Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

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Title:: Motion Picture Herald
Date:: Apr-Jun 1931
Publisher:: [New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:: Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)
Leaf #:: 0001241
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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S.OOO "The Secret Six" (MGM) 11.000 "Ladies Man" (Para.) 9.501 "Cracked Xuts" (Pathe) 9.9i:i0 '"Youngr Sinners" (Fox) 4,500 "Cracked Nuts" Pathe) and 4,000 "Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson" (Judel) '•Born To Love" (Pathe) 20,300 ••Subway E.xpress" (Col.) 10,000 ••Shipmates" (MGM) 14,000 "The Front Page" (U. A.) 17,400 "The Iron Man" (U.) 17,250 •'Ladies Man" (Para.) 8,000 ••Mothers Cry" (F. N.) 2,500 (3 days) "Hot Heiress" (F. X.) 3,500 (4 davs) ••Seas Beneath" (Fox) 4,500 "The Prodigal" (MGM) 7,300 "Seed" (I'.) 11,300 (5 days — 1th week) '•Secret Six" (MGM) 22,500 (2nd week) '•Dracula" (U.) Spanish version... 5,600 "Quick Millions" (Fox) 20,000 "East Lynne" Fox) 8,000 "Born to Love" (Pathe) 14,000 •'Kick In" (Para.) 14,000 "Subway Express" (Col.) 13,501} "The Front Page" (U. A.) 9,000 (4th week) "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 13,000 (2nd week) '•Virtuous Husbands" (U.) 8,500 "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 10,500 "The Hot Heiress" (F. N.) 6,500 "Gun Smoke" (Para.) 8,0Oi,) "Woman Hungry" (F. N.) 14,800 "A Connecticut Yankee" (Fox) 6,5CO (2nd week) "The Finger Points" (F. N.) 18,000 "Ladies Man" (Para.) 14,000 "Misbehaving Ladies" (F. N.).... 1,500 "Not Exactly Gentlemen" (Fox).. 2,500 •The Millionaire" (W. B.) 24,000 "Born to Love" (Pathe) 16,000 '•Doctor's Wives" (Fox) 8,300 Previous Week Picture "Front Page" (U. A.). Gross 8,100 "It's A Wise Child" (MGM) 8.300 'City Streets" (Para.) 9,900 ■'Born To Love" (Pathe) 11,000 "Hell Bound" (Tiff.) 3,500 'Beyond Victory" and 5,000 "Iron Man" (U.) "City Streets" (Para.) 20.000 "Meet The Wife" (Col.) 10,000 "The Secret Six" (MGM) 14,000 'Quick Millions" (Fox) 7,300 "Born to Love" (Pathe) 16,500 "Body and Soul" (Fox) 18,730 "Kismet" -(F. N.) 6.000 'Gun Smoke" (Para.) 'Great Meadow" (MGM). 6,705 7,200 13,300 "Seed" (U.) (5 days — 3rd week) "Secret Six" (MGM) 27,000 (1st week) "Gente Alegre" (Para.) 6,600 "Daybreak" (MGM) 25.000 "Hell Bound" (Tiff.) 5,000 (2nd week) "The Iron Man" (U.) 10,000 "Ladies Man" (Para.) 18,000 "Meet The Wife" (Col.) 12,500 "The Front Page" (U. A.) 12,000 (3rd week) "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 21,500 (5 days — 1st week) "Iron Man" (U.). 8,00(j "The Front Page" (U. A.) 10,000 (2nd week) "Kiss Me Again" (F. N.) 7,300 "Born to Love" (Pathe) 9.500 "The Subway Express" (Col.)... 13,500 "A Connecticut Yankee" (Fox) 8,500 (1st week) "Sit Tight" (W. B.) 20,000 "The Tarnished Lady" (Para.).... 15,000 'Three Girls" (Fox) 1.200 'Charlie Chan Carries On" (Fox). 3,500 'City Streets" (Para.). 'Bad Sister" (U.) 23,000 18,000 'Trader Horn" (MGM) 9,300 High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from March, 19S9, 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 (Hieck" 20.000 Low 3-2-31 "Bachelor Apartment" 7,800 High 4-11-31 "A Connecticut Yankee".. Low 2-21-31 "Illicit" High 11-1-30 "Check and Double Check" Low 5-16-31 "Cracked Nuts" and "Across The^ World With Mr. and Mrs. Johnson" High 3-21-31 "Unfaithful" Low 2-14-31 "Gang Buster" High 5-2-31 "Quick Millions" Low 12-6-30 "The Dancers" High 5-2-31 "Trader Horn" Low 2-14-31 "Passion Flower" 10,000 4,000 22,000 4.O0O 21,000 16,500 11,000 7,500 22,000 8,000 High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels" 29.000 Low 5-9-31 "Quick Millions" 7,500 High 2-14-31 "Cimmaron" 24,750 Low 4-13-30 "Framed" 11.000 High 9-13-30 "Animal Crackers" 23,500 Low 4-13-30 "Light of Western Stars". 7,000 High 5-9-31 "Gun Smoke" Low 4-27-30 "Clancy In Wall Street" High 9-27-30 "King of Jazz" Low 11-1-30 "Last of Lone Wolf".. High 3-21-31 "Strangers May Kiss".... Low 4-25-31 "Seed" High 5-24-30 "The Divorcee" Low 1-31-31 "Royal Family of Bdw'y" 6,705 1,350 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 516-31 "Kick In" High 8-16-30 "Hell's Island" Low 9-27-30 "For the Love of Lil". High 9-30-30 "What a Widow" Low 10-11-30 "Heads Up" High 9-27-30 "Office W»e" Low 3-14-31 "Captain Applejack" 32,000 6,000 40.000 14,000 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 Call It Love" 900 High 3-23-SO "They Learned About Women" 3,000 Low 1-24-31 "Men On Call" 1,200 High 7-5-30 "So This Is London".... 45,000 Low 2-28-31 "Dance, Fools, Dance".... 18,000 High 2-14-31 "Qmarron" 30,000 Low 5-2-31 "Bcchelor Apartment" 12^000 High 4-20-30 "Benson Murder Case".... 26,600 Low 12-20-30 "River's End" 5.000 Montreal Capitol 2,670 Imperial 1,914 Loew's Palace 2,982 2.600 25c-60c "Paid" (MGM) and "Young 10,300 Woodley" (Brit. Int.) 15c-40c "The Spy" (Fox) and "Too Young 4,000 to Marry" (F. N.) 2Sc-75c "Men Call It Love" (MGM) 12,500 2Sc-99c "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 15,000 "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" (MGM).... 15,500 High 12-6-30 "Her Wedding Night".... 19,000 Low 5-16-31 "Paid" and "Young Woodlev" 10,500 High 1-17-31 'The Office Wile" and Oh Sailor Behave" 7,000 Low 5-16-31 "The Spy" and Too Young to Marry" 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 C:ame Back". 19,000 Low 8-30-30 "Romance" 12,000