Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1928)

October 6. 1928 EXHIBITORS HERALD and MOVING PICTURE WORLD 63 Tiffam -Stahl THE DEVIL'S SKIPPER : Belle Bennett— 20V September 18. A very good picture. Star great. If you want a strong picture they don'; make them any better. Belle Bennett is wonderful. — Bert Silver. Silver Family theatre. Greenville. Mich. — General patronage. STREETS OF SHANGHAI: Special cast— September 20-21. One of those Chinese things but interesting at that. Seemed to please. Six reels. — Wm. E. Tragsdorf. Trags theatre. Neillsville. Wis. — Small town patronage. LIGHTNING: Lightning— September 16-1". A good Zane Grey story. Interesting horse picture. Seven reek. — Wm. E. Tragsdorf, Trags theatre, Neillsville, Wis. — Small town ratronage. United Artists THE GAUCHO: Douglas Fairbanks— 40V September 10-11-12. Lavishly produced and well acted but the story is not so much. Fairbanks and MuxVelez give a great performance, but as a drawing card it was a washout, as the last few Fairbanks have been. Good-bye. Doug, wish you luck. Ten reels. — S. B. Kennedy. Central theatre. Selkirk, Man.. Canada.— Small town patronage. TOPSV AND EVA: Duncan Sisters — This drew fairly well, but didn't satisfy. The burlesque was ever the heads of most of the fans, who had never heard of the musical comedy. I was a sap to play it ahead of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." — Roy W. Adams, Pastime theatre. Mason. Mich. — General patronage. Universal THE FLYING COWBOY: Hoot Gibson— 49V August 20. Hoot stages a one man rodeo in this picture for the tenderfeet on the dude ranch, about which this picture centers, and he does it to perfection. You needn't be afraid to buy this picture. It's there. Baptist revival hurt the percentage. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. PUT 'EM UP: Fred Humes — 47%. August IS. This is about the fifth time the percentage on Western pictures has been 47 per cent. The same crowd must come to each Western and the others stay away. I'll remember that, too. The picture? Oh. I guess it's okay. Five reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. THUNDER RIDERS: Ted Wells— 50V August 23. The percentage jumped a little on this Western but maybe it was because of the comedy with Snookums. Our folks like Snookums. This was the usual Western, I suppose. I swear I can't remember anything about the picture. Five reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath, S. C. — General patronage. TRICK OF HEARTS: Hoot Gibson— 7»V July 3. Hoot becomes a woman in this picture so you know it must be funny. Granted it may be silly, but silly things usually get a good laugh, so you needn't be afraid of this picture. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. GOOD MORNING. JUDGE: Reginald Denny— 50V September 19. This is good entertainment, lots of good clean comedy, good satisfaction here to all. —Bert Silver, Silver Family theatre. Greenville, Mich. — General patronage. RIDING FOR FAME: Hoot Gibson— 75%. September 22. This is a mighty good Western picture, better than the average. — Bert Silver. Silver Family theatre. Greenville. Mich. — General patronage. FINDERS KEEPERS: Laura LaPlante— 55V July 23. Yep, another 100 per cent good one. Better make it 99 per cent for they had a little too many scenes where she was about to lose her soldier britches. The first two or three times brought hearty laughter, but it got less and less with every duplication of the pants falling scene. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre, Bath. S. C— General patronage. THE CLEAN-UP MAN: Ted Wells— 47%. July U. Notice how that percentage drops again ? Our King George Appears In British Sound Film King George of England and other members of the royal family appear in a talking picture made last Wednesday m London, according to press dispatches. The scene was the trooping of the colors, in which the king and the Prince of Wales appeared. The film was presented in the Balmoral Castle ballroom. It Won 't Be Long Now! NOVEMBER 3 That's the Date What Date? 9 9 9 folks must be getting tired of Westerns. Gonna keep my eye on this situation. The picture was al! right. Five reels. — H. B. Grice, Aiken Mills theatre, Bath. S. C. — General patronage. THE SHIELD OF HONOR: Special cast— 57%. July It. A good, pleasing picture. It will appeal to all types. Seven reels. — H. B. Grice, Aiken Mills theatre, Bath, S. C. — General patronage. FOUR FOOTED RANGER: Dynamite— 58V August 9. Isn't it too bad? I don't remember this picture. The percentage is better than the straight Westerns so the folks here must like dog pictures. I'll remember that. Five reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath, S. C— General patronage. WE AMERICANS: Special cast— 60 V September 10. What can we say? It '6 a good picture, no doubt of that, but is it as good as Mr. Carl Laemmle thinks it is when he asks exhibitors who booked this picture at a certain rental to voluntarily increase the rental ? We didn't do it and the percentage shows we used good judgment, i There now, "HeraldWorld," we've caught up on our reports. Thanks for the buggy ride, we'll be more prompt in the future.) Nine reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre, Bath, S. C. — General patronage. ON YOUR TOES: Reginald Denny— A very good comedy drama with a lot of action. Six reek. — John Kamuda, Grand theatre, Indian Orchard, Mass. — General patronage. THE MIDNIGHT ROSE: Si*cial cast— 59V July 30. My records show a special cast but it must have been cloudy for I can't recall even one star in the production. I have a faint idea the picture was pretty good, though, and the percentage is fair. Funny how you remember all about some pictures and forget about others. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. WILD WEST SHOW: Hoot Gibson— 54V AHgust 2. Now I remember this one. You usually remember the very good and the very bad ones. This is the "very good one" kind. If your patrons don't get a laugh out of the crosseyed woman throwing knives at Hoot i she had a grudge against him too because of the mean trick he and the elephant played on her) you better stop reading these reports. Class this 100 per cent. too. Six reels. — H. B. Grice, Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. A MAN'S PAST: Conrad Veidt— September 19. I was very agreeably surprised in this picture. It is very good. Better than some so-called specials. Much better than Universal's special, "Love Me and the World Is Mine." Six reels. — Mrs. C. Knox, Star theatre, Villa Grove. III. — General patronage. THAT'S MY DADDY: Reginald Denny— 56V August 6. What a sweet picture. No exhibitor can go wrong on this one. Play it by all means. You got to hand it to Universal, they've got the pictures. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath, S. C. — General patronage. 13 WASHINGTON SQUARE: Special cast— 58%. September 3. A clear night and all the stars were shining in this picture. Alice Joyce would mako a bad picture good, and Zasu Pitts (you know the gal who plays those simple minded, ignoramus types) ditto. They are the stars in this picture all right. It's great. Mysterious and spooky, and, of course, comical. Whoever heard of one that wasn't ? Hershoh was wonderful, too. But I said all the stare were shining. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre, Bath. S. C. — General patronage. HOW TO HANDLE WOMEN: Glenn Tryon— Another good farce from this engaging smart alecK. I played it against street fair competition, and the result is too sad to relate. — Roy W. Adams. Pastime theatre. Mason, Mich. — General patronage. SURRENDER: Mary Philbin— 68%. August 13. I thought this a wonderful picture but some of my friends who saw it didn't like it so much. It'll please the majority though. I bet. Six reek. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. ARIZONA CYCLONE: Fred Humes — A good fast Western. Good for Saturday. Five reels. — John Kamuda. Strand theatre, Indian Orchard. Mass. — General patronage. THANKS FOR THE BUGGY RIDE: Laura La Plante — 60V August 27. I ll tell the straight-eyed world I remember this one. Too bad we don't have any music with our pictures. Mrs. Grice saw the picture in Augusta. Ga.. and said the music helped a lot. I was satisfied though, as were our patrons and the music only makes a great picture greater. Yes. this is a great picture. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre, Bath. S. C. — General patronage. THANKS FOR THE BUGGY RIDE: Laura La Plante — 15V September 17-18. Pretty light staff, even though it has Laura and Glenn Tryon in it. Doesn't seem to get over very well, though a few patrons said they liked it. Personally I thought it was all blah. Six reels. — S. B. Kennedy, Central theatre. Selkirk. Man., Canada. — General patronage. THANKS FOR THE BUGGY RIDE: Laura La Plante — September 16-17. Pretty good picture, not much of a drawing card. O. K. for Sunday. Seven reels. — P. G. Held, Strand theatre. Griswold, la. — General patronage. MEN OF DARING: Special cast— 63V September 6. A "covered wagon" type of picture and excellently done too. Isn't Jack Hosde getting to be the fattest thing! You're all right though. Jack. Six reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C. — General patronage. ALIAS THE DEACON: Jean Hersholt— 53V July 9. This is one of those 100 per cent pictures, and I mean 100 per cent good. Seven reels. — H. B. Grice, Aiken Mills theatre. Bath, S. C. — General patronage. THE COHENS AND KELLYS IN PARIS: Special cast — 60V September 9-10. Note from the percentage that this went over good with us. Had no adverse criticism and many favorable comments. As usual, we were glad to pay more but made a little money in spite of it. This picture went over good but somehow did not come quite up to our persona! expectation although cannot say just how it fell short. Some of the print just a shade too hazy ana dense for our projection. Very good on the whole. Eight reels. — Wolfe and Williams, Screenland theatre. Nevada. Ohio. — Small town patronage. THE FEARLESS RIDER: Fred Humes — 47-7oJuly 12. Rather low percentage for a Western, but it is as good as the usual program Western. Five reels. — H. B. Grice. Aiken Mills theatre, Bath, S. C. — General patronage. THE PHANTOM FLYER: Al Wilson— 47V July 27. It takes courage and lots of it to do what Wilson does, but even so you get tired seeing the same thing over and over. Mrs. Grice won't see this. 60 I'm safe. I We've been married fifteen years.) Five reels. — H. B. Grice, Aiken Mills theatre. Bath. S. C— General patronage. THE FOUR FLUSHER: George Lewis — 66V July 2.— H. B. Grice, Aiken Mills theatre, Bath. S. C— General patronage. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: Special cast— A mighty good picture with no drawing power. — Roy W, Adams. Pastime theatre. Mason, Mich. — General patronage. arner Bros. STATE STREET SADIE : Myrna Loy— 60%. September 2. Gave very good satisfaction, held interest, well worth showing. — A. G. Hooper, Ideal theatre. Stanwood, Wash. — Small town patronage. DOG OF THE REGIMENT: Rin Tin Tin— 95%. September 9. Rinty sure helps the box office. Don't be afraid to boost him. Six reels. — John Kamuda. Grand theatre. Indian Orchard, Mass. — General pat:onage. Mo Losses in the Box Office Tw;th ffl®m ICKET REGISTERS Automatic Ticket Register Corp. 723 Seventh Ave New York T.CHETs/or Every Purposeo^ LOWEST Market Prices