The Moving picture world (January 1924-February 1924)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

614 MOVING PICTURE WORLD February 23, 1924 (Copy of Western Union telegram.) JUDGMENT THE STORM opened at Empire Theatre last Sunday to absolute capacity despite worst blizzard in years stop unanimous opinion of patrons best picture have had this season give us mote like it — Morris FitzerSyracuse, NY Hot Dog! Right Off The Bat Comes This Telegram!! — and the picture hasn't hardly started. How many pictures do YOU know of that can pack a theatre in a blizzard? The writer of this advertisement dropped into one of the biggest New York Broadway theatres on the same evening that "Judgment of the Storm" opened in Syracuse. Cold wave here also. The New York Broadway house was half empty with a BIG feature running. Yet "Judgment of the Storm" played capacity, with 25 degrees colder, in a town one-tenth of the size of New York. If you want to know more about "JUDGMENT OF THE STORM" book it and count your profits. Watch the trade papers for more announcements. FILM BOOKING OFFICES OF AMERICA, Inc. 723 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y. Exchanges Everywhere. Mm Office, United Kingdom: R-C Pictures Corporation, 26-27 D'Arblay Street, Wardovr St., London, W. 1, England