Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1929)

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60 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD October 5, 1929 THE VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY LETTERS FROM READERS Silent Pictures WE HAVE BEEN IN THE PICTURE business only about four years and have been a consistent reader of your valued magazine for the full period. This is a town of 1200, pavement leading in and out and only 25 miles from Waterloo and the wired houses. We are still showing only good silent programs supplemented with the best in non-synchronous music and many like it as well or better than some of the talkies they have heard. As stated above, we said "have been" a consistent reader of your magazine and we are wondering if other "silent" exhibitors like ourselves are not losing interest in your magazine as well as other periodicals that are similar, due to the fact that nearly all space is now given to the all-talkie sensations that are made or are going to be made, saying nothing about the silent pictures that the hundreds of small exhibitors are going to use during the coming season. True it is that all producers claim they are making silent versions. This fact is usually stated in small type somewhere and the headlines given to the 100 per cent sound sensations, instead. Who is telling us about how good the silent product is going to be? We get no reviews on the silent pictures. How can we when even T. O. Service sleeps through them? May we suggest that you give him a box of tinker toys and suggest a vacation, then get someone that can stay awake long enough to report on the good silent pictures, so that we little fellows can find something of interest to read. Our business this year has been as good or a little better than in previous years, due to the fact that we believe we are "up and on" our toes all the time and showing the best obtainable in good silent programs. What we want to know is more about the silent pictures for '29-30. Who is going to tell us? — C. V. Hunerberg, Princess theatre, Parkersburg, la. We're Paging "J ay see" WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR SINcere thanks for the additional supplementary auto license plate and each having been placed in its proper position removes all rivalry between the Chrysler and the Ford, by making both the proud possessors of an emblem, which to us, represents not only the greatest publication of its kind in the industry, but a magazine that is indispensable to the small town exhibitor. The Herald-World is as much a part of our existence as the pictures we show. We have owned and operated our theatre in Twisp over six years and in Winthrop three years, and we realize that we are a very small part of the great show world. However, the one way that makes it possible for us to remain in business and satisfy our patrons who are largely the same people from year to year and who occasionally visit the cities and the large theatres, is to keep ourselves informed through the HeraldWorld. We are conscientious in saying that we (Mrs. Airey and myself) feel that we must have the HeraldWorld in our home in order to attain any degree of success in the exhibition of motion pictures. We are very sorry that Mr. J. C. Jenkins did not see fit to extend his recent trip to Spokane a little farther and visit us at Twisp. If he thinks Omak sounds like Eskimo, what about Twisp? Nevertheless, if he could have been induced to venture this far into the wilds of the Great Northwest we would have extended him a most cordial welcome, served him some real farm chicken dinners that would have made him glad he came, introduced him to the liveliest trout that ever inhabited a mountain stream and shown him scenery second only to the Alps. We are herewith enclosing a check in the amount of $3.00 for another two years of the HeraldWorld and also a few snapshots of our farm and the town of Twisp, which is located on one corner of our home ranch. (Pictures will appear in a later issue. — Ed.) We are also enclosing two marked copies of the Motion Picture Record, Seattle, Wash., which further substantiate the fact previously stated that aside from the visits we receive from the representatives of the various exchanges, we derive our theatrical knowledge largely from the Herald-World and not from association and contact with the city theatres which we rarely have an opportunity to visit. Again thanking you, we are — Frank F. Airey, Twisp theatre, Twisp, Wash. $1,003,590 Ticket Tax Collected by Montreal (Special to the Herald-World) MONTREAL, Oct. 1. — Figures announced by the License Department of the City of Montreal, show that the sum of $1,003,590.55 was collected in the Amusement Ticket Tax at local theatres during the past fiscal year, of which amount 50 per cent was turned over to the Provincial Government in compliance with the Quebec Public Charities Act. The City of Montreal also collected $40,937.49 in theatre license fees during the 12 months, according to statistics just released. Warners to Pre-Release 3 Specials in October (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Oct. 1.— Three Warner Brothers specials will be prereleased in their Vitaphone versions during the month of October, according to announcement by Sam E. Morris, vice-president. The three releases are: "Gold Diggers of Broadway," "Evidence" and "Is Everybody Happy?" the latter with Ted Lewis. Arliss* "Disraeli" to Open at W B House Oct. 2 (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Oct. 1.— George Arliss in "Disraeli" will open at the Warner Brothers theatre October 2. This will be the premiere showing of the picture. "Disraeli" was particularly written for Arliss. The play had its original production in Chicago after which it came to New York. NEW PICTURES In "New Pictures" the EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD presents in concise form information on current and forthcoming attractions. The facts as presented will serve exhibitors in booking and in the preparation o£ their advertising campaign. OH YEAH: Pathe talking comedy drama, from the story, "No Brakes," by A. W. Somerville, with Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Patricia Carson, Zazu Pitts, Bud Fine, Frank Hagney, Harry Tyler and Paul Hurst. Directed by Tay Garnett. TYPE AND THEME: Dude and Dusty arrive, in a little railroad town seeking work. They get o job with the railroad. Dude meets Pinkie, who works in the railroad office; Dusty becomes acquaintea with "The Elk," a waitress. The boys get into a dice game and lose their money. That night Splinters, another railroader, is robbed of his pay and the blame falls on Dude. To escape trouble the boys decide to leave town. They flip a train on which Pop Eye and Hot Foot are also riding. A fight begins and Dude and Dusty make Pop Eye confess that he robbed the money. In the meantime Pinkie and "The Elk" follow the boys on another train. A wreck lands Dusty and Dude in the hospital. Pop Eye and Hot Foot are jailed. Pinkie and "The Elk" plan where they will spend their honeymoons. * # * BIG TIME: Fox Movietone all-talking comedy drama from the story by Wallace Smith, with Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Daphine Pollard, Josephine Dunn, and Steisin Fetchit. Directed by Kenneth Hawks. TYPE AND THEME: Eddie Burns and his wife, IAly, are teamed as a small vaudeville act. Eddie thinks he's what makes the act click, but its really his wife who deserves credit. Both look for the time when they'll be big shots on Broadway. Their act goes pretty fair until Lily, about to become a mother, has to give up her work. Eddie teams up with Gl.oria, another dancer. LUy at first decides to go back as Eddie's partner, but she suspects a romance between Eddie and Gloria. She leaves him. Eddie finds the going tough and quits the shoiv game. He goes to Hollywood and wanders on the set where the great actress Marilyn is rehearsing. To his surprise he finds she is none other than Lily. They're reconciled. * * • LADY LIES, THE: Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles. Patricia Deering, Tom Brown, Betty Garde, Jean Dixon, Duncan Penwarden, Virginia True Boardman, Verne Deane. Directed by Hobart Henley. TYPE AND THEME: Robert Rossiter is the widowed father of Bob and Jo. Rossiter meets Joyce Roamer, a sales girl in a department store. He finds Joyce a lovable girl although not of his social standing. Rossiter's aunt and uncle arrive in tmvn and warn him about going around with a salesgirl. They prefer that he marry Ann Gardner for the children's sake. In the meantime the two children go to Joyce's apartments and tell her she must keep away from their father. Joyce is heartbroken. Rossiter goes to Joyce and tells her they must break up. Jo and Bob, realizing they are doing their father a wrong, go to the apartment and ask forgiveness. They ask their father to marry Joyce. The four celebrate in their happiness. * * * HER PRIVATE LIFE: Pathe all-talking drama, with Ann Harding, Harry Bannister, John Loder, Kay Hammond, Arthur Hoyt, William Orlamond, Lawford Davidson, Elmer Ballard and Frank Reicher. Directed by Paul Stein. TYPE AND THEME: Judge Kessler and his wife. Vera, unite after a brief separation. Vera plans to go to the opera when Arnold Hartman, who is blackmailing Vera because he has a few letters that she wrote him while separated from her husband, calls and threatens to reveal her affair with him. Vera agrees to see him after the show. After the opera Vera meets Hartman and pays him for the letters. He tries to make advances. She sees a pistol that Grimm, a deranged man, left there, and kills Hartman. Grimm is accused but the court frees him. Realizing that she cannot be happy with her husband tvith Hartman's blood on her hands, Vera leaves home. On New Year Eve, Vera goes to a restaurant where she meets Grimm. He recognizes her as the person he satv with Hartman the day of the murder. Grimm pleads with Vera to tell him he ivasn't the one who killed Hartman. She confesses she killed him. Judge Kessler, %oho is in the restaurant, overhears the conversation. He goes to Vera and assures her that the law wUl be fully complied with and she will be permitted to tell her story in private. Vera and her husband embrace, rejoicing that this New Year finds them in complete happiness. Vincent Trotta Proud Dad FLUSHING, L. I. — A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Trotta at the Long Island College Hospital, September 21. Daddy Trotta is art manager of Paramount.