Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture news booking guide
Date:
Apr 1923
Publisher:
New York : Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)
Leaf #:
00087
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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BOOKING GUIDE 87 of customs service, unknown to him, and he suspects that she is a. niemher of the band. She is trapped at the Cantina and he goes to rescue, hat is imprisoned. At the last minute, permission comes from Washington and the troops ride to their rescue. References: Reviewed issue April 14, 1923, page 1812. Advertising: Page 1139, Mar. 10, 1923. QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. Produced by Metro-SL Productions. Distributed by Metro. Released Dec. 4, 1922. With an all-star cast. Director, Clarencs G. Badger. Length, 6 reels. Synopsis: Rural comedy-drama. Based on the novel by Charles Felton Pidgin. Quincy Adams Sawyer, young Bostonian, goes to small New England town to protect widow from schemers trying to cheat her out of property. Discovers her lawyer is a crook and incurs his enmity. Village belle endeavors to win him. But the youth has a romance with a girl he had met in Boston, and who has since gone blind. Strout, the lawyer, starts trouble between Sawyer and the local blacksmith. Sawyer conquers his enemies and later rescues heroine from raft set adrift by villains. Excitement restores girl's sight. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 9, 1922, page 2941. First Run Showings: Pages 2921-2, Dec. 9; 3368, 3370, Dec. 30, 1922; 65, Jan. 6; 312. Jan. 20; 443, Jan. 27; 562, Feb. 3; 685, 687, Feb. 10; 1039-41, Mar. 3; 1163, Mar. 10; 1271. Mar. 17, 1923. Advertising: Pages 136, 138, July 8; 1450-1, Sept. 23; eight-page insert, Dec. 9 1922. Lobby Displays: Pages 1052, Mar. 3; 1174, Mar. 10. 1923. Prologues: Pages 197. Jan. 13; 460, Jan. 27; 701, Feb. 10, 1923. Exploitation: Pages 3044, Dec. 16, 1922; 454, Jan. 27; 568, Feb. 3; 935, Feb. 24; 1045-6, 1052, Mar. 3; 1283, Mar. 17, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Pages 3207. Dec. 23; 3369, Dec. 30, 1922; 1040, Mar. 3, 1*28. — R — RAGS TO RICHES. Produced by Harry Rapf. Distributed by Warner Bros. Released Oct. 7, 1922. Star, Wesley Barry. Director, Wallace Worsley. Length, 7 reels. Synopsis: Human interest melodrama. Marmaduke Clarke, only child of the Blackwell-Clarkes, seeking adventure, falls into the hands of a band of thieves. Dumbell Is presumably a member. He escapes with the boy from the den when a reward is offered. The two proceed as tramps. Dumbell falls In love with the daughter of a distant farmer. The local purist committee objects to Mary and Dumbell being in their midst. The Clarkes arrive at the Collins farm and berate the detectives for allowing the boy to disappear. Dumbell surprises the assemblage by revealing himself as of the sercret service and delivering over the lawless band. References: Reviewed issue Oct. 7, 1922, page 1771. First Run Showings: Pages 1745, Oct. 7; 2020. 2023, Oct. 21; 2417-8. Nov. 11; 2539. Nov. 18; 2658-9, Nov. 25; 2921, Dec. 9; 3051. Dec. 16; 3369, Dec. 30, 1922; 64, 66, Jan. 6. 1923. Advertising: Pages 1580, 1589, Sept. 30; 1715-8. Oct. 7; 1841-3, Oct. 14; 1954-7, Oct. 21; 2122-3, Oct. 28; 2298-9, Nov. 4; 2388-9, Nov. 11, 1922; 416-7, Jan. 27; 1242, Mar. 17, 1923. Lobby Displays: Pages 2927, Dec. 9, 1922; 827, Feb. 17, 1923. Prologue: Page 457, Jan. 27. 1923. Exploitation: Pages 2428. Nov. 11; 2925, 2927, Dec. 9: 3041, Dec. 16; 3196. Dec. 23 1922* 449-51 Jan. 27, 1923. Newspaper' Displays: Pagos 2659, 2661, Nov. 25; 2787, Dec. 2; 3368, Dec. 30. 1922; 182. Jan. 13, 1923. REMEMBRANCE. Produced and distributed by Goldwyn. Released Oct. I, 1922. With Claude Gilllngwater, Patsy Ruth Miller and Cullen Landls. Director, Rupert Hughes. Length, 5,644 feet. Synopsis: Drama of life as it is lived in many American homes. Written by Rupert Hughes. Self-sacrifice of fatherhood is theme of story. Like many other " Pops," John P. Grout has grown old and had almost walked into bankruptcy trying to keep his family in style and his sons out of scrapes. One day he became seriously ill and in his delirium calls on God to save him so that he can work and keep his children out of the poorhouse. When Dad is on the verge of death the family seek the great light. The doctor pulls him through, but the near passing of ** Pop " has been the cause of a complete reform of •vary member of the family. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 9, 1922, page 1296. First Run Showings: Pages 1885, 1888, Oct. 14; 2020-23, Oct. 21; 2158, Oct. 21; 2277-8, Nov. 4; 2419, Nov. 11; 2538, 2540, Nov. 18; 2660, Nov. 25, 1922; 14, Jan. 6, 1923.