Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Jun 1934)

Page scan 000730 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Mar-Jun 1934
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Jun 1934)
Leaf #:
000730
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:
June 20, 2024
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34 MOTION PICTURE HERALD MAY 19, 1934 THE BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS ^ Eight productions have been placed in April's list of champions by the nation's key theatre box offices. They are distributed, however, annong only four rankings, there being two tied for third, and four for fourth. The only picture in the April group to have appeared in a previous list of Box Office Channpions — Columbia's "It hiappened One Night" — was named for both February and March. The April list leans strongly toward two general extremes of appeal, with three dramas and an equal number of musicals. A comedy-drama and an African jungle picture completed the roster for April. FOR APRIL RIPTIDE M C M WONDER BAR First National ( I ) RIPTIDE. Produced by Irving G. Thalberg. Written and directed by Edmund Gouldlng. Musical score by Herbert Stothart. Recording director, Douglas Shearer. Art directors, Alexander Toluboff and Fredric Hope. Photographed by Ray June. Film editor, Margaret Booth. Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Richard "SIteets" Gallagher, Ralph Forbes. Released March 30, 1934. |2) WONDER BAR. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Based on the play by Geza Herczeg, Karl Farkas and Robert Katscher. Adaptation and screen play by Earl Baldwin. Music and lyrics by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Photographed by Sol Polito. Art director, Jack Okey. Film editor, George Amy. Assistant director. Bill Cannon. Numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. Supervised by Robert Lord. Cast: Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert. Released March 31, 1934. (3) MELODY IN SPRING. Directed by Norman McLeod. Story by Frank Leon Smith. Screen play by Benn W. Levy. Continuity by Jane Storm. Sound, Harry Lindgren. Music by Lewis E. Gensler. Lyrics by Harlan Thompson. Photographed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Lanny Ross, Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern, George Meeker, Herman Bing, Norma Mitchell, Joan Gale, Jane Gale, June Gale. Helen Lynd. Released April 20, 1934. (3) THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD. Directed by Alfred Werker. Screen play by Nunnally Johnson. Based on a play by George Hembert Westley. Associate director, Maude T. Howell. Photographed by Peverell Marley. Art director, Richard Day. Film editors, Alan McNeil and Barbara McLean. Costumes designed by Gwen Wakeling. Assistant director, Ben Silvey. Musical score by Alfred Newman. Technicolor art director, Natalie T. Kalmust. Cast: George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young, C. Aubrey Smith. Released April 6, 1934. (4) IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. Directed by Frank Capra. From the Cosmopolitan Magazine story by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Screen play by Robert Riskin. Assistant director,. C. C. Coleman. Photographed by Joseph Walker. Sound engineer E. L. Bernds. Film editor, Gene Havlick. Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. Released February 23, 1934. (4) MEN IN WHITE. Directed by Richard Boleslavsky. Produced by Monta Bell. Screen play by Waldemar Young, from the play by Sidney Kingsley. Musical score by Dr. William Axt. Recording director, Douglas Shearer. Art director, Cedric Gibbons. Assistant, Merrill Pye and George Folsey. Film editor, Frank Sullivan. Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger, C. Henry Gordon. Released April 6, 1934. (4) GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS. Entire production conceived by George White. Directed by George White and Harry Lachman. Music by Ray Henderson. Lyrics by Jack Yellen and Irving Caesar. Executive producer, Robert T. Kane. Cast: Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames, Cliff Edwards, Gregory Ratoff, Dixie Dunbar, Gertrude Michael, Warren Hymer, Armand Kaliz, Roger Grey, William Bailey, George Irving, Richard Carle. Released March 16, 1934. (4) WILD CARGO. Produced by Frank Buck. Directed by Armand Denis. Based on the book "Wild Cargo" by Frank Buck and Edward S. Anthony. Photographed by Nicholas Cavaliere and Leroy G. Phelps. Editorial supervisor, Sam B. Jacobson. Dialogue and narrative by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Released April 6, 1934.