Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Apr-Jun 1931
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)
Leaf #:
000371
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
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:
August 29, 2022
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April 18, 1931 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 17 MODERN GAUCHO. Capt. Juan Reyml, star of the Argentine poloists who haz'e been playing American West Coast teams, on a znsit to the WarnerFirst National studio. Shoivti are Capt. Bird, Mrs. Stephen Nearney, Lucien Hubbard, Arthur Caesar, Marian Ni.von, Capt. Reynal, Mrs. Reynal, Darryl Zanuck, Mrs. Zanuck and Raymond Griffitli. UG-WUMP! (left). But it doesn't mean a thing. S'otdy Stuart Erwin and Eugene Pallette, members of the cast of Paramount' s "Dude Ranch," trying to tell us Mayflower folks their ancestors zverc first. OX IN FOUR. That golf picture on the opposite page, also with its Jones, has lis mixing our metaphors or something. This one, hozvei'er, is Buck, whose links has long been the Western plains. This is the way Buck weighs his also-famous steed, Silver, to see if the cinch-line should be reduced for those Columbia Westerns. INGENUE. Youthful Marian Marsh {being so well recommended by Nature), is not only opposite John Barrymore in Warner Brothers' "Svengali," but will be similarly cast in Barrymore's ne.rt, "The Mad Genius."