Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

2260 Motion Picture N e xv s ibitOES ServiceBttHeaitEs * ■ ' * » At 4 * * » 4 * 4 A A * I At -T Mt R£VIEW!j ' '« t»l«l ADDI.D ATTRACTION MunTusW^/ aGRAHAM PRINCE ^ HIS ORCHESTRA Cut-out lobby display for Metro-Goldwyn-M oyer's "Pretty Ladies" arranged by Manager Don Nichols for the presentaiion of the picture at the Paris theatre in Durham, N. C. The attraction value of the display at night was heightened by spot-light illumination focused on the cut-out from 1000-ivatt ivhite spots located on a building across the street. Advisory Board and Contributing Editors, Exhibitors' Service Bureau George J. Schade, Scfaade theatre, Sandusky. Edward L. Hyman, Mark Strand theatre, Brooklyn. Leo A. Landau, Lyceum theatre, Minneapolis. C. C. Perry, Managing Director, Garrick theatre, Minneapolis. E. R. Rogers, Managing Director, Tivoll theatre, Chattanooga, Tenn. Stanley Chambers, Palace theatre, Wichita, Kan. Wlllard C. Patterson, Metropolitan theatre, Atlanta. E. V. Richards, Jr., Gen. Mgr., Saengcr Amusement Co., New Orleans. F. L. Newman, Managing Director, Famous Players-Lasky theatres Los Angeles. Arthur G. Stolte, Des Moines theatre, Des Moines, Iowa. W. C. Qulmby, Managing Director, Strand Palace and Jefferson theatres, Fort Wayne, Ind. J. A. Partington, Imperial theatre, San Francisco. George E. Carpenter, ParamountEmpress theatre, Salt Lake. Sidney Grauman, Gr&nman'a theatres, Los Angeles. : : THE CHECK-UP : : Weekly Edition of Exhibitors' Box Office Reports Productions listed are new pictures on which reports were not available previously. For ratings on current and older releases see MOTION PICTURE NEWS— first issue of each month. KEY — The first column following the name of the feature represents the number of managers that have reported the picture as "Poor." The second column gives the number who considered it "Fair"; the third the number who considered it "Good"; and the fourth column, those who considered it "Big." The fifth column is a percentage giving the average rating on that feature, obtained by the following method: A report of "Poor" is rated at 20%; on* of "Fair," 40%; "Good," 70%; and "Big," 100%. The percentage rating of all of these reports on one pictpre are then added together, and divided by the number of reports, giving the average percentage — a figure which represents the consensus of opinion on that picture. In this way exceptional cases, reports which might be misleading taken alone, and such individual differences of opinion are averaged up and eliminated. TITLE Poor Fair Good Big Value Length FAMOUS PLAYERS Rugged Waters 2 5 5 — 49 6,015 ft. Trouble with Wives — 4 6 — 70 6,489 ft FIRST NATIONAL Graustark — 2 4 4 76 5,900 ft. METRO-GOLD WYN Mystic, The 1 3 5 1 59 6,147 ft. Never the Twain Shall Meet.... — 5 4 3 65 8,143 ft. PATHE Freshman, The — 1 4 27 94 6 reels UNIVERSAL Goose Woman, The — 2 5 3 79 7,500 ft. George E. Brown, Managing Director, Loew'a Palace theatre, Memphis, Tenn. Louis K. Sidney, Division Manager, Lowe's theatres, Pittsburgh, Pa. Geo. Rotsky, Managing Director, Palace theatre, Montreal, Can. Eddie Zorn, Managing Director, Broadway-Strand theatre, Detroit. Fred S. Slyer, Managing Director, Palace theatre, Hamilton, Ohio. Joseph Plunkett, Managing Director, Mark-Strand theatre. New York. Ray Grombacher, Managing Director, Liberty theatre, Spokane, Wash. Ross A. McVoy, Manager, Temple theatre, Geneva, N. Y. W. S. McLaren, rector, Capitol son, Mich. Managing 1)1theatre, Jack Harold B. Franklin, Director of Theatres, Famous Players-Lasky. William J. Sullivan, Manager, Rialto theatre, Butte, Mont. H. A. Albright. Manager, T. D. * L. theatre, Glendale, Calif. Claire Meachime, Grand theatre, Westfleld, N. Y. Ace Berry, Managing Director, Circle theatre, Indianapolis.