Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald
Date:
Apr-Jun 1922
Author:
Exhibitors Herald Co.
Publisher:
Chicago, Exhibitors Herald
Volume:
Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)
Leaf #:
000189
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
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:
September 21, 2023
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EXHIBITORS HERALD £r(L , CAr^f^ Qlj<^i^ (zrCffPSts 7?*SS.f <rvv' rs rf^c^; as p<>^^ " From — THE MOTION PICTURE CRITIC of Chicago's Leading Afternoon Newspaper FILM NEWS AND REVIEWS 'Gypsy Passion' or The Child of the Bear' is Great BY ROB REEL. There are moments when a motion picture reviewer is the last person on earth fit to criticize a picture. He sets so many of them in the course ot a week that many times they bore him before "Finis" is written, and he's likely to blame it on the film! ' However, there is one production that the most blase critic — or reviewer— could never criticize. "Gypsy Passion!" Here is a play that proves Shakespeare's words. "The plays the thing." Here is a cast that proves the power of proper selection. Here are scenes that are truly beautiful — genuinely picturesque "Gypsy Passion!" It is taken from the story of lean Richepin. "Miarka. the Child of the Bear." A baby is cared for by a great black bear — a wee brown gypsy baby whose mother died and whose grandmother. Romany Kate, is her only living relative. "It is written." insists Romany Kate, "that you shall meet the chief of all our tribes at the shrne of the saint. Lady Man* of the Sea." And Miarka. child of the bear, shudders, because she loves the son of Count de la Roque. a French gentleman, and the gypsies' friend. There is one Louis. A rascal! He loves Miarka — or at least, desires her He schemes to have Romany Kate placed in pr son. and when the girl is left alone — except for the great bear — he seeks to abduct her. But he has not counted the beast! There is a battle — man and bear — and the man goes down before the bear's huge body with lacerated face and broken bones. Oh. you will like "Gypsy Passion!" It is unlike anyth:ng else ever screened. It is vivid, beautiful, delicate as poetry and decent as all life. Madame Rejane as Romany Kate handles her part with conscientious care — a truly excellent actress! Jean Richepin himself anpears as the dignified old count. Desdemona Mazza as Miarka is charm-ng and very lovely Ivor Xovello. already famous in another field (for he wrote "Keep the Home Fires Burning"), plays the juvenile lead. Others in the cast are well chosen, as I have already said, and further than this I can only add— SEE IT when it comes, for you will be doubly pleased. Reprinted from the Chicago Evening American of Friday March 10. 1922.