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 #:
0001077
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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May 16, 1931 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 59 THE RELEASE CHART Productions are listed acording to the names of distributors in order that the exhibitor may have a short-cut toward such inforjjtion as he may need, as well as Information on pictures that are coming. Features which are finished or are in work, but to ■jwhich release dates have not been assigned, are listed in "Coming Attractions." Running times are those supplied by the distribmtijutors. Where they vary, the change is probably due to local censorship deletions. Dates are 1930, unless otherwise specified. BIG 4 FILM CORPORATION Features Length Title Star Rel. Date Feet Mins. Reviewed Jar L Ranch Buffalo Bill. Jr . Aug. 4 5400 £O...Aug 23 Jreed af the West Wally Wales Nov. 12 3400 60 Sanyon Hawks Yakima Canutt Aug. 26 5A0Q 60. ..Oct. 18 Hell's Valley Wally Wales Mar.18,'31 . .5400 . . . .60 "led Fork Range Wally Wales Jan. 12. '31 . .5400. . .60 Mar. 7.'3I Sheer Luck Ralston-Stuart Feb. 7, '31 . .5450. . .60. . May 9, '31 io This Is Arizona Wally Wales Apr. 24.'3I . .5300 Trails of Danger Wally Wales Sept. 30 5400 60 'rapped Stuart-Quartaro-Dean-SantsehiApr. I4,'3I..5600 Coming Feature Attractions big City Shadows 6 reels 5ev1ls' Decoy 6 reels Oiamond Mystery 6 reels ina^.ier5 ot Steel 6 reels >Uldnlght Prowlers 6 reels Hailroad Mail Limited 6 reels .Aiders of the Cactus Wally Wales 5400.... 60 I COLUMBIA '1 (Avallabli teund-on-fllm and iouod-oi-din) Features Title Star Rel. Date *frle« Speak* Sept. 15.. Ittlintle Jan.l7.'3l Ikvenger, The Buck Jones Mar.e,'3l irethen Lytell-Sebastlan Oct. 25.... Kharley'i Aunt Ruggles-Collyer Dee. 28 criminal Code, The Holmes-Huston-Doran Jan. 15. 31 *awn Trail. The Buck Jones-Miriam Seegar..Nav. 28 tesert Vengeance Buck JonesBarbara Bedford. Jan.25,'3 1 lilrlgible Holt-GravesWray Apr. 4. 3I. Ighting Sheriff, The Buck Jones-Loretta Sayers Mayl5.'3l. or the Leve 0' Lll Mulhall-Starr-Nugent Oct. 5 jdles Must Play Hamilten-Sebastian Aug. I.... ast of the Lone Welf Lytell-Patsy Miller Aug. 26... att Parade, The Holt-Moore-Cummiogt Feb.28.'3l ightning Flyer, The James Hall-D. Sebastian Mar. 20.'3i loa and the Lamb, The Byron-Myers-Hatton-Love ...Jan. I, 'SI (adonna of the Street* BrentAmes Dee. I tan Front Chicago (en Without Law Buck Jonee Oct. 15.. eet the Wife Lew Cody & Laura La Plante. Apr. I7.'3 llddie Watch, The Mar.3,'3l , lurder Oct. 24 hadow Ranch Buck Jones Sept I... quealer. The Holt-Revier-Davy Lee Aug. 25 . . ubway Express Hnlt-Kelsey-Pringle May I, '31.. weethearts on Parade White-Hughes Aug. 16... •n Cents A Dance Barbara Stanwyck-Cortez Mar. e'3l.. lexas Ranger, The Buck Jones Apr.l0,'3l «r*ble David Cromwell-Beery.Peert Nov. 15... eung Woodley CarrollLawton Sept 26... Coming Feature Attractions Length Feet. .Mins. Reviewed .7054.... 74.. Sept 27 .6575 Oct II .6865 65 Mar.28,'3l .6843.... 76. ..Nov. I .7890 88... Dee. 6 .7920.... 88... Dee. 13 .eS36 Dee. 27 .5907 65.Feb.28.'3l Mar.[4,'3t .7000.. .5978.. .6500 . . .7236.. .5784.. .7236.. ..6932.. ■.■.6090.'.' ..■6626..' ..8200.. .6766.. .635» . . 6159.. .6247.. 7156.. ,7350.. .7600.. .72... Oct 4 .65.. Aug. 16 .64.. Sept 13 ..Feb. I4,'3I .64 Apr.11,'31 ...Feb. I4,'3I .77... Dec. 6 .'7d.'.'.'fi'ov!'29 ....Apr. 4,'SI !9i!!!Nov'.'i .58... Nov. 15 .70 .SepM3 .68. May 9. '31 .67 .Sept 6 ..Mar. I4.'3I ..Apr. 25. '3 1 .70... Nov. 15 .73... Oct 4 rlzona Ifty Fatliemt Deep Richard Cromwell !!!!!!!!!!! leod, The Boardman-Blue !!!!!!!!!!! ■er the Defense Evelyn Brent ood Bad Girl, The Mae Clark-James Hall ever Come Back Jack Mulhull. C. Cummlngs, B. Bronson Ilraele Woman, The Barbara Stanwyck Iky Raiders, The Lloyd Hughes Marceline Day i'lrtiie'e Bed CONTINENTAL PICTURES CORP. Features .... Length !.'"•. „ Star Rei. Date Feet Mins. Reviewed I ourth Alarm, The Nick Stuart.Ann Christy Oct 25 5494 Oct 18 ^» Devils ...Molly O'Day-Edmund Burns. Jan. I5,'3I .. .5274 Seeond Honeymoon, The Josephine Dunn Sept 5586 67 Coming Feature Attractions star Rel. Date ;t|c Ir Eagles •efenders of the Law Catherine Dale Owen-Holland Gleckler 'day l.'31. ielllen's Last Cruise, The lystory Train, The !ose of Chinatown ■treets of Shadows Length Feet Mins. Reviewed ..6 reels . .1 reels. . . . .6 reels. .. . .6 reels. . . . .6 reels. . . ..6 reels... FIRST NATIONAL Features Title lad Man, The SeUege Levers '•Bier's Son 'Inger Points, The. Soing Wild Serllla, The lot Heiress, The.. lUsmet tin Me Again.... '.ash. The .Ittle Caesar misbehaving Ladles .. ,11 others Cry i'aughbr Flirt ine Night at Susle'e Star HustonRevler Whltlng-Nixon Janney-Stene-Rleh ... Barthelmess-Wray .... Joe E. Brown Joe Frisco Lyon-Munson Otis Skinner Clare-Pidgeon Rkhard Barthelmess . (Reviewed under title "Adies," Edw. Q. Reblnson LeeLyon PetersonManners Alice White DoveFairbanks, Jr... Issue il. Date Sept 14.. Oct. 5... Mar.7,'3l Apr.ll.'3l. Dec. 21... Nov. 2... Mar.28.'3l Jan.l8,'3l Feb.23,'3l Dee. 28 ef Oet. 4) Jan.25,'SI Apr.[8.'3l , Jan.4,'3l . Jan.lt'St Oct 19... Length Feet.. Mins. Reviewed .7007. .6833. .7020. .8021 . .6486. .5911 . .7309. .8253. .6775. .7169. .77.. Aug. 30 .63... Sept. 6 ..77... Oet. 4 . .88 Mar.2l,'3l ..72. ..Aug 23 ..63.. .Oct 4 . .78 Jan. 24. '31 ..92. .Nov. 8 . .. Jan.lO.'SI .7300 Jan.l7.'3l .6480 72Mar.l4,'3l .6860 75... Dee. 13 .5187 .5769.... 64... Nov. I Title Star Rel. Date Feet'^Klfns Reviewed Right of Way, The Nagel-Young Feb.7,'SI ..6142 "evieweo Scarlet Pages FergusonNSxon Sept. 28 5937 . ' 65 AuWi Sunny Marilyn Miller Nov. 23 725b 8r!'oot II Too Young to Marry YoungWithers May 8.'3I ... Truth About Youth Young-Tearle Nov. 30 6235 hi 'tiov ' ta Widow From Chicago Neil Hamilton Nov. 9 5773 ' 65 " Oet 25 Woman Hungry LeeKohler-Blackmer Anr.4,'3l 68 'M'ar.28, '31 Coming Feature Attractions As Good As New All Star Big Business Girl Loretta Young-Ricardd Cortez'juiy 4,'3i ! 7266 . .^ 80 Mar l'i ■'Vl Blue Moon Murder Huston-Young ■ Broadminded Joe E. Brown Aug. I, '31 Apr il '31 Chances Douglas Fairbanks, Jr July 18, '31 Mav9'3l Fame Lewis StoneDoris Kenyon... Anr i«''»i (Reviewed under title "You and I") «pr. 10, ai Honor of the Family Bebe Daniels Five Star Final Edward G. Robinson .*' I Like Your Nerve D. Fairbanks Jr.-L. Young....'.'.".".'.'.''.'.' Men ot the Sky Irene Delroy-Jack Whiting. . June 20 'si Me ry Wives of Reno Chas. Butterworth ' Party Husband Dorothy Mackaill June 6 '31' A'n'r' "i'n' Jii' Penrod and Sam Leon Janney Juneo,3l Apr. 18, 31 Reckless Hour Dorothy Mackaill-Conrad Spent Bullets RI.W Bartheimess•.■.•.•.■.•.•*"''" '''''' Upper Underworld Huston-Young-Kenyon '. We Three Ben LyonRose Hobart i i i i FITZPATRICK PICTURES. INC. Features Title Lady of ihe Lake. Star Rel. Date .. .Percy Marmont-Benlta Hume Nov. I. Length Feet Mins. Reviewed .3955 45... Oet. 25 Re . .. Farrell-Landl . . . Oland-Churchill .■■Will Rogers ■ ■ ■ Moran-Holmes-ByroR ■ ■ . Baxter-Bennett FOX FILMS Features Title Star Are You There Lillie-Garrick Big Trail, The Wayne-Churchill-Marshall Body and Soul Charlie Chan Carries On.... Connecticut Yankee, A Dancers, The Doctors' WIvee uaxier-uennen Don't Bet on Women McDnnald-Lowe-Merkel East Lynne Hardlng-Brook-Nagel Fair Warning O'Brien Girls Demand Excitement Wayne-Cherrlll Just Imagine Brendel-Sulllvan LIfl''""" Will RogersDresser Lil'om FarrellTaylor Man Who Came Back GaynorFarrell Men on Call Edmund Lowe-Clarke Mr. Lemon ef Orange Brendel-Dorsay Not Exactly Gentlemen McLaglen-Wray-Cody Grlbbon Oh, For A ManI MacDonald-DennyWhite Once A Sinner Dorothy Mackalll-Joet McCrea Part Time Wife Lowe-Hyams Princess and the Plumber, The.. Farrell-O'Sulllvan Quick Millions Tracy-Churehlll-Ellers Renegades BaxterBeeryLey Scotland Yard LoweBennett Seas Beneath O'Brlen-Lesslng-Marls Soup to Nuts Healy-Wlnnlnger-Smlth dpy. The Hamilton-Johnson Under Suspicion Murray-Moran I. Date Feet May 3. '31.. 5400 Nov. 2.. Standard Grandeur Feb. 22, '31.7400 Apr. 12, '31.6200 Apr. 5, '31.8700 Nov. 9.... 7500 Mar. 15, '31.7354 Feb. 15. '31.6300 I. '31.9548 I, '31.5600 8, '31.6060 23... 10056 7 8500 5.... 8472 II, '31.7786 I8.'3I..633I Mar. 22,'3I.6<)50 Mar. 8, '31.5530. Dei. 14 7800 Mar, Feb. Feb. Nov. Dee. Oct Jan. Jan. 25, "3 1. 6275. 28.... 6500. 21. ...6480. 3, '31.6286. 26. ...8400. 19.... 6759. Mar. 29, '31.8152. Sept. 28 6340. Apr.26,'3l...5255. Jan. 4, '31.5800. Jan. Dee. Dec. May Oet Oct Length ..Mins. Reviewed 60...Nev. 29 .11116... Oet II .14200 82 . Mar.7, '31 69Mar.2S,'3l 96 Mar.2l.'3l ....83.. .Oet 4 82. .Apr.4.'3l . . .70. Feb.2l,'3l 104. Feb. 28.'3I ..68. Feb. I4.'3I ..1 1 1... Oet 16 ...94... Oct. 25 ...94. .S»ptl3 ...SI. Jan. 3.'3I ...70.Mar.7,'3l ...67.Mar.7,'3l ...61.Apr.ll,'3l ...86. ..Nov. 6 ..70. Jan. 24,'SI ...72... Dee. 6 ...72... Oet 18 ...70..Apr.4,'3l ...93... Oet 4 ■ ■■75. ..Oet 4 ...91. Feb. 7, "31 ...70... Oet 25 ...58 ...64... Nov. 22 Coming Feature Attractions Length .... Star Rel. Date Feet.. Mins. Reviewed Always Goodbye Landl-Stone-Mereer May 24.'SI Apr 25 '31 Bad Girl Sally Filers Black Camel j.. .Warner Oland-Ellers June 7,'3I '. Daddy Long Legs Gaynor-Baxter June 14.31 p.o'die Harlow-S. TracyW. Hymer. .. June 28, '31 .'. Hush Money J. Bennett-J. Kirkwood luly 5,'31 She Wears the Pants McLaglen-MacDonald June2l,'31 Over the Hill Lane, Diilaway, Marsh, Kirkwood 6 Cylinder Love Soenr-er Tr'>-v-Meri,.i May |0,'3I Apr. I8,'3I (Reviewed under Title "The Minute Man") Their Mad Moment Baxter-Mackalll-Pltts July 12. '31 Three Girls Lost Wayne-Young Apr. 19. '31 .643t . . .71 .Apr.l8,'3l Sunl.l ?. a'ii u-.V Luee-Bogart-Traey Oet 12. . . .8200 . . . .92. . .Oct II Women of All Nations McLaglen-Lowe-Nlssen May 31, '31 Wyoming Wonder, The George O'Brien July I9.'3l Young As You Feel will Rooers-Dorsay Apr. I8,'3I voung Sinners Meighan-JordanKirkwood ..May I7,'3I METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Features _ Z V' r Star Rel. Date Bachelor Fattier, The Oavies-Forbes Jan.l0,'31 Billy the Kid.. John Mack Brown Oct 18 ... Complete Surrender Joan Crawford May9.'3l . Dance. Fools, Dance Joan Crawford Feb.2l,'3l Easiest Way, The Bonnett-Menjou-Montgomery.. Feb.7,'3l . Gentleman s Fate GilbertWolheim Mar.7'31 .. Great Meadow, The BrownBoardman Jan.24,'3l , nspiration Greta Garbo Jan.31.'3l ts a Wise Child Marion Davies Mar.21.'3l. Ladys Morals, A Grace Moore Nov 8 ,, _ „ , (Reviewed under title "The Soul Kiss") Men Call It Love Hyams-Men|ou-Duncan-Foster. iHar |4'3| Men of the North LeonardRoland Sept 27* Length fo'^i -Mins. Reviewed 8237 Dee. 13 .8808 7318 7336. 6600. 8361. 7243. 6897. .7161 7856. .82.. Sept 13 jan.3. 31 . .'.'jan.'st'si Nov. 29 Dee. 27 .75. Feb. 28, '3 1 .88... Oct 4 6464 Feb.28.'31 5359.... 60... Oct 25