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MOVING PICTURE WORLD
December 24. 192;
Short Subjects Are Separated From Features
Producers Distributing Division
Kind of Picture Review Feet
1925
Coming of Amos (Rod LaRoque) Comedy-drama Sept. 19.. 5,077
Off the Highway (W. V. Mong) Drama Oct. 3.. 7,641
Road to Yesterday (J. Schildkraut) Tense drama Dec. 12.. 9,981
Simon the Jester (O’Brien-Rich) Comedy-drama Nov. 28 . 6,161
1926
Bachelor Brides (LaRocque) Mystery drama May 22 6,612
Braveheart (LaRocque) Indian drama Jan. 23 . 7,231
Clinging Vine (Leatrice Joy) Comedy July 31.. 6,400
Corporal Kate (Reynolds-Faye) Girl War-workers Dec. 18 7,460
Danger Girl (Priscilla Dean) Comedy-drama Feb. 6 . 5,666
Dice Woman (Priscilla Dean) Farce-melodrama June 19.. 5,614
Eve's Leaves (Leatrice Joy) Romantic Comedy May 29 . 6,750
Fifth Avenue (De La Motte) Human int. drama Feb. 20.. 5,503
Flame of the Yukon (Seena Owen) Melodrama of Yukon . June 26 . 5,800
For Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy) Divorce corn-drama Oct. 9 . 6,400
For Wives Only (M. Prevost) Sophisticated farce. Dec. 4 . 5,790
Gigolo (Rod LaRocque) Drama Oct. 16.. 7295
Meet the Prince (Jos. Schildkraut) Comedv-drama July 3.. 5,901
Million Dollar Handicap (all star) Horse race, melo Feb. 13 .. 6,095
Nervous Wreck (Ford-Haver) Farce-comedy Oct. 23 6,736
Pals in Paradise (star cast) Kyne mining story Nov. 29.. 6,636
Paris at Midnight (Jetta Goudal) Melodrama May 15.. 6,995
Prince of Pilsen (Geo. Sidney) Comedy drama May 8 6,600
Red Dice (Rod LaRocque) Underworld melodrama. May 1 . 7,257
Rocking Moon (Tashman-Bowers) Alaskan drama. Jan. 30 . 6,011
Sea Wolf (Ralph Ince) Jack London story July 10 6,763
Shipwrecked (S. Owen-J. Schildkraut) .. Melodrama July 3 . 5,865
Silence (H. B. Warner). Self-sacrifice, drama June 5 . 7,518
Speeding Venus (Priscilla Dean) Melodrama July 24 5,560
Steel, Preferred (star cast) Steel industry drama Jan. 9.. 6,717
Sunny Side Up (Vera Reynolds) Comedy drama July 17.. 5,994
Three Faces East (Jetta Goudal) Suspense-spy, melo Feb. 20 . 7,415
Unknown Soldier (Chas. Mack, etc.) . . . . War drama June 12 .. 7,979
Up in Mabel’s Room (Marie Prevost) .. Farce-comedy June 26 6,345
Volga Boatman (W. Boyd-E. Fair) Melodrama Apr. 24 10,660
Young April (Bessie Love) Romantic com. -dr.. Sept. 11.. 6,858
Wedding Song (Leatrice Joy) Comedy-heart int.-dr Jan. 2 . 7,373
Whispering Smith (H. B. Warner) Melodrama western ..... May 8 6.155
Wild Oats Lane (Viola Dana) Melodrama Apr. 10 6,900
1927
Fighting Love (Jetta Goudal) Desert drama June 4 . 7,107
Getting Gertie’s Garter (Prevost) Farce comedy Feb. 19.. 6,859
Heart Thief (Schildkraut-de-Putti) European drama May 21 . 6,035
Jim, The Conqueror (Boy-Faire) Suspense western Jan. 1 5,324
King of Kings Biblical drama Apr. 23 13,500
Man Bait (Marie Prevost) Comedy drama Jan. 29 5,865
Night Bride (Marie Prevost) Farce comedy May 9 5,736
Nobody’s Widow (Joy-Ray-Haver) Farce comedy Jan. 15.. 6,421
Rubber Tires (Ford-Love) Auto comedy Apr. 9.. 6,303
Vanity (Leatrice Joy) Melodrama June 18 5,921
Yankee Clipper (William Boyd) Sailing ship melo May 14 7,820
White Gold (Jetta Goudal) Emotional drama Apr. 9 6,198
DE MILLE PRODUCTIONS
Pathe Brand Product
Action Western Dec. 10 5,478
Sea drama Dec. 3 6,447
Devil’s Twin (Maloney) Wreck of the Hesperus
RAYART
Midnight Limited (star cast) Railroad melodrama
Call of the Klondike (Glass-Dwan) Melodrama .
Moran of the Mounted (Howes) Northwest M.
A Light in the Window (Walthall) Father love drama ...
Cruise of the Helion (Star cast) Sea action drama
Silent Hero (Bonaparte, dog) Northwest melodrama.
1925
Dec. 27 5,255
1926
Aug. 21 5.803
P. melo. Sept. 4 5,301
1927
Nov. 12 5,960
Sept. 24 6,089
Aug. 20 5,502
STERLING PICTURES CORP.
Wreckage (May Allison) Drama
1926
July 24 . 5,723
1927
Closed Gates (Harron-Novak) Emotional drama
Stranded (Shirley Mason) Studio melodrama.
May 28 Sept. 10
TIFFANY PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Backstage (Bedford-W. Collier, Jr.) .... Comedy drama July 9
Beauty Shoppe (Busch) Society com-dr. July 16
Broken Gate Emotional drama Jan. 15
Cheaters (O’Malley-Ferguson) Crook melodrama Mar. 24
College Days (Marceline Day) College com. -dr. ... ... Nov. 6
Enchanted Island Romantic drama June 25
Fools of Fashion (Busch) Comedy drama Oct. 9
Girl from Gay Paree (Star Cast) Farce comedy Sept. 24
Husband Hunters (Mae Marsh) Sophisticated com Feb. 26
Josselyn’s Wife (Pauline Frederick) .... Society drama Nov. 27
Lightning Zane Gray drama
Night Life (A. Day-J. Harron) After-war drama .Dec. 10
Sin Cargo (Shirley Mason) , . Sea drama Dec. 11
Snowbund (Blythe-Rich-Agnew) Farce comedy July 30
The First Night (Lytell-Devore) Farce comedy Feb. 19
Tired Business Man Comedy
Wild Geese (Belle Bennett) Character drama Dec. 10
Women’s Wares (Brent-Lytell) Sophisticated melo Nov. 19
5,563
5,414
5,754
5,669
5.300 6.024
7.300 4,887 6,482 5,233 5,600 5,800
6,235
6,100
5.182
5,500
6.448
5,614
UNITED ARTISTS
1927
Beloved Rogue (J. Barrymore) Romantic drama Apr. 2 9.264
College (Buster Keaton) Gag comedy Sept. 17 5.916
Love of Sunya (Gloria Swanson) Episodic drama. Mar. 19 7,311
Kind of Picture
Review Feet
Magic Flame (Colman-Banky) Drama Sept. 24 . 8,308
My Best Girl (Mary Pickford) Typical com-dr Nov. 12.. 8,700
Night of Love ( Banky-Colman) Romantic Drama Jan. 29 . 7,440
Resurrection (Rod LaRocque) Tolstoy drama Apr. 16 9,120
Sorrel & Son (Nilsson-H. B. Warner) ... Father love dr Nov. 19 .. 9,000
The Gaucho (D. Fairbanks) Typical action dr Nov. 26 . 9,265
The General (Buster Keaton) Civil War comedy Feb. 12.. 7,500
Topsy and Eva (Duncan Sisters) Uncle Tom traversty . . Aug. 13.. 7,456
Two Arabian Knights (Boyd-Wolheim) . Romantic comedy Oct. 29 8,250
Winning of Barbara Worth (Banky) . . . . H. B. Wright western Dec. 4 . 8 rls.
UNIVERSAL
1926
Buckaroo Keid (Hoot Gibson) Farce-dramawestern . Nov. 20.. 6,107
Cheerful Fraud (Denny) Farce comedy Dec. 11 6^945
Her Big Night (Laura La Plante) Farce Comedy Sept. 4 ' 7)603
Ice Flood (Harlan-Dana) . .....Lumber camp melo. . Oct. 2 . 5*747
Man from the West (Acord) Blue Streak Western .Dec. 4 4^474
Michael Strogoff Russian Melodrama . Oct. 30 9’,315
Old Soak (Jean Hersholt) Comedy drama Sept. 11.. 7,445
Prowlers of the Night (Humes) Blue Streak western Dec. 18.. 4, ’390
Red Hot Leather (Hoxie) Western ... Nov. 27 4,535
Silent Rider (Hoot Gibson) Western Dec. 25 5)598
Spangles (O’Malley-Nixon) Circus comedy-dr Nov. 6 . 5)638
Take It from Me (Reginald Denny) .... Comedy drama Oct. 16 .. 6,649
Texas Streak (Hoot Gibson) Thrill western Sept. 25 . 6)250
Yellow Back (Fred Humes) ...Western Oct. 9 4,766
1927
Alias the Deacon (Jean Hershoit) Crook com. -drama June 25.
A Man’s Past (Veidt-Bedford) Tense drama. Sept. 17.
Back to God’s Country ( Adoree) Curwood N. W. story . Aug. 6
Beware of Widows (Laura LaPlante) ... Light farce-comedy May 9
Butterflies in the Rain (LaPlante) Romantic drama . Jan. 1
Cat and the Canary (LaPlante-Hale) ... Mystery-thriller May 14
Denver Dude (Hoot Gibson) Action western Feb. 26.
Down the Stretch (Agnew-Nixon) Racing melodrama ...... May 2
Fighting Three (Jack Hoxie) Western melodrama May 21
Fourth Commandment (Bennett-Carr) . Sentimental drama Apr. 23
Grinning Guns (Jack Hoxie) Action western May 14
Held by the Law (Lewis) Crime-detective Apr. 2
Hero for a Night A (Tryon) Gag comedy Nov. 26.
Hey! Hey! Cowboy (Gibson) Action western Apr. 9
Irresistible Lover (Moran-Kerry) Romantic Comedy Nov. 19.
Les Miserables (Star cast) Hugo’s novel Aug. 27
Les Miserables Long version.
. 6,869 . 5,916 . 5,751 . 5,777 . 7,319 . 7,712 5.292 . 6,910 . 4,198 . 6,892 . 4,689 . 6.929 . 5,711 . 5,378 . 6,958 7,713
Men of Daring (Hoxie) Thrill western
Silk Stockings (La Plante) Married life com.
WARNER BROS.
Across the Pacific (Monte Blue) Melodrama
Don Juan (John Barrymore) Romantic
Footloose Widows (Fazenda-Logan) .... Farce-com< Millionaires (Sidney-Fazenda-Gordon) . . . Heart int.
My Official Wife (Rich-Tearle) Drama
Social Highwayman (Devore-Love) Farce-com<
Civil War melo.
While London Sleeps (Rin-Tin-Tin) Dog me
Why Girls Go Back Home (Miller) .... Comedy
A Million Bid (Dolores Costello)
A Reno Divorce (May McAvoy)
A Sailor’s Sweetheart (Fazenda-Cook) .
Bitter Apples (Monte Blue-Myma Loy)
Black Diamond Express (Blue)
Dearier (Irene Rich)
Don’t Tell the Wife (I. Rich)
First Auto (Barney Oldfield)
Gay Old Bird (Fazenda)
Good Time Charley (star cast) . . .
Heart of Maryland (D. Costello'! .
Hills of Kentucky (Rin-Tin-Tin) .
Irish Hearts (May McAvoy)
Taws of Steel (Rin-Tin-Tin)
jazz Singer (Jolson-MacAvoy)
Matinee Ladies (May McAvoy)..
Missing Link (Svd Chaplin)
Old San Francisco (D. Costello)
One Round Hogan (Blue Jim Jeffries)..
Sailor Izzy Murphy (Jessel)
Simple Sis (Fazenda-C. Cook)
The Brute (Monte Blue)
The Climbers (Irene Rich)
Third Degree (Dolores Costello)
Tracked by the Police (Rin-Tin-Tin) . .
What Every Girl Should Know (Miller)
What Happened to Father (W. Oland) Character farce-com. When A Man Loves (J. Barrymore) .
White Flannels (Iconise Dresser)
Wolf’s Clothing (Blue-Miller)
Comedy drama
Modem life comedy
Romance-melodrama
Heart Interest melo.
Stage melodrama. Dog melodrama
Football-thrills
22
4.827
. . May 21 .
6,038
Apr.
9
6,155
. . Feb.
12
4,689
. . Oct.
1 .
6,170
. . July 23
5.416
. . Tune
25
5.900
. . . Feb.
5
6.807
8.
4,409
29
7,015
. Dec. 17 .
6.172
Aug.
20.
5.947
. . . Nov.
12
8.249
. . Feb.
19
7.172
May 28
5.252
. . .Nov.
12
12.000
5
6,450
1926
Oct.
16
6.945
Aug.
21
10.018
. . Julv
3
7.163
. . . Nov.
20.
6.903
. . . Nov.
6
7.840
. . . Tune 26
6.107
. . Oct.
23.
8.649
. . Dec.
11
5.810
May 29
5,262
1927
4
6.310
Oct.
29
5.492
Oct.
15
5.685
. . . May
9
5.453
. . Tuly
23
5.803
Tune
IS
5.897
Feb.
5.
6.972
Tuly
9
6,767
12
6.284
. Nov.
26. .
6.302
Tulv
30 .
5.96S
. . Feb.
26
6.271
Tune
11
5.397
Oct.
1 .
5.560
Oct.
22 .
8.117
Apr.
23. .
6.352
Mav
14
6.485
Tune
25
7.961
Oct.
g
6.357
10.
6.020
Tune
11
6.218
Mav
2
5.901
2S .
6.631
Tan.
g
7.647
Mav
21
5.81?
ia Mar.
19
6.291
July
9
5.56'
Feb.
12
10,040
Apr.
2
6 820
29
7.068