day is interrupted by a woman claiming the groom as father of her child. It develops a plot was laid to have Ann at the Squire's, since a large inheritance was left her, of whi» h nhe knew nothing. The squire It* finally exposed us tlit* instigator of all the difficulty, and wrong put lo right. References: Reviewed Issue Oct. 7, 1922. page 1770. Advertising: Pages 2638, Nov. 26; 3077, Dec. 16; 3239, Dec. 23; 3398. Dec. SO, 1922; 89, Jan. 6; 211. Jan. 13, 1923. Iyobby Displays: Page 319, Jan. 20. 1923. Exploitation: Page 701. Feb. 10, 1923.