Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture news booking guide
Date:
Apr 1923
Publisher:
New York : Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)
Leaf #:
00088
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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88 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Advertising: Pages 586-7, Aug. 5; 937. Aug. 26; 10S5-6, Sept. 2; 1204-5, Sept. 9; 1310-11. Sept. 16; 1430-1, Sept. 23; 1548, Sept. 30; 1684-5, Oct. 7; 1849, Oct. 14; 1948. Oct. 21; 2307, Nov. 4, 1922. Lobby Displays: Pages 2428, Nov. 11; 2934, Dec. 9; 3200, Dec. 23. 1922. Prologue: Page 701, Feb. 10, 1923. Exploitation: Pages 2167, Oct. 28; 2283, 2286, Nov. 4; 2422-3, 2425-7, 2429-30, Nov. 11; 2545, Nov. 18; 2664-6, 2669, Nov. 25; 2794-5, Dec. 2; 2932-3, Dec. 9; 3042, Dec. 16; 3201-2, Dec. 23, 1922; 69, 72, Jan. 6: 198, 200-1, Jan. 13, 1923. Window Displays: Pages 2165, Oct. 28; 2429, Nov. 11; 2543, Nov. 18; 3038. Dec. 16; 3201, Dec. 23, 1922; 69, Jan. 6, 1923. Window Displays: Pages 2276, Nov. 4; 2420, Nov. 11; 2787, Dec. 2, 1922. RICH MEN'S WIVES. Produced by Preferred Pictures, Inc. Distributed by Al Lichtman Corp. Released Sept. 15. 1922. With House Peters, Claire Windsor and special cast. Director, Louis Gasnier. Length, 7,040 feet. Synopsis: Society drama. Gay Davenport, daughter of wealthy, but neglectful parents, weds Millionaire John Masters. Their child, Jackie, because ol social and business affairs, is neglected. Piqued by jealousy of his business, (iay flirts outrageously, but innocently, with Juan ( a mil Id. The husband sees them in an apparently compromising situation and repulses his wife. She is turned out and the child neglected as the husband takes to drink. Gay later rescues the child from a wild frivol in which a flapper is implicated, and thus proves her worth to her husband as a real wife and mother. References: Reviewed issue, Sept. 2, 1922, page 1164. First Run Showings: Pages 1008. Aug. 26; 1135, Sept. 2; 1372, Sept. 16; 1485, 1487. Sept. 23; 1609. 1611, Sept. 30; 1747-8, Oct. 7; 1887-8. Oct. 14; 2023. Oct. 21; 2419, Nov. 11; 2538, 2540, Nov. 18; 2787, Dec. 2; 2921, Dec. 9; 3050, Dec. 16, 1922. Advertising: Pages 3014, June 3; 3113, June 10; 3210, June 17; 3298, June 24; 146. July 8; 224, July 15; 484, July 29; 821-8, Aug. 19; 941, Aug. 26; 1096, Sept. 2; 1220-1, Sept. 9; 3157, Dec. 23, 1922; three-page insert, Jan. 20; 997, Mar. 3; 1123, Mar. 10; 1226, Mar. 17, 1923. Lobby Displays: Pages 2543, Nov. 18, 1922; 700, Feb. 10; 1045, Mar. 3, 1923. Prologue: Page 70, Jan. 6, 1923. Exploitation: Pages 2172, Oct. 28; 3197, Dec. 23, 1922; 195, Jan. 13; 700 Feb. 10; 827, Feb. 17, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Pages 1137, Sept. 2; 1747-8, Oct. 7; 2158, Oct. 28; 2538, Nov. 18: 2920. Dec. 9. 1922. RIDERS OF THE LAW. Produced and distributed by Sunset Productions. Released Dec. 15. 1922. Star, Jack Hoxie. Director, Robert North Bradbury. Length, 4,721 feet. Synopsis: Melodrama of the Northwest. The story deals, as its name implies, with the rigid law of the Northwest and with Jack Meadows' efforts to set free the girl's father, who is the sheriff. The man has been wounded by outlaws and found in a dying state by Jack and his pal. The two set out to bring the criminals to justice. The girl at first misjudges Jack and believes him responsible for her father's disappearance. When he proves the respected deputy is in reality the leader of a band of liquor smugglers and captures the culprits, she changes her mind. Jack's identity as a government ranger is established. References: Advertising: Pages 2998, Dec. 16; 3315, Dec. 30, 1922. RIDERS OF THE RANGE. Produced by Art-O-Graf Film Co. Distributed by Truart Film Corp. Released Feb. 15, 1923. Star, Edmund Cobb. Director, Otis B. Thayer. Length, 4,800 feet. Synopsis : Western melodrama based on the novel by Courtney Riley Cooper. Martin Lethbridge, young ranch owner, is president of the Cattlemen's Association. Members of this organization daily report that large numbers of their cattle are being killed. They suspect their rivals, the sheep raisers. Gregg Randall, head of the sheep raisers, also receives daily reports of stolen and killed cattle. Lethbridge is suspected. Lethbridge and Dolly Randall meet and it is love at first sight. Conflict between the groups is introduced. At last Vanler, a rival of Lethbridge's is unmasked as the guilty party. The hero leads Dolly to the altar. KHUN' WILD. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released Nov. 20> 1922. Star. Edward " Hoot " Gibson. Director, Nat Ross. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Western melodrama carrying a character study. Quaker youth, living in the West, dresses like a cowboy and attempts to act like one, but the pacifist tendencies of his faith hold him in restraint. He does not mix in the fights and is branded as a coward. When his father Is arrested on a trumpedup charge of murder the boy forgets his peaceful inclination and whoops it up like a real westerner. He captures the real murderer and wins the sheriff's daughter.