The Moving picture world (November 1924-December 1924)

640 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 13, 1924 than some of his newer ones. Tone, okay. Sunday, yes. Large audience appeal. Mixed class town of 3,000. Admission 20-25. T. L Barnett, Finn's Theatre (600 seats), Jewett City, Connecticut. HOT WATER. (5,000 feet). Star, Harold Lloyd. He certainly got into "Hot Water," but you will know all about that when you see the story built around Lloyd's attempt to please the mother of his bride. Being but a young man and just married, he didn't know that it was impossible to kill this kind of a mother-in-law with kindness. It's the kind of a picture to make the crowd waiting outside anxious to get inside. This was the second showing in the country. The Metropolitan Theatre, in Los Angeles opened with it a week before and Oklahoma was second. William Noble, Criterion Theatre, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. SAFETY LAST. (6,400 feet). Star, Harold Lloyd. One grand riot of entertainment. The hard boiled roared at this one. Tone, fine. Sunday, yes. Big audience appeal. Rural class town of 250. J. J. Halley. San Andreas Theatre (110 seats), San Andreas, California. Preferred RICH MEN'S WIVES. (6,500 feet). Star cast. The cast should be a good drawing card and the picture will please the classes. The acting is all that could be asked. Tone, good. Good audience appeal. Small town Class town of 1,474. Admission 10-25. T. W. Cannon, Majestic Theatre (249 seats), Greenfield, Tennessee. Producers' Dist. Corp. BARBARA FRIETCHIE. (7,179 feet). Star, Florence Vidor. Excellent. In a class with "America" and "Birth of a Nation." It's a classic. Book it. Lynn Overton, Regent Theatre, Bongor, Michigan. BULLDOG DRUMMOND. . Star Carlyle Blackwell. Fair detective story. Had no comments from the few that saw it. Tone, good. Hardly suitable for Sunday. Fair audience appeal. Small town class and farmers town of 600. Admission 10-20, 10-30. H. W. Batchelder, Gait Theatre (175 seats), Gait, California. HER OWN FREE WILL. Star, Helene Chadwick. A nice program picture well acted but no box-office appeal for us. Just made house expenses so was out of pocket film rent. We hope to do better with the Producer's product as they are a decent bunch. Tone, okay. Sunday, yes. Poor audience appeal. General class town of 3,600. Admission 10-20. William A. Clark Sr.. Castle Theatre (300 seats), Havana, Illinois. HIS DARKER SELF. (5 reels). Star, Lloyd Hamilton. Nothing to it. Just a waste of film. Better pay for it and lay it off. Tone unsuitable. Fair audience appeal. All classes in big city. Admission ten cents. Stephen G. Brenner, Eagle Theatre (298 seats), Baltimore, Maryland. LIGHTNING RIDER. (6 reels). Star, Harry Carey. This series of Carey pictures are "Yak" Canutt, the Cowboy Champion, in "Romance and Rustlers," an Arrow-Great Western. above anything I have ever seen Carey in. As good as any of the westerns in the program line and better than some. Tone, good. Good audience appeal. General class town of 2,200. Admission 15-25. E. N. Prescott, Prescott Circuit Theatre (250 seats), Union, Maine. LIGHTNING RIDER. (6 reels). Star, Harry Carey. Did not please or draw as well as his former pictures. I believe the fault lay in the posters. They lead people to think it was a costume picture. All classes in town of 3,000. Admission 10-30. M. W. Larmour, National Theatre (450 seats), Graham, Texas. MIAMI. (6,317 feet). Star cast. A fair picture, that let me get by with a small profit. C. B. Davis, Norwood Theatre, Norwood, Ohio. NIGHT HAWK. (5,115 feet). Star cast. Very good western. Will please ninety per cent. Poor service from Cleveland exchange. D. B. Follett, Star Theatre, Gibsonburg, Ohio. ROARING RAILS. (5,753 feet). Star, HarryCarey. Very good print. Title good. Story fair, acting good. Universal satisfaction first night. Business normal. A. E. Andrews, Opera House, Emporium, Pennsylvania. ROARING RAILS. (5,753 feet). Star, Harry Carey. Very good picture a little above ordinary program pictures. Plenty of action. Very interesting and worth selling. Tone, good. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Farmers and merchants town of 1,650. Mrs. J. B. Travelle, Elite Theatre, Placerville. California. SECOND FIDDLE. (5,810 feet). Star cast. Average program picture. H. P. McFadden, Reel Theatre, Natoma, Kansas. TIGER THOMPSON. (5.700 feet). Star cast. An excellent program picture where action is desired. H. P. McFadden, Reel Theatre, Natoma, Kansas. WISE VIRGIN. Star cast. Pleased all who saw the picture. We played this on Monday night and business was poor. John Machno, Fairmont Theatre, Detroit, Michigan. United Artists BIRTH OF A NATION. Star cast. An excellent picture and well worth seeing. William Noble, Express Theatre, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. DOROTin VERNON OF H ADDON HALL. (9,350 feet). Star, Mary Pickford. A good picture, only more suitable for high-class patronage or big first-run houses. Mary is really at her best in this one. Our people liked it very well, only it did not draw very big. Pleases about ninety per cent. Tone fine. Sunday, yes. Audience appeal good. Neighborhood class, city of 77,000. Admission 10-20. William Leucht, Savoy Theatre (475 seats), St. Joseph, Missouri. Universal BLINKY. (5,740 feet). Star, Hoot •Gibson. Oh, why do they try to make something out of a western star that people do not want him in? Let them stay in westerns or take them out altogether. People expect to see such stars as Gibson In real western pictures, and if they don't they are disappointed. Tone okay. Sunday, yes. Mixed classes, town of 2,714. Admission ten cents and up. T. S. Goolsby, Rex Theatre (460 seats), Brlnkley, Arkansas. CLEAN LP. (5,051 feet). Star, Herbert Rawlinson. A good program picture. Pleased eighty per cent. Ran a Century comedy with this feature, which made a good show. Print in fair condition. Tone good. Sunday, yes. Good attendance. Farmers, town of 150. Admission 10-25. John Schneiger, Casino Theatre (310 seats), Richmond, Iowa. EXCITEMENT. (4.912 feet). Star, Laura LaPlante. Fair. Laura LaPlante is quite good for program pictures. Tone all right. Fair audience appeal. Arthur B. Smith, Fenwick Theatre, Salem, New Jersey. FAST WORKER. (6,506 feet). Star, Reginald Denny. An exceedingly good comedy drama that every exhibitor should play. Denny is now the most popular male star here; in fact, the people ask, "When are you going to play another picture with Reginald Denny in it?" Would advise any exhibitor, large or small, who h»s not yet secured "Reckless Age" and "Sporting Youth" to secure all three immediately. Everyone a good bet. Tone okay. Sunday, yes. Audience appeal one hundred per cent. Suburban class, town of 2,000. Admission 10-30. H. Warren Rible, Mayfleld Theatre (210 seats), Mayneld, California. FAMILY SECRET. Star, Baby Peggy. Love, laughter, and thrllla based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, "Editha's Burglar." Baby Peggy fine in this one. William Noble, Liberty Theatre, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. HIT AND RUN. (5,508 feet). Star, Hoot Gibson. Not the usual western but will please all Gibsons fans. A fine baseball story. Tone, good. Sunday, yes. Audience appeal, ninety per cent. Small town class town of 6,000. Admission 10-30. L. O. Davis, Virginia Theatre (600 seats). Hazard, Kentucky. PHANTOM HORSEMAN. (4,399 feet). Star. Jack Hoxie. Such pictures as this will soon kill Hoxie. Nothing to it. Sunday, no. Audience appeal, fifty per cent. All classes city of 200,000. Admission 10-20. R. M. Kennedy, Royal and Capitol Theatres (350 seats), Birmingham, Alabama. RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE. (6.310 feet). Star. Hoot Gibson. About on a par with his offering. Contains some good riding but rather weak on plot. Tone. okay. Sunday, yes. Fair audience appeal. Mixed class town of 3,000. Admission 20-25. T. L Barnett, Finn's Theatre (600 seats), Jewett City, Connecticut. RIDGEWAY OF MONTANA. (4,842 feet). Star Jack Hoxie. A modern western with good story and plenty of action. Ought to For Release in January — Now Booking PRODUCERS DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION ^ FRANK WOODS SPECIAL PRODUCTION Pat CTMalley^ Wanda Hawley Vnduttilt) PENINSULA STWOOS" Producers Distributing Season 19241925— Thirty First -Run Pictures