The Moving picture world (January 1925-February 1925)

152 MOVING PICTURE WORLD January 10, 1925 Fair audience appeal. Family and student class town of 4,000. Admission 10-25. R. J. Relf, Star Theatre (600 seats), Decorah, Iowa. MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD. (6,500 feet). Star, Bert Lytell. A good one night program picture. Nothing special to recommend it. Tone, okay. Sunday, yes. Fair audience appeal. Familv and student class town of 4.000. Admission 10-25. R, J. Relf, Star Theatre (600 seats), Decorah, Iowa. OLE SWIMMING HOLE. Star, Charles Ray. Good hick story. Worth seeing. Tone, good. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Farmers and merchants town of 1,650. Mrs. J. B. Travelle, Elite Theatre, Placerville, California. OLIVER TWIST. (7,000 feet). Star, Jackie Coogan. To my estimation I think this is the poorest of Jackie's pictures, yet it seemed to please about eighty per cent, because it was Jackie. Tone, fair. Sunday, yes. Good attendance. All classes town of 1,000. Admission 10-20. A. E. Rogers, Temple Theatre (250 seats), Dexter, New York. PERFECT FLAPPER.. (7,000 feet). Star.' Colleen Moore. Book this picture because it will make you money. Good for any class of people, young and old. Tone, good. Sunday, yes. Audience appeal, okay. All classes town of 1,200. Admission 25-50. Palace Theatre (800 seats), Blackwell, Oklahoma. WHITE MOTH. (6,550 feet). Star, Barbara LaMarr. Here is one that you cannot go wrong on. Pleased everyone and heard many compliments. Miss LaMarr is getting to be a favorite here. A. Mitchell, Dixie Theatre, Russellville, Kentucky. WHITE MOTH .(6,550 feet). Star, Barbara LaMarr. Just a little too peppy for the old folks. A regular battery charger that made a big hit with the rounders. If we were many years younger probably we would have praised it to the sky. No tone. Sunday, as well as any day. Appeals to live ones. Society class, city of 10,000. Admission 10-20. Ned Pedigo, Pollard Theatre (800 seats), Guthrie, Oklahoma. WOMAN ON THE Jl'RY. (7,331 feet). Star, Sylvia Breamer. Boys, here is one fine picture and what a cast! No less than ten stars and the story is so absorbing that you think that you are witnessing a real chapter from life. Tone okay. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Mixed class, town of 3,000. Admission 20-25. T. L Barnett, Finn's Theatre (600 seats), Jewett City, Connecticut. Fox BLIZZARD. (5,890 feet). Star cast. Did not want this picture; forced to play it to get pictures I did want. Poor entertainment value. Unknown cast. Reindeer stampede the only thing good about it. Tone, good. Sunday, maybe. "Very poor audience appeal. Farmers and merchants town of 1,650. Mrs. J. B. Travelle, Elite Theatre, Placerville. California. CIRCUS COWBOY. (6,400 feet). Star. Buck Jones. This is good. Everybody pleased, but just half a crowd. Roads are terrible. Tone, good. Sunday, no. Audience appeal, one hundred per cent. Business class and farmers town of 2,200. Admission 10-25. A. F. Jenkins, Community Theatre, David City, Nebraska. Between Ourselves A get-together place where we can talk things over Scan the chatty, brotherly -help letters that I am proud to print this week. They come from brother exhibitors— one from "across the pond" — and they show the friendly spirit that keeps growing among our good "Gang." Let's hear from more of you — fellows, a letter on a pertinent exhibitor topic is always welcome to this department. Dependable tips are the first consideration, naturally; but letters that foster the spirit of good will, that give help to others, that bring the "Gang" into that talk-it-over harmony — these are well worth writing and mighty well worth reading. VAN. FIFTH HORSEMAN. Star cast. Poor picture. That's all. All classes town of 1,200. Admission 25-50. Palace Theatre, Blackwell, Oklahoma. HEART BUSTER. (4,500 feet). Star, Tom Mix. Pretty good Mix picture, but mostly comedy. Had very little business for some reason. Tone, good. All classes, but white only. Admission 10-20-25. W. H. Odom, Pastime Theatre (250 seats), Sandersville. Georgia. IF WINTER COMES. (10 reels). Star cast. A real special for us, picture great. Did not tire. Held attention of everyone for entire show. Worthy of any liouse, bar none. Good film. Tone, good. Sunday, yes. Audience appeal, one hundred per cent. All classes town of 2,800. Admission 15-25. D. W. Strayer, Mt. Joy Theatre (250 seats). Mt. Joy, Peennsylvania. IT IS THE LAW. (6,000 feet). Star cast. This picture was a pleasant surprise to me. Got It on short notice. Ran it on bad days. Not much business, but people raved about it. Had more favorable comments than on any picture in months. Tone, okay. Sunday, okay. Good audience appeal. All classes town of 3,000. Admission 10-30. M. W. Larmour. National Theatre (450 seats), Graham, Texas. JUST OFF BROADWAY. (6,555 feet). Star, John Gilbert. A very good picture. One of those mysterious kind. Don't be afraid of it if you have it booked, but, of course, it is no special. Will hold for one night only. Tone, good. Sunday, no. Audi ence appeal, eighty per cent. All classes town of 2,800. Admission 15-25. David W. Strayer, Mt. Joy Theatre (250 Seats), Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania. KENTUCKY DAYS. (5 reels). Star. Dustin Farnum. Fair program picture, but no business. Print a little cut short, which hurt our business on Saturday some. Fair tone. Not suitable for Sunday. All classes, but white only. Admission 10-20-25. W. H. Odom, Pastime Theatre (250 seats), Sandersville, Georgia. MILE A MINUTE ROMEO. (4.800 feet). Star, Tom Mix. A good picture, with Torn doing his best, but the print was bad, which ruined the whole show, after arriving too late for a matinee. Tone, okay. Sunday, yes. Small town class town of 3,300. Admission 15-30. P. L Vann, Opera House (600 seats). Greenville, Alabama. NO MOTHER TO GUIDE HER. (7 reels). Star cast. A good program picture, worth seeing, but not a special. Rental paid entirely too high. Lost money on this account. Tone good. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Farmers and merchants, town of 1,650. Mrs. J. B. Travelle, Elite Theatre. Placerville, California. NORTH OF HUDSON BAY. (6 reels). Star, Tom Mix. Very beautiful scenery, also lotsof action. Whenever I want to make a little money all I have to do is book Tom Mix. Tone okay. Small town and rural class, town of 800. Admission 15-30. C. O. Christ, Opera. House (350 seats), Elgin, Iowa. NORTH OF HUDSON BAY. (6 reels). Star. Tom Mix. A fair picture that reached, me short about five hundred feet on the film. This is stealing when an exchange sends out prints that have been cut up this way, but what can we do? Don't buy Fox unless you get them new, as they will ship you rotten prints every time. I warn you from experience. Fair audience appeal. Small town, class town of 5.000. Admission 10-30. L O. Davis, Virginia Theatre (700 seats), Hazard. Kentucky. NOT A DRUM WAS HEARD. (4,823 feet). Star, Buck Jones. Nothing extra but pleased, as no kick was heard. Tone good. Sunday,, yes. Audience appeal forty per cent. Factory class, town of 2,800. Admission 15-25. D. W. Strayer, Mt. Joy Theatre (250 seats). Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania. NOT A DRUM WAS HEARD. (4,823 feet). Star, Buck Jones. Our patrons enjoyed this picture. Judging from the way it held them. The title means nothing, so we used big newspaper space. Tone okay. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Town and rural class, town of 1,028. Admission 10-25. W. C. Geer, Princess Theatre (175 seats), Vermont, Illinois. SHADOWS OF THE EAST. (5,874 feet). Star cast. A very good picture in every way. Although a special, I bought it as a program picture and did a good business. Tone okay. Sunday, yes. Audience appeal eighty per cent. Small town and rural class, town of 800. Admission 15-30. C. O. Christ, Opera House (350 seats), Elgin, Iowa. SILE.XT COMMAND. Star cast. Very fine picture. We had strong opposition on this picture and it held up satisfactorily. Tone good. Good audience appeal. Town and rural class, town of 2,500. Admission 10-26. S. H. Rich, Rich Theatre (450 seats), Montpelier, Idaho. SILENT COMMAND. Star, Edmund Lowe. Good enough for anybody. Exhibitors go back and get this one if you haven't played it. Tone, good. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Coal miners town of 800. Admission 10-20. E. B. Rea, Palace Theatre (468 seats). Velier, Illinois. SOFT BOILED. (7,054 feet). Star, Tom Mix. Very good picture. Should please any audience. Plenty of pep. Lots of comedy situations. Good story. Tone good. Sunday, yes. Good audience appeal. Farmers and merchants, town of 1,650. Mrs. J. B. Travelle, Elite Theatre, Placerville, California. THIS FREEDOM. (7,000 feet). Star cast. Not a motion picture. My patrons all agreed with me that it's terrible. No excuse or reason for making this seven thousand feet of nothing. 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