Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1928)

76 KMIIBITORS HERALD and MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 3, 1928 "Half Pint Hero." Good. (Grand theatre, Breese. 111.) This bird is in a class by himself, when it comes to acrobatic comedies. This one is a good number. (Sun theatre. Kansas City, Mo.) Very funny comedy. Lane is different. (Selma theatre, Selma, Cal. "Hectic Days." Good. Funny and entertaining. Held them in their seats. A comedy that will do that now must be good. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) "Hello, Sailor." This ie extra good. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) Good snappy comedy. (Ritz theatre. Correction ville, la.) Excellent comedy; it's funny. (Selma theatre. Selma, Cal.) "Howdy Do Duke." A fair two reel comedy. (Strand theatre. Griswold, la.) "Listen, Sister." Very good comedy. Has the laughs. (Selma theatre, Selma, Cal.) Fine comedy that made them laugh till they couldn't laugh any more, so must have pleased them this time. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) One of the best comedies we ever played. Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) This is sure a riot of a comedy. Lupino goes to school in a ladies' college, in a masquerade, and then the fun 6tarts. (Central theatre, Selkirk, Man.. Canada.) "Monty of the Mounted." Very good, i Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) Good two reel comedy. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) Good comedy. Lupino Lane always brings out a few laughs. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) "Naughty Boy." Just a good comedy, but seems that they all squawk how good a product they have, but none of them seem to raise many laughs any more. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) A fine corned}-. Keeps the people laughing most of the time. Majestic theatre. Homer, Mich.) "Some Scout." Think Lane is one ef the best comedians on the screen today. In addition to comedy he is quite an acrobat. (Opera House, Foley. Minn.) Good clean comedy. Lane is good in this one. (Crystal theatre. Many, La.) "Sword Points." Good. (Selma theatre, Selma, Cal.) Extra fine comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) "Who's Afraid." Dandy comedy, and Lupino is sure there and over. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) LIVE NEWS, 2. — A good comedy. Lots of action, i Legion theatre, Elmwood, Wis.) A fair comedy, i Opera House, Foley, Minn.) LOST LAUGH, THE, 1. — Not many laughs in this one. The title is not misleading. (Central theatre. Selkirk, Man., Canada.) LOVE'S SPRINGTIME. Hope Hampton, 2.— Color film laid back in the Fourteenth Century. Very beautiful but story rather silly. (Sun theatre, Kansas City, Mo.) Technicolor beautiful to look at. Ladies will like it. (Selma theatre, Selma, Cal.) MEET THE FOLKS, 2.— Fair comedy. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) MIDNIGHT FOLLIES, 2.— Good comedy. Better than average. Plenty of laughs and excitement. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) MOVIELAND, 2. — Personally I did not care very much for it, but it brought most of the customers a big bunch of laughB, so why should I 6ay that it was anything but very good. (Movies. Brocket, N. D.) MYSTERIOUS NIGHT, I Dandy little single reel. Better than average. (Central theatre, Selkirk, Man.. Canada. ) NO SPARKING, 2.— Fair two reel comedy. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) NOTHING FLAT, George Davis, 2.— A good comedy. (Silver Family theatre. Greenville. Mich.) Good comedy. Plenty of fun all the way through. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) PINK ELEPHANTS, 2 Here is one that will make 'em all laugh, and is good. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) PLUM DUMB, 2.— Only a fair comedy. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) Good little comedy, all we can say. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) QUEEN'S WILD, Jack Miller, 2.— Fine comedy but not so very many laughs so it passed fair. (Royal •heatre, Kimball, S. D.) Good comedy. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) RED HOT BULLETS, 2.— This is an extra good comedy, very good. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) Very good. (Selma theatre. Selma. Cal.) RUNNING RAGGED, 1.— Better than the average nne reelcr. (Central theatre, Selkirk. Man., Canada.) SCARED SILLY, Arthur Lake, 2.— Just silly all the way through and the spooks have anything beat >n the screen today. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) Fair comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) A good comedy but not as funny as some we have played from Educational. (Crystal theatre. Many, La.) LARKY SEMON COMEDIES. 2.— "Dummies." Always good. Great acrobat. (Silver Family theatre, 'ireenvllle. Mich.) Fairly good. (Selma thentre. .•^elmn, Cal.) Educational should be prosecuted for telling a re-issue to exhibitor* without so stating in the contract. The last half of this picture is nega tive from an old two reel Vitagraph comedy that Semon made several yeare ago. I've run it at least six times. I dare them to prove that the tower scenes and ambulance scenes are not a Vitagraph re-issue. (Sun theatre, Kansas City, Mo.) "Never Too Late." Fair Cameo comedy. (Sun theatre, Kansas City. Mo.) "Oh What a Man." This is an extra good comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) Fine comedy. Larry sure is some stunl man but he had some better comedies before. (Royal theatre, Kimball. S. D.) "Simple Sap." One of the greatest food throwing comedies, "not pie" but the whole grocery store. (Silv.er Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) Just the old pie throwing 6tuff. (Central theatre, Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada.) "The Stunt Man." Just fair. (Grand theatre, Breese, 111.) Sure glad Larry only made two comedies for Educational. (Sun theatre, Kansas City, Mo.) Only fair. (Selma theatre, Selma, Cal.) A good Semon comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) Fine. Plenty of excitement but we feel sorry for Larry. How hard he worked to get the girl and he got the air instead. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) A fair comedy. (Crystal theatre. Many, La.) AL ST. JOHN COMEDIES, 2.— "Fair Warning." Awful good. Al St. John and his bicycle, can you beat them ? (Princess theatre, Lincoln, Kan.) "Flaming Romance." Pretty good comedy with some laughs in it. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) Fine comedy, but not many laughs, so that's that. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) "No Cheating." Al St. John is slipping fast for me. (Grand theatre, Breese, 111.) "Racing Mad." Very funny and exciting comedy. (Sun theatre, Kansas City, Mo.) Very funny comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) SURE CURE, 2. — Pleased better than any previous short subject. Had some repeats to see the comedy again. You can't beat Educational for the slap-stick. (Texline theatre, Texline, Tex.) TIE THAT BULL, Bobby Vernon, 2.— This is a very refined title for any comedy. Why use such titles for comedies. (Strand theatre, Griswold, la.) UP IN ARMS, 2. — One of the best comedies we have played in a year. (Silver Family theatre. Greenville, Mich.) VISITOR'S WELCOME, 2.-^Just fair. Nothing to rave over. (Crystal theatre. Many, La.) WHO'S LYIN', 2. — Very good comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) WILD CAT VALLEY, 2.— Good comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) FB 0 BILL GRIMM'S PROGRESS, Jack Luden, 2 — "Assorted Nuts." All the Bill Grimm Progress series have been good. (Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) "Blisters Under the Skin." "Bill Grimm's Progress." Good. (Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) Not much funny stuff, but the last reel had a good fight they got a kick out of. (Old Trail theatre, Hebron, O.) "Ladies Prefer Brunettes." Very good. (Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) KRAZY KAT CARTOONS, 1.— "Channel Swim." Just another cartoon and that does not mean anything at all. (Royal theatre, Kimball. S. D.) Vera Reynolds "Chicken Chaser." Quite good. (Powers theatre, Red Creek, N. Y.) "Passing the Hat." Good cartoon to make 'em laugh. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) MICKEY McGUIRE COMEDIES, 2.— Very good and will make the "Gang" go some to keep up. (Garden theatre, St. Clair, Mich.) "Mickey's Babes." Lots of fun with the kiddies. McGuire is sure some inventor and his gang is all there too. (Royal theatre. Kimball S. D.) "Mickey's Battle." Acted entirely by a cast of children and is good for it* type. (Royal theatre, Saxon, Wis.) "Mickey's Circus." Well, if they like good comedies this is a good series that makes 'em laugh and look for more. (Royal theatre, Kimball. S. D.) A good kid comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) "Mickey's Eleven." Good comedy for the kiddies, but grownups don't care so much. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) "Mickey's Nine." Below the average as comedies go. McGuire has not clicked with my patrons. He does not look the part and all my kid patrons have not failed to tell me so. (Washington theatre, Atoka, Okla.) Dandy comedy for kiddies and kept the old folks interested. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) Good. Pleased the children. (Theatorium, Emlenton. Pa.) "Mickey's Parade." This is one of the best of the Mickey series, kept the kids yelling anyway. (Gait theatre, Gait, Cal.) NEW LAUGHS, 1.— Fair, not much to them. (Theatorium theatre, Emlenton, Pa.) Our audiences do not care for them, not up to date, many of the jokes are poor. (Community theatre, Woodbury. Conn.) Personally don't think much of them. Only bought 6ix and glad of it. (Midget theatre. Hillsboro. Wis.) THREE FAT MEN COMEDIES, 2 The fat boys are making fair comedies and they get over in some of their comedies with a real kick. I would 6ay they are about an average two reel comedy. (Washington theatre, Atoka, Okla.) "AH Alike." This one was a knockout of a comedy. Full of pep. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) "Campus Romeos." Good. The kind a small town likes. (Old Trail theatre. Hebron, O.) "Fleshy Devils." This was good, so what more could we ask for? (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) "Heavyation." (Gem theatre, Greenriver. Utah.) "Heavy Fullbacks." Good. Had quite a lot of laughs in this. (Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) "Heavy Hikers." A "ton of fun" in another good one. (Royal theatre, Saxon, Wis.) "Heavy Infants." Not so good as some of their others. Guess folks are tiring of their same old stuff. (Richmond theatre, Richmond, Vt.) Good comedy by the three boys of merit. (Royal theatre. Kimball, S. D.) "Oui. Oui, Heidelberg." Good Standard comedy. Plenty of laughs and that's all we want. (Royal theatre. Kimball, S. D.) "Panting Papas." Plenty of fun with the fat boys at any time, and this was no exception. (Royal theatre, Kimball, S. D.) "Three Missing Links." These three heavies are almost always good, and this is no exception. Plenty of fun in these. (Royal theatre, Saxon, Wis.) "The Unsocial Three." Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) "The Vulgar Yachtsman." The very best we have had in a long time, one that young and old will enjoy. Keep them coming like this, F B O. (Texline theatre, Texline, Tex.) "Wandering Waistlines." The three fat men are good, but do not play too often. (Alert theatre, Steuben, Wis.) These fat men are sometimes good and this is one of the times. (Gait theatre. Gait, Cal.) These three fat men draw well for us. Their pictures are comical, good and clean. We use them as often as we can. (Majestic theatre. Homer, Mich.) WHIRLWIND COMEDIES. Charley Bowers, 2.— These comedies are very poor. F B O did a wise thing in getting rid of this bird. (Midway theatre. Martinsville, Va.) "Gone Again." Another novelty comedy which pleased. (Royal theatre, Saxon, Wis.) "He Couldn't Help It" Good. (Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) "Many a Slip." (Gem theatre. Greenriver, Utah.) "Shoosh." These get tiresome after a while. Make these into a one reel novelty and they would be good, but Charley Bowers is no comedinn. (Gem theatre, Greenriver, Utah.) Fox ANIMAL COMEDIES. 2.— Run very good. Better thnn average. (Richmond theatre, Richmond. Vt.) "Whon Emma." Very good comedy. (Strand thentre, GriHWold la.) "A Cow's Husband." The best comedy for laugh purposes ever made. (Opera House. West Point, la.) First reel not so good, but when they put the roller skates on the cow it starts rolling along. (Adair theatre, Adair. Ia.) Good. I like all of Fox animal comedies. (Strand theatre, Griswold, Ia.) A good title but just fair comedy. (Sun theatre. Plalnwell. Mich.) A bully comedy. (Silver Family theatre, Greenville, Mich.) "Elephant's Elhows." A very good nnimnl comedy. Two reels. Bert Silver. (Silver Family theatre. Greenville. Mich., General patronage.) "Battling Kangaroo." A fin*