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 #:
000617
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
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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November 15, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 33 Ramon Novarro looks very much at home in a director's chair. The popular M G M player assumed the role of director and star in the making of the Spanish and French versions of his most recent picture entitled "Call of the Flesh." Sam Wood, director of M G M's "Within the Law," couldn't find his star, Joan Crawford or his featured player, Marie Prevost, on the sound stage when he was ready for them, so he took a look outside and there they were, deeply engrossed in what Helen Wills was telling them about some of her exploits in the game which she has mastered. The problem in this picture (not very hard) is to find those mentioned above. • «J ■:§;«... . Br ' am at f a^B^ ^Hf '* aflHfl -z^r. ^^ Jppf ... ' Wt^F" W^ ' 1 '^-lpl' R m j& ^P^ r -*m ■Zjmtisgtfas%£~fjU^,.. ■ ■ IBS m* 1 Hil lk4-.iL A\m c ■•J^Mrs »««>— -J^Htc'"? * -." ♦ • ■ A life staked on the turn of a hand, a man and a girl bartering for a life, the life of the girl to a suave gambler or the life of a man to the girl who loves him. This is one of the tense, very tense, moments in First National's picture, "The Girl of the Golden West," which features the beautiful Ann Harding. Seated around this table, with a blizzard raging outside, is Ann Harding, James Rennie and Harry Bannister. Blissfully unaware that anyone is even near them, seem Lawrence Gray and charming Marilyn Miller, star of the musical comedy, "Sunny," which is being "put to pictures" by First National.