Harrison's Reports (1937)

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A REVIEWING SERVICE FREE FROM THE INFLUENCE OF FILM ADVERTISING Vol. XIX SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1937 No7?4 Box-Office Performances of 1937-38 Season's Pictures — No. 2 Paramount a screen play by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Viola (1937-38 Season) Brothers Shore: Fair. "Blonde Trouble," with Eleanore Whitney and Johnny "Annapolis Salute," with Harry Carey, James Ellison Downs, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screen and Marsha Hunt, produced by Robert Sisk and directed play by Lillie Hayward : Fair. by Christy Cabanne, from a screen play by John Twist : "Artists and Models," with Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Fair to PoorRichard Aden and Gail Patrick produced by Lewis E. Twentieth Century-Fox Gensler and directed by Raoul Walsh, from a screen play (1937-38 Season) by Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin: Verv Good to „. _ , ,_ „ " , . „..»,. tGood. You Cant Have Everything, with Alice haye, Don feu > t j " a r-. i j t i t Ameche and the Ritz Brothers, produced by Laurence nrJ, rA K° R P Q u ik Ta ^ }u ruT' Schwab and directed by Norman Taurog, from a screen produced by B. P. Schulberg and directed by Charles , b H Tugendf Jack Yellen and Karl Tumberg : V.dor, from a screen play by George Bruce and Frank £xcellynt to Very Good h r tos . 1 <i 1 1 . ■ «n c , ' XT* Lin -i.u v i t-j j r~ "One Mile from Heaven, with Claire Trevor and Sally On Such a Night with Karen Morley Eduardo Cian B, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel and directed by Alar. aa < AVt r a n > ' foduced by Manuel Cohen D * { by Alfred Go,d Lqu , and directed by E. A Dupont, from a screen play by Dons d John patrick F^y Malloy and William Lipman : Fair to Poor. T J T. , _. „ . , T „ _ <iC , , c » -4.U r c r t> r, /->i "Love Under hire, with Loretta Young and Don Souls at Sea, with Gary Cooper, George Raft, Olympe Amech produced by KmmaUy Johnson and directed by Bradna Frances Dee Henry W.lcoxon and Harry Carey, Qeo '^arshal, f£m a scrgyenJ , b Gene Fowley directed by Henry Hathaway, from a screen play by Grover A„ 8 Rj k; and £rnest Pasca, ^ ^ Fair Jones and Dale Van Emery: Very Good. ._, . , _ ' ,_ „ . , _ _„ . . 1 1 t_t , r~ -a tj j a • i) wu n j 'Think hast Mr. Moto, with Peter Lorre, Virginia Hopalong Cassidy Rides Again with William Boyd, Fidd and Thomas Beck produced b Sol M. wurtzel and George Hayes, and Lois Wilde, produced by Harry Sher H ^ by Norman Foster, from a screen plav by Howard man, and directed by Mr. Selander : Fair. Rm ^ and Norman Foster . Fair Sophie Lang Goes West," with Gertrude Michael and «Thin j with Sonja Henje and T p Lee Bowman, directed by Charles Riesner from a screen duced b Raymond Griffith and directed by Sidney Lan FaTr to P°onr AnderS0" ' Bmn Ma rIow. and Robert Wyler : field> f/om / screen p]ay by Boris lngs£r and yMilton or' Sperling : Excellent. a„/^F r N.?thin8.' with BingCrosby,, Martha Raye ..W;,d and Woolly» with Jane Withers and Walter and Mary Carlisle, produced by Benjamin C-lazer and Brennan, produced by John Stone and directed by Alfred directed by Theodore Reed, from a screen play by Charles Werk fProm a sc/eeJn , b L Root Jd Frank berry Goo7m ' Fenton : Good to Fair. "Borneo," travelogue by Martin and Osa Johnson, pro „ 0 . duced by Truman Talley, with Lowell Thomas as the com (1936-37 Season ) mentator : Fair to Poor. "Flight from Glory/' with Chester Morris and Whitney -wif Doctor and Nurse; with Warner Baxter, Loretta Bourne produced by Robert F. Sisk and directed by David Young and Virginia Bruce, produced by Raymond Griffith Silverstein, from a screen play by Mr. S.lverstein : Fair. and |irected by Walter Lang) fron/a /creen play by Make a Wish," with Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone and Kathrvn Scola, Darrell Ware, and Lamar Trotti : Very Marion Claire, produced by Sol Lesser and directed by Good to Good. Kurt Neumann, from a screen plav by Gertrude Berg Good to Fair THE STRIKE AGAINST PARAMOUNT Including these two pictures, the number reported since ABOUT TO BE SETTLED the beginning of the season is 43, rated as follows: with the strike against Paramount continuing in the Very Good to Good, 2; Good, 3; Good to Fair, 10; different territories at full force, there appears in Philadel Fair, 12; Fair to Poor, 12; Poor, 4. pma, the first zone to organize the strike, a possibility of Expressing the number of pictures of the different rat settling the entire controversy, ings in round percentage terms, we get the following In Los Angeles and in Indianapolis exhibitors have results . instituted suits against Paramount for damages and to Very Good to Good, 4!/2% ; Good, 7%; Good to Fair, compel delivery of the pictures involved in the strike. In 23,r4%: Fair, 28%; Fair to Poor, 28%; Poor, 9l/A%— Minneapolis the exhibitor leaders announced that "they total 100%. had just begun to fight." And this announcement reflects The first 43 releases of the 1935-36 season were rated ^ exhibitors' attitude in the other zones, as follows: In Philadelphia, the official bulletin of the U.M.P.T.O. Excellent, 3 ; Excellent to Very Good, 1 ; Good, 5 ; Good organization carried a front page editorial, pointing out to Fair, 2; Fair, 11; Fair to Poor 7 Poor 14 ' ' the blunders made by Paramount in its war on its cus Fxnrpssino tVip Attfaram* ■ , tomers. With the preface that "no sane exhibitor wants to expressing tne curterent groups in round percentage r> * i a ,l i:, ... f ., figures, we get the following results st*e Paramount harmed or the quality or quantity of the Paramount releases depreciated," the editorial suggested Excellent, 7%; Excellent to Very Good, 2'/3% ; Good, that, since the Paramount officials had indicated their w'; Good to Fair, 4%%; Fair, 25^%; Fair to Poor, willingness to meet with individual exhibitors to discuss lo, 3 /c ; Poor, 32Ja,o — total 100%. their grievances, a meeting be held with a committee con ( 1937-38 Season ) sisting of one exhibitor rqiresentative from each of the "The Life of the Party," with Joe Penner, Gene Ray zones affectecl bv the strike. mond, Harriet Hilliard and Victor Moore, produced by The suggestion being in line with the announced inten Edward Kaufman and directed by William A. Seiter. from (Continued on last page)