The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Jul-Aug 1922)

22 THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. WHAT oe XHIBITORS who book Associated First National's EK recently screened picture, * ManWornimn—Marriage,” cannot complain that they are not receiving assistance from the renters in the matter of keeping the picture in the public mind. — Reference the exhaustive publicity sheet issued, and we learn that it is the intention of Associated First National to advertise the film to the extent of a full page in the ‘ Daily Mirror,” the ** Daily Sketch,’ and the ‘* Daily Express’? on September 29. Had it not been that the “* Daily Mail"? front page is booked up for that date the advertisement would have appeared in that Journal also. Other aids for the exhibitor are a giant lobby tableaux similar to those used in America, which may be hired for £3 per week, and a set of twelve photogravure cards with suitable These are in addition to the usual offerings, such as wes made in our jast issue to caption, stills, blocks, ete. Another Pearl Success. Pearl Films are gratified by the success attained by ‘* Ten Nights in a Bar Room.’’ Judging by the bookings to date it seems that this film bids fair to rival ** Why Girls Leave Home.”’ Remembering the extraordinary success which this latter picture achieved throughout the country, it goes to prove that the public appreciate stories with a human interest. Tom Terriss’s Cosmopolitan Production. A Cosmopolitan Paramount production, directed by Tom Terriss, ‘‘ Find the Woman,”’ which is to be trade shown by Famous-Lasky on Tuesday, August 15, at the New Gallery Kinema, is a mystery photoplay which remains a mystery almost to the end. The story is built about the murder of a well-known theatrical agent, and has for its central figure a lovely concert singer, portrayed by Alma Rubens, who will be remembered for her work in ‘*‘ Humoresque *’ and ‘‘ The World and His Wife.”’ Eileen Huban, Harrison Ford, Norman Kerry, George MacSedley, Ethel Arthur Donaldson and Quarrie, Henrys Duray, Sydney Deane appear in support of Miss Rubens. ScENE From ‘' FIND THE WomaAN.”’ Digitized by Goc gle g August 12, 1922. LONDON Love and Ambition. “ Her Night of Nights,’’ the Universal attraction starring Marie Prevost, will be trade shown by European Motion Picture Company in their private theatre in London on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 15 and 16, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Marie Prevost, who was famous as a bathing beauty, takes the part of Molly Malone, a mannikin in a clothing store, who dreams of marrying money. Instead, she falls in love with a backwoodsman, and the struggle between love and ambition leads to an exciting night adventure. ‘* A Bill of Divorcement.’’ The trade show of ‘tA Bill of Divorcement,’’ Ideal’s muchdiscussed production, is fixed to take place next Tuesday, August 15, at the Marble Arch Pavilion, at 11-30. The interest attaching to this picture has caused numerous inquiries from the trade all over the country, but Ideal have held resolutely to their new policy, and refused to discuss the renting of the film until after the show. An enormous number of applications have reached the firm for tickets of admission to the show, but every effort will be made to ensure that the trade is given proper accommodation. A very representative and distinguished gathering is expected. A Varied Bunch. Quite a varied program is presented in the course of the six to seven hundred feet of Kineto Review, No. 32. It opens with scenes in the Balkans, the breeding place of wars, little and big. The country looks peaceful enough except for turbulent streams that rush down from the Carpathians. Next is shown a caddis worm that settles the housing problem by gathcring bits of rush and building them into a home which it carries about with it~ Then some experiments in chemistry and the behaviour of ants towards their ‘‘ cows,’’ the aphides, the issue closing with a fiddlers’ competition in Southern America, with some nimble youths of eighty winters dancing the light fantastic toe in vigorous etyle. ‘The Glorious Adventure.’’ “The Glorious Adventure,’ the Stuart Blackton film presenting Lady Diana Manners and an all-star British cast, the first photoplay to be made in Prizma natural colours, which had a preliminary showing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, last January, is to be released by the Stell Film Co., Ltd., throughout the United Kingdom on September 4. Sixty leading kinemas will feature this production immediately after release. The bookings for an extended period are extraordinarily Seven pre-release showings with special presentations ° during August have been arranged for: The Majestic, Leeds; large. The Palace, Blackpeol; Hippodrome, Eastbourne; Futurist, Kthyl; The Regent, Weston-super-Mare: The Hippodrome, Croydon; The Futurist, Manchester. The release of ‘t The Glorious Adventure ? in America, France, Belgium, Italy, and other Continental countries will take place about the same time as in Mngland. Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RE The Week’s Trade;