Exhibitors Herald (1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald
Date:
1927
Volume:
Exhibitors Herald (Sep-Dec 1927)
Leaf #:
0001420
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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38 EXHIBITORS HERALD December 24, 1927 •A^ Abraham Lincoln Across the Pacific Adorable Deceiver Alomu of the South Seas America American Beauty :.i An Affair of the Follies Ancient Highway Ankles Preferred Annie Laurie Arizona Bound Arizona Nights Arizona Outlaw Arizona Sweepstakes As No Man Loved 2 1 ::.2 3 i .3 .1 .3 .2 .3 .1 .1 1 B Babe Comes Home Back To God's Country Bandit's Baby Barbed Wire Bardelys the Magnificent Battling Butler Beautiful Cheat «... Becky v Beloved Rogue Below The Line Bertha The Sewing Machine Girl. Best Bad Man Better Man Beverly of Graustark Beware of Widows Bigger Than Barnums Birth of a Nation Blackbird Black Cyclone Black Diamond Express Blarney Block Signal Blonde or Brunette Blonde Saint Blood Ship Blue Eagle Bonanzo Buckaroo Border Cavalier Border Sheriff Braveheart Bred In Old Kentucky Breed of the Sea Bride of the Storm Broadway Nights Bronco Buster Brown Derby Buckaroo Kid Bugle Call Bustin' Through Butterflies in the Rain .3 .1 .1 .2 ..5 .A .1 .1 t .1 ..1 .1 .3 .1 .3 .2 .1 .1 .1 .1 I .1 ..1 .1 .2 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 -2 .3 .2 .2 .1 .1 Additional List of Big B«0* Winners Five hundred and eighty-one pictures named by one or more exhibitors as among their ten biggest money makers of the year ending November, 15, 1927, are alphabetically listed herewith. Titles of the 104 pictures shown to be the biggest money makers of the year are published upon the two pages preceding. Those titles are not repeated in this list. Numerals opposite titles indicate the number of exhibitors including each picture in their biggest money maker lists. Dempsey-Sharkey Fight 2 Denver Dude 1 Desert Flower 1 Desert Greed 1 Desert’s Price 1 Desert's Toll 2 Desert Valley — 1 Devil’s Circus 1 Devil’s Gulch 1 Devil's Saddle 2 Don Q 2 Don't Tell the Wife 1 Dress jParade 1 Drop Kick 3 Drusilla With a Million 2 E C Calgary Stampede 3 California or Bust 1 California Straight Ahead 4 Camille 4 Canadian 1 Captain's Courage 1 Captain Salvation 2 Cats’ Pajamas 1 Charley’s Aunt 1 Cheerful Fraud 3 Chinese Parrot 1 Christine of the Big Top 1 Clancy’s Kosher Wedding 1 Clash of the Wolves 4 Classified 1 Claw 1 Clown 1 Code of the West 1 College 2 College Widow 1 Convoy 3 Country Doctor 3 Covered Wagon \ Cowboy Dude 1 Cowboy Musketeer 1 Cradle Snatchers 2 Cyclone of the Range 1 D Damaged Goods 1 Danger Ahead 1 Demi-Bride _ 3 The Quarterback (Par) Eagle 4 Eagle of the Sea 2 East Lynne 1 Eucharistic Congress 1 Eve’s Leaves 1 Exit Smiling 1 F Fair Co-Ed 4 Fall of the Alamo 1 Family Upstairs 1 Fast and Furious 1 Fighting Boob 1 Fighting Stallion 1 Fig Leaves ~ 3 Flag Lieutenant 2 Flame of the Yukon 1 Flaming Waters 1 Flashing Fangs 3 Forever After 5 For Heaven’s Sake 6 Fourth Commandment 4 Framed 4 Freshman 4 Frisco Sally Levy 1 Frontiersman 3 G General 4 Gentle Cyclone 3 Girl Shy 1 God Gave Me Twenty Cents 1 God’s Great Wilderness 1 Going the Limit 2 Gold Rush 2 Good As Gold 2 Graustark ...2 Greater Glory 3 Great Mail Robbery 2 H Hands Across the Border 3 Hard Boiled 3 Harvester 2 Heart of Maryland 2 Heart of Salome 1 Heaven on Earth 3 Held by the Law 1 Hell Hounds of the Plain 1 Her Big Night 3 Her Honor the Governor 1 Hero of the Big Snows 3 Hero on Horseback 3 Hey Hey Cowboy Hidden Loot , Hills of Peril His People His Secretary Hogan’s Alley Hold That Lion Home Maker Home Struck Honeymoon Express Hotel Imperial Hot Water 3 .1 1 .1 .1 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .2 I Ice Flood 1 In Old Kentucky 1 Isle of Retribution 1 Is Zat So? 1 It’s the Old Army Game 1 J Jade Cup 1 Jesse James 2 Johnstown Flood — 1 Judgment of the Hills 1 K Kentucky Pride 1 Kick Off 1 Kid Boots 4 Kiki 5 King of the Turf 1 Kosher Kitty Kelly 1 L La Boheme 1 Last Alarm 1 Last Frontier 3 Last Laugh — 1 Lena Rivers 1 Les Miserables 2 Let It Rain 3 Let’s Get Married 1 Let’s Go Gallagher 1 Life of Riley 2 Lightning jtfs 1 Lightning Lariats 2 Lilies of the Street 1 Limited Mail 1 Little Irish Girl 1 Little Journey 1 Live Wire 1 Lone Eagle 1 Lone Wolf Returns 1 Long Loop on Pecos 1 Lost Battalion 1 Love’s Greatest Mistake 1 Loves of Sunya 1 Love Thief 1 Love Thrill 1 Lovey Mary 1 Lunatic at Large 1 Lure of the Wild 1 Lure of the West.... -.1 M Magic Flame 2 Magician 1 Mamma Behave 1 Man From Red Gulch 1 Manhattan Madness 1 Man in the Saddle 3 Man on the Box 3 Man Power — 3 Mantrap — 4 Mark of Zorro 1 Memory Lane 1 Men of Daring 2 Men of Purpose 1 Merry Widow 1 Midnight Flyer 2 Midnight Message 1 Mike 1 Miss Nobody 2 Mockery 1 Monkey Talks 2 The Scarlet Letter (M-G-M)