Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald
Date:
Dec 1924-Mar 1925
Volume:
Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)
Leaf #:
000751
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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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February 7, 1925 EXHIBITORS HERALD 41 Sally Rand, latest dim beauty, who has just been sigpned by Paramount to appear >n Famous Players pictures. You’ll see her in “The Golden Bed.’’ Richard Dix, in the dress of the Basques, which he wears in his latest picture, “Too Many Kisses,’’ a Paramount production. Colleen Moore, First National star in “Sally,’’ is entertained by Van and Schenck, noted vaudeville team, singing “Sally’s in the Movies Now’’ during a pause in the filming of her picture. RIGHT — William Beaudine, director of “The Narrow Street’’ for Warner Bros., who has again signed up with that firm. Do you remember ’way back when these were popular models of “horseless carriages?’’ David Smith, who is producing “Pampered Youth’’ for Vitagraph, dug up these early 1900 to 1904 models for the Booth Tarkington story, “The Magnificent Ambersons.’’ The six-cylinder Ford roadster, without wind shield or other extras, has two speeds. The ’bus with the top is a Cadillac of 1904, a single cylinder car that created a sensation. At the right is a 1902 Stevens-Duryea touring car, equipped to carry four or six passengers, the two in the back riding backwards.