The film daily year book of motion pictures (1928)

Jan. 22 Valencia , 4,000 Jan. 29 Summer Bachelors 5,000 Feb. S Alaskan, The 4,800 Feb. 12 Stranded in Paris 5,000 Feb. 19 Nervous Wreck, The 3,900 Feb. 26 Johnny Get Your Hair Cut 3,500 Mar. 5 New York 3,500 Mar. 12 Ladies at Play 2,500 Mar. 19 Demi-Bride, The 3,000 Mar. 26 Cheerful Fraud 3,000 Apr. 2 Red Mill, The 2,000 Apr. 9 General, The 4,000 Apr. 16 Blind Alleys 3,200 Apr. 23 Women Love Diamonds 4,200 Apr. j0 Kiss in a Taxi, A 3,300 May / Long Pants, and Alaskan Adventures 3,000 May 14 Love of Sunya, The (9 days) .. 5,000 Sept. 24 Beau Geste (a) 11,500 Oct. 1 Beau Geste 5,500 Oct. 8 Big Parade, The 8,000 Oct. 15 Big Parade, The 6,000 Oct. 22 Way of All Flesh 6,000 Oct. 29 Way of All Flesh 6,000 Nov. 5 Ben Hur 11,500 Nov. 12 Ben Hur 7,000 Nov. 19 Cat and the Canary 11,500 Nov. 26 Cat and the Canary 8,000 Dec. 3 Underworld 13,000 Dec. 10 Underworld 5,000 Dec. 17 Garden of Allah 5,000 Dec. 24 Les Miserables 6,000 (a) Gross affected by strike of stagehands and operators. * * * HENNEPIN-ORPHEUM MINNEAPOLIS Pictures and Vaudeville Seats 2,890 Prices 50c-90c High: "Corporal Kate" — $20,000, week ending Jan. 1. Low. "Discord" and Charlotte Greenwood — $9,000. week ending Dec. 10. Week Ending Receipts Jan. 1 Corporal Kate $20,000 Jan. 8 Cruise of the Jasper B 13,500 Jan. 15 When the Wife's Away and Blossom Seeley 15,500 Jan. 22 Jim, the Conqueror and Theodore Roberts 14,000 Jan. 29 Obey the Law and Dr. Rockwell and the Weaver Bros 13,000 Feb. 5 Nobody's Widow and Dunninger (mind reader) 13,500 Feb. 12 Rubber Tires 14,000 Feb. 19 Better Way, The and Rae Samuels 11,000 Feb. 26 Remember and Fay Bainter.... 11,500 Mar. 5 Man Bait 12,000 Mar. 12 Fighting Love and Gus Edwards. 14,000 Mar. 19 Wreck, The, and Jimmy Hussey and Daphne Pollard 11,000 Mar. 26 Play Safe and Belle Baker and Frank Fay 11,000 Apr. 2 Stolen Pleasures and augmented vaudeville 11,800 Apr. 9 Wonders of the Wild and Joe Frisco, Vera Gordon and Nick Lucas 14,000 Apr. 16 Getting Gertie's Garter 11,000 Apr. 23 White Gold and Irene Bordoni. 11,500 Apr. 30 Potters, The 10.000 May 7 Bachelor Baby, The 9,500 May 14 Little Adventuress 9,800 May 21 Wandering Girls and Fannie Ward (a) May 28 Night Bride, The 11.000 June 4 Vanity 12,000 June 11 Birds of Prey 10,000 June 18 Heart Thief, The 10,000 June 25 Price of Honor 9,800 July 2 Romantic Age 11,500 July 9 Pleasure Before Busines? 14,500 July 16 Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary .... 12,000 July 23 Poor Girls 12,700 July 30 Too Many Crooks 11,500 Aug. 6 Horse Shoes 12,000 Aug. 13 Paying the Price 13,000 Aug. 20 His Dog 11,500 Aug. 27 Rich Men's Sons 13,500 Sept. 3 Country Doctor, The 12,500 Sept. 10 Kid Sister, The 15,000 Sept 17 Fighting Eagle, The 11,000 Sept. 24 Swellhead, The, and Harry Carroll (b) 13,000 Oct. 1 Gingham Girl, The 12,400 Oct. 8 Angel of Broadway, The 11,000 Oct. 15 Harp in Hock, A 10,000 Oct. .22 Magic Garden, The 9,500 Oct. 29 Million Bid, A, and Ella Shields 10,000 Nov. 5 Wise Wife, The 13,000 Nov. 12 Wreck of the Hesperus 14,500 Nov. 19 The Coward and Nick Lucas and Doc Baker 12,000 Nov. 26 Girl in the Pullman 15,000 Dec. 3 Black Diamond Express 10,500 Dec. 10 Discord and Charlotte Greenwood 9,000 Dec. 17 The Harvester and augmented stage band 10,500 Dec. 24 My Friend from India and Eddie Leonard 10,000 (a) 2 000 seat Garrick closed. (b) Gross affected by strike of stagehands and operators and reopening of 2,000 seat Garrick. STATE, MINNEAPOLIS Seats 2,600 Prices 60c High: "Fast and Furious," and Vitaphone and Kiddies Revue — $23,000, week ending June 25. Low: "Man, Woman and Sin," and stage band — $8,500, week ending Dec. 10. Week Ending Receipts Jan. 1 Tin Hats $18,000 Jan. 8 Just Another Blonde and augmented stage show 14,000 Jan. 15 Flesh and the Devil 15,000 Jan. 22 Third Degree 12,000 Jan. 29 Lady in Ermine and Ray and Elinore Ball and Sonya Ro zann 11,000 Feb. 5 Sorrows of Satan 13,000 Feb. 12 Paradise for Two and Shoulder Arms and Sonya Rozann.... 12,000 Feb. 19 It and augmented stage show.. 18,000 Feb. 26 Show, The 11,000 Mar. 5 Loves of Ricardo, The, and George Beban 15,000 Mar. 12 Orchids and Ermine 14,000 Mar. 19 Three Hours 10,000 Mar. 26 Blonde or Brunette and local style show 18,000 Apr. 2 Venus of Venice 10,500 Apr. 9 Casey at the Bat and augmented stage show 11,000 Apr. 16 Afraid to Love and Vitaphone and Joe Thomas and his Sax o-tette 20,000 Apr. 23 Children of Divorce 17,500 Apr. 30 Affair of the Follies, An, and stage show, "Songs of the Sea" 16,500 May 7 Evening Clothes and Vitaphone and Gold Medal Quartette 15,000 May 14 Slide, Kelly, Slide 18,000 May 21 Tender Hour, The, and Vitaphone (a) 14,500 May 28 Don Juan and Vitaphone 18,000 June 4 Knockout Reilly and Vitaphone. . 14,500 June 11 World at Her Feet, The, and home talent film 12,000 June 18 Lovers and six American Beauties 14,000 June 25 Fast and Furious and Vitaphone and Kiddies' Revue 23,000 July 2 Rolled Stockings and local made picture 17,000 July 9 Naughty But Nice and Vitaphone 18,000 July 16 Better 'Ole and Vitaphone 16,500 July 23 Prince of Head Waiters and Vitaphone and Old Favorites' Revue 17,500 842