Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Boxoffice
Date:
Apr-Jun 1937
Publisher:
Kansas City, Associated Publications
Volume:
Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)
Leaf #:
000468
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
BOXOFFICE was the leading American exhibitor trade paper of the post-World War II era. But the publication had modest beginnings. In 1920, Ben Shlyen founded the paper, orginally titled THE REEL JOURNAL, in an office located in Kansas City's Film Row district. Like other regional exhibitor publications, THE REEL JOURNAL focused its attention on the local -- in this case, KC and the nearby territories that the city's distribution exchanges served. By the end of the 1920s, however, Shlyen had acquired or founded several more small exhibitor papers serving other US markets. In 1932, their titles all changed to BOXOFFICE, though they continued to be published in regional editions for decades to follow. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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BAR A COMPUTATION OF WHAT THE PICTURES DID IN THEIR FIRST RUNS IN PRINCIPAL CENTERS AS COMPILED FROM THE WEEKLY REPORTS IN BOXOFFICE. NUMBER OF RUNS FOLLOWS INITIALS OF DISTRIBUTORS. PICTURES WITH LESS THAN 5 RUNS NOT LISTED. AVERAGE THEATRE GROSS FIGURED AT 100%. PERCENTAGES 75 90 100 110 125 140 PERCENTAGES 75 90 100 110 125 140 Breezing Home (Univ) 6 China Passage (RKO) 7 Criminal Lawyer (RKO) 5 Family Affair, A (M-G-M) 8 Fifty Roads to Town (20th Fox) 5 Good Earth, The (M-G-M) 15 Head Over Heels in Love (GB) 6 Her Husband Lies (Para) 9 Her Husband's Secretary (FN) 11 History Is Made at Night (UA)..29 I Promise to Pay (Col) 5 Internes Can't Take Money (Para) 5 King and the Chorus Girl (WB) 25 Let's Get Married (Col) 6 Lost Horizon (Col) 13 Love Is News (20th-Fox) 14 Man of the People (M-G-M) 5 Marked Woman (FN) 17 Maytime (M-G-M) 51 Murder Goes to College (Para) 7 Nancy Steele Is Missing (20thFox) 10 Outcast (Para) 7 Personal Property (M-G-M) 24 Quality Street (RKO) 20 Ready, Willing and Able (WB) 8 Sea Devils (RKO) 9 Seventh Heaven (20th-Fox) 29 Soldier and the Lady (RKO).... 8 Step Lives, Jeeves (20th-Fox).... 6 Swing High, Swing Low (Para) 24 Time Out for Romance (20th(Fox) 8 Top of the Town (Univ) 18 Waikiki Wedding (Para) 44 We Have Our Moments (Univ).. 7 We're on the Jury (RKO) 5 When Love Is Young (Univ) 6 When's Your Birthday? (RKO).. 9 Wings of the Morning (20thFox) 5 CITIES FROM cent) achieved WHICH AVERAGES by individual cities WERE COMPUTED: With as compiled from the first comparative figures indicating run records of each. the percentage of average business (100 per City Pet. City Pet. City Pet. City Pet. 105 95 New Orleans 110 Providence 125 . .. . 100 [ndianapolis 100 New York 110 110 Chicago 105 Kansas City 110 Oklahoma City 120 St. Louis 105 Cincinnati . . 120 Los Angeles 105 Omaha 140 Cleveland 115 Milwaukee 105 Pittsburgh 110 San Francisco 100 Dallas 105 Minneapolis 90 Portland Me. 90 Seattle 115 Denver 10 140 New Haven 125 Portland, Ore. Washington, D. C BOXOFFICE : : May 110 8. 1937. BOXOFFICE :: May 8. 1937.