Motion picture news booking guide (Apr 1923)

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112 MOTION PICTURE NEWS with her, and he does. Months later Len returns — a penitent and wiser mun, realizing Vivian is his real inspiration. She goes to Italy. There is a happy reconciliation when Len follows and wins the prize. References: Reviewed issue April 21, 1923, page 1953. First Run Showings: Page 1041, Mar. 3, 1923. Advertising: Three-page insert. Mar. 17, 1923. WOMAN'S WOMAN, A. Produced by Albion Productions. Distributed by Allied Prod. & Dist. Corp. Released Sept. 24, 1922. Star, Mary Alden. Director. Charles Giblyn. Length, 7,892 feet. Synopsis: Domestic drama. Adapted from Mrs. Nalbro Hartley's Saturday. Evening Post story. Story of home, carrying much heart interest. Shunted to one side by every member of her family except her son, Densie Plummer decides her family does not need her, and sets out to develop her own personality. She succeeds, becoming a national figure. But in the meantime her family, without her guidance, disintegrates. Her son's death at the hands of the man who wronged his sister, brings her to the conviction that the trouble with her own people is that they lack a home. She gives up her career and again becomes the homemaker. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 30, 1922, page 1624. First Run Showings: Pages 1885, Oct. 14; 2023, Oct. 21; 2660, Nov. 25; 2920, Dec. 9, 1922; 310, Jan. 20, 1923. Advertising: Pages 1680, Oct. 7; 1834, Oct. 14; 1964, Oct. 21; 2116, Oct. 28. 1922. WOMAN WHO FOOLED HERSELF, THE. Produced by Edward A. MacManus. Distributed by Associated Exhibitors. Released Oct. 29, 1922. Featuring May Allison and Robert Ellis. Directed by Charles A. Logue and Robert Ellis. Length, 5,401 feet. Synopsis: Romance and high finance coupled together in story with love the conquering element. New York chorus girl, out of work, accepts a proposition as cabaret dancer in a South American cafe. She is the choice of a group of frenzied financiers to mulct a young Latin out of his money. She falls in lov« with the youthful Don and regrets her bargain. After some complication* *li< induces the leader of the group to return the contract she has caused the hern to make. Wben she squares herself, she becomes his wife. References: Reviewed issue Nov. 25, 1922, page 2680. First Run Showings: Pages 2538, Nov. 18; 2786, Dec. 2, 1922; 560, Feb. 3; 688. Feb. 10; 819, Feb. 17; 1038, Mar. 3. 1923. Advertising: Pages 2252-3, Nov. 4; 3153, Dec. 23, 1922; 519, Feb. 3; 1013. Mar. 3, 1923. Newspaper Displays: Page 440, Jan. 27, 1923. WOMEN MEN MARRY. Produced by Edward Dillon Productions. Distributed by Truart Film Corp. Featuring E. K. Lincoln and Florence Dixon. Director, Edward Dillon. Length, 5,400 feet. Synopsis: Society drama. Rich man loses his wife and child and adopts the infant of his servants — the child to be reared as his own. Her aunt has social ambitions for her and takes her to London, where plans are made to marry off to an impoverished lord. On return voyage she is accidentally thrown into contact with youth who is working his passage. Eventually, he comes Into her house as servant, and when her father dies his will establishes her as child of servants. Ills mercenary wife ejects her and she goes to live with parents. A second will is read and the girl comes into a good fortune. References: Advertising: Page 2393, Nov. 11, 1922.