Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1922)

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BOOKING GUIDE 11 References: Reviewed issue May 13, 1922, page 2710. First run showings pg. 2684, May 13; 2834-5-6, May 20; 2940-41-42, May 27; 3045-6, June 3; 3131 June 10; 3235, June 17; 716, Aug. 12, 1922. Advertising: Pages 617. July 30, 1921; 1786, Mar. 25; 2001, Apr, Apr. 15; 2621, May 13; 2991-2, June 3, 1922. Lobby Displays: Pages 3324, June 24; 49, 52-3, July 1; 261, 264, 625. Aug. 5, 1922. Exploitation: Pages 3135, June 10; 3241, June 17; 3323, June 24; 1 175 July 8; 264, July 15; 517, July 29; 624, 630, Aug. 5; 1376, Sept 'Newspaper Displays: Pages 2836, May 20; 3046, June 3, 1922. 8; 2131, July 15; 56, July 16. 1922. Q (paramount (picture GLORIA ^" SWANSON IN BEYOND THE ROCKS WITH BIG STAKES. Produced by Metropolitan Prod. Distributed by East Coast Prod. Released Aug. 15, 1922. Star, J. B. Warner. Director, Clifford S. Elfelt. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Western melodrama, dealing: with hero who beats up bully in western town, incurring his enmity. Hero pursues maverick over the border into Mexico and meets heroine, daughter of wealthy Mexican, whose hand has been promised to Mexican officer. Officer captures hero, who proposes that they gamble their lives on jumping-beans. Hero wins, but refuses to let officer go to his death. They agree to let girl choose between them. Many complications follow, with fights between the bully's gang and the hero's cowboy pals. Outcome is in doubt until the end, when hero wins the girl. Advertising: Page 3308, June 24, 1922. BLACK BAG, THE. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released June 5, 1922. Star, Herbert Rawlinson. Director, Stuart Paton. Length, 4,343 feet. Synopsis: Mystery melodrama with a dominant flavor of romance. Prosperous young merchant in New York on a vacation has a flirtation with girl in a restaurant and follows her to a Long Island resort. Is told she is a thief and is almost convinced when he discovers necklace in her room. To save her from arrest he takes it. She, thereupon, believes him to be a crook. It develops that the necklace really belonged to the girl and the hero's informers, who accuse her, were trying to get possession of it. The real culprits are caught and romance follows. References: Reviewed issue June 17, 1922, page 3259. First run showings, pages 3328. 3330. June 24; 45, July 1, 1922. Exploitation: Page 351, July 22, 1922. Newspaper Displays: Page 43, July 1, 1922. BLIND CIRCUMSTANCES. Produced by Milburn Morante. Distributed by Clark-Cornelius. Released June 1, 1922. Star, George Chesebro. Director, Milburn Morante. Length, 4,800 feet. Synopsis: Northwestern melodrama dealing with hero who hides away in forest, as circumstances lead him to believe he has killed a man. He takes in a stranger who has broken his leg. Due to an accidental powder explosion, hero is blinded. Man who can clear hero has been shanghaied by brutal sea captain and has lost his memory. Captain covets sweetheart of hero, and sends trapper to find him. Hero's life is saved through sweetheart's care of trapper's little girl. Hero's friend proves to be Mounted Police and he must arrest him. Meanwhile, however, the other man recovers his memory and hero is cleared. He regains his sight. References: Reviewed issue June 10, 1922, page 3160.