Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1925-Mar 1926)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald
Date:
Dec 1925-Mar 1926
Volume:
Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1925-Mar 1926)
Leaf #:
0001323
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
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 20, 1926 EXHIBITORS HERALD 91 Scene from “The Danger Girl,” Producers Distributing Corp. release in which Priscilla Dean has the stellar role. The Road to Glory Distributor: Fox Producer: Fox Length: Undetermined DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWKS Author Howard Hawks Adaptor L. G. Rigby Cameraman Joseph August PLAYERS Judith Allen May McAvoy David Hale Leslie Fenton James Allen Ford Sterling Del Cole Rockliffe Fellowes Aunt Selma Milla Davenport The dog Hank Butler John MacSweeney TYPE: Modern society drama. THEME: Romantic love. LOCALE: An American city. TIME : The present. STORY : There is a bond of sympathy between a girl and her father, who laughs when his daughter shows him a bruise over her eye which she tells him she received when she and her lover wrecked the roadster through speedy driving. The father is killed next day by a falling brick, and the girl in her grief goes blind from the bruise, and renounces God and her lover in her misery. She goes to a lonely cabin to get away from everything and is followed by her lover, who is hurt when a tree crashes on the cottage. The girl prays, and he recovers and she regains her sight. HIGHLIGHTS: Cabaret scenes. . . . The auto wreck. . . . Heroine’s loss of sight. . . . Miraculous recovery when tree crashes on cabin and injures her and her lover. The Danger Girl Distributor: Pro-Dis-Co Producer: Metropolitan * Length: Undetermined DIRECTOR EDWARD DILLON PLAYERS Marie Duquesne Priscilla Dean Wilson Travers John Bowers James, the butler Gustave Von Seyffertitz Henrietta Travers Cissy Fitzgerald Mortimer Travers Arthur Hoyt Pelham William Humphrey Organ Man Clarence Burton Henderson Erwin Connolly TYPE: Mystery melodrama. THEME: Outwitting crooks. LOCALE: New York City. TIME : The present. STORY : Two wealthy brothers are visited by a girl in bridal attire who enters their home via the roof and asks to be saved from a distasteful marriage. Meanwhile the police inform the brothers, one of whom is in love with the girl, that a robbery has taken place and a woman has been seen scurrying over the roofs. Numerous exciting and humorous incidents occur before the girl reveals that she is aiding the police, and the real thieves are apprehended. HIGHLIGHTS : Scene in which the girl enters bachelor apartment. ... Appearance of the brothers’ aunt. . . . Fight in billiard room. . . . Capture of thieves. . . . Disclosure of girl’s identity as police aid. May McAvoy in a scene from “The Road to Glory,” produced by Fox Film Corporation. “The Danger Girl,” from which this scene is taken, is a Pro-Dis-Co release made by Metropolitan. The Fighting Buckaroo Distributor: Fox Producer: Fox Length: Undetermined DIRECTOR R. WILLIAM NEILL Author Frank Howard Clark Adaptor Charles Darnton Cameraman Reginald Lyons PLAYERS Larry Crawford Buck Jones Betty Gregory Sally Long Glenmore Bradley Lloyd Whitlock Percy Wellington Frank Butler Richard Gregory E. J. Radcliffe First Crook Ben Hendricks Second Crook Ray Thompson Ranch Foreman Frank Rice TYPE: Comedy-drama. THEME: Romantic love. LOCALE: Western American town. TIME: The present. STORY : A young man in an endeavor to stop a car which runs over a boy halts a judge through error and is arrested and falls in love with the judge’s daughter. He is sent to take up an option on the judge’s land, on which gold has been found. Another wants the land and the girl, and his gang steals the girl’s pearls and the young man saves her. After a wild ride they arrive in time to take up the option and win the judge’s consent to their marriage. HIGHLIGHTS : Car hitting boy. . . . Fight on hotel. . . . Wild motorcycle ride, hero dropping on train from bridge. . . . Hand car ride and fight. . . . Horse riding. . . . Many humorous incidents.