Motion picture news booking guide (1929)

148 MOTION PICTURE NEWS SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS. Produced by Gotham Prod. Distributed by Lumas Film Corp. Released, May, 1928. Starring Percy Marmont with Mae Busch and Tom O’Brien. Director, R. William Neill. Scenarist, Harold Shumate. Cameraman, James Diamond. Length, 6,289 feet. Theme: Drama of the underworld in which young lawyer is divorced by his wife when he pur posely sets the evidence to satisfy her. He drifts to the underworld, is nursed by a dance hall girl, and eventually wins back the love of his wife. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 31, 1927, page 2089. Advertising: Pages 2257, June 10; 163, July 22; 2064, Dec. 31, 1927. SATAN AND THE WOMAN. Produced and distributed by Excellent Pictures Corp. Released, Jan. 20, 1928. Starring Claire Windsor with Cornelius Keefe and Vera Lewis. Director, Burton King. Scenarist, Adrian Johnson. Cameraman, Art Reeves. Length, 6,400 feet. Theme: Drama laud in small town wherein ruthless old lady tries to crush romance between her heir and her granddaughter. She dies and leaves her money to girl, having repented at last moment. A misunderstanding separates girl and her lover, and she thinks of marrying am adoring lawyer. But she finds latter is after her money and that former lover is man for her. References: Reviewed issue March 10, 1928, page 824. Advertising: Pages 1639, May 6; 2033, Dec. 30, 1927; 137, Jan. 14; 277, Jan. 28, 1928. SAY IT WITH SABLES. Produced and distributed by Columbia. Released, July 13, 1928. Starring Francis X. Bushman and Helene Chadwick with Margaret Livingston, Arthur Rankin, Alphonz Ethier. Director, Frank Capra. Scenarist, Dorothy Howell. Cameraman, Joe Walker. Length, 6,401 feet. Theme: Domestic melodrama. Mistress of man returns as son’s sweetheart and refuses to be bought off, intending to get even with father by marrying his boy. In desperation father tells son of past relations with woman, arid boy goes to her apartment for explanation. She is mysteriously shot and it develops that boy’s mother committed the crime, but a sympathetic detective decides to overlook her guilt. SCARLET DOVE, THE. Produced and distributed by Tiffany-Stahl. Released, April 15, 1928. With Robert Frazer. Director and scenarist, Arthur Gregor. Cameraman, Ernest Miller. Length, 5,102 leet. Theme: Russian romance. Convent bred girl is being forced into loveless marriage with a Cossack colonel by aunt when she meets handsome lieutenant. At reception following wedding, girl is frantic and disappears with lieutenant to a mountain retreat. Later he is charged with her murder but in duel with husband latter meets death in the water, and the lovers are reunited. References: Advertising: Pages 2934, June 26; 105, July 10; insert, Nov. 6, 1926; 1177, Apr. l; insert, July 22; 817, Sept. 16, 1927; insert, June 23, 1928. SCARLET LADY, THE. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp. Released, August 1, 1928. Starring Lya de Putti, Don Alvarado and Warner Oland with Otto Mattieson and John Peters. Director, Alan Crosland. Scenarist, Bess Meredyth. Cameraman, James Van Trees. Length, 6,443 feet. Theme: Drama laid in the times of the Red revolution. Girl flees to house of prince for protection. There she falls in love with him. Her sweetheart, a revolutionist leader, captures the prince when the revolution succeeds but instead of killing the prince when commanded the girl slays the revolutionist and escapes with the prince. References: Reviewed issue August 25, 1928, page 627. Advertising: Insert, June 2; 89, July 14; 183, July 21; 520-21, Aug. 18; 829, Sept. 15, 1928. SECRET HOUR, THE. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, Feb. 4, 1928. Starring Pola Negri with Jean Hersholt and Kenneth Thomson. Director and scenarist, Rowland V. Lee. Cameraman, Harry Fischbeck. Length, 7,175 feet. Theme: Romantic drama of elderly suitor who sends youth’s photo to girl of his heart, palming himself off as the younger man — with heroine falling in love with original of picture. References: Reviewed issue March 10, 1928, page 896. SERENADE. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, Dec. 24, 1927. Starring Adolphe Menjou with Kathryn Carver, Lawrence Grant and Lina Basquette. Director, Harry D’Arrast. Scenarist, Ernest Vajda. Cameraman, Harry Fischbeck. Length, 5,209 feet. Theme: Romantic Drama. Musician falls in love with poor but sympathetic girl and marries her. Later he composes an operetta, which is successful. He neglects his wife and accepts the attentions of leading dancer in the show. Wife steps out and plays the same game as her husband and reconciliation is effected. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 31, 1927, page 2089. Advertising: Insert, Sept. 16; 2063, Dec. 31, 1927. Exploitation: Page 207, Jan. 21, 1928. SEVENTH HEAVEN. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corp. Released, Oct. 30, 1927. With Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Director, Frank Borzage. Scenarist, Benjamin Glazer. Cameraman, Ernest Palmer. Length, 8,500 feet. Theme: Heart drama adapted from play by Austin Strong. Reared in the Paris gutters, a girl is taken in charge by “her man,” as her rescuer eventually becomes. They live in their seventh heaven of happiness until the world war claims him and returns him to her blind, after an agony of time during which he was thought dead. References: Reviewed issue June 10, 1927, page 2293. two page insert, May 27; 624, Sept. 2; 742, Sept. 9; 966, Sept. 30; 1146, Oct. 14; 1217, Oct. 21; 138L Nov 4 1541 Nov. 18; insert, Dec. 2, 1927. _ Exploitation: Pages 1844, May 13; 1571, Nov. 18; 1896, Dec. 16: 1965, Dec. 23, 1927. SHANGHAI BOUND. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, Oct. 15, 1927. Starring Richard Dix with Mary Brian. Director. Luther Reed. Scenarists, John Goodrich and Ray Harris. Cameraman, Edward Cronjager. Length, 5,515 feet. Theme A melodramatic romance depicted in revolution tom China. River boat captain, meets spoiled daughter of his millionaire boss, when he rescues her party from Chinese pirates. A pitched battle follows on river with pursuing pirates, during which girl believes captain has been killed, and