Exhibitors Herald (1927)

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EXHIBITORS HERAL EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES CHICAGO ♦07 So. Dearborn St. Telephone Harrison 9248. Cable Address: Quigpubco. Jay M. Shreck, Managing Editor George Clifford, Business Manager Ernest A. Rovelstad, News Editor NEW YORK 565 Fifth Ave. Telephone Vanderbilt 3612-3613. James Beecroft, Manager John S. Spargo, New York News Editor LOS ANGELES 5617 Hollywood Blvd. Telephone Gladstone 3754. Ray Murray, Manager Douglas Hodges, Advertising Manager LONDON The Bioscope (J. Cabourn, Editor) Faraday House, 8-10 Charing Cross Rd., W. C. 2. INDEX TO EDITORIAL CONTENTS DEPARTMENTS Short Features 32 Presentation Acts 34 The Theatre 46 The Film Mart 44 Classified Advertising so The Box Office Ticker 49 “What the Picture Did for Me” 51 FEATURES Los Angeles, by Ray Murray.... 24 Re-Takes 31 Pictorial Section 25 Service Talks, by T. O. Service 43 Letters from Readers 48 Chicago, by W. W 58 SUBSCRIPTION RATES United States and possessions — $3 per year. Canada — $4.50 per year. Other points of the world — $6 per year. Single copies, 25 cents. Advertising rate cards and Audit Bureau of Circulations statements furnished upon application. This Issue — AMICABLE settlement of Paramount-Trade Commission case is 1 seen as new delay is granted; P-F-L given 60 more days to comply; Conference by November 1 indicated. CIVIC bodies hit dog races cutting into theatre trade; Industry eyes campaign launched at St. Louis; Houston faces threat; Britons see menace. T NDUSTRY pauses to pay final tribute at Marcus Loew funeral; J Two thousand stand with bowed heads while brief ceremony is conducted. 1 : 0i i j -jdul SEVENTY-FIVE exhibitors protest against “bunk” from many salesmen; Declare giving real information about pictures instead of adjectives would bring more contracts. ''FEN suggestions on how to preserve -*• prints are offered by Herbert J. Yates of Consolidated Film Industries Engi neers push plans for Convention September 26-29. TJ OSTON not overseated, survey shows; Public demands deluxe theatres; Shortage of seats in super-theatres points to packed shows for B. F. Keith Memorial house. l\/r ARTIN J. QUIGLEY, in editorial article on advertising pictures, declares solution of industry's problem may be brought about through the theatre — and only through the theatre. CRITICAL collegians present problems to theatre owners and delight in picking shows to pieces, says observer; Situation calls for tact. F' OX-CASE Movietone records Mussolini -L address to America Indiana blue law will be tested at Warsaw — Cincinnati puts ban on "Callahans” picture. BIBLE class protests to Hays against producers ridiculing church in pictures; American Society of Cinematographers gives banquet on Coast to new members. CZ MASHING of attendance and receipt records by “What Price Glory” confirms Winfield R. Sheehan as ace showman; Ignored chorus of advice. /"VRGANIST loses two fingers Charley Bowers goes to Coast to make .series of comedies for Educational Distributing prizes in audience is illegal, Chicago official holds. Complete Reports on Presentations in 40 Theatres Appear in This Issue