AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19007, 7 May 1924, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

paramount Pictures. “TURN TO THE RIGHT.’’ “Turn to the Right” is the title of the new star attraction at the Paramount Municipal Pictures, where it will be screened for the first time to-mor-row evening. It is a play whose run totalled two years in New York and Chicago; a sure-fire, heart-tugging com-edy-drama of American life; a piny that has made .fortunes for several men and isn’t out of the habit yet; a photo-drama made by Rex Ingram, the most brilliant director in the world today. It’s a play with a golden record and golden constituents. It’s not hard to figure ont what the opportunity to show it is made of. It is the highestpriced motion picture ever produced. Before any screening was attempted, 400pWO dollars was paid for the screen

right*. The play by Winehell Smith and John F. Hazzard, was produced on the stage by John Golden.' The pictare production bill Wa* made by Metro, and presented on the screen by John Golden and Marcus Loew. In the transaction Mr Godden retains one-half interest. When given at the Gaiety Theatre in New York a few seasons ago, “Turn to the Hight” broke all records for box office returns. Its run totalled 443 days.. Mr Golden sold one-haif of his interest in the production to Mateus Loew for 250,000 dollars, retaining a 250,000 dollars interest himself. This makes “Turn to the Right” the most valuable dramatic story ever written. The price of 500,000 dollars for “Turn to the Right” is three and a-half times the largest sum expended previously for any dramatic story for pictures; that Of 175,000 dollars given by D. W. Griffith for “Way Down East,” being next. Seats may be reserved at H. I. Jones and Son’s.