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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
FRONT PAGE STORY, A. Produced by Jes3 Robbins Productions. Distributed by Vitagraph. Special cast. Director, Jess Robbins. Length, 6 reels.
Synopsis: A comedy-drama of political life in a small city. Youth in search of work rides into town at wheel of dilapidated flivver. Puts ad in local paper and by using his wits becomes partner of editor. His object is to patch up a quarrel of long standing between the editor and the mayor — which he does by bluffing with a scare-head on the front page of the paper. After saving the paper from financial disaster, he adds to his achievements by winning the editor's pretty daughter.
References: Reviewed issue December 30, 1922, page 3385.
First Run Showings: Pages 559-60, Feb. 3; 818, Feb. 17; 1038, 1040, Mar. 3 1923.
'Advertising: Pages 85, 87, 88, 90, 92, Jan.' 6; 205, 207, 211, 212, 214, 216. Jan. 13; 331, 333, 343, 345, 347, 349, Jan. 20; 473-4, 476, 478. 482, 484, Jan. 27.
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Exploitation: Pages 1053 Mar. 3; 1174, Mar. 10, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Page 559, Feb. 3, 1923.
Inspiration Pictures Inc.
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FURY. Produced by Inspiration Pictures, Inc. Distributed by Associated First National. Released January, 1923. Star, Richard Barthelmess. Director, Henry King. Length, 8,709 feet.
Synopsis: Drama of the sea. Deals with "Boy" Ley ton of the " Lady Spray," whose rough old father, the captain, hates him for his docility. "Boy's" nature undergoes a change when Leyton, learning of his son's contemplated elopement with a Limehouse boarding house slavey, casts aspersions upon Minnie. The lad springs at his father and the captain is overjoyed at his display of courage. The Captain suffers a heart stroke, and, dying, exacts a promise from " Boy " to avenge his mother who has been mistreated by the man she ran away with. He finds his mother and kills the man before he marries Minnie.
References: Reviewed issue January 27, 1923, page 471.
First Run Showings: Pages 311-2, Jan. 20; 440, 443, Jan. 27; 560, Feb. 3; 686, Feb. 10; 817-9, Feb. 17; 928, 930-1. Feb. 24; 1038, 1041, Mar. 3; 1164, Mar. 10; 1273, Mar. 17, 1923.
Advertising: Page 963, Aug. 26, 1922; 1142-3, Mar. 10, 1923.
Prologues: Page 1045. Mar. 3, 1923.
Exploitation: Page 936, Feb. 24; 1047. Mar. 3, 1923.
Newspaper Displays: Pages 441, Jan. 27; 687, Feb. 10; 817, Feb. 17. 1923
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GALLOPING KID, THE. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released Sept. 11, 1922. Star, Hoot Gibson. Director, Nat Ross. Length, 5 reels.
Synopsis: Western comedy melodrama. Drifter is hired by crook posing as artist to take wealthy rancher's daughter from station to her home— the crook fearing for his life. The drifter is so fearless that the rancher employs him to act as chaperon for the girl. She makes life miserable for him. The crook double-crosses him, but the hero discovers his scheme to get possession of valuable radium deposits and saves her father's property. As a result he wins the girl.