The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

54 MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 7, 1925 Paramount ALASKAN. (6,758 feet). Star, Thomas Meighan. Very g-ood; had many favorable comments and it drew better than the average. Meighan seems to be a drawing card here. Good tone and appeal. Yes for Sunday and special. Draw town and farming class, town 600. Admission 10-30. H. W. Batchelder. Gait Theatre (175 seats). Gait, California. A SON OP HIS FATHER. (7 reels). Star, Warner Baxter. Very good feature. Pleased one hundred per cent. Tone, good. Sunday and special, no. Good appeal. Mixed class town of 1,800. Admission twenty-five cents. Fred S. Widenor, Opera House (492 seats), Belvidere, New Jersey. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. (6,874 feet). Star cast. Some got kick out of this, but the majority didn't know what it was all about. Lost me money. Print new. Not much appeal. No as special. R. A. Preuss, Arvada Theatre, Arvada, Colorado. CHANGING HUSBANDS. (6,799 feet). A Paramount comedy that pleased them a hundred per cent. Cecil DeMille is one of the tew directors whose names mean much to my patrons. I advertised DeMille and Leatrice Joy and attracted a fair house, which thoroughly enjoyed this little program picture. Raymond Griffith made a decided hit. Suitable for Sunday? — well, maybe! But not if the majority of your patrons are Methodists! Not a special. Guy C. Sawyer, Town Hall, Chester, Vermont. COMING THROUGH. (6,522 feet). Star, Thomas Meighan. Pleased all who saw it. Thomas is popular here. Good tone. Sunday, yes, special, no. R. P. Monahan, Grantview Theatre (250 seats), Grantview, West Virginia. COMING THROUGH. (6,522 feet). Star, Thomas Meighan. Paramount picture with the very satisfactory combination of Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee. An extra good program picture that drew well and pleased them all. Sunday, yes. Special, no. Print |llllllllllltlllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllll^ I Qlory Bel Dave's In Again! | I Ken Thompson busted in again last week. Now that old dependable, | I the fellow who first held the record for qusmtity of tips sent at one time | I — a man whose sincere service led him to get every audience reaction | 1 before he'd send in a tip — Dave Seymour's in again! | I "A little notation on page one," says Dave, with his four long sheets | I of close-spaced tips coming in this week, "tells you that I had a little | I spare time. | I "I wished to help out, and that tells it all!" — Dave Seymour, Pontiac I I Theatre Beautifid, Saranac Lake, New York. | I How about L. M. Zug, Dolph Schutz, Thos. L. Haynes, Louis Pilosif | I J. F. Ptuett, W. E. Elkin? | I S. O. S., Boys! | liiiiiiiiuipiiiiiiiiuii I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiHiiiiii'iiiiiiiiuiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJiiiiiiiii:iiiiim niiiiiiiiini:iiniiu«inii good. Guy C. Vermont. Sawyer, Town Hall, Chester, DANGEROUS MONEY. (6,864 feet). Star, Bebe Daniels. Not my kind of picture; but 1 had favorable comments, and it was well acted. Some of the scenes were very fine. Fair tone and appeal. Yes for Sunday. Draw farming and town class, town 600. Admission 10-30. H. W. Batchelder, Gait Theatre (175 seats). Gait, California. DEVIL'S CARGO. (7,080 feet). Star Pauline Starke. A fair program show which is rather rough for the ladies. AVe played it on a Saturday anj seemed to please the kids and young men fairly good. Pauline Starke was; good in this. Good tone, fair appeal. Not a Sunday picture or special. Draw better class, town 4,500. Admission 10-20. C. A. Anglemire, "Y" Theatre (410 seats), Nazareth, Pennsylvania. EAST OP SUEZ. (6,821 feet). Star, Pola TVatch forAnouierQreat Universal Super-Jewd Negri. A good picture. Pola at her best. Yes for Sunday, no as special. Draw from town of 3,500. Admission 15-25. E. C. Bays, Globe Theatre, Buena Vista, Virginia. EMPTY HANDS. (6,976 feet). Star, Jack Holt. A better than the average program picture that drew well and pleased ninety per cent. (The ten per cent, who failed to register approval did not care for the scenes wherein Norma lost her bathing suit. (N. B. They were feminine patrons.) Better not use it if your patrons are too particular. Not a special. Photography and scenery very good Nice print. Guy C. Sawyer, Town Hall, Chester, Vermont. MANHATTAN. (6,415 feet). Star, Richard Dix. A star who is rapidly gaining the popularity formerly tendr red Wally Reld. A very good program picture that drew average attendance and pleased ninety per cent. Sunday, maybe, special, no. Guy C. Sawyer, Town Hall, Chester, Vermont. REGULAR PELLOW. Star, Raymond Griffith. We shelved this an hour before a matinee and used "Lost, A Wife" instead which providentially was in the express office for some unknown reason. The prestige of the smallest theatre in the U. S. would be lowered by using "A Regular Fellow"; no story; insipid comedy; absolutely Inane throughout. Tone, okay. Sunday and special, no. No appeal. Mixed class town of 1,400. Admission 10-30. Pace & Bouma, Rialto Theatre (300 seats), Pocahontas, Iowa. SPANIARD. (6,676 feet). Star, Rlcardo Cortez. This picture very much like "Blood and Sand," only consider it a much better picture. Bull fights in this picture wonderful; also .some pretty scenery. Good tone and appeal. Yes for Sunday and special. Draw from rural community, 1,500. Admission 1020-30. I. I. Kennedy, Electric Theatre (350 seats), Glasgow, Montreal. STEPHEN STEPS OUT. (5,152 feet). Star, Doug. Fairbanks, Jr. I saw a portion of this in a ©yracuse theatre and was not impressed with It. It was shipped to me as a substitute for one which I refused to run because of the severe criticism in exhibitors' reports. Seeing It from the beginning I was pleased with It. A good story of a boy full of pep. Pleased my audience. A different story. No love scenes. Good tone. Sunday — (a feature that is not good for Sunday Is no good any day!). Draw mill and farming class, town of 1,000. Admission twenty-five cents. L. E. Parsons Parsons Hall (325 seats), Marcellus, New York. STORY WITHOUT A NAME. (7,912 feet). Star, Antonio Moreno. A pleasing program picture. Different from the usual plots. Tone, good. Sunday and special, no. Appeal, ninety per cent. John Cleva, Jr., Enterprise Theatre, Glenalum, West Virginia, STORY -WITHOUT A NAME. (7,912 feet). Star cast. An exceptionally good picture, but we played it too late to tie up with title contest, consequently the title failed to draw. Picture Is okay. Tone, okay. Sunday and special, yes. High appeal. All classes city of 14,000. . Admission 10-25. E. W. Collins, Liberty Theatre (500 seats), Jonesboro, Arkansas.