Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

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BOOKING GUIDE 101 TIMOTHY'S QUEST. Produced by Dirigo Films, Inc. Distributed by American Releasing Corp. Released Sept. 17, 1922. Featuring Joseph Depew and Helen Rowland. Director, Sidney Olcott. Length, 6,465 feet. Synopsis: Heart interest drama filled with sentiment and pathos. Kate Douglas Wiggin's story. Orphan of the slums, to avoid an asylum, runs away, taking a little girl with him, his quest being a real home and the* possibility of finding a mother. They hop off a freight car in the country and select a house, but the spinster living there declines to do any adoptingy Timothy pleads to be taken in for the sake of the baby girl, and as days go by the spinster's heart heroines softer. Eventually she yields and adopts both children. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 23. 1922, page 1506. First Run Showings: Page 2156, Oct. 28, 1922. Advertising: Pages 465, July 29; 578, Aug. 5; 833, Aug. 19; 1312-13, Sept. 16; 1700-1, Oct. 7; 2369, Nov. 11; 3273, Dec. 30, 1922. Exploitation: Page 2285, Nov. 4, 1922. Newspaper Displays: Page 3052, Dec. 16, 1922. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD. Produced by George Fitzmaurice. Distributed by Paramount. Released Oct. 29, 1922. With Betty Compson, Bert Lytell and Theodore Kosloff. Director, George Fitzmaurice. Length, 7,518 feet. Synopsis: A romance laid in the days of King James I of England and the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. From the novel by Mary Johnston. Lady Jocelyn Leigh, ward of King James I, to escape a hateful marriage with Lord Carnal, runs away on board a ** bride ship '* to Jamestown, Virginia. There she is married to Captain Percy, a prosperous planter. With the King's permission, Lord Carnal follows. The Captain is brought back and imprisoned. He escapes and in a duel kills Lord Carnal as he is about to marry Lady Joselyn. Eventually he is forgiven by the King and reunited to his wife. References: Reviewed issue Oct. 28, 1922, page 2174. First Run Showings: Pages 2277-8, Nov. 4; 2417-8, Nov. 11; 2537. 2539, Nov. 18; 2658-9, Nov. 25; 2788-9, Dec. 2; 2922, Dec. 9; 3052, Dec. 16; 3208, 3210. Dec. 23; 3370, 3375, Dec. 30, 1922; 66, Jan. 6; 184, Jan. 13; 443, Jan. 27; 562, Feb. 3; 819, Feb. 17; 1164, March 10, 1923. Advertising: Pages 2766, May 20; 2904, May 27; 5, July 1; 669, Aug. 12; 1077, Sept. 2; 1305-6, Sept. 16; 1675, Oct. 7; 1943, Oct. 21; 2098, Oct. 28; 2591-2; Nov. 25, 1922; 125, Jan. 13, 1923. Lobby Displays: Page 574, Feb." 3, 1923. Exploitation: Pages 2544, Nov. 18; 2927, Dec. 9; 3200, Dec. 23, 1922; 72, Jan. 6; 462, Jan. 27; 1922; 1174, March 10, 1923. Window Displays: Page 1175, March 10, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Page 2277, Nov. 4, 1922. TOLL OF THE SEA. Produced by Technicolor Motion Picture Corp. Distributed by Metro. Released Jan. 22, 1923. Featuring Kenneth Harlan and Anna May Wong. Director, Chester M. Franklin. Length, 6 reels. Synopsis: Romantic drama of the Orient. Photographed in natural colors by a new process of color photography. Story is founded on an old Chinese legend, which states the sea takes in pain and sorrow twice the amount of joy that it gives. An American is washed up by the waves and rescued by a Chinese girl. They fall in love and marry. Later, the American returns to