The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Apr-Jun 1922)

14 . THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. June 10, 1922. ROUND THE MANCHESTER TRADE. THE WEEK'S ACTIVITIES IN THE NORTHERN CENTRE. Sports Association Items—Associated First National’s Latest—* Boomerang Bill ’*— Blackpool’s Holiday Program—Fire at Morecambe. as to a suitable venue for the annual trade picnic have not been Jong in submitting their recommendations, and, acting on these, the Association hus decided to visit Rudyard Lake on Sunday, June 25. Tickets for the outing are 1s., and cover the cost of the drive and all meals, On Wednesday, June 14, the first round in the Vivid Cup Cricket Competition will take pleve, when the Association team will play the Broadhead Cireuit on the latter’s ground, Another bowling handicap has been organised for Friday, Tune 16, at the Farmers’ Arms, Northenden, for which entries close on Thursday, June 15. The next General Committee meeting will be held on Friday, June 16, at | p.m. 6 Pisses Sub-Committee appointed to make inquiries and report ‘* John Chilcote, M.P.’’ Associated First National's latest offering, ‘John Chileote, M.P.."’ was presented on Tuesday last to a representative yathering of Lancashire exhibitors. Guy Bates Post, the famous Americ actor, who has plaved the dual réles of John Chileote and John Loder in the stave version for six consecutive years, repeats his wonderful succe-s in the screen version, The production is remarkable for its wonderful acting, and the story is one of the most unusual vet gripping kind that has ever been projected on the sercen, The double exposure photography is exceedingly clever and, on the whole, the film: is one that will win favour wherever it is shown, ‘‘ Boomerang Bill.’’ When the final close-up of the film, ‘* Boomerang Bill,"’ appeared at the trade show of Famous-Lasky's most recent acquisition at the Kinema Exehange on Tuesday it was the signal for an outburst of deserved applause from the exhibitors who had witnessed its screening, Lionel Barrymore makes a great hit in this intensely dramatic and human story, and the film will make a lasting and favourable impression on any audience. A most exciting incident in the story is a fight on a ballroom balcony between Bill and an Italian, culminating in the son of Italy being picked up and thrown over the balcony on to the floor below, The ultimate escape of the vietor from the building, after extinguishing the lights, by a daring climb down the balcony pillars, provides an abundance of thrills to hold an audience spellbound, and in the more peaceful episodes of the story Lionel Barrymore makes the most of the situation by his powerful acting. ** Boomerang Bill’ is a) real picture, and should do well at the box-office. ood Milloy Returns from Town. Mr. FE. Grattan-Millov has returned from = T.ondon and, 1 understand, has completed negotiations for the control of a number of fine feature films for this territory, He is now busily engaged in arranging trade shows for his latest acquisitions, and in next week's issue of the Fina Rester axp Moving Picture News full details of his latest captures will appear. Google Blackpoot’s Hotiday Program. Mr. Tom Smethurst, the energetic and popular manager of the Palace Picture Pavilion, Blackpool, is to be congratulated on his astuteness in staging that topical feature. “Cocaine,” as a Whitsuntide attraction. The lone spell of glorious weather and its continuance throughout the holidays has had a depressing effeet upon the box-office receipts at the Blackpool kinemas, bot T hear that ‘* Cocaine proved an irresistible lure, and the Palace Pavilion was very well patronised at every performance, which only goes to prove that good pictures still draw the crowds in spite of the thermometer registering about 80 in the shade, The Queen of Sheba was the super-attraction at the Winter Gardens Pavilicn, and the attendances, I bear, have been quite satisfactory, Fire at Morecambe Kinema. Five hundred pounds worth of damage was done by a fire at the Whitehall Picture Palace. Morecambe, on Monday evening. The film caught fire while the light was being set in the machine. The operator immediately closed the shutters, se that the flames could not be seen by the audience, who left without panic. The staff kept the blaze in check with extinguishers and a hose pipe until the arrival of the fire brigade, who quickly dealt with the outhroak, Capitol Productions. We are given to understand that Capitol Productions are showing their film, * The Cocaine Smuyelers,”” during the week commencing June 19, both in’ Manchester and Liverpool, and that the film will be ready for release immediately. We are assured that the picture is) an exceptionally strong one, and specially adapted for Lancashire audiences, New Arrow Production. The Dispatch Film Service announce that) Arrow Films have now completed ‘ Sheriff of Hope Eternal,” a stirring, romantic Western drama, featuring the well-known and popular star, dack Hoxie: and ‘* Another Man's Boots, in which Francis Ford plays lead. Mr. Harry Maxwell expects to fix up the Manchester and Liverpool Trade Shows within the next few days, and in the next issue of this will insert the usual announcement journal, 4 Butcher's Activities. Mr. David Carr, of Progress Film Service, is anticipating a big demand for Butcher's latest: produetion, ‘ When Greek Meets which will be screened to the trade in] Manchester on Thursday, June 15, at the Gaiety. The Liverpool Trade Show is to be at the Palais de Luxe on Wednesday, June 14th, The popular favourites, Violet: Hopson and Stewart Rome, are the stars in this Walter West production, and as many of the scenes were shot in the works ef a big Manchester engineering firma the film will have an added interest for Lancashire kinema patrons, Greek.’