Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World
Date:
Apr-Jun 1930
Volume:
Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)
Leaf #:
00075
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1915 by a Chicago printing company as a regional trade paper for Midwest exhibitors. In 1916, editor Martin Quigley bought out the owners, and over the next 15 years, he grew EXHIBITORS HERALD into one of the most important national, weekly trade papers in the film business. Quigley acquired MOTOGRAPHY in 1917 and MOVING PICTURE WORLD in 1927. In 1930, he acquired MOTION PICTURE NEWS and the new 'consolidated' publication became MOTION PICTURE HERALD. From the pulpit of his editorial page, Quigley preached the need to improve the motion picture industry and improve the quality of the films. He skillfully served as a mediator in disputes -- between distributors and exhibitors, between the film industry and the Catholic Church (Quigley was one of the architects of the Production Code). Quigley claimed that EXHIBITORS HERALD represented the 'independent exhibitor' and sections like 'What the Picture Did for Me?' certainly provided a forum for theater owners. But plenty of exhibitors viewed Quigley as a servant to the studios and large theater chains. In response, publications such as SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN, HARRISON'S REPORTS, and BOX OFFICE were either formed or grew significantly in the years following Quigley's brief moment of consolidation in 1930. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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April 5, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 5 QUICK REFERENCE CHART FOR BUYERS AND BOOKERS Artclass Silent Sound UNMASKED (D-AT) 5449 (R) Dec. 15. 1929. Sound on disc and film. With Robert Warwick, Sam Ash, Milton Krims, Lyons Wickland, Susan Corroy, William Corbett, Charles Statley, Kate Roemer, Waldo Edwards. Roy Byron. Clyde Dellson, Helen Mitchell, Marie Burke. Audible Pictures The Feature Key to Symbols THEME: A story of a boss, who invites his steno to a party. The wife arrives at the scene and trouble is averted when the steno announces that she is married to their son. ♦FATHER AND SON (D-TME) 6310 6765 (R) April 22, 1929. With Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Helen Chadwick, Mickey McBan, Wheeler Oakman. THEME: A recordograph reveals the secret of who killed Grace Moore, who was in love with Frank Fields. Both Fields and his son suspected each other in the murder. Silent Sound *IN OLD CALIFORNIA (D-AT) .. 5400 With Henry B. Walthall, Helen Ferguson, George Duryea, Ray Hallor, Orrol Humphrey, Larry Steers. Richard Carlyle, Harry Allen. Lew Stern, Paul Ellis, Charlotte Monte, Gertrude Chorre. THEME: A story of stolen love and a youth’s heroic rescue of a girl from a runaway coach, with the Mexican border as the background. Bell Pictures 630 Ninth Avenue Ne iv York City Silent Sound ♦BAD MEN’S MONEY <W) 5 reels (ID October, 1929. With Yakima Canutts. ♦BREEZY BILL <W) 5 reels (11) March. 1930. With Bob Steele. ♦CALL OF THE DESERT 5 reels (It) April. 1930. With Tom Tyler. ♦CANYON OF MISSING MEN, THE (W) 5 reels (It) March. 1930. With Tom Tyler. ♦CAPTAIN COWBOY (W) 5 reels (It) November, 1929. With Yakima Canutts. ♦CODE OF THE WEST (W) 5 reels (It) February, 1930. With Bob Custer. ♦COVERED WAGON TRAILS (W) 5 reels (It) April, 1930. With Bob Custer. ♦COWBOY AND OUTLAW (W) 5 reels (B) January, 1930. With Bob Steele. ♦FIGHTING KID, THE (W) 5 reels (It) October. 1929. With Fred Church. ♦FIGHTING TERROR. THE (W) 5 reels (It) November, 1929. With Bob Custer. GREAT POWER. THE, (D-PT) 8 reels With Minna Gombe). THEME: A story of Wall street. •INVADERS, THE (W) 5 reels (R.) December, 1929. With Bob Steele. ♦LAST ROUNDUP, THE (W) 5 reels (It) November. 1929. With Bob Custer. ♦LAW OF THE PLAINS (W) 5 reels (It) November, 1929. With Tom Tyler. ♦LONE HORSEMAN. THE (W) 5 reels (E) December, 1929. With Tom Tyler. ♦MAN FROM NEVADA, THE (W) 5 reels (E) November, 1929. With Tom Tyler. ♦MAN FROM NOWHERE, THE (W) 5 reels (E) April, 1930. With Bob Steele. ♦’NEATH WESTERN SKIES (W) 5 reels (E)January, 1930. With Tom Tyler. •OKLAHOMA KID, THE (W) 5 reels (It) January, 1930. With Bob Custer. ♦O’MALLEY RIDES ALONE <W) 5 reels (It) March. 1930. With Bob Custer. •PARTING OF THE TRAILS (W) 5 reels (E) December, 1929. With Bob Custer. •PHANTOM RIDER, THE (W) 5 reels (It) December. 1929. With Tom Tyler. ♦PIONEERS OF THE WEST (W) _... 5 reels (It) February. 1930. With Tom Tyler. •PRINCE OF HEARTS. THE (D) 5 reels THEME: A society drama. ♦RIDERS OF THE RIO GRANDE (W) 5 reels (E) December, 1929. With Bob Custer. ♦RIDERS OF THE STORM (W) 5 reels (E) November, 1929. With Yakima Canutts. ♦TEXAS COWBOY, A (W) 5 reels (E) February, 1930. With Bob Steele. ♦THREE OUTCASTS (W) 5 reels (E) September, 1929. With Yakima Canutts. TWO O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (My-AT) 7 reels With Edith Eoberts, Noah Beery, Margaret Livingston, ♦UNKNOWN RIDER, THE (W) 5 reels (E) September, 1929. With Fred Church. ♦WESTERN HONOR (W) _...5 reels (E) May, 1930. With Bob Steele. ♦WESTERN METHODS (W) 5 reels (E) December, 1929. With Fred Church. Chesterfield Silent Sound ♦BELOW THE DEADLINE (D) 5500 (It) May 1, 1929. With Barbara Worth, Frank Leigh, J. P. McGowan, Frank Merril, Arthur Rankin, Virginia Sale, “Tiny" Ward, Lou Gory, Fred Walton, Bill Patton, Charles Hickman, Mike Donlin. THEME: Story of a young detective who frees the gangster brother of the girl he loves, but succeeds in capturing the rest of the gang in the end. •CAMPUS KNIGHTS (CD) (R) June 15, 1929. With Raymond McKee, Shiriey Palmer. Marie Quillen, Jean Laverty. HOUSE OF SECRETS (D-AT) 6100 With Marcia Manning, Joseph Striker. Elmer Grandin. Herbert Warren, Francis M. Cerdi, Richard Stevenson, Harry H. Southard, Edward Ringham. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (MC) 6039 (R) February 15, 1930. Sound on disc and fiim. With Suzanne Keener, Norman Foster, Doris Rankin, Lester Cole, Abe Reynolds, Hooper Atchley, Burt Matthews, Dorothee Adams. THEME: The story of a song writer, the girl he loves, a selfish and designing mother and a cabaret owner. •PEACOCK FAN, THE (D) 5300 (R) March 15, 1929. With Lucien Preval, Dorothy Devan, Tom O'Brien, Rosemary Thelby, Carlton King, Gladdon James, David Findlay. James Wilcox, Fred Malatesta, Alice True, Spencer Bell, John Fowler. THEME: A mystery fan that means death to anyone who carries it. The following appear immediately after the title to indicate the nature of the production: C Comedy D Drama CD— Comedy drama Mel— Melodrama M3’ Mystery R — Romance W— Western AT— All talking PT Part talking T— Talking M Music E Sound effects MC Musical comedy O — Operetta S Singing EXAMPLE : C-AT, all talking comedy. MR, musical romance. CD— AT, S, comedy drama, all talking with singing. (R) signifies release. NOTE : An asterisk preceding the title in dicates either that there is a silent version or that the picture was produced only in silent version. Pictures marked with an asterisk which have sound versions are indicated by the sound symbols appearing after the title. Columbia Silent Sound •ACQUITTED (DAT) 5781 (R) October 26, 1929. With Lloyd Hughes. Margaret, Sam Hardy, Charles West, George Rigas, Charles Wilson, Otto Hoffman. •BACHELOR GIRL (D-TME) 6245 5967 (R) May 3, 1929. With William Collier, Jr.. Jacqueline Logan, Edward Hearn, Thelma Todd. THEME: A story of a girl, whose love and encouragement is responsible for the success of her boy friend. •BROADWAY SCANDALS (DAT) 6395 (R) November 10, 1929. With Sally O'Neill, Jack Egan, Carmel Myers. Tom O’Brien, J. Barney Sherry, John Hyams. Charles Wilson, Doris Dawson, Gordon Elliott. THEME: Story of a boy singer, who is attracted by a vamp stage star, who takes him away from his girl friend. But the girl makes good and wins her lover away from the vamp. •CALL OF THE WEST (AT) (R) April 15. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Dorothy Revier, Matt Moore. Katherine Clare Ward, Tom O’Brien, Alan Roscoe, Vic Potel, Nick De Ruiz, Joe De La Cruze. Blanche Rose. Ford West, Gertrude Bennett, Connie Le Mont, Buff Jones. THEME: A love epic of the open spaces. •COLLEGE COQUETTE (CD-AT) 5566 6149 (R) August 5, 1929. With Ruth Taylor. John Hotland. William Collier. Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Edward Piel, Jr. THEME: A story of a girl who kills herself because her boy friend falls in love with another girl. Story takes place on a college campus. •DONOVAN AFFAIR, THE (D-AT) 7189 7140 (R) April 11. 1929. With Jack Holt, Agnes Ayres. Dorothy Revier. William Collier. Jr., John Roche. Fred Kelsey, Hank Mann, Wheeler Oakman, Virginia Brown Faire, Alphonse Ehtier, Edward Hearn, Ethel Wales, John Wallace. THEME: A story of a slick lawyer who finds the murderer of Jack Donovan, gambler and women lover. •FALL OF EVE (CD-AT) 5799 6245 (R) June, 1929. With Patsy Ruth Miller, Ford Sterling, Jed Prouty, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Rankin, Betty Farrington, Fred Kelsey. Running Time The fixed speed for sound film is 90 feet per minute. This makes the running time of 1,000 feet 11 to 11 JA minutes. Knowing the length of a picture and the running time per 1,000 feet, the running time of the picture can be easily computed. The variance in the speed at which silent film is run through the projector makes it difficult to compute the running time of a silent picture with any degree of accuracy. Projectors are now designed for a film speed of 90 feet per minute — -the same as the fixed speed for sound film — but the rate at which silent film is actually run varies from 70 to 110 feet per minute, and infrequently as high as 125 feet per minute. ♦FLIGHT (D-AT) 10670 (R) November 1. 1929. (TOS) November 2. With Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee, Alan Roscoe, Harold Goodwin, Jimmy de la Cruze. THEME : Airplane story of a man who risks his life to save his pal who is in danger. •FLYING MARINE (D-TME) 5736 5951 (R) June 5, 1929. With Ben Lyon, Shirley Mason, Jason Robards. THEME: Story of one brother risking his life and giving up the girl he loves for another brother. •GUILTY? (D-AT) 6371 (R) March 3, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Virginia Valli, John Holland, John St. Polis, Lydia Knott, Erville Alderson, Richard Carlyle. Clarence Muse, Eddie Clayton, Robert T. Haines, Frank Fanning. Ed Cecil, Gertrude Howard. THEME: A drama of social contrasts and adapted from “Black Sheep." •HURRICANE (D-AT) .. 5842 5735 (R) September 30, 1929. With Hobart Bostworth, Johnny Mack Erown, Lelia Hyams. Allan Roscoe. Tom O’Brien, Lelia McIntyre, Joe Bordeaux and Eddie Chandler. THEME: Story of a father who offers his daughter to a pirate to get revenge on his former wife. But daring rescue follows when it is revealed that she is his own daughter. •LADIES OF LEISURE (D-AT) .. (R) April 5, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Barbara Stanwyck, Lowell Sherman, Ralph Graves, Marie Prevost, Nance O'Neil, George Fawcett, Johnnie Walker, Juliette Compton. THEME: A drama of New York’s gay social whirl. Adapted from the David Belasco stage play by Milton Herbert Gropper. •LIGHT FINGERS (D-AT) 5578 5700 (R) July 29, 1929. With Ian Keith, Dorothy Revier, Carroll Nye, Ralph Theodore, Tom Rickets. THEME: A story of a girl, who discovers a thief, but saves him from the police to win his love. •MELODY MAN (D-AT) 6386 (R) January 25, 1929. (TOS) February 22, 1930. With John St. Polis, William Collier, Jr., Alice Day, Johnny Walker, Albert Conti, Tenen Holtz, Lee Kohlmar. THEME: A story of a strict, but good father, who loves his classical music and hates jazz. But his daughter falls in love with a jazz player, who helps the old man and all ends well. •MEXICALI ROSE (D-AT) 5126 5735 (R) December 26, 1929. Sound on disc and film. With Barbara Stanwyck. Sam Hardy. William Janney. Louis Natheaux, Arthur Rankin, Harry Vejar, Louis King. Julia Beharano. THEME: A drama of Old Mexico. •MURDER ON THE ROOF (D-AT..J .5400 (R) January 19, 1930. (TOS) February 8, 1930. With Dorothy Revier, David Newell, Raymond Hatton. Edward Doherty. THEME : A story of a lawyer, who is framed by a crook, but whose daughter saves him by a clever plot. •PERSONALITY (CD-AT) 6304 (R) February 14, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Sally Starr, Johnny Arthur, Blanche Frederici. Frank Hammond, Buck Black, Lee Kohlmar, John T. Murray, Vivian Oakland, George Pearce. THEME: A comedy of married life. •PRINCE OF DIAMONDS (AT) (R) March 26, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Aileen Pringle, Ian Keith, Fritzi Ridgeway, Tyrrell Davis, Claude King. Tom Ricketts, E. Alyn Warren, Gilbert Emery, Frederick Sullivan. Sybil Grove, Colonel McDonell, Joyzelle. THEME: A romance of adventure. •ROYAL ROMANCE, A (F-AT) _ 6359 (R) March 17, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With William Collier, Jr., Pauline Starke, Clarence Muse, Ann Brody, x Eugenie Besserer, Walter P. Lewis, Betty Boyd, Ullrich Haupt, Bert Sprotte, Dorothy De Borda. THEME: A farce based on "Private Property." •SONG OF LOVE (D-AT) 7720 (R) November 25. 1929. With Belle Walker, Ralph Graves, David Durand, Eunice Quedens, Arthur Houseman, Charles Wilson. •TRIAL MARRIAGE (D-TME) 6506 6639 (R) March 10, 1929. (TOS) April 20. 1929. With Norman Kerry, Sally Eilers, Jason Robards. Thelma Todd. Charles Clary, Naomi Childers, Rosemary Thelby, Gertrude Short. THEME: A story of a girl who steals her sister's sweetheart and enters a trial marriage with him. The other sister in return marries her sister’s boy friend. After the excitement they all realize they’re wrongs and go back to their former love. •VENGEANCE (D-AT) ..._ .. 6 1 60 (R) February 22, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Jack Holt. Dorothy Revier, Phillip Strange. George Pearce, Hayden Stevenson, Irma A. Harrison, Onest A. Conly. THEME: A drama of revenge in the Congo.