Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

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BOOKING GUIDE kR Grmi Romance that starts where \ "^he^hree MuskeieersYfnfshed MILADY A ready-made audience of ^ Millions awaits this picture H A HENRI DIAMENT-BERGERE PRODUCTION MIND OVER MOTOR. Produced by Ward Lascelle. Distributed by Principal Pictures Corp. Released Jan. 15, 1923. Featuring Trixie Friganza and Ralph Graves. Director, Ward Lascelle. Length, 5 reels. Synopsis: Comedy-melodrama adapted from Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Tish is an auto-maniac. A crooked promoter gets her interested in a racepromoting proposition and then proceeds to enter " fixed " drivers. Tish has been called on by a relative to chaperone Bettina, who is in love with Jasper McCutcheon. Jasper learns of the promoter's plot and by way of defeating his purpose, enters the race. He is leading when the promoter gives the signal for a jam, in which Jasper is put out of the running. The sheriff advises Tish that she will be held as a participant in the swindle unless an outsider wins the race. She drives and wins, thus keeping out of jail. MINNIE. Produced by Marshall Neilan. Distributed by Associated First National. Released Dec, 1922. With Leatrice Joy and Matt Moore. Directors, Marshall Neilan and Frank Urson. Length, 6,696 feet. Synopsis: Romantic comedy -drama. Story of a small-town wallflower who becomes a beauty. Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, sick of work and yearning for romance, decides to " invent " a lover. Threatened with exposure of her love plot, Minnie claims an unidentified body at the morgue as her lover. A newspaper man on the trail of the " big " story is about to write the tale when he remembers that his life has also been one of hardships and disappointments. He tears it up and falls in love with Minnie, who has been made beautiful by a famous plastic surgeon. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 9, 1922, page 2940. First Run Showings: Pages 65, Jan. 6; 819, Feb. 17; 930, Feb. 24; 1162, Mar. 10, 1923. Advertising: Pages 9S0, Aug. 26; 3174, Dec. 23, 1922. Exploitation: Pages 454. Jan. 27; 1049, Mar. 3, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Pages 184, Jan. 13; 1272, Mar. 17, 1923. MISSING MILLIONS. Produced by Famous-Players-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released Jan. 22, 1923. Star, Alice Brady. Director, Joseph Henabery. Length, 5,870 feet. Synopsis: Crook melodrama. One of Jack Boyle's " Boston Blackie " stories. It is the story of a crook seeking vengeance for the betrayal of an innocent man to imprisonment and death. Girl plots with crook to seek revenge upon Wall Street operator for imprisoning her father. The magnate promises to release him if they will return his stolen jewelry. He fails to keep his promise and they bring him to a financial crash. Eventually, the girl returns her theft and marries her accomplice. The operator kills himself because of financial ruin. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 30, 1922, page 1623. First Run Showings: Pages 1608, Sept. 30; 2538, Nov. 18, 1922; 442, Jan. 27: 1162, 1164, Mar. 10, 1923. Advertising: Pages 2782, May 20; 5, July 1; 2843, Dec. 9, 1922. MIXED FACES. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Company. Released Oct. 22, 1922. Star. William Russell. Director, Rowland V. Lee. Length. 4 505 feet. Synopsis: Melodrama and comedy based upon mistaken identity and dual role. Plot centers upon an election campaign. Candidate for mayor attempts to persuade his sweetheart to marry him. She promises him to write her