Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

94 MOTION PICTURE NEWS SNOWSHOE TRAIL, THE. Produced by Chester Bennett Productions. Distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Inc. Released Sept. 17, 1922. Star, Jane Novak. Director, Chester Bennett. Length, 5.382 feet. Synopsis: Northwest melodrama. Romance and humor are also present. Adapted from the novel by Edison Marshall. Soc iety girl goes into far Northwest to search for her fiance, accompanied by her guardian as a guide, ine guardian deserts with the horses, leaving them in a cabin with insufficient suplies. They locate her liance, now a squaw man. His true nature is revealed and she realizes her love for the guide. Rescue of heroine from waterfalls and a fight between the hero and a bear among the highlights. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 23. 1922, page 1499. First Run Showings: Pages 2419, Nov. 11; 3050, Dec. 16, 1922. Advertising: Pages 728, 740, Aug. 12; 1235, Sept. 9; 1454-5, Sept. 23, 1922. Newspaper Displays: Page 2021, Oct. 21, 1922. SOLOMON IN SOCIETY. Produced by Cardinal Pictures Corp. Distributed by American Releasing Corp. Released Jan. 28, 1923. Star, William H. Strauss. Director, Lawrence C. Windom. Length, 5,600 feet. Synopsis: Drama based upon climbing-into-society idea — with characters from East Side of New York. Triangle situation is involved in plot, as well as juvenile love interest. Treats of the rise of a Jewish family. Poor dress designer has ambitions to own store on Fifth Avenue. He helps a girl in distress and she helps him when she achieves fame. The wife, however, cannot stand prosperity and loses her head over temperamental pianist. Eventually she learns that her love is bound up with her husband. References: Reviewed issue Jan. 13, 1923, page 230. Advertising: Pages 470, July 29; 578, Aug. 5; 3273, Dec. 30, 1922. SON OF THE DESERT, A. Produced by F. W. Kraemer. Distributed by American Releasing Corp. Released Feb. 11, 1923. Featuring Marin Sais and Wm. Merrill McCormick. Director, Wm. Merrill McCormick. Length, 4,144 feet. Synopsis: Oriental drama. Concerns Helen Dobson, an art student traveling with her father in Arabia, where she meets Steve Kinard, a Texan cowboy employed by a syndicate to purchase horses. She wishes to paint the portrait of a shiek, but the Arab explains that the custom of his country does not permit it. If she will come to his camp, however, the shiek will show her treasures to satisfy her interest In the picturesque. Against the advice of her father and Steve, she decides to accept the shiek's hospitality. The shiek tries to hold her against her will. She is finally rescued by Steve and her father after several adventures. References: Advertising: Page 3273, Dec. 30, 1922. SO THIS IS ARIZONA. Produced and distributed by W. M. Smith Productions. Released Dec. 1. 1922. Featuring Franklyn Farnum, Al Hart. Francis Ford and Shorty Hamilton. Director, Francis Ford. Length, 5,826 feet. Synopsis: Western comedy-drama. Returning from France, after the big doings over there, Norman Russell is seeking rest and quiet, where he may recuperate. He happens upon a little town in Arizona, and subsequent developments, one of which is blonde and blue-eyed, and answers to the name of P»£gy, convinces him that, beside Arizona, France was a quiet and peaceful place. He is mistaken for a crook and is framed by some rogues on a murder charge. Peggy gathers evidence of his innocence and comes to his rescue. The two real culprits are caught. References: Reviewed issue Aug. 19, 1922, page 918. Advertising: Pages 184, Dec. 31, 1921; 2806, May 20, 1922. SPAWN OF THE DESERT. Produced by Ben Wilson Productions. Distributed by Arrow Film Corp. Released Jan. 10, 1923. Star, William Fairbanks. Director, Ben Wilson. Length, 6,038 feet. Synopsis: Western melodrama of the gold-rush clays dealing with the adventures of a desert guide who strikes up a friendship with a man who wears a long white beard. The latter has been searching for the slayer of his wife and despoiler of his home. The two men make for the hills, with the villains in hot pursuit, (he ringleader of whom is the murderer. A battle ensues In which the desert guide is the winner. With the death of the villain the youth takes the old man's daughter from the town. SPIDER AND THE ROSE, THE. Produced by B. F. Zeldman. Distributed by Principal Pictures Corp. Released Feb. 15. 1923. Featuring Gaston Glass. Alice Lake. Louise Fazenda and Robert McKlm. Director, Jack McDermott Length, 6,200 feet. Synopsis: Romantic melodrama of early California. Son of Governor of Call fornla. In early days. Joins revolutionists to oust scheming secretary who dec-elves Governor and oppresses people. Ills sweetheart, thluklnr to save him Inadvertently betrays him to authorities, and revolutionists are imprisoned believing hero a traitor. He Is thrown Into the sen, hut Is saved. He effect*