Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World
Date:
Apr-Jun 1930
Volume:
Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)
Leaf #:
0001029
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:
March 21, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

M-G-M’s NATION-WIDE HIT liONGS PLUG YOUR SHOW ETRO GOLD W YN MAYER tionized the song business. has revolu dore hit songs have come from Metro-Goldwyndayer pictures than all the pictures in the rest of he industry. t"his reat is due to two factors — that the songs are and that they are properly promoted. Dorothy Fields Howard Johnson Arthur Freed Jimmy McHugh Joseph Meyers Clifford Grey WHENEVER you are told that there will be songs a MetroGoldwynMayer pictures you can rely n the fact that they will be great songs. j U1 you have to do is to look up the line of song (niters under Metro-GoldwynMayer contract. U1 that you have to do is to have your usual faith in detroGoldwynMayer — on MetroGoldwyn dayer performance. LMONG THE great recent acquisitions by Metrojoldwyn-Mayer are Vincent Youmans, composer >f “Hit The Deck”, “Wild Flower” and “Great day”. de is doing Joan Crawford’s next picture. AMONG MUSIC MAKERS OF METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER COMPOSERS Dorothy Fields Arthur Freed Clifford Grey Howard Johnson Jimmy McHugh Joseph Meyers Reggie Montgomery Oscar Strauss Herbert Stothart George Ward Harry Woods Vincent Youmans CONDUCTORS Dr. William Axt Sam Wineland Frederick Stahlberg Charles Drury ARRANGERS Arthur Lange Ray Heindorf Charles Maxwell Larry Shay VOICE DIRECTION Dr. P. Mario Marafioti Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields are the lyric writers for the sensational “Blackbirds” which ran over a year on Broadway which contains such hits as “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Baby” and “I Must Have That Man”, They’re writing for M-G-M now! NOT TO MENTION the great operetta composer Herbert Stothart and popular song writers like Joe Myers (remember “California Here I Come”) and Harry Woods (“When The Red, Red Robin Comes Along” — “A Little Kiss Each Morning A Little Kiss Each Night”); Clifford Grey who wrote the songs for Marilyn Miller in “Sally”. And of course not to mention the greatest popular musical genius of our time, the one and only Oscar Strauss, composer of “The Chocolate Soldier”. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER airs are in the air and on the air. Your theatre is the best music box of all when you play Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures with songs. Reggie Montgomery Oscar Strauss Herbert Stothart George Ward Harry Woods Vincent Youmans