Motion picture news booking guide (Oct 1926)

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BOOKING GUIDE 41 Theme: Ringside melodrama. Boxing champ by staging impromptu fight obtains money needed to pay for lease on land where there is oil, foiling deceitful option holder. He wins girl and aids her father, in whom was entrusted confidence of people whose savings were invested in oil well. ONLY WAY, THE. Produced by Herbert Wilcox Prod., Ltd. Distributed by United Artists Corp. Released Mar. 1, 1926. Star, Sir John Martin Harvey. Director, Herbert Wilcox. Length, 7,400 feet. Theme: Drama. Deals with French Revolution and self-sacrifice of Sidney Carton, who gives life for rival so that woman he loves may be happy. References: Reviewed issue May 1, 1926, page 2114. OTHER WOMEN'S HUSBANDS. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Released Mar. 17, 1926. With Monte Blue and Marie Prevost. Director, Erie C. Kenton. Length, 6,721 feet. Theme: Modern comedy-drama of wife who, finding her husband infatuated with other woman, steps out herself with another man and soon cures hubby. References : Reviewed issue Apr. 3, 1926, page 1523. Advertising: Pages 2301, May 15; 87, July 10, 1926. OUT OF THE STORM. Produced and distributed by Tiffany Productions. Released Apr. 10, 1926. With Jacqueline Logan and Edmund Burns. Director, Louis J. Gasnier. Length, 5,600 feet. Theme: Dramatic romance in which a man barely escapes execution because he refuses to involve his wife in a murder of which he is innocent. References: Reviewed issue May 1, 1926, page 2113. Advertising: Pages 1911, May 2; insert, June 6, 1925; 104, July 10, 1926. \}*\ Kit) t N£ MINUTE to pi Ay OH A\0»OAN M WOOD PADLOCKED. Produced by Famous Players-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released Aug. 9, 1926. With Lois Moran, Louise Dresser and Noah Beery. Director, Allan Dwan. Length, 6,700 feet. ThVfne: Drama of family life — with daughter making effort to win place in the world against the bigoted standards of her father. References: Reviewed issue Aug. 7, 1926, page 501. Advertising: Two page insert, Apr. 17; 1861, Apr. 24; 2813, June 12; 84, July 10; 351, July 31; 447, Aug. 7; 531, Aug. 14; 792, Sept. 4; 1131, Sept. 25, 1926. Lobby Displays : Page 491, Aug. 7, 1926. Exploitation : Page 583, Aug. 14, 1926. PALM BEACH GIRL, THE. Produced by Famous Pl*yers-Lasky. Distributed by Paramount. Released May 17, 1926. Starring Bebe Daniels with Lawrence Gray. Director, Erie Kenton. Length, 6,918 feet. Theme: Farce-comedy of fair visitor to Florida who gets into one scrape after another. Wins heart of youth and brings him out of financial difficulties through her luck in winning a race in his boat. References : Reviewed issue July 3, 1926, page 52. Advertising: Two page insert, Dec. 19, 1925; 2914, June 26; 4, July 3, 1926. PALS FIRST. Produced by Edwin Carewe. Distributed by First National Pictures. Released Aug. 8, 1926. With Lloyd Hughes and Dolores Del Rio. Director, Edwin Carewe. Length, 6,834 feet. Theme: Crook melodrama based upon a crook getting by as honorable, through mistaken identity.