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 #:: 0001423
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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une 6 , 19 3 1 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 41 Theatres Houston I Kirby 1,654 jLoew's State 2,700 j Metropolitan . . . 2,512 RKO Majestic. . 2,250 hdiana polls ApoUo 1,100 Circle 2,600 Indiana 3,300 Lyric 2,000 j Palace 2,800 Kansas City Loew Midland... 4.000 I Mainstreet 3,067 Newman 2,000 Orpheum 1,550 (TtiEATCC CECCIPTS — CONT'D 1 25c -SOc 25c-60c 25c-60c 2Sc-60c 25c-50c 25c-50c 35c-65c 25c-50c 25c-50c 25c-S0c 35c-60c 25c-60c 20c-40c Royal 900 2Sc-60c Uptown 2.200 25c-50c Los Angeles Foot Criterion .. 1,652 3Sc-6Sc International ... 2,000 25c-50c |i Loew's State.... 2,418 3Sc-65c Los Angeles 2,100 25c-6Sc Orpheum 2,750 35c-65c Paramount 3,596 35c65c RKO 2,700 35c -65c United Artists.. 2,100 35c-65c W. B. Downtown 2,400 35c-65c Milwaukee Alhambra 2,660 25c-60c Garden 1,150 2Sc-60c Majestic 1,990 15c-50c Palace 2,587 25c-60c Riverside 2,180 25c-60c Strand 1.406 2Sc-60c Warner 2,500 25c-60c Wisconsin 3,275 25c-65c Minneapolis Aster 812 20c-35c Century 1,640 50c-$1.50 Lyric 1.238 20c-40c Minnesota 4.025 30c-75c RKO Orpheum.. 2,900 25c-50c State 2,300 25c-50c Montreal Capitol 2,670 25c-60c Imperial 1,914 15c-40c I^ew's 2,982 25c-75c Palace 2.600 25c-99c Current Week Picture Gross "Svengali" (W. B.) 9,000 "Daybreak" (MGM) 11,500 "Tarnished Lady" (Para.)- 9,000 "Subway Express" (Col.) 10,500 "The Public Enemy" (W. B.) 6,000 "The Bad Sister" (U.) 8,750 (9 days) "Man of the World" (Para.) 19,000 (25c-65c) "The Good Bad Girl" (Col.) 8,500 "Kiki" (U. A.) 9,500 "The Secret Six" (MGM) 15,900 "Bachelor Apartment" (Radio) 16,500 "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 13,500 "Woman Hungry" (F. N.) 2,500 (3 days) "The Lady Refuses" (Radio) 3,500 (4 days) "Svengali" (W. B.) 4,500 "Virtuous Husband" (U.) 5,400 "Secret Six" (MGM) 11,200 (4th week) "Su Noche De Bodas" (Ind.) 5,100 "Shipmates" (MGM) 29,200 "City Lights" (U. A.) 10,500 "Donovan's Kid" (Radio) 13,200 "Up Pops the Devil" (Para.) 12,500 "Good Bad Girl" (Col.) 14,000 "Dishonored" (Para.) 9,000 (2nd week) "Svengali" (W. B.) 12,000 (35c-50c) "A Tailor Made Man" (MGM).... 8,500 "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 10,000 (2nd week) "Mr. Lemon of Orange" (Fox).... 8,000 "Young Donovan's Kid" (Radio).. 9,500 "Laugh and Get Rich" (Radio).... 15,000 "Strangers May Kiss" (MGM) 7,0C0 (2nd week) "Party Husband" (F. N.) 13,500 "Young Sinners" (Fox) 14,500 "Drums of Jeopardy" (TifT.) 1,500 "Dirigible" (Col.) 16,500 (8 days) "Kiki" (U. A.) 4,000 "The Secret Six" (MGM) 24,000 "Seed" (U.) 15,500 "Daybreak" (MGM) 8,500 'Bachelor Apartment" (Radio) and 11,500 "Cracked Nuts" (Radio) 'Aloha" (Tiflf.) and "Virtuous 3,800 Husband" (U.) "It's a Wise Child" (MGM) 12,500 "Trader Horn" (MGM) 14,000 Previous Week Picture Gross "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 8,500 •'Shipmates" (MGM) 13,200 "Kick In" (Para.) 7.500 "Quick Millions" (Fox) 7,500 "Svengali" (W. B.) 3,500 "Reno" (Sono Art) 2,500 (4 days) "Seed" (U.) 21,000 "Six Cylinder Love" (Fox) 8,500 "The Front Page" (U. A.) 12,000 "Young Sinners" (Fox) 12,500 "Seed" (U.) 17,000 "Public Enemy" (W. B.) 13,500 "Painted Desert" (Pathe) 2,300 (3 days) ■Single Sin" (TifT.) 3,700 (4 days) •'Dude Ranch" (Para.) 4,500 "The Spy" (Fox) 7,000 "Secret Six" (MGM) 12,500 (3rd week) "En Cada Puerto Un Amor" 6,000 (MGM) •'Young Sinners" (Fox) 25,000 'East Lynne" (Fox) 10.000 (2nd week) 'Born To Love" (Pathe) 7,000 (2nd week) 'Dude Ranch" (Para.) 15,500 "Tailor Made Man" (MGM) 15,000 ... 16,000 ... 15,000 "Dishonored" (Para.) .... (1st week) "Public Enemy" (W. B.). "The Secret Six" (MGM) 13,500 (9 days) "The Millionaire" (W. B.) 12,000 (1st week) "The Naughty Flirt" (F. N.) and 7,500 "Jaws of Hell" (Sono-Art) "Kismet" (F. N.) 9,800 "One Night at Suzie's" (F. N.).. 14,000 8.500 16,500 'Kick In" (Para.) 18,000 "Strangers May Kiss" (MGM). (1st week) "Svengali" (W. B.) "The Spy" (Fox) 1,500 "Stepping Out" (MGM) 2,500 "Shipmates" (MGM) 22,000 "Iron Man" (U.) 16,500 "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 8,500 'City Streets" (Para.) and "Finn 13,000 and Hattie" (-Para.) 'Not Exactly Gentlemen" (Fox) 4,500 and "The Repentant Lover" (W. B.) 'Tailor Made Man" (MGM) 14,000 "Shipmates" (MGM) 14,000 High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from March, 193», to June, 1931) High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels" 16,000 Lnw 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 Check" 20,000 Low 5-23-31 "Quick Millions" 7,500 High 4-11-31 "A Cxjnnecticut Yankee".. 10.800 Low 5-23-31 "Svengali" 3,500 High 11-1-30 "Check and Double Check" 22,000 Low 5-23-31 "Reno" 2,500 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" 8,000 High 11-29-30 "Hell's Angels" Low 5-9-31 "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" 29,000 7,500 24,750 11,000 23,500 7,000 High 5-9-31 "Gun Smoke" Low 4-27-30 "Qancy In Wall Street"... High 9-27-30 "King of Jazz" Low 11-1-30 "Last of Lone Wolf" High 5-24-30 "The Divorcee" Low 1-31-31 "Royal Family of Bdw'y" 6.705 1.350 10.200 4,000 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 Low 12-27-30 High 9-6-30 " Low 5-30-31 ' High 8-16-30 Low 9-27-30 ' High 9-20-30 Low 10-11-30 High 9-27-30 Low 3-14-31 ' "Cimarron" (5 days)... "Ex-Flame" Animal Crackers" 'Up Pops the Devil" "Hell's Island' "For the Love of Lil"... "What a Widow" "Heads Up" "Office Wile" 'Captain Applejack". 32,000 6,0)0 40,000 12,500 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 Call It T-ove" 'XV High 3-21-31 "Trader Horn" 17,000 Low 1-24-31 "The Blue Angel" 8,000 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".... 45,000 Low 2-28-31 "Dance, Fools, Dance".... 18.000 High 2-14-31 "Cimarron" 30,000 Low 5-2-31 "Bi.cheIor Apartment" 12,000 High 4-20-30 "Benson Murder Case" 26,600 Low 12-20-30 "River's End" 5,000 High 5-2-31 "A Connecticut Yankee" and "Don't Bet On Women" 15,750 Low 5-9-31 "Man of the World" and "June Moon" 9 000 High 1-17-31 "The Office Wife" and Oh Sailor Behave" 7,000 Low 5-30-31 "Aloha" and "Virtuous Husband" 3 800 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 Romance" 12,000 Low 8-30-30