Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Exhibitors Herald World
Date:
Oct-Dec 1930
Publisher:
[Chicago, Quigley publishing company]
Volume:
Exhibitors herald world
Leaf #:
00027
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
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:
November 03, 2022
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October 4, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD 21 W Film News in Pictures PICTORIAL SECTION Stories Told by the Camera Not quite as bad as it looks, although we're not the least bit sorry that we're not the patient. Looks like more of an experiment to us than an operation, but being a subject for that — well, anyhow, Ellen McCarthy, ZaSu Pitts and Hedda Hopper try a little of their new knowledge of surgery on Helen Jerome Eddy between scenes of Edgar Selwyn's picture, entitled "War Nurse," at M G M's studio. We wonder what disturbed this gentleman as he sat reading, possibly at his fireside? Lawrence Grant as he appears in Universal's thriller, "The Cat Creeps." Rupert Julian wielded the megaphone during the shooting of the film. Two ragged litde love birds, one all set to protect his sweetheart against all odds. Phillips Holmes and charming Helen Twelvetrees make a most romantic pair in forthcoming Pathe picture, which goes under the title of "Her Man." Forty years after! Otis Harlan and George Marion discoved an old show poster which served in Warner Brother's "Barber John's Boy," the temporary title. The poster turned out to be one for the old Thatcher, Primrose and West's Minstrels, in which both Harlan and Marion played when that blackface show was in its prime and going strong. They tell some of the episodes to Allan Dwan.