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ay 16. 1931
MOTION PICTURE HERALD
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(THEATRE RECEIPTS — CONT^D I
Theatres
Current Week
Previous Week
[uston
1,634 2,700 2,312 2,250
1 :j""by
few's State... , , etropolitan .. pO Majestic.
>anapolis
[polio
Srcle 2,600
1,100
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;pdiana [yric .. .Salace .
3,300 2,000 2,800
insas City
oew Midland. . . 4,000
lainstreet 3,067
ewman 2,000
irpheum 1,330
oyal 900
ptown 2.200
s Angeles
»rthay Circle. . px Criterion iternational oew's State. lOS Angeles, rpheum . '(ramomit
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varner . . j/isconsin
2 nneapolis
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linnesota
-KO Orpheum.. tate
1,650 1,652 2,000 2,418 2,100 2,750 3,596 2,700 2,100 2,400
2,660 1,150 1,990
2,587 2,180 1,406 2.500 3,275
812 1,238
4.025
2,900 2,300
Picture
Gross
23c-50c "Front Page" (U. A.) 8.100
23c-60c "It's A Wise Child" (MGM) 8.300
25c-60c "City Streets" (Para.) 9,900
25c-60c "Born To Love" (Pathe) 11,000
25c-50c "Hell Bound" CTiff.) 5,500
23c-30c "Beyond Victory" and 5,000
"Iron Man" (U.)
35c-65c "City Streets" (Para.) 20,000
25c-50c "Meet The Wife" (Col.) 10,000
25c-50c "The Secret Six" (MGM) 14,000
25c-50c "Quick Millions" (Fox) 7.500
35c-60c "Born to Love" (Pathe) 16,500
2Sc-60c "Body and Soul" (Fox) 18,730
20c-40c "Kismet" (F. N.) 6,0CO
25c-60c "Gun Smoke" (Para.) 6,705
25c-50c "Great Meadow" (MGM) 7,200
r5c-$1.50 "Seed" (C.) 13,300
(5 days — 3rd week)
3Sc-65c 'Secret Six" (MGM) 27,000
2Sc-50c "Gente Alegre" (Para.) 6,600
35c-65c "Daybreak" (MGM) 25.000
25c-65c "Hell Bound" (Tiff.) 5,000
(2nd week)
35c-65c "The Iron Man" (U.) 10,000
35c-65c "Ladies Man" (Para.) 18,000
35c-65c "Meet The Wife" (Col.) 12,500
35c-65c "The Front Page" (U. A.) 12.000
(3rd week)
3Sc-65c "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 21.500
(5 days)
2Sc-60c "Iron Man" (U.) 8,000
25c-60c "The Front Page" (U. A.) 10,000
(2nd week)
15c-50c "Kiss Me Again" (F. X.) 7,300
23c-60c "Born to Love" (Pathe)........... 9.500
2Sc-60c "The Subway Express" (Col.)... 13,500
25c-60c "A Connecticut Yankee" (Fox) 8.500
25c-60c "Sit Tight" (W. B.) 20.000
2Sc-6Sc "The Tarnished Lady" (Para.).... 15.000
20c-35c "Three Girls" (Fox) 1.200
20c-40c "Charlie Chan Carries On" (Fox). 3,300
30c-75c "City Streets" (Para.) 23,000
25c-50c "Bad Sister" (U.) 18.000
25c-60c "Trader Horn" (MGM) 9,500
(23c -50c)
Picture
Gross
"Skippy" (Para.) 9,000
"Trader Horn" (MGM) 19,800
"The Millionaire" (W. B.) 7,i
' "Bachelcr Apartment" (Radio) 7,;
"The Millionaire" (W. B.) 6,500
"Behind Office Doors" (Radio and 5,000 "Laugh and Get Rich" (Radio)
"Tarnished Lady" (Para.) 17,000
"Quick Millions" (Fox) 11,000
"Trader Horn" (MGM) 22,000
"Trader Horn" (MGM)
"The Finger Points" (F. N.).
"City Streets" (Para.)
'Father's Son" (F. N.)
'Doctors' Wives" (Fox)
'Men Call It Love" (MGM)..
•Seed" (U.)
(3 days — 2nd week) "Connecticut Yankee" (Fox).
(4th week) ■El Codigo Pinal" (Col.)
'Gentlemen's Fate" (MGM).
'-Hell Bound" (TifF.)
(1st week) "The Last Parade" (Col.).
'City Streets" (Para.)
"Laugh and Get Rich" (Radio).
'The Front Page" (U. A.)
(2nd week) "Misbehaving Ladies" (F. N.).
(5 days)
'A Lady's Morals" (MGM).
(5 davs) 'The Front Page" (U. A.)..
'Drums of Jeopardy' (25c-50c)
(Tifl.).
"Bachelor Apartment" (Radio).. •Other Men's Women" (W. B.). 'Skippy" (Para.)
18,830 16,500 15,625
5,400 6,000
15,000 15,200 5,000 23,300 10,000 13,500 23,000 14.500 13,000 12.000
3,300 11,500
6,500
8,500 14,700 8,000
'City Streets" (Para.).
"Ten Nights In a Barroom" (Goetz) "The Conquering Horde" (Para.)
16,000
1,750 2.000
"Skippy" (Para.) 25,000
"Bachelor Apartment" (Radio) 12,000
"Mr. Lemon of Orange" (Fox).... 10,000
High and Low Gross
(Tabulation covers period frona March, 1930, to May, 1931)
High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels" 16,000
Low 10-4-30 "Bright Lights" 4.500
High 5-2-31 "Trader Horn" 19,800
Low 12-12-30 "Lion and Lamb" 7,000
High 1-24-30 "Love Parade" 18,000
Low 3-11-30 "Gentlemen of the Press'.. 7,000
High 10-24-30 "Check and Double C^ieck" 20,000
Low 5-2-31 "Bachelor Apartment" 7,800
High 4-11-31 "A Connecticut Yankee".. 10,000
Low 2-21-31 "Illicit" 4,000
High 11-1-30 "CTheck and Double Check" 22,000
Low 3-9-31 "Beyond Victory" and
"Iron Man" 5,000
High 3-21-31 "Unfaithful" 21,000
Low 2-14-31 "Gang Buster" 16.500
High 5-2-31 "Quick Millions" 11,000
Low 12-6-30 "The Dancers" 7,500
High 5-2-31 "Trader Horn" 22,000
Low 2-14-31 "Passion Flower"
High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels"
Low 3-9-jI "Quick Millions"
High 2-14-31 "Cimmaron"
Low 4-13-30 "Framed"
High 9-13-30 "Animal Crackers"
Low 4-13-30 "Light of Western Stars"
8,000
29.000 7,300 24,730 11,000 23,500 7,000
High 5-9-31 "Gun Smoke'"
Low 4-27-30 "Dancy In Wall Street".
High 9-27-30 "King of Jazz"
Low 11-1-30 "Last of Lone Wolf"...
"Strangers May Kiss"
"Seed"
High 5-24-30 "The Divorcee"
Low 1-31-31 "Royal Family of Bdw'y"
High 3-21-31
Low 4-23-31
6,705 1,35U 10,200 4,000
28,000 18,500 29,700 7,000
High 5-10-30 "Caught Short"
Low 10-18-30 "Three French Girls"
48,000 15,000
High 2-14-31 "Cimarron" (5 days)..
Low 12-27-30 "Ex-Flame"
High 9-6-30 "Animal Crackers"
Low 4-25-31 "Gunsmoke"
High 8-16-30 "Hell's Island"
Low 9-27-30 "For the Love of Lil"..
High 9-20-30 "What a Widow"
Low 10-11-30 "Heads Up"
High 9-27-30 "Office Wife"
Low 3-14-31 "Captain Applejack"
32,000 6,000 40,000 17,500 17,500 10,500 30,000 8,000 30,000 8,000
High 3-30-30 "The Aviator" 8,500
Low 4 18-31 "Men C:all It Love" 900
High 3-23-30 "They Learned About
Women" 5,000
Low 1-24-31 "Men On Call" 1,200
High 7-5-30 "So This Is London" 43,000
Low 2-28-31 "Dance, Fools, Dance".... 18,000
High 2-14-31 "Cimarron" 30,000
Low 5-2-31 "Bachelor Apartment" 12^000
High 4-20-30 "Benson Murder Case" 26,600
Low 12-20-30 "River's End" 5,000
on+real
apitol 2,670 25c-60c
imperial 1,914 15c-40c
oew s alace
2,982 2,600
25c-7Sc 25c-99c
""Man of the World" (Para.) and 13,000 '"June Moon" (Para.)
"Conquering Horde" (Para.) and 5,100 "Misbehaving Ladies" (F. N.)
"Mr. Lemon of Orange" (Fox).... 12,000 "Strangers May Kiss" (MGil).... 13.500
""Connecticut Yankee" (Fox)) and 13,000 "'Don't Bet on Women" (Fox)
"A Soldier's Plaything" (W. B.) and "Swanee River" (Sono Art)
4,000
"A Lady's Morals" (MGM) 12,500
"Dance, Fools, Dance" (MGM).. 14.000
High 12-6-30 "Her Wedding Night".... 19,0w0 Low 4-4-31 "Sit Tight" and Costello
Case" 11,000
High 1-17-31 "The Office Wife" and Oh
Sailor Behave" 7.000
Low 5-2-31 "A Soldier's Plaything" and
"Swanee River" 4,000
High 1-31-31 "Derelict" 16,000
Low 12-21-30 "Half Shot at Sunrise".. 11,000
High 2-21-31 "Man Who Came Back". 19,000
Low 8-30-30 "Romance" 12,000