Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

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Title:: Motion Picture Herald
Date:: Apr-Jun 1931
Publisher:: [New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:: Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)
Leaf #:: 000153
Language:: English
Subjects:: motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:: Hollywood Studio System
Format:: Periodicals
Contributor:: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
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:: August 29, 2022

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J^pril 11, 19 3 1 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 5$ iTtiCATCE CECCIPTS — CCNT'Cl Theatres Current Week Previous Week Picture Gross Picture Gross ^Hollywood j Chinese 2,030 75-$I.50 j Egyptian 1,800 35c-65c j Pan. Hollywood. 3,000 35c-65c I W. B. Hollywood 3,000 33c-65c rfous+on Kirby 1,654 25c-50c I Loew's State 2,700 25c-60c Metropolitan ... 2,512 25c-60c I RKO Majestic. 2,250 2Sc-60c .Indianapolis i Apollo 1,100 25c-50c Circle 2,600 25c-50c 'I Indiana 3,300 35c -55c Lyric 2,000 25c-50c Palace 2,800 25c-50c Kansas City ' Loew Midland... 4,000 25c -50c ; Mainstreet 3,067 35c-60c Newman 2,000 25c-60c Royal 900 25c-60c Uptown 2,200 25c-50c -OS Angeles Carthay Circle.. 1,650 75c-$1.5P Fox Criterion... 1,650 35c-65c International ... 2,000 25c-50c Loew's State 2,410 3'5c-65c Los Angeles.... 2,100 25c-65c Orpheura 2,750 35c-65c Paramount 3,596 35c-65c RKO 2,700 35c-65c United Artists.. 2,100 35c-65c W. B. Downtown 2,400 35c-65c Milwaukee Alhambra 2,660 25c60c Garden 1,150 25c-60c Majestic 1,990 15c-50c Palace 2,587 25c-60c Riverside 2,180 25c-60c Strand 1,406 25c-60c Wisconsin 3,275 25c-65c Minneapolis Aster 812 20c-35c Century 1,640 25c-75c Lyric 1,238 20c-40c Minnesota 4,025 30c-75c RXOOrpheum.. 2,900 25c-50c Seventh Street.. 1,300 50c State 2,300 25c-60c Montreal Capitol 2,670 25c-60c Imperial 1,914 15c-40c Loew's 2,982 25c75c Palace 2,600 25c90c "Trader Horn" (MGM) 15,200 (10th week) "The Easiest Way" (MOM) 4,900 'Honor Among Lovers" (Par.) .. 17,100 'My Past" (W.B.) 14,000 "Charlie Chan Carries On" (Fox). 7,000 "The Great Meadow" (MGM).... 8,500 'Man of the World" (Par.) .... 10,200 "BeTiind Office^ Doors" (Radio)... 9,000 "Doctors' Wives" (Fox) 5,500 "Beau Ideal" (Radio) 8,000 "New Moon" (Par.) ..; 19,500 'Lonely Wives" (Pathe) 10,500 'Parlor, Bedroom & Bath" (MGM) 12,500 "Parlor Bedroom & Bath" (MGM) 14,500 "Behind Office Doors" (Radio).. 15,000 "Man of the World" (Para.) 12,500 "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (W.B:) 4,500 "Bachelor Father" (MGM) ..• 6,000 "Strangers May Kiss' (MGM).. 16,100 (3rd week) "Dance Fools Dance" (MGM) 7,400 (3rd week) "Resurrection" (U) 6,700 "Stas Beneath" (Fo.x) 16,900 "Lightnin' " (Fox) 8,500 (2nd week) "Dracula" (U.) 21^000 "Man of the World" (Par.) 28,000 "Bad Sister" (U.) 13,600 "Conquering Horde" (Par.) 10,500 "My Past" (W. B.) 14,200 "The Boudoir Diplomat" (U) 12,000 (6 days) "Illicit" (W.B.) 7,800 "Man to Man" (W.B.) and Just For A Song" (SonoArt) 5,000 "Behind OfSce Doors" (Radio)... 7,800 "Mother's Cry" (F.N.) 14,000 "The Conquering Horde" (Par.).. 6.000 "Men Call It Love" (MGM) 12,000 "Part Time Wife" (Fox) 1,500 "East Lymie" (Fox) 9,000 (2nd week) "It Pays to Advertise" (Par.) 2,500 "A Connecticut Yankee" (Fox).... 30,000 "Behind Office Doors" (Radio).... 12,000 "City Lights" (U. A.) 7,000 (2nd week) "My Past" (W. B.) 7,500 "Sit Tight" (W. B.) and "Costello Case" (SonoArt) 11,000 "Mother's Cry" (F. N.) and "Pardon My Gun" (Pathe) 4,600 "Beas Beneath" (Fox) 11,500 "Beau Ideal" (Radio) 16,000 "Trader Horn" (MGM) 13,500 (9th week) "Don't Bet On Women" (Fox).. 4,000 "Finn and Hattie" (Par.) 10,000 "Kiss Me Again" (F. N.) 14,000 "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (Par.) 7,000 "City Lights" (U. A.) 12,100 "Honor Among Lovers" (Par.)... 14,000 "Lonely Wives" (RKO Pathe) ... . 9,550 "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (W. B.) 5,500 "Today" (Majestic) 10,000 (9 days) "Honor Among Lovers" (Par.) 19,000 "Girls Demand Excitement" (Fox) 9,200 "City Lights" (U. A.) 7,500 (2nd week) "City Lights" (U. A.).. 21,750 "Ten Cents a Dance" (Col.).... 16,500 "East Lynne" (Fox) 12,500 "The Conquering Horde" (Par.).. 4,500 "Gentleman's Fate" (MGM) 6,500 'Strangers May Kiss' (MGM).... 17,500 (2nd week) 'Dance Fools Dance" (MGM).... 10,500 (2nd week) •La Fruta Amarga" (MGM) 3,000 "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" (MGM) 20,000 "Lightnin'" (Fox) 10,000 (1st week) "Millie" (Radio) 10,000 (2nd week) "Morocco" (Par.) 27,500 (8 days, 2nd run) "Lonely Wives" (Pathe) 13,000 "Reaching for the Moon" (U. A.).. 8,500 (3rd week) "Widow from Chicago" (F. N.).. 16,000 (5 days) "Once a Sinner" (Fox) 10,800 "City Lights" (U. A.) 4,800 (3rd week) "Aloha" (Tiffany) and "Damaged Love" (Sono-Art) 5,200 "Stolen Heaven" (Para.) 9,500 "A Lady Refuses" (Radio) 10,300 "It Pays to Advertise" (Par.).... 5,200 "Honor Among Lovers" (Par.) 14,200 "The Hot Heiress' (F. N.) 1,300 "East Lynne" (Fox) 10,000 (1st week) "Don't Bet On Women" (Fox).. 2,000 "Honor Among Lovers" (Par.) 24,000 "Ten Cents a Dance" (Col.) 14,000 "City Lights" (U. A.) 9,000 (1st week) "Gentleman's Fate" (MGM) 6,500 "Father's Son" (F. N.) and "Kiss Me Again" (F. N.) 13,000 "Steel Highway" (W. B.) and "Girls Demand E.xcitement" (Fox) 4,800 "Stolen Heaven" (Par.) 12,000 "Body and Soul" (Fox) (at 25c-75c) 14,000 High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from March, 19J9, to April, 1931) High 6-7-30 "Hell's Angels" 40,500 Low 4-27-30 "Song of My Heart" 21,000 High 3-23-30 "The Love Parade" 15,600 Low 3-21-31 "Stolen Heaven" 3,20C High 6-14-30 "The Floradora Girl".... 30,000 Low 7-19-30 "True to the Navy" 8,800 High 2-7-31 "Little Caesar" 30,000 Low 1-31-31 "Man to Man" 12,000 High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels" 16,000 Low 10-4-30 "Bright Lights" 4,500 High 5-16-30 "The Divorcee" 18,000 Low 12-12-30 "Lion and Lamb" 7,000 High 1-24-30 "Love Parade" 18,000 Low 3-11-30 "Ontlemen of the Press'.. 7,000 High 10-24-30 "Check and Double Clieck" 20,000 Low 7-18-30 "Rough Romance" 8,000 High 2-7-31 "Sit Tight" 10,000 Low 2-21-31 "Illicit" 4,000 High 11-1-30 "Check and Double Check" 22,000 Low 4-4-31 "Beau Ideal" 8,000 High 3-21-31 "Unfaithful" 21,000 Low 2-14-31 "Gang Buster" 16,500 High 4-4-31 "Lonely Wives" 10,500 Low 12-6-30 "The Dancers" 7,500 High 1-31-31 "Reducing" 19.000 Low 2-14-31 "Passion Flower" 8,0IX) High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels" 29,000 Low 3-21-31 "Kiki" 10,500 High 2-14-31 "Cimmaron" 24,750 Low 4-13-30 "Framed" 11.000 High 9-13-30 "Animal Crackers" 23,500 Low 4-13-30 "Light of Western Stars". 7,000 High 11-29-30 "Tom Sawyer" 6,000 Low 4-27-30 "Clancy In Wall Street"... 1.350 High 9-27-30 "King of Jazz" 10,200 Low 11-1-30 "Last of Lone Wolf" 4,000 High 3-21-31 "Strangers May Kiss".... 28,000 Low 8-16-30 "Holiday" 19,500 High 5-24-30 "The Divorcee" 29,700 Low 1-31-31 "Royal Family of Bdw'y" 7,000 High 5-10-30 "Caught Short" 48,000 Low 10-18-30 "Three French Girls".. 15,000 High 2-14-31 "Cimarron" (5 days).... 32,000 Low 12-27-30 "Ex-Flame" 6,(100 High 9-6-30 "Animal Crackers" 40,000 Low 2-14-31 "No Limit" 18,000 High 8-16-30 "Hell's Island" 17,500 Low 9-27-30 "For the Love of Lil".... 10.500 High 9-20-30 "What a Widow" 30,000 Low 10-11-30 "Heads Up" 8-000 High 9-27-30 "Office Wife" 30,000 Low 3-14-31 "Captain Applejack" 8.000 High 3-30-30 "The Aviator" 8.5r.O Low 1-24-31 "Under Suspicion" 900 High 3-21-31 "Trader Horn" 17.000 Low 1-24-31 "The Blue Angel" 8,000 High 3-23-30 "They Learned About Women" 5,000 Low 1-24-31 "Men On Call" 1,200 High 7-5-30 "So This Is London".... 45,000 Low 2-28-31 "Dance, Fools, Dance".... 18,000 High 2-14-31 "Cimarron" 30,000 Low 4-4-31 "Behind Office Doors".... 12,000 High 5-17-30 "Ingagi" 9,400 Low 12-20-30 "Boudoir Diplomat" 1,200 High 4-20-30 "Benson Murder Case".... 26.600 Low 12-20-30 "River's End" 5,000 High 12-6-30 "Her Wedding Night".... 19,000 Low 4-4-31 "Sit Tight" and Costello Case" 11,000 High 1-17-31 "The Office Wife" and Oh Sailor Behave" 7,000 Low 2-28-31 "Under Suspicion" and "Man to Man" 4,500 High 1-31-31 "Derelict" 16.000 Low 12-21-30 "Half Shot at Sunrise".. 11,000 High 2-21-31 "The Man Who Came Back" 19,000