Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

102 MOTION PICTURE NEWS his own country. He comes back on his honeymoon with his new bride, an American girl. The little Chinese girl is heart-broken. She gives her son to the American wife and walks into the water, sinks to the depths, thus paying her toll to the sea. Reference: Reviewed issue Dec. 9. 1922, page 2939. First Run Showings: Pages 2919. Dec. 9, 1922; 660-2, Feb. 3; 1163. March 10; 1271, March 17, 1923. Advertising: Four-page insert, Jan. 27, 1923. TOM MIX IN ARABIA. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Released Nov. 19, 1922. Star, Tom Mix. Director, Lynn F. Reynolds. Length, 4,446 feet. Synopsis: A comedy romance. Cowboy meets pretty girl who specializes in dead language. She travels on to Arabia. The hero then tastes adventure when he is tossed out of his hammock by a speeding roadster which is driven by an Arabian prince, heir to the throne. The latter employs the cowboy to double for him in order to evade pursuing Arabs. He goes to Arabia and Incurs the enmity of another aspirant to the throne. This man has him kidnapped. He learns that the American girl is also held captive. Overpowering the outlaw band, he rescues the girl. The real Prince returns and the love rs prepare to leave for America. References: Reviewed issue Nov. 11, 1922, page 2431. First Run Showings: Pages 2659, Nov. 25; 3061, Dec. 16; 3210, Dec. 23, 1922; 63, Jan. 6; 686, Feb. 10, 1923. Advertising: Pages 2636-7, Nov. 25, 1922. Lobby Displays: Page 669, Feb. 3, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Pages 185, Jan. 13; 312, Jan. 20, 1923. TOP O' THE MORNING. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released Sept. 4, 1922. Star, Gladys Walton. Director, Edward Laemmle. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Romantic drama adapted from stage play by Anne Caldwell. Irish atmosphere. Irish colleen comes to America, where her father is successful, but, finding the suroundings of her new home distasteful and knowing that his second wife is not kindly disposed toward her, she runs away. She takes a position in a banker's home as governess for his motherless little daughter and falls in love with him. When the matter of stealing of some bonds of which her brother has been unjustly accused and in which she inadvertently becomes implicated, is cleared up, she finds the banker is also in love with her. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 9, 1922, page 1297. First Run Showings: Pages 1485, Sept. 23; 1887, Oct. 14; 2640, Nov. 18; 3049. Dec. 16, 1922. Advertising Pages 1U. July 8; 380, July 22; 573, Aug. 6; 934, Aug. 26; 1201, Sept. 9, 1922. Exploitation: Page 2280, Nov. 4, 1922. TOWN THAT FORGOT GOD, THE. Produced and distributed by Fox. Released Feb. 11, 1923. Featuring Jane Thomas, Ben Grauer and a special cast. Director, Harry Millarde. Length, 8,450 feet. Synopsis: Rural melodrama. Spectacular from the point of storm and flood climax. Teaches a lesson in simple faith. The story tells of a small boy. left an orphan, who becomes the property of the village. He is adopted by the town Squire, an unjust and cruel foster-father. He is mistreated, kicked about, and has but one friend, a simple rustic, who at one time loved his mother. The time comes when the wrath of the Almighty is wrought on this town in the form of a flood — and the orphan boy, who has been taught to have faith In his God, prays for the foregiveness of those who have sinned. In the end the boy, grown up, is a successful business man. References: Reviewed Issue Nov. 11, 1922, page 2432. First Run Showings: Pages 2416, Nov. 11, 1922; 688. Feb. 10; 929, 931, Feb. 24; 1040, March 8, 1923. Advertising: Insert, July 8, 1922; one-page insert, Jan. 6; three-page insert, Jan. 13; 410-11, Jan. 27; 625-7, Feb. 3; 646-7, Feb. 10; 780, Feb. 17; 899. Feb. 24; 1016, March 3; 1126, March 10, 1923. Exploitation: Page 1051, March 3, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Page 816, Feb. 17, 1923. TRIFLING WOMEN. Produced by Rex Ingram. Distributed by Metro. Released Nov. 6. 1922. With Lewis Stone. Barbara La Marr, Edward Connelly and Ramon Novarro. Director, Rex Ingram. Length, 8 reels. Synopsis: Drama of three kinds of love. Story within a story. Tragedy is framework of plot. Zoreda, a crystal gazer, is in love with Ivan and desired by his father, the Baron. Ivan, believing Znreda faithless, leaves for the war. The Baron Introdnces her to Marquis Ferroni and Zareda transfers her affection. The Baron in attempting to poison Ferroni is himself poisoned when