Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Oct 1934)

Page scan 000260 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Sep-Oct 1934
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Oct 1934)
Leaf #:
000260
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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40 MOTION PICTURE HERALD September 2 2 , 19 3 4 E THEATRE RECEIPTS— CONT'D! Theatres Hollywood Pantages 3,000 Current Week Previous Week Picture Grams 25c -40c W. B. Hollywood 3,000 25c-5Sc Indianapolis Apollo 1,100 25c -40c Circle 2,800 23c-40c Indiana 3,133 25c-40c Lyric 2,000 25c-40c Palace 3.000 25c-40c Kansas City Mainstreet 3,049 25c-45c Midland 4.000 25c-40c Newman 1.800 25c-40c Tower 2,200 25c Uptown 2,000 25c-40c Los Angeles Loew's State 2,416 30c-55c Paramount 3,5% 30c-55c RKO 2.700 25c-40c United Artists... 2,100 30c-55c W. B. Downtown 3,400 25c-55c Minneapolis Century 1,650 25c-40c Lyric 1,238 20c-25c RKO Orpheum... 2,900 25c -50c State 2,300 25c-40c Time 300 25c-35c World 400 25c-75c Montreal Capitol 2,547 25c-60c Imperial 1,914 25c-50c Loew's 3,115 25c-65c Palace 2,600 25c-75c Princess 2,272 25c-65c New York Capitol 4,700 35c-$1.65 Mayfair 2,300 35c-65c Palace 2,500 25c-75c Paramount 3,700 35c-99c Rialto 2,200 25c-65c Rivoli 2,200 40c -99c RiKO Music Hall 5,945 35c-$1.65 Rosy 6,200 25c-55c Strand 3,000 25c-$1.10 "There's Always Tomorrow" 3,600 (Univ.) and "Pursued" (Fox) "Dames" (W. B.) 14,500 (2nd week) "The World Moves On" (Fox).... 2.500 "Now and Forever" (Para.) 4.000 (2nd week) "Belle of the Nineties" (Para.).... 8,500 "Hat, Coat and Glove" (Radio).. 6,000 "Chained" (MGM) 4,500 "The Fountain" (Radio) 4,500 (7 davs and Sat. late show) (25c-40c) "Affairs of Cellini" (U. A.) 9,500 (7 days and Sat. midnite show) "Dames" (W. B.) 11,000 (7 days and Sat. midnite show) "The Love Captive" (Univ.) 6,800 (7 days and Sat. midnite show) "Handy Andy" (Fox) 5,600 (9 days-2nd week) "The World Moves On" (Fox)... 6.500 "One Night of Love" (Col.) 25.904 ($1.10 premiere) "Young and Beautiful" (Mascot).. 5,000 "The House of Rothschild" (U.A.) 8,500 (2nd week) "Dames" (W. B.) 10,500 (2nd week) "Hideout" (MGM) 4,300 "Murder in the Private Car" 1.600 (MGM) (20c-35c) "The Fountain" (Radio) 5.700 "Chained" (MGM) 6,000 "The Lost Patrol" (Radio) 3,000 (2nd week) "Friday the Thirteenth" 3,000 (GaumontBritish) "The World Moves On" (Fox).... 10,000 and "Romance in the Rain" (Univ.) Picture "Million Dollar Ransom" (Univ.) 4,500 and "Bachelor Bait" (Radio) "Dames" (W. B.) 25,000 (1st week) 'The Cat's Paw" (Fox) 3.000 (2nd week) 'Now and Forever" (Para.) 6,500 (1st week) 'She Loves Me Not" (Para.).... 6,000 "Their Big Moment" (RKO) 7,500 'The Affairs of Cellini" (U. A.).. 5,000 "Hat, Coat and Glove" (RKO).... 9,000 (7 days and Sat. late show) 'Chained" (MGM) 18,700 (7 days and Sat. midnite show) 'Now and Forever" (Para.) 9,200 (7 days and Sat. midnite show) 'Wild Gold" (Fox) 7.500 (7 days and Sat. midnite show) 'Handy Andy" (Fox) 8,500 (1st week) "The Cat's Paw" (Fox). 16,000 "Now and Forever" (Para.) 19,975 (2nd week) "Down to Their Last Yacht" 3,000 (Radio) (2nd week) "The House of Rothschild" (U.A.) 10,417 (5 days-lst week) "Dames" (W. B.) 20,000 (1st week) "The Scarlet Empress" (Para.).. 4,000 "The Notorious Sophie Lang".... 1,500 (Para.) "Down to Their Last Yacht".... 6,000 (Radio) "Now and Forever" (Para.) 6,000 "The Lost Patrol" (Radio) 2,500 (1st week) Revival Week 3,500 (Using 7 pictures given highest rating by Minneapolis Journal) 'She Loves Me Not" (Para.) and 9,500 'The Notorious Sophie Lang" (Para.) 'Cavalcade" (Fox) Revival 4,500 "Cimarron" (RKO) Revival 5,000 "Straight Is the Way" (MGM).. 9,500 and "The Love Captive" (Univ.) "Servants' Entrance" (Fox) and.. 11,000 "Ladies Should Listen" (Para.) "The Affairs of Cellini" (U.A.).... 5,500 and "The Ninth Guest" (Col.) 'Chained" (MGM) 37,360 (2nd week) 'Charlie Chan in London" (Fox).. 14,312 "The Fountain" (Radio) 15,000 ;'She Loves Me Not" (Para.) 45,000 "You Belong to Me" (Para.) 9.000 !'The Affairs of Cellini" (U.A.).... 35,000 "One Night of Love" (Col.) 104,120 "Romance in the Rain" (Univ.).. 36,400 "Dames" (W.B.) 17,000 (4th week) "Elmer and Elsie" (Para.) and 9,500 "Crime Without Passion" (Para.) "Now and Forever" (Para.) and.. 11,000 "Kiss and Make Up" (Para.) "The Affairs of Cellini" (U.A.) and 7,500 "The Ninth Guest" (Col.) "Chained" (MGM) 61,700 (1st week) "Their Mad Moment" (RKO') 7,000 "Blind Date" (Col.) 9,000 "Cleopatra" (Para.) 35,000 (3rd week) "Crime Without Passion" (Para.) 24,000 (12 days) "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back" 22,000 (U. A.) (3rd week) "The Fountain" (RKO) 97,000 "We're Rich Again" (U.) 32,600 "Dames" (W. B.) 23,000 (3rd week) High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from January, 1933.) High 1-7 "Handle With Care" 13,000 Low 3-3-34 "Fugitive Lovers'' and ) "The Poor Rich" ) 1,500 High 3-25 "42nd Street" 26,000 Low 1-27-34 "The Big Shakedown" 7,000 High 8-4-34 "Handy Andy" 7,000 Low 7-28-34 "Grand Canary" 2,000 High 8-19 "She Had to Say Yes" 12,000 Low 3-4 "The Sign of the Cross" 2,500 (2nd run) High 3-25 "Parachute Jumper" 15,000 Low 5-19-34 "The Trumpet Blows 1 and "As the Earth Turns" j 2,500 High 7-22 "College Humor" 9,500 Low 11-11 "Saturday's Millions" 3,000 High 2-3-34 "Sons of the Desert" 12,500 Low 8-18-34 "Straight Is The Way.... 3,500 High 6-23-34 "Glamour" 23,000 Low 5-20 "Sweepings" 4,000 High 1-7 "Strange Interlude".. 30,008 Low 4-15 "Perfect Understanding" 4,900 High 10-21 "I'm No Angel" 20,000 Low 5-27 "Pictu-e Snatcher" 2,800 High 9-1-34 "Blind Date" 8,300 Low 5-5-34 "Let's Fall in Love" 4,000 High 9-8-34 "Handy Andy" 8.500 Low 7-1 "Lilly Turner" 1,600 High 4-7-34 "Riptide" Low 2-24-34 "Coming Out Party".... High 1-7 "No Man of Her Own" Low 3-18 "King of the Jungle" High 3-31-34 "Little Women" Low 9-30 "Brief Moment" High 10-21 "The Bowery" Low 1-28 "Hello, Everybody" High 3-25 "42nd Street" Low 6-2-34 "Merry Wives of Reno" and "Harold Teen" High 4-22 "Secrets" Low 3-11 "Secret of Madame Blanche" High 4-1 "20,000 Years in Sing Sing".. Low 7-28-34 "Kiss and Make Up" High 1-7 "Animal Kingdom" Low 3-11 "Cynara" High 4-29 "Cavalcade" Low 3-11 "King of the Jungle" 28,500 4,870 30,000 10,000 15,500 1,700 21,000 3,900 19,000 5.000 5,500 2,500 3,000 1,000 14,000 3,000 8,000 3.500 High 5-5-34 "Private Life of Henry VIH" (5th week) Low 11-25 "Vi Som Gar Koksvagen" High 2-24-34 "Queen Christina" Low 7-28-34 "Here Comes the Groom" and "Jane Eyre" High 6-23-34 "Wine, Women and Song" and "Pride of the Legion" Low 7-8 "Les Bleus d'Amour" High 1-21 "The Mask of Fu Manchu Low 7-21-34 "Fog Over Frisco" and "Affairs of a Gentleman" High 2-18 "The Sign of the Cross".. Low 7-21-34 "Shoot the Works" and "Friday the 13th" High 1-7 "The Kid from Spain" and "Speed Demon" Low 8-11-34 "The Constant Nymph" and "Happy Ever After" 4,300 1,000 13,500 6,500 6.500 1,500 14,500 4,500 15,500 6,000 12,000 5,000 High 4-7-34 "Riptide" 63,373 Low 2-10-34 "You Can't Buy Everything" 15,500 High 1-7 "The Half Naked Truth".... 24,750 Low 7-14-34 "Call It Luck" 3,150 High 7-21-34 "Of Human Bondage" 16,200 Low 4-15 "Parole Girl" 4,500 High 10-21 "I'm No Angel" 83,450 Low 8-11-34 "Elmer and Elsie" 10,500 High 4-7-34 "The Lost Patrol" 32,800 Low 4-15 "Destination Unknown" and ) "The Fighting President" J 5,800 High 12-30 "Roman Scandals" 48,000 Low 8-5 "The Rebel" 7,200 High 11-25 "Little Women" 109,000 Low 6-17 "Ann Carver's Profession".. 44 938 High 11-25 "The Invisible Man" 42,000 Low 1-28 "Air Hostess" 9 100 High 10-14 "Footlight Parade" 55]l90 Low 12-23 "Sin of Nora Moran" 5,850