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 #:
0001242
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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46 MOTION PICTURE HERALD JTHEATCE CECEIPT$--C€NT'D| Theatres May 2 3, 1 9 31 Montreal (Cont'd) Princess 2,272 2Sc-65c Strand 750 15c-50c New York A»tor 1,120 S0c-$1.50 Capitol 4,700 35c-$1.50 Central 910 50c-$2.0fl Embassy 598 25c Globe 1,050 35c-85c Hollywood 1,548 65c-8Sc Mayfair 2,300 40c-$1.00 Paramount 3^00 4Oc-$1.00 Rialto 1,904 40c-$1.00 Rivoli 2,103 40c-$1.00 Roxy 6,200 65c-$1.50 Strand 3,000 35c-$1.00 Warners 1,490 25c-75c Winter Garden. 1,493 35c-$1.00 Oklahoma City Capitol 1.200 10c-50c Criterion 1,800 10c-50c Liberty 1,500 10c-35c Mid-West 1,500 10c-50c Warner 1,700 10c-50c Omaha Orpheum 3,000 25c -60c Paramount 2,900 25c-60c State 1,200 25c -40c World 2,500 25c -45c Ottawa Avalon 990 15c-35c B. F. Keith's.. 2,592 15c-60c Centre 1,200 15c-60c Imperial 1,200 10c-50c Regent 1,225 15c-75c Philadelphia Arcadia 600 50c Boyd 2,400 35c-75c Chestnut 1,860 SOc-l.SO Earle 2,000 2Sc-6Sc Fox 3,000 35c-75c Karlton 1,000 40c-50c Keith's 1,800 35c-75c Current Week Picture GrMS ■•Indiscreet" (U. A.) 14,500 •■Father's Son" (F. N.) and "Kiss 3,800 Me Again" (F. N.) "Trader Horn" (MGM) 14,700 (15th week) "Secret Six" (MGM) 69,501 (2nd week) "Dirigible" (Col.) 11,212 (6th week) All Newsfeel 9,613 "Mrtuous Husband" (U.). 10,100 "Svengali" (W. B.) 25,441 (3rd week) "Born To Love" (Pathe) 17,500 (3rd week) "Hell Bound" (Tiff.) 65,400 "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 17,800 (5 days— 2nd week) "Tarnished Lady" (Para.) 15,400 (2nd week) '•Young Sinners" (Fox) 70,500 (50c-$1.5O) "Public Enemy" (W. B.) 28,701 (3rd week) "Captain Thunder" (W. B.) 4.345 (6 days) "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 13,822 (5th week) •The Front Page" (U. A.). ■,50<3 ••Cracked Nuts" (Radio) 3.700 (6 days) ••The Flood" (Col.) 1,000 (3 days) •'Aloha" (Tiff.) 1,100 (4 days) "Seed" (U.) 6,700 •Quick Millions" (Fox) 7,000 •Bad Sister" (U.) 13.250 •City Lights" (U. A.) 9,000 •The Bat Whispers" (U. A.) 1,100 (4 days) The Prodigal" (MGM) 800 (3 days) •Honor Among Lovers" (Para.)... 9,750 •Inspiration" (MGM) 1,050 (3 days) "Sit Tight" (W. B.) 1,300 (3 days) •Cracked Nuts" (Radio) 3,400 (3 days) "Behind Office Doors" (Radio).... 3,700 (3 days) "The Devil to Pay" (U. A.) 6.300 (6 days) "Subway Express" (Col.) 2.800 (6 days) 'Tarnished Lady" (Para.). (6 days) 5,500 "Dishonored" (Para.) 3,500 (6 days) "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 13,000 (6 days — 2nd week) •■Dirigible" (Col.) 6,000 (6 days— 2nd week) "Bad Sister" (U.) 21,500 (6 days) "Three Girls Lost" (Fox) 23,500 (6 days) "Born to Love" (Pathe) 5.000 (6 days) '•The Front Page" (U. A.) 17.000 (6 days — 2nd week) 'revious Week Picture "Lonely Wives" (Pathe). "Sit Tight" (W.B.) and.. "Brothers" (Col.) "Trader Horn" (MGM). (14th week) "Secret Six" (MGM)... (1st week) "Dirigible" (Col.) (5th week) All Newsreel 'Subway Express" ((3ol.). "Svengali" (W. B.) (2nd week) "Born To Love" (Pathe).. (2nd week) "Ladies Man" (Para.) (8 days) "Indiscreet" (U. A.) (5 days — 1st week) "Tarnished Lady" (Para.). (1st week) "Three Girls Lost" (Fox). "Public Enemv" (W. B.) (2nd week) "Too Young To Marry" (F. N.).. "The Millionaire" (W. B.). (4th week) Grou 11,000 3,800 14,100 88,000 14,129 8,801 10,100 30,002 18,300 56,600 25,200 31,000 66,900 35,284 4,822 23,320 "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 7,500 "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 6,500 "Once A Gentleman" (Sono Art). 1,700 (3 days) "Single Sin" (Tiff.) 1.300 (4 days) "Iron Man" (U.) 5,000 "Three Girls Lost" (Fox) 7,800 "Born To Love" (Pathe) 15,500 •The Secret Six" (MGM) 9,800 'Rango" (Para.) 1,000 (4 days) 'Princess and the Plumber" (Fox) 900 (3 days) 'Mr. Lemon of Orange" (Fox)... 8,750 "Kismet" (F. N.) 1,400 (3 days) "Ten Cents a Dance" (Col.) 1,500 (3 days) "Charlie Chan Carries On" (Fox) 3,700 (3 days) 'Kept Husbands" (Radio) 3,500 (3 days) "Dance, Fools, Dance" (MGM).... 5,000 (6 days) "Trader Horn" (MGM) 7,000 (25c -$1.50-6 days) "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 5.800 (6 days) "Royal Family of Broadway" (Para.) 3,800 (4 days) "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 21,000 (5 days — 1st week) "Dirigible" (Col.) 9,000 (4 days — 1st week) "The Sin Ship" (Radio) 24,000 (6 days) "Doctor's Wives" (Fox) 24,500 (6 days) "City Lights" (U. A.) 5,500 (6 days — 2nd week) "Front Page" (U. A.) 6,000 (4 days — 1st week) "Skippy" (Para.) 10,000 (4 days — 3rd week) High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from March, IS to May, 1931) High 411-31 "City Lights" 22,! Low 12-13-30 "Up the River" 8„ High 1-31-31 "Captain Thunder" 5,, Low 12-20-30 "Golden Dawn" 3. High 7-5-30 "Big House".. Low 11-1-30 "War Nurse". High 8-30-30 "Romance" Low 3-21-31 "Great Meadow" High 11-29-30 Newsreels Low 8-16-30 Newsreels High 10-18-30 "Half Shot at Sunrise". Low 7-26-30 "Hell's Island" 98,J 49.7 9.S 6,t 28,C 8,C. High 11-8-30 "Check and Double Check" Low 4-4-31 "Laugh and Get Rich" High 8-23-30 "Anybody's Woman" Low 12-6-30 "Fast and Loose" High 9-6-30 "Animal Crackerg" Low 7-26-30 "Raffles" High 12-27-30 "Royal Family" Low 3-14-31 "River's End" High 1 10-31 "Man Who Came Back" Low 2-14-31 "Girls Demand Excitement" High 11-8-30 "Doorway to Hell" Low 5-17-30 "The Wedding Bells".... High 8-30-30 "Old English" Low 5-2-31 "The Flood" High 7-19-30 "Dawn Patrol" Low 11-8-30 "Life of the Party" 51.0 15,0 91,3 52,1 62.5 17.0 57,0 9,5 130,4 57.3 »6,t i5,n 22,2 3,7 51.1 10,7 Is 110 High 11-8-30 "Check and Double Check" Low 4-6-30 "Party Girl" High 2-21-31 "Cimarron" Low 4-6-30 "Locked Door" High 11-29-30 "Truth About Youth"... Low 5-16-31 "The Flood" and "Aloha" High 8-9-30 "Dawn Patrol" Low 11-8-30 "Last of the Duanes" 3 15,S( 4.4( 8.51 2,1( 15.CC 3,8C High 11-1-30 "Check and Double Check" Low 4-4-31 "Lonely Wives" High 12-13-30 "Hell's Angels" Low 9-27-30 "Song of My Heart".... High 3-14-31 "Trader Horn" (at 50c-$1.50) Low 3-28-31 "Gentlemen's Fate" and "Connecticut Yankee" High 4-11-31 "Men Call It Love". Low 4-6-30 "Girl Said No" High 3-23-30 "Disraeli" and "Cockeyed World" Low 5-3-30 "Oh Yeah" and "Navy Blues" High 3-30-30 "Sacred flame" and "Love &>mes Along" Low 4-11-30 "Don't Bet On Women and "Man to Man" 26,40t. 11,5» 12.75V 5,9Si 10,00(. i6,oo(; 6,7S( 3,555, 1,810 High 1-24-31 "Madam Satan and Barry, Woman of Passion" Low 12-13-30 "Remote Control"... High 5-9-31 "Trader Horn" Low 12-20-30 "East Is West" "Du High S-24-30 "High Society Blues" Low 12-20-30 "Scotland Yard".... 9,900)|^ 4,900 8.80U 2.400 7,000 2,050 6,600 3,200 High 11-22-30 "Anybody's Woman" 5.500 Low 11-22-39 "Command Performance".. 3,000' High 2-21-31 "Illicit" 28,000 Low 12-13-30 "Sin Takes a Holiday"... 12,000 High 9-6-30 "Sap from Syracuse" 25.000 Low 2-14-31 "Ex-Flame" 15.500 High 2-7-31 "Man Who Came Back".. 40,0f« Low 3-7-31 "Girls Demand Excitement" and "East Lynne" 23,000' High 10-25-30 "Whoopee" 10,0(X) Low 3-21-31 "Resurrection" 3.000 High 1-3-31 "Tom Sawyer" 24,000 Low 3-7-31 "It Pays to Advertise" and "Stolen Heaven" 8,000-'