Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

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ay 16. 1931 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 47 (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 I ;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 -KO il'nited Artists. v. B. Downtown Hwaukee ^Ihambra . [iarden (lajestic ... I i.alace . . . iverside . trand .... varner . . j/isconsin 2 nneapolis •ster 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