Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1922)

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BOOKING GUIDE 33 riwwHKS riuiiu. HER MAJESTY Momr. mng IJ CREIGHTON HALE || — ^— & HER MAJESTY. Produced by Paul Salvin. Distributed by Playgoers through Pathe. Released July 23, 1922. With Mollie King and Creighton Hale. Director, George Ir/ing. Length, 4,331 feet. Synopsis: A society comedy-drama in which heroine appears in the dual role of twin girls. Deals with the romance of orphaned twin girls who, separated in childhood, grow up in different environments. One, having lived in the country, becomes a wholesome, nature-loving woman. The other, in wealthy surroundings, becomes a snob. The girls are so alike in appearance that even their respective suitors cannot always tell them apart, and many situations develop from this fact. However, in the end the girl from the country, having gone to the city, wins the hero who had been sought by the snobbish sister and all ends well. References: Reviewed issue July 22, 1922, page 434. First run showings, pg. 621, Aug. 5, 1922. Advertising: Page 585, Aug. 5, 1922. HER NIGHT OF NIGHTS. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released June 26, 1922. Star, Marie Prevost. Director, Hobart Henley. Length, 4,450 feet. Synopsis: Romantic comedy-drama carrying a slight note of conflict. Story is. centered around New York City, its cafes, clubs and notorious night life and its quiet suburban atmosphere miles out. Cloak model puts over sales for her employer, but refuses to entertain advances of his scapegrace son. She falls in love with shipping clerk, a recent product from the country, and together, they plan a little suburban home. Through a misunderstanding she invites attention of young scrapegrace and is almost compromised. However, the entanglements are straightened out and the sweethearts are happy again. References: Reviewed issue July 1, 1922, page 76. First run showings pages 258, July 15; 348, July 22; 619-20. Aug. 5, 1922. HEROES AND HUSBANDS. Produced by Preferred Pictures/ Inc. Distributed by Associated First National. Released, Aug. 21, 1922. Star, Katherine MacDonald. Director, Chet Withey. Length, 5,460 feet. Synopsis: Society drama. Susanne Danbury, novelist, goes to a house party where the man she loves, the man who loves her, the woman who loves Susanhe's lover and the husband of her rival all are assembled. By pretending they are characters in her play and carrying out this pretense, she molds them under her fingers. Rehearsing the pretended climax, she shoots her rival's husband, with a pistol '* fixed " for the latter to use upon the man she loves. Her arrest brings confession from the man who loves her, and after that the tangled skein is unraveled through the shock which comes from the shooting. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 16, 1922, page 1383. First run showines pg. 875. Aug. 19; 1136, Sept. 2; 1371, Sept. 16, 1922. Advertising: Pages 1550, Mar. 18; 498, July 29; 974-5, Aug. 26 1118 SeDt 2, 1922. ' ' ■ HIDDEN WOMAN. THE. Produced by Nanuet Amuse. Corp. Distributed hv American Releasing. Released April 2, 1922. Featuring Evelyn Nesbit Marv Alden and Craufurd Kent, Director,, Allan Dwan. Length, 4,626 feet ' Synopsis: Drama of regeneration. Backgrounds include Broadway and the Adirondacks. "I can't love you as you show yourself to be, but I do love— the Hidden Woman." This denunciation cues the story of the picture Hero