Variety (July 1922)

r w^m •'•WT'^ iP PICTURES Friday^ July ZSJ^J^ ^ % ojiri Organization Ohat O^as Used Its Oirains Instead OF Its 94.outh AMERICAN RELEA^G CORPORATION takes pleasure in announcing iu control and distri- bution of the nioftt sought-after picture of the year, the GEORGE BEBAN pro<|uction, '^HE SIGN OF THE ROSE/' which will he hooked by us first of all with Mr. Beban and his company of eight players for record-breaking engagements in the big first run houses of the nation— and later on, but not now, to be booked alone without the act **The Sign of the Rose" is today the world's greatest motion picture attraction. We likewise take pleasure in announcing to exhibitors everywhere thirteen big-story, big-director, big-star or big a!l-rtar-cast productions for the first quarter of die 1922-1923 season, beginning September 10th, at the rate of one production each week, with the definite assurance to the exhibitors of America that we will release 70 productions within the year beginning in September. September 10: "QUEEN OF THE MOULIN ROUGE.** Ray C. Smallwood^s Pyramid pro- duction of Paul Potter's great play featuring Martha Mansfield, Joe Striker and Henry Harmon. Art direction by Ben Carre. A tremendous melodrama. September 17: "TIMOTHY'S'QUEST." A Dirigo Films, Inc. production of Kate Doug- lass Wiggin'^s world-known story. Directed by Sidney Olcott. Production Manager Charles M. Seay. Scenario by Katherine Stuart. A combination of "Daddy Longlegs'* and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." A heart story. All-star cast. H^ember 24: "POOLS OF FORTUNE.'' K A. B. Davis production written and titled ■y W. C. Tuttle and Directed by Louis Wm. i^haudet. Th^ biggest laugh melo-comedy' drama o£ the past two years. Marguerite de la Motte, Russell Simpson, TuUy Marshall, Frank Brownlee and Jack Dill in the cast. October 1: "THE WOMAN HE LOVED." A J. L. Frothingham production. Directed by Edward Sloman from the stpry by William V. Mong. All-star cast including Marguerite de Ja Motte, William V. Mong and eight other well-known players. October 8: "WHEN THE DESERT CALLS." A bigger, stronger, better known drama thax^ "The Sheik." A Ray C. SmaUwood-Pyramid' production featuring Violet Heming, Sheldon Lewis, Robert Eraser and a big cast. A tre- mendous romance of the d&^rt. October 15: "THE PILLAGERS." A story of the far north bigg'^r than "The Spoilers" with an all-star cast of seven big principals. An A. B. Davis production directed by Louis Wm. Chaudet and edited aifd titled by W. C. Tultle, the author pf "Fools of Fortune." Romance and melodrama. October 22: "THE H0US2 OF SOLOMON.** Starring William H. Strauss supported by Brenda Moore and Nancy Deaver. Directed by Lem F. Kennedy. This is the greatest Jewish comedy-drama ever 'made. It is a combination of the pathos and beauty of - . • Peter Grimm and the humor and philosophy of Abe Potash. Produced and presented by Carl Krusada from the story by Val Cleve- land. October 29: "FLAPPER LOVE." From Eugene Walter's newest play, "The Flapper," to be presented this fall on the New York stager An all-star cQst including Faire Bin- ney^ Lucy Fox, Florence Billings, Huntley Go^doo^ Joe Striker, J. Barney Sherry, Julia Swayne Gordon. Directed by George Ter- williger, who made the Marion Davie* suc- cess, '^he Bride's Play." November 5: "THE OTHER SIDE." A Hugh Dierker production from the story by Thelma LaNier. This is the man who produced "When Dawn Came," a screen production that set the entire country talking. With an all-star cast of six big names. November 12: "THE DEERSLAYER." An- other of James Fenimore Cooper's Leather- stocking Tales. Produced at Glacier Na« tional Park by Sacramento Pictures Corpor« ation with entire tribes of Crow and Black« feet Indians giving the picture the reality it deserves. A story of romance and adventure* November 19: "xMILES BREWSTER AND THE SUPERSEX." A Frank R. Adams pro- duction personally supervised by the noted author made known internationally through his stories in Hearst's Cosmopolitan and th« Saturday Evening Post. November 26: "AT THE CROSSROADS" starring Seena Owen. This is Harriet Com- stock's tremendous new domestic novel that is one of the best sellers tod»y-iii the forty leading cities of America. The star of •*Si8ters" and "The Woman God Changed" in the biggest picture of her career. December 3: "THE GREAT CITY." A tre- mendous melodrama of New-York's night life; its dance palaces, its bright lights. A cast of big names and a big director. Pro- duced at the Whitman Bennett studios under the personal supervision of Whitman Ben- nett. Check all these release* against those of all the other producing and distributing companies in the business; match them, week for week^ all the way down the year and American Releasing Corporation will equal or excel the output of any other companies in—Stories. Directors. Casts. Box-office values. Technical standards. WE'VE GOT THE PICTURES. I ■i-*'V^ In Canada: Canadian Releasing Corporation^ Limited