Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Sep 1931)

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Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jul-Sep 1931
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Sep 1931)
Leaf #:
000930
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:
May 30, 2024
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76 MOTION PICTURE HERALD August 22 19 3 1 Title Star Rel. Breakfast In Bed PollardPangborn Nov. Call of Mohammed Vagabond Adventure Apr. Campus Champs Nat Carr Feb. Chasing Trouble Checker Comedy Apr. Cinderella Blues ^esop Fable Apr. Crashing Reno Manhattan Aug. College Capers liable Mar. Cowboy Blues Fable Feb. Dance With Me Wanzer-Palmer Nov. Diamond Experts Sportlight May Disappearing Enemies Dot Farley Rex Bell Mar. Days of Solitude Vagabond Adventure Feb. Doomed to Win James Gleason Aug. Oufter Swings Farrell Golt Series Feb. Eve's Fall All Star Dec. Fallen Empire Vagabond Adventure July ■fisherman's Luck Aesop Fable June .'ly Guy, The Aesop Fable May Fore! Farrell Golf Feb. Frozen Face Manhattan Comedy Apr. Fun On The Ice Aesop Fable July Getting on the Green Farrell Golf Mar. Gossipy Plumber, The Folly Comedy May Half Pint Polly Capital Comedy May Help Wanted — Female Pollard Jan. Hold the Baby Agnew-Crane-McPhall Nov. Hunting Thrills Sportlight Apr. Hurricane Island Vagabond Adventure Apr. In the Rough Farrell Golf Mar. I'll Take That One All Star Oct. Julius Sizzer Benny Rubin Sept. June First June MacCloy Shilling ....July King of Bugs Fable Dec. Lemon Meringue Edgar Kennedy Aug. Mad Melody Fable Apr. Makin 'Em Mav« Aesop Fable July Messenger Boy Benny Rubin June Neat and Tidy All Star Nov. Next Door Neighbors HousmanDeering Jan. Night Class Campus Comedy Aug. Not So Loud Melody Comedy May Oh, Oh, Cleopatra Wheeler-Woolsey Oh, Marry Me Manhattan Nov. One Nutty Night wiils-Uarney Nov. Open House Nick Stuart Mar. Old Hokum Bucket, The Aesop Fable Mar. Olympic Talent Sportlight Aug. Outboard Stunting Sportlight Series May Over the Radie Pangborn Dec. Pale Face Pup Aesop Fable June Parading Pajamas Johnny Arthur Dec. Paths News Released Twice Weekly Pathe Review No. I July Parents Wanted Folly Comedy Mar. Play Ball Aesop Fable May Poise Sportlight July Racqueteers Sportlight Oct. Radio Racket Fable Mar. Red Riding Hood Fable Jan. Rough and Tumble Sportlight Jan. Rough House Rhythm Ed Kennedy Apr. Sands of Egypt Vagabond Adventure Nov. Seein* Injuns . .• Pollard Feb. Shadow of the Dragon Vagabond Adventure Mar. She Snoops to Conquer Daphne Pollard June Sink or Swim Sportlight Mar. Ski Pilot Sportlight Feb. Speed Limit Sportlight Mar. Spirit of Sho-Gun Vagabond Adventure Dec. Stage Struck Walter Catlett Jan. Stout Hearts and Willing Hands. Frank Fay June Tale of Tutulla Vagabond Adventure Jan. Tennis Top-Notchers Tilden-Wills Apr. Thanks Again Edgar Kennedy Oct. That's My Line Louis John Bartels July That's News to Mo Frank McHugh July Thom the Unknown Vagabond Adventure Mar. Three Wise Clucks Glenn Tryon Apr. Touchdown Rockne Football Nov. Toytown Tale Fable Jan. Twisted Tales Arthur Housman-Marlon Douglas Mar. Two Minutes to Go Rockne Football Oct. Under Cover Sportlight Jan. Under Par Farrell Golt Mar. Utmost Isle Vagabond Adventure Sept, Water Bugs Johnny Welsmuller June Well of Fortaleza, The Vagabond Adventurs Feb. Winning Putts Farrell Golf Mar. Younger Years Sportlight June Date le 2 7, 'SI.. I I, '31. .2 Running Time Minutes Reviewed reels re«I..Apr. 4, '3 1 reels. . Feb.l4,'3[ 26, '31.. 2 reels.. May 9,'3I 12, '31 8 Apr.ll.'SI 29, '31 Aug. 8,'3I 15, '31 . . I reel. . Mat. 21, '31 15, '31.. I reel.. Feb. 7. "31 23 2 reels 17, '31 10 May 23,'3I I, '31 . .2 reels. .Apr. 4,'3I 6. '31.. I reel.. Feb. I4.'3I 10, '31. .2 reels 22,'3I...I reel.. Mar. 7,31 28 2 reels 27, '31 10 13. '31 10 July 4,'3I 10, '31 7. ..June 6,'3I 15, '31... I reel.. Feb. I4,'3I I9,'3I.. .2 reels. Apr. I8.'3I I9,'3I 8 Aug. 8,'3I 22.'3I...I reel. .Apr. II, '31 I7,'3I...2 reels. May 2,'3I 3, '31... 2 reels 2 reels. Jan. I0,'3I 2 reels I reel.. Apr. 1 1, '31 I reel.. Mar. 28,'SI 1 reel.. Feb. 28.'3I 2 reels SYNDICATE PICTURES CORPORATION 1, '31 9.... 21, '31. 21, '31. 8, '3I. 5.... 7, '3I. 27. '3I 20.... July 4,'3I 21 1 reel.. Jan. 3. '31 3, '31 20. ..June 6,'3I 26, '3I...I reel. .May 2.'3I 5,'31 9.,. July 25,'3I 29,'31 22 July 25, '31 28 2 reels 28. '31. . .2 reels. Jan. 3,'3I 17, '31 . . .2 reels. May I6,'3I 3, '3I. . .2 reels. May 2,'3I 22... Aug. 8,'3I 2, '31 30 2 reels.... Nov. 22 22, '31 20... Apr. 1 1, '31 29,'3I 7... Apr. 4,'3I 9. '31 . . . I reel 3, '3I...I reel. .May 31, '31 14 2 reels. Feb. 7,'3I 22.'3I 9.... July 4,'8I 21 2 reels. Jan. 24,'3I I reel 27, '31 1S.'3I...2 reels. Apr. 4,'3I 24, '31 10... May W.'SI 27, '3I... .9.... Aug. 8.'3I 19 I reel Oct. II l.'3l...l reel. .Feb. 28,'3I 18, '3I...I reel.. Jan. SI.'SI 25. '3I reel.. Feb. 7,'3I 5, '3I...2 reels. Mar. I4,'3I 2 I reel 15,'3I...2 reels. Jan. 3.'3I 8. '3I...I reel.. Mar. I4,'31 22,'31 20... June 20. '31 22.'3I 9.. .Mar. 28,'31 8 I reel.. Feb. I4.'3I 8,'3I...I reel. .Mar. 14, '31 28 I reel. .Jan. 3,'31 18 I reel.. Feb. 28. '31 15,'31 20. ..May 30,'3I 25.'3I...I reel.. Feb. 7.'SI 4, '31 II.... Apr. 4,'3I 5, '31... 2 reel*. I3,'3I 20. ..June 6.'3I 6, '3I 20... May 30,'31 22,'3I...I reel. .Apr. 4,'3I I2,'3I...2 reels. Apr. I8,'3I 2 I reel 4. '3I...I reel. .Jan. 3,'31 29. '31 22... Apr. 4,'3I 15 I reel I1,'3I...I reel. .Jan. 24,'3I I5,'3I 9... Mar. 28,'31 . 21,'3I . . . I reel 6, '31 10. ..May 23.'3i 28, 'SI... I reel. .Feb. 21, '31 I, '31... I reel. .Apr. 4.'3i 29, '31 10.... July 4.'SI STATE RIGHTS Running Time Distributor Minutes Reviewed . Elbee 2 reels Title Star At the Photographers Harry Delf Beauty Secrets from Hollywood— No. 1 (technicolor) Welshay Mar. I4,'31 Besides the Western Sea Castle Film I reel Birds of a Feather Ideal 8... Apr. 4, '31 Blind Youth Lou Tellegen Capital S reels Bosom Friendship Novelty UFA 10 Broken Doll. The Sadie Banks Judea Films I reel Down Hawaii Way Color Novelty Castle I reel Ell-Eli Cantor Waldman ...Judea Film 10 Evening in Jewish Camp Eval Miller Judea Film 12 Friend Husband Purr 2 reels Hunting the Carpathian Bear Ufa 12... Aug. I,'3I In the Good Old Summer Time Ideal 8... Apr. 4,'3I Jewish Gypsy Hymie Jacobson Judea Films 21 Jewish Melody Cantor Waldman. .. .Judea Films, Inc I reel Kids and Pets Color Novelty Castle I reel Knights In Khaki Falcon Prod 22... May 23,'3I Kol Nidre No. I Cantor Schmlllkal ..ludea Films 10 Kol Nidre No. 2 Cantor Waldman ...Judea Films II Land of Freedom Seymour Reltztelt ..ludea Films. Inc 2 reels Legend of the Skies Ideal 6... Mar. I4,'3I Mal-Ko Mashma-Lou Harry Fold Judea Films Meet the Family Harry Delf Elbee 2 reels Monkey Business 8... Apr. 4,'3I Monkey Squawks Burr Natascha Plnchus Lavenda ....Judea Films. Inc 2 reels. Oh Doctor Special Cast Judea Films Peculiar Pets Ideal Poem In Stone. A Ideal Sacred Elephants of India Ideal Sailors' Sweetheart HymIe Jacobson ludea Films, Inc. Secrets of Plant Life Ufa Shoemaker's Romance Judea Films 21. Signed, Sealed & Delivered. Special Cast Burr Sixty Minutes from Broadway Color Novelty Castle I reel Some Wild Appetites Ideal 8... Mar. 21. '31 Spring Is Here Ideal ..9. ..Mar. 21, '31 Stylo and Class Marty Barratz ludea Films 23 Una-Sana-Takof Canto Waldman ....Judea Films II. Wings of Tomorrow Visuographic 10. Unseen. A Selentlflc Ufa 12. .20. 8... Apr. 4,'3I 7... Mar. I4.'ai 8... Mar. 21. '31 2 reels ,10 Aug. I,'3I .May 2,'3I Alice Chops the Suey Feb. Alice Gfts Stage Struck Jan. Alice Gets Stung Oct. Alice Loses Out Mar. Alice on the Farm Oct. Alice Picks th( Champ Mar. I, '31. 15. '31. 15 l,'3l. Alice Plays Cupid Apr. Alice Rattled by Rats May Alice Solves the Puzzle Apr. Alice In the Jungle Jan. Alice's Mysterious Mystery May Alice's Orphan Feb Broken Spur, The Jack Hoxie Feb. Desert Bridgegroom Jack Hoxie Jan. Romantic Sherifl Jack Hoxie Jan. Sparks of Flint Jack Hoxie Feb. TALKING PICTURE EPICS I, '31. 1,'3I 15.'3I I, '31 I5,'3I I5,'3I I. '31 . .2 reels.. I5,'3I . .2 reels.. l.'3l . .2 reels. I5,'3I. . .2 reels. Title Star Animal World of Make Believe. .Dr. Raymond L. DItmvs Bird Islands of Peru Dr. Robt. Cushman Murphy. Feb. Fight to Live Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars. . . Apr., Freaks of Nature Dr. Raymond L. DItmirt. . . June Ghost Towns George Lancaster Aug. Heart of the. Nation Washington May the Realm of Goblins Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars. .. Aug. Running Time Rel. Date Minutes Reviewed . Apr., '31 10. . . Aug. 8,'3I I2,'31 10 No*. 8 •31 10.. May 30,'3I I4.'3I ... 9 3,'31 9 25,'3I . 9. 3I,'3I... . 10. Killing the Killer Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars. .. June .... 9 Land of Evangeline (No. 2) Wanderlust Jan. 30.'3I... Land That Time Forgot July I0,'3I... Let's Sing Howard Wade KInsey Scot. I Like a Beaver Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars. . .Feb. I2,'3I... Monkey Whoopee Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars. . .Dec. 25 Naked Man vs. Beast Martin Johnson Ort 15 .... Navajo Witch Wild Life Series Aug. I4,'3I... Seeing Bermuda on a Bicycle. .. (No. I) Wanderlust Oct. 15 Sunny Sweden (No. 4) Wanderlust June 15. '31... This Is Australia Natives June I5.'3I .. Today and Yesterday Hearst News Nov. I5,'29... Top of the Old World (No. 6) Wanderlust June I5.'3I... Up and Down New York (Empire State BIdg.) May 25,'31 9 .Feb. .Aug. .Feb. .May 10. .9. . 10. . 10. . .9. . 10. .11 . 10 De .9 15 .30 July 9 14. "11 8,'3I I4,'3I 30.'3I 4.'SI TIFFANY Running Time Title Star Rel. Date Minutes Reviewed Color Symphonies Series S in Technicolor 10 Chinese Flower Boat July 5 10 Dancing Bear June 10 10 Parisian Nights June 25 10 Kentucky Jubilee Singers Series of 6 Old Black Joe May 1 18 Piekin' Cotton 9 Road Home, The IS Slave Days lO Welcome Home Dec. 12 10 Musical Fantasies Series of 6 10. 10. II. .Sept. 27 Fire Worshippers Aug. 10. Memories Apr. 23. William Tell Aug. I II Way Down South II Dee. 6 Paul Hurst Comedies Series of 6 II De Woild's Champion 20 Dee. 6 One Punch O'Toole Mar. 23 18... Mar. 28,'31 Tale of a Flea, The. Missing Link. The Rolling Stone Series Series of 6 In the Mountains Sept. 25 10 Sept. 6 The Desert Dec. 18 10 Tiffany Chimp Series 6 Monkey Comedies 18 1. Blimp Mystery, The 16 Sept. 27 2. Little Covered Wagon, The Sept. 5 Aug. 30 3. Little Big House. The Oct. 15 19 Oct. 4 4. Little Divorcee, The 20 Dee. 6 5. Nine Nights In a Bar Room Jan. 26.'31 16. ..Jan. 3,'3I 6. Chasing Around Mar. 23. '31 16. ..Mar. 28,'3I 7. Africa Squawks July 7.'3I 18 8. Apeing Hollywood Aug. 16,'31 21 9. Cinnamon II Voice of Hollywood Series Station S-T-A-R Jan. 26 II No. 16 Neil Hamilton Aug. 10 II No. 17 Laura La Plante Aug. 20 II No. 18 Gleason & Armstrong Sept. II II No. 19 Johnny H ines II No. 20 James Hall II Get II No. 21 Conklin & Christy II No. 22 Ian Keith 10 No. 23 Sammy Cohen-Tiffany Talking Chimps 10 Dec. 6 No. 24 Leon E. Janney Dec. 21 II No. 25 Seben 'n' Leben Jan. 20,'31 II No. 26 Kenneth Harlan Mar. 2,'3I II. ..Mar. 28.'3I No. 27 John Wayne Our Gang UNIVERSAL I5,'3I Title Star Rel. Arabian Knights Slim SummervIIlt Apr. All Excited Sidney-Murray Mar. Band Master, The Oswald Cartoon May Burglar to the Rescue Shadow-Detective Series No, I. Sept. Butter In Yeggman, The Sidney-Murray May Campaign Capers Slim Suromervllla Cat's Paw, The Red Star Comedy July Champion, The Leather Pushers Feb. Champ, The Oswald Cartoon July China Oswald Cartoon Jan. College Oswald Cartoon Jan. Clown. The Nov. Comeback, The Leather Pusher Series No. 4. Dec. Country School, The Oswald Cartoon May Dangerous Daze Red Star Comedy Mar. Discontented Cowboys Sidney-Murray Nov. Divorce A La Carte Sidney-Murray Apr. Famous Plays Football Short No. 3 Sept Farmer, The Oswald Cartoon Mar. Fireman. The Oswald Cartoon Aor. First to Fight Slim Summerville Sept. Fisherman, The Oct. Fowl Ball, The Oswald Cartoon Oct. Framed Leather Pusher Series No. 7. Jan. Go to Blazes ...^ Sidney-Murray Oct. Hammer & Tongs Leather Pusher Series No. 2 Oct. Hare Male. The Oswald Cartoon Oct. Hello, Russia Slim Summerville Jan. Hello, Napoleon Red Star Comedy June Here's Luck Slim Summerville May Heroes of the Flames Tim McCoy Juno Hot and Bothered SidneyMurray Mar. Hot Feet Oswald Cartoon Sept, Howdy Mate Red Star Comedy luly Hunter. The Oswald Cartoon Sept. In Old Mazuma Sidney Murray Jan. In Wonderland Oswald Cartoon Sept Kane Meets Abel Leather Pushers Feb. Kentucky Belle Oswald Cartoon Sept. Date 8, 25. 27, 12, 26. 2. 3. 5, II. 12. 15. . 21, 23, 6, 2, 19. 13. 14, 15. 8. 5. 17. 3. 20. 2. 4. 14 , 22. 21, 21. . 28, II. inning Time Minutes Reviewed .2 reels. . Mar.28,'3l .2 reels. Feb.28.'3l ... .6. . .June 20. '31 18... Aug. 15, '31 ..2 reels. .Apr.ll. '31 . . . 20 July 25,'3I , .2 reels. .Apr. 4,'3I .2 reels , . i reel .2 reels . I reel. May 16, '31 .2 reels. . Mar.l4.'3l .2 reels Oct. II .2 reels. . Mar.l4,'3l .1 reel . I reel. .. Mar. I4,'3I . I reel ...44.... Aug. 8,'3I . 1 reel .2 reels Dee. .2 reels Nov. .2 reels 2 reels. . Dec. 20 ..17. ..July II. '31 2 reels. . May 2.'$! . . 17. . . . Apr. 4, '31 2 reels 2 reels . . . . '. 1 reel 2 reels.. Jan. 3,'SI 7, '31 .2 reels . I reel. . ,