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 #:
0001424
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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42 Theatres MOTION PICTURE HERALD I THEATRE RECEIPTS—CONT'D) June 6 , 19 3 1 Current Week Picture Gross Previous Week Picture High and Low Gross Gron (Tabulation covers period from March, ItM, to June, 1931) Montreal (Cont'd) Princess 2,272 2Sc-6Sc Strand 750 lSc-50c New York Astor 1,120 S0c-$1.S0 Capitol 4,700 35c-$1.50 Central 910 50c-$2.00 Criterion 850 50c-$2.00 Embassy 598 25c Globe 1,050 35c-85c Hollywood 1,549 65c-85c Mayfair 2,300 40c-$1.00 Paramount 3700 40c-$1.00 Rialto 1,904 40c-$1.00 Rivoli 2,103 40c-$1.00 RoKy 6,200 50c-$1.50 Strand 3,000 35c-$1.00 Warners 1,490 35c-75c Winter Garden. 1,493 35c-$1.00 Oklahonna City Capitol 1,200 lOc-SOc Criterion 1,800 lOc-SOc Liberty 1,500 10c-35c Mid-West 1,500 lOc-SOc Warner 1,700 10c-50c Omaha Orpheum 3,000 25c-60c Paramount 2,900 25c-60c State 1,200 2Sc-«te World 2,500 25c-45c Ottawa Avalon 990 lSc-35c B. F. Keith's.. 2,592 15c-60c Centre 1,200 15c-60c Imperial 1,200 lOc-SOc Regent 1,225 15c-75c Philadelphia Arcadia 600 50c Boyd 2,400 35c-7Sc Chestnut 1,860 35c-75c Earle 2,000 2Sc-65c Fox 3,000 35c-75c Karlton 1,000 40c-50c Keith's 1,800 3Sc-75c "The Front Page" (U. A.) 15,500 "The Finger Points" (F. N.) 3,400 "Trader Horn" (MGM) 9,970 (17th week) "Shipmates" (MGM) 67,982 "Dirigible" (Col.) 10,138 (8th week) "The Smiling Lieutenant" (Para.). 16,800 All Newsreel 8,206 "Everything's Rosie" (Radio) 8,000 "Svengali" (W. B.) 14,151 (5th week) "Donovans Kid" (Radio) 27,200 "Kick In" (Para.) 46,200 "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 3.500 (2 days— 4th week) "The She Wolf" (U.) 5,700 (5 days) "Seed" (U.) 27,90,3 (2nd week) "Always Goodbye" (Fox) 85,400 "Public Enemy" (W. B.) 24,275 {5th week) "Beggar's Opera" (Tobis) 4,374 (2nd week) "Party Husband" (F. N.) 18,655 (2nd week) "Tarnished Lady" (Para.) 6,500 (10c -35c) "Shipmates" (MGM) 5,500 "Lion and the Lamb" (Col.) 600 (3 days) "Meet the Wife" (Col.) 700 (4 days) "Young Sinners" (Fox) 4,500 "Party Husband" (F. N.) 6,700 "Seed" (U.) 14,500 "Shipmates" (MGM) 8,75a "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (W.B.) 850 {25c— 4 days) "The Lottery Bride" (U. A.) 750 25c^3 days) "The Public Enemy" (W. B.) 5,250 (25c-40c) "Hell's Angels" (U. A.) 1.800 (3 days) "Body and Soul" (Fox) 1.500 (3 days) "The Iron Man" (U.) 3.600 (3 days) "Men Call It Love" (MGM) 3.500 (3 days) "The Hot Heiress" (F. N.) 3.800 (5 days) "The Prodigal" (MGM) 3.000 (6 days) "Seed" (U.) 6.200 (6 days) "Skippy" (Para.) 2,000 (4 days — 2nd week) "Doctors' Wives" (Fox) 1,000 (2 days) "Seed" (U.) 13,000 (6 days— 2nd week) "The Viking" (Masterpiece) 6,500 (4 days) "The Lady Refuses" (Radio) 19,000 (6 days) "Young Sinners" (Fox) 20,000 (6 days) "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 5,000 (6 days) "Tarnished Lady" (Para.) 8,000 (4 days) "City Streets" (Para.) 5,000 (2 days) "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 8,000 (2nd week) "Ten Cents a Dance" (Col.) and 3,500 "A Soldier's Plaything" (W. B.) "Trader Horn" (MGM) 12,940 (16th week) "It's a Wise C^iild" (MGM) 76,639 "Dirigible" (Col.) 9,743 (7th week) All Newsreel 8,006 "Good Bad Girl" (Col.) 10,500 "Svengali" (W. B.) 17,867 (4th week) "Bachelor Apartment" (Radio).... 15,750 "Up Pops the Devil" (Para.) 49,500 "Indiscreet" (U. A.) 22,500 (3rd week) "Seed" (U.) 37,100 (1st week) "Six Cylinder Love" (Fox) 67,200 "Public Enemy" (W. B.) 27,335 (4th week) "Beggar's Opera" (Tobis-Wamers) 5,200 (1st week) "Party Husband" (F. N.) 16,867 (1st week) "Sit Tight" (W. B.) 5,200 "Ladies Man" (Para.) 6,000 "Too Young to Marry" (F. N.).. 900 (3 days) "Subway Express" (Col.) 800 (4 days) "Born to Love" (Pathe) 6,000 "The Spy" (Fox) 7,200 "Bachelor Apartment" (Radio).... 13,000 "The Front Page" (U. A.) 10,000 "Ten Nights in a Barroom" 1,700 (Goetz) (4 days) "Father's Son" (F. N.) 800 (3 days) "Kick In" (Para.) 9,250 "A Lady's Morals" (MGM) 1,400 (3 days) "Reducing" (MGM) l,70O (3 days) "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (W. B.) 3,300 (3 days) "My Past" (W. B.) 3,500 (3 days) "City Lights" (U. A.) 5,700 (6 days) "The W Plan" (Brit. Int.) 2,700 (6 days) "Strangers May Kiss" (MGM).... 6,200 (6 days) "Slfippy" (Para.) 4,000 (6 days — 1st week) "Seed" (U.) ig.OOO (6 days— 1st week) "Laugh and Get Rich" (Radio).... 21,000 (6 days) "Charlie Chan Carries On" (Fox). 25,000 (6 days) "Svengali" (W. B.) 5.0OO (6 days) "Tarnished Lady" (Para.) 6,000 (2 days) "The Front Page" (U. A.) 8 000 (4 days— 3rd week) High 4-11-31 "City Lights" 22,500 Low 12-13-30 "Up the River" 8,500 High 1-31-31 "Captain Thunder" 5,300 Low 12-20-30 "Golden Dawn" 3,100 High 7-5-30 "Big House" 24,860 Low 11-1-30 "War Nurse" 20,319 High 8-30-30 "Romance" 98,322 Low 3-21-31 "Great Meadow" 49,789 High 1-3-31 "Reaching for the Moon"... 22,675 Low 5-24-30 "Silent Enemy" 10,800 High ll-2<J-30 Newsreels 9,995 Jmw 8-16-30 Newsreels 6,625 High 10-18-30 "Half Shot at Sunrise"... 28,000 Low 5-30-31 "Everything's Rosie" 8,000 High 11-8-30 "Check and Double Check" 51,000 Low 4-4-31 "Laugh and Get Rich" 15,000 High 8-23-30 "Anybody's Woman" 91.30n Low 5-30-31 "Kick In" 46,200 High 9-6-30 "Animal Crackers" 6Z.ikrj Low 7-26-30 "RafiBes" 17,000 High 12-27-30 "Royal FamUy" 57,000 Low 3-14-31 "River's End" 9,519 High 1-10-31 "Man Who Came Back" 130,430 Low 2-14-31 "Girls Demand Excitement" 57,315 High 11-8-30 "Doorway to Hell" 46,445 Low 5-17-30 "The Wedding Bells".... 15,017 High 8-30-30 "Old English" 22,203 Low 5-2-31 "The Flood" 3,732 High 7-19-30 "Dawn Patrol" 51,128 Low 11-8-30 "Life of the Party" 10,750 High 11-8-30 "Check and Double Check" 17,000 Low 4-6-30 "Party Girl" 3,800 High 2-21-31 "Cimarron" 15,500 Low 4-6-30 "Locked Door" 4,400 High 11-29-30 "Truth About Youth".... 8.500 Low 5-30-31 "Lion and the Lamb" and "Meet the Wife" 1,300 High 8-9-30 "Dawn Patrol" 15,000 Low 11-8-30 "Last of the Duanes" 3,800 High 11-1-30 "Check and Double Check" 26,400 Low 4-4-31 "Lonely Wives" 11,500 High 12-13-30 "Hell's Angels" 12,750 Low 9-27-30 "Song of My Heart".... 5,950 High 3-14-31 "Trader Horn" (at 50c-$1.50) 10,000 Low 5-30-31 "Fifty Million Frenchmen" and "The Lottery Bride" 1,600 High 4-11-31 "Men Call It Love" 16.000 Low 5-30-31 "The Public Enemy" 5,250 High 3-23-30 "Disraeli" and "Cockeyed World" 3,555 Low 5-3-30 "Oh Yeah" and "Navy Blues" 1,810 Hig^h 3-30-30 "Sacred flame" and "Love Comet Along" 9,900 Low 4-11-30 "Don't Bet On Women" and "Man to Man" 4,900 High 1-24-31 "Madam Satan and "Du Barry, Woman of Passion" 8,800 Low 12-13-30 "Remote Control" 2,400 High 5-9-31 "Trader Horn" 7,000 Low 12-20-30 "East Is West" 2,050 High 5-24-30 "High Society Blues" 6,600 Low 12-20-30 "Scotland Yard" 3,200 High 11-22-30 "Anybody's Woman" 5,500 Low 5-30-31 "Skippy" and "Doctors' Wives" 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".. 40.000 Low 5-30-31 "Young Sinners" 20,000 High 10-25-30 "Whoopee" 10,000 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