Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Apr-Jun 1931
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)
Leaf #:
0001660
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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38 MOTION PICTURE HERALD June 2 7, 1931 THEATRE RECEIPTS 1 The "Current Week" was hit by low grosses generally, in comparison with "Previous Week," when business had with 20 new lows being established. No theatre shown an upward trend. The extreme heat during the registered a new high for the week. In some spots "Current Week" undoubtedly was responsible for the receipts showed a decrease of as much as 13 per cent, general business condition. {Copyritkt, 1931: RifrodueHtm of mattrial jrem this dipartmtmt without credit to Motiom Pictmri Htrald txprtssly iorbiddtm) Theatres Current Week Previous Week Pictur* Grou Picture Grosi Albany Harm-Bleecker. . 2,300 3Sc-S0c Leland 1,350 25c-35c Proctor's RKO.. 1.500 25c-60c Ritz 1,146 2Sc-35c Strand 1,900 35c-50c Baltimore Embassy 1,250 25c-50c Keith's 2.500 25c-50c Little 267 35c-50c Loew's Century. 3.976 25c-60c Loew's Parkway 987 15c-35c Loew Stanley 3,522 25c-60c Loew's Valencia. 1,487 25c-35c New 1.600 25c-50c Rivoli 1.982 25c-SOc W. B. Metropol. 1.300 15c-50c Boston Keith's 2.800 30c-65c Keith-Boston ... 2,500 25c-60c Loew's Orpheum 3.100 25c-50c Loew's State 3,700 25c-50c Metropolitan 4.350 25c-60c Olympia 2.500 25c-50c Scollay Square.. 1,800 25c-50c Uptown 2.000 25c-60c Buffalo Buffalo 3,500 25c-60c Great Lakes ... 3,000 25c-60c Great Lakes .... 3,000 25c-60c Hippodrome 2.100 25c -50c Lafayette 3,300 25c-35c Charlotte Broadway 1.167 25c-S0c Carolina 1,441 40c-S«!c "Daddy Long: Legs" (Fox) 11.120 (6 days) "Men Call It Love" (MGM) 5,300 (4 days) "Dude Ranch" (Para.) 2,650 (3 days) "White Shoulders" (Radio) 2,500 (3 days) "Never the Twain Shall Meet"... 3,900 (MGM) (6 daysl "Big Business Girl" (F. N.) 6,100 (6 days) "Sei Tu L'Amore" (Italian Talker) 800 (6 days) "Gun Smoke" (Para.) 5,920 (6 days & Sun. midnite show) "Young Woodley" (Elstree) 600 (6 days) "The Vice Squad" (Para.) 20,000 (6 days) "Never the Twain Shall Meet" 4,000 (MGM) (6 days) "Five and Ten" (MGM) 18,500 (6 days) "Party Husband" (F. N.) 2,700 (6 days) "Daddy Long Legs" (Fox) 10,000 (6 days — 2nd week) "Women Men Marry" (Headline). 5,200 (6 days) "Public Enemy" (W. B.) 3,900 (6 days — 2nd week) "White Shoulders" (Radio) 17,500 "Everything's Rosie" (Radio) 17,000 "It's a Wise Child" (MGM) 20.(X)0 "Just a Gigolo" (MGM) 20,500 "The Vice Squad" (Para.) 31,000 "The Maltese Falcon" (W. B.) 14,000 "Women of All Nations" (Fox) 14,000 "The Malte=e Falcon" (W. B.).... 11,500 "Bom to Love" (Pathe) 22 OOO (30c-65c) "Vice Squad" (Para.) 8,800 "Just a Gigolo" (MGM) 17,400 "Up Pops the Devil" (Para.) 15,100 "The Good Bad Girl" (Col.) 9,000 "Old English" (W. B.) 3,500 (3 days) "Gold Dust Gertie" (W. B.) 3,000 (3 days) "Vice Squad" (Para.) s 000 (3 days) "Born to Love" (Pathe) 6 00O (3 days) "Tlie Front Page" (U. A.) 9,100 (6 days) "Quick Millions" (Fo.x) 4,890 (6 days) "The W Plan" (Radio) 2,550 (3 days) "Donovan's Kid" (Radio) 2,100 (3 days) "Ten Nights in a Barroom" (Goetz) 4,300 (6 days) "The Maltese Falcon" (W. B.).... 6,800 (6 days) "White Shoulders" (Radio) 6,000 (6 days and Sun. midmte show) "Pori (Ufa) 900 (6 days) "Up Pops The Devil" (Para.).... 19,000 (6 days) "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 4,200 (6 days) "Lauhing Sinners" (MGM) 20,500 (6 days) "Too Young To Marry" (F. N.).. 2,400 (6 days) "Daddy Long Legs" (Fox) 15,000 (6 days — 1st week) "Lover Come Back" (Col.) 6,000 (6 days) "The Public Enemy" (W. B.) 5,700 (6 days — 1st week) "Donovan's Kid" (Radio) 20,000 "Many A Shp" (U.) 18,000 "Daybreak" (MGM) 21,000 "Laughing Sinners" (MGM) 22,000 "The Lawyer's Secret" (Para.)... 35,500 "Women Of All Nations" (Fox).. 14,000 (2nd week) "Young Sinners" (Fox) 15;50O "Women Of All Nations" (Fox).. 11.500 (2nd week) "The Lawyer's Secret" (Para.) 21,800 (35c -65c) "Iron Man" (U.) 8,700 "Daddy Long Legs" (Fox) 27,900 "Kick In" (Para.) 16,500 'Beyond Victory" (Pathe) 10,000 "Iron Man" (U.) 5,000 (3 days) "Party Husband" (F. N.) 3,000 (3 days) "Laughing Sinners" (MGM) 6,000 (3 days) "Daddy Long Legs" (Fox) 7,000 (3 days) High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from March, 1>3*, to June, 1931) High 1-24-30 "Reducing" $ 18,500 Low 4-4-31 "Passion Flower" 6.100 High 5-2-31 "Strangers May Kiss" 8.100 Low 4-4-31 "Dancers" and "Girls Demand Excitement" 4,550 High 3-14-31 "Millie" 8.600 Low 6-13-31 "The W Plan" and "Donovan's Kid" 4,650 High 12-13-30 "The Cat Creeps" 4J50 Low 6-6-31 "Party Husbands" 3,190 High 4-25-31 "The Finger Points" 9.300 Low 4-4-31 "My Past" 5.850 High 5-9-31 "Bachelor Apartment" 16.080 Low 5-17-30 "King of Jazz" 3.000 High S-3-30 "HaUeltiiah" 1.900 Low 1-10-31 "Waterloo" 400 High 4-11-31 "A Tailor Made Man"... 30,000 Low 11-1-30 "Her Wedding Night".... 14.006 High 1-3-31 "Follow the Leader" 5.500 Low 8-9-30 "I-ove Among the Millionaires" 2,900 High 4-11-31 "Strangers May Kiss".... 33.500 Low 5-3-30 "Honey" 12.500 High 7-26-30 "Sins of the Children" .... 7JO0 Low 11-29-30 "Only Saps Work" IJOO High 8-30-30 "Common Clay" )8.5«I Low 12-27-30 "Princess and Plumber".. 2.800 High 3-16-30 "Green Goddess" 14.00) Low 6-14-30 "Golden Dawn" 3.20C High 3-16-30 "Green Goddess" 9,00C Low 7-26-30 "Sweet Kitty Bellairs" .... 2.10C High 10-11-30 "Half Shot at Sunrise"... 34.500 Low 12-6-30 "Sin Takes a Holiday".... 16.500 High 1-10-31 "Danger Lights" 22.000 Low 6-20-31 "Everything's Rosie" 17,000 High 1-17-31 "Hell's Angels" 31.500 Low 6-28-30 "Lady of Scandal" 17.500 High 10-18-30 "Three French Girls" 30,000 Low 6-28-30 "Bad One" 18.000 High 10-11-30 "Sea God" 49.000 Low 6-7-30 "True to the Navy" 26.006 High 7-5-30 "With Byrd at South Pole" 28.000 Low 2-21-31 "Sit Tight" 12.000 High 10-11-30 "Numbered Men" 20.000 Low 7-5-30 "Shadows of the Law" 11.000 High 3-28-31 "My Past" 39.500 Low 4-4-31 "Man of the World" 20.000 High 2-14-31 "Cimmaron" 25.60Cr Low 4-4-31 "Mother's Cry" 5.90C High 4-18-31 "Strangers May Kiss" 30.000 Low 12-27-30 "Remote Control" 13.400 High 2-14-.11 "Free Love" 26.300 Low 6-20-31 "Up Pops the Devil" 15,100 High 4-11-31 "Ten Cents a Dance" 24.100 Low 6-30-31 "The Good Bad Girl" 9,000