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MOTION PICTURE HERALD
June 20, 193
THEATRE RECEIPTS
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The "Current Week" brought only nine new lows as against 17 for the "Previous Week." And again only one new high was registered. This new high gross was made by "Daddy Long Legs" at the Apollo theatre in Indianapolis, Ind.
Business generally showed a slightly upward trer with nnany theatres gaining noticeably over a week a In New York, the Roxy jumped $26,000, and likewise picture was the same as the Apollo attraction, "Dad Long Legs."
(Copyright, 1931: Reproductiem oj matiriai irom this dtpartmeut without credit to Motion Picturt Herald expressly forbidden)
Theatres
Albany
Harm-BIeecker.. 2,300 35c-50c
Leland 1,350 25c-35c
Proctor's RKO.. 1,500 25c-60c
Ritz 1,146 25c-35c
Strand 1,900 35c-50c
Baltimore
Keith's 2,500 25c-50c
Little 267 35c-50c
Loew's Century. 3,076 25c-60c
Loew's Parkway 987 15c-35c
Loew Stanley.... 3,522 25c-60c
Loew's Valencia. 1,487 25c-35c
New 1.600 25c-50c
Rivoli 1.982 25c-50c
W. B. Metropol. 1,300 15c-50c
Boston
Keith's 2,800 30c-65c
Keith-Boston ... 2.500 25c-60c
Loew's Orpheum 3,100 25c-50c
Loew's State 3,700 25c-50c
Metropolitan .... 4,350 25c-60c
Olympia 2,500 25c-50c
Scollay Square.. 1,800 25c-50c
Uptown 2.000 25c-60c
Buffalo
Buffalo 3.500 25c-60c
■Century 3,000 25c-35c
-Great Lakes 3,000 2Sc-60c
Hippodrome 2.100 25c-50c
Lafayette 3,300 25c-35c
Charlotte
Broadway 1.167 25c-50c
Carolina 1,441 40c50c
Current Week
Previous Week
Picture
GroM
■•The Front Page" (U. A.) 9,100
(6 days)
"Quick Millions" (Fox) 4.890
(6 days)
"The W Plan" (Radio) 2,550
(3 days)
"Donovan's Kid" (Radio) 2,100
(3 days)
"Ten Nights in a Barroom" (Goetz) 4,300 (6 days)
"The Maltese Falcon" (W. B.).... 6.800 (6 days)
"White .Shoulders" (Radio) 6,000
(6 days and Sun. midnite show)
"Pori" (Ufa) 900
(6 days)
"Up Pops The Devil" (Para.).... 19.000
(6 days)
■■Indiscreet" (U. A.) 4,200
(6 days)
"Lauhingr Sinners" (MGM) 20.500
(6 days)
"Too Young To Marry" (F. N.).. 2,400 (6 days)
"Daddy Long Legs" (Fo.x) 15,000
(6 days)
"Lover Come Back" (Col.) 6,000
(6 days)
"The Public Enemy" (W. B.) 5 700
(6 days)
"Donovan's Kid" (Radio) 20,000
"Many A Slip" (U.) 18,000
"Daybreak" (MGM) 21,000
'Laughing Sinners" (MGM) 22,000
"The Lawyer's Secret" (Para.)... 35,500
'Women Of All Nations" (Fox).. 14.000
(2nd week)
'Voung Sinners" (Fox) 15,500
'Women O'f All Nations" (Fox).. 11,500 (2nd week)
"The Lawyer's Secret" (Para.) 21,800
(35c -65c)
"Iron Man" (U.) 8.700
"Daddy Long Legs" (Fox) 27.900
•Kick In" (Para.) 16,500
"Beyond Victory" (Pa the) 10,000
'Iron Man" (U.) 5.000
(3 davs^i
"Party Husband" (F. N.) 3,000
(3 days)
'Laughing Sinners" (MGM) 6,000
(3 days)
'Daddy Long Legs" (Fox) 7,000
(3 days)
Picture
GroM
"Women of All Nations" (Fox).... 8,200
(35c-60c— 6 days)
"The Seas Beneath" (Fox) 5,100
(6 days)
"Many A Slip" (U.) 2,600
(3 days)
"Gun Smoke" (Para.) 2,600
(3 days)
"Party Husband" (F. N.) 3,190
(6 days)
"Gold Dust Gertie" (F. N.) 6,200
(6 days)
"Donovan's Kid" (Radio) 6,080
(6 days and Sun. midnite show)
"Murder" (Brit. Int.) 500
(6 days)
"Ladies Man" (Para.) 22,000
(6 days)
"The Secret Six" (MGM) 4,800
(6 days)
"Lawyer's Secret" (Para.) 18,200
(6 days)
"The Secret Six" (MGM) 3,000
(6 days)
"Women Of All Nations" (Fox).. 12,000
"Good Bad Girl" (Col.) 6.000
(6 days)
"Gold Dust Gertie" (W. B.) 5,100
(6 days)
"Seed" (U.) 17,500
(2nd week)
"Party Husband" (F. N.) 18.000
"Shipmates" (MGM) 21.000
"It's a Wise Child" (MGM) 21,500
"Young Sinners" (Fox) 32,000
"Women of All Nations" (Fox).... 14,000 (1st week)
"Quick Millions" (Fox) 14,500
"Women of All Nations" (Fox).... 12,000 (1st week)
"Indiscreet" (U. A.) 21,000
(30c-6Sc)
"S'vengali" (W. B.) 10,000
"Women of All Nations" (Fox).... 21,000
"Party Husband" (F. N.) 17,800
"Ex-Flame" (Liberty) 11.000
"Subway Express" (Col.) 3,500
(3 days)
"Svengali" (W. B.) 5,000
(3 days)
"The Lawyer's Secret" (Para.) 5.500
(3 days)
"Women of All Nations" (Fox).. 5,250
(3 days)
High and Low Gross
(Tabulation covers period from March, 1 to June, 1931)
High 1-24-30 "Reducing" $ 1
Low 4-4-31 "Passion Flower"
High 5-2-31 "Strangers May Kiss"
Low 4-4-31 "Dancers" and "Girls Demand Excitement" 4!
High 3-14-31 "MiUie" t
Low 6-13-31 "Tlie W Plan" and "Donovan's Kid" 4|
High 12-13-30 "The Cat Creeps" 4
Low 6-6-31 "Party Husbands" 3
High 4-25-31 "The Finger Points" 9
Low 4-4-31 "My Past" 5,
High 5-9-31 "Bachelor Apartment".
Low 5-17-30 "King of Jazz"
High 5-3-30 "Halleluiah"
Low 1-10-31 "Waterloo"
High 4-11-31 "A Tailor Made Man"... Low 11-1-30 "Her Wedding Night"....
High 1-3-31 "Follow the Leader"
Low 8-9-30 "Love Among the Millionaires"
High 4-11-31 Low 5-3-30 " High 7-26-30 Low 11-29-30 High 8-30-30 Low 12-27-30 High 3-16-30 Low 6-14-30 High 3-16-30 Low 7-26-30
"Strangers May Kiss"..
Honey"
"Sins of the (^Idren" ..
"Only Saps Work"
"Common Clay"
"Princess and Plumber"
"Green Goddess"
"Golden Dawn"
"Green Goddess"
"Sweet Kitty Bellairs" ..
High 10-11-30 "Half Shot at Sunrise"...
Low 12-6-30 "Sin Takes a Holiday"
High 1-10-31 "Danger Lights"
Low 4-4-31 "Bad Sister"
High 1-17-31 "Hell's Angels"
Low 6-28-30 "Lady of Scandal"
High 10-18-30 "Three French Girls"
Low 6-28-30 "Bad One"
High 10-11-30 "Sea God"
Low 6-7-30 "True to the Navy"
High 7-5-30 "With Byrd at South Pole"
Low 2-21-31 "Sit Tight"
High 10-11-30 "Numbered Men"
Low 7-5-30 "Shadows of the Law"
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High 3-28-31 "My Past" 39.S(
Lew 4-4-31 "Man of the World" 20.0C
High 2-14-31 "Cimmaron" 25.6C
Low 4-4-31 "Mother's Cry" 5.96
High 4-18-31 "Strangers May Kiss".... 30.0C
Low 12-27-30 "Remote Control" 13.4€
High 2-14-31 "Free Love" 26.30
Low 12-27-30 "Along Came Youth" 15.90
High 4-11-31 "Ten Cents a Dance" 24.10
Low 4-18-31 "Lonely Wives" 9.20