The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Sep-Oct 1922)

September 9, 1922. THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. 59 GLEANINGS FROM THE WEST. (By our Bristol Correspondent.) Coming Visit from Norma Talmadge—Renting Manager’s New Appointment—“ Son of Kissing Cup Gaumont Offerings—Song Pictures—A Fine Series. HEAR that Bristol is tovbe one of the towns to be favoured [ with a visit of Norma Talmadge, the popular American star. I believe the arrangement has been made, though no date has been fixed. If Miss Talmadge does come to Bristol she will receive a right royal welcome, for she has a crowd of admirers in the Western City. Renting Manager’s New Appointment. A. N. Ewings, who for some months past has been the South Wales and West of England manager for the Regent Film Co., is leaving Cardiff this week to take over the Birmingham branch. Congratulations on his promotion! Mr. Ewings, whose home is at Bristol, is well known to all exhibitors in the West country. For some time he was the representative in this territory for the Geveral Film Co., and then later went to Tilney Bros., of Cardiff. Before he went on the renting side of the business he was for some time manager of a Bristol kinema. ‘* Son of Kissing Cup.’’ Leonard Satchwell must have been highly pleased with the success of this picture, which was trade shown in the city the other Sunday. In the opinion of most people who saw the show it is a better picture than ‘‘ Kissing Cup’s Race.’’ The story varies slightly from the ordinary type of sporting film, of which oxhibitors, to tell the truth, are getting somewhat weary. I bear that a number of bookings have already been secured in this territory, and that numerous inquiries have been received in connection with the picture. Gaumont Offerings. E. J.. Jennings tells me that he anticipates quite a boom with ’ ** A Gipsy Cavalier,’’ which, besides a fine star cast, has a: story Ps) : which will appeal to the majority of picture-goers in any part of the country. The film was trade shown in Bristol on Sunday at the Picture House, and.on Wednesday at Gaumont’s own theatre. Two other films which Mr. Jennings has shown recently are ‘‘ The Man from Blankley’s,’’ with Robert Warwick and Bebe Daniels as the stars, and ‘‘ A Soul's Awakening,”’ a Westminster film, featuring Flora Le Breton. Song Pictures. The Dramatic Film Bureau held a show, on the Ist, of the one-reel song films which the firm is handling in this territory. Five of the series were shown, and a lady vocalist sang the song as the picture representing it was screened. A Fine Series. Ideal has secured a remarkably fine series in ‘‘ Wilderness Tales,’’ of which a trade show was held at the Picture House on September 1, Besides technical exeellence—and the photography in some of them is unsurpassed by anything yet shown— there is a completeness which will appeal to the picture-goer who is tired of having an obvious story thrown at him in every film he sees. On Sunday A. E. Barnett screened ‘* The Right to Marry,’’ which was origfiinally announced as ‘‘ The To-morrow That Never Came,”’ and ‘t Conquering the Alps,’’ at the Castle Street kinema. Regent. Nature Films. The latest Nature series, ‘‘ Secrets of Nature,’’ which was shown by the Regent Co. at the Victoria Rooms, was well received by a company which, besides exhibitors, contained me representatives of educational bodies. Mr. Ewings tells the that bookings for the series are good. “ THE GIPSY CAVALIER” LUNCH. Following the trade showing of the Carpentier picture, ‘‘ The Gipsy Cavalier,’ by the Gaumont Co., at the New Gallery Kinema, last week, there was a luncheon at Les Gobelins, at which a number of well-known people were present. Digitized by Gor gle Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY