Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1936)

Page scan 000559 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jul-Aug 1936
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1936)
Leaf #:
000559
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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August I, 1936 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 35 [THEATRE RECEIPTS" CCNT'EJ Theatres Current Week Previous Week Picture Gross Picture Gross Hollywood Chinese 2,500 30c-55c Pantages 3.000 25c-40c W. B. Hollywood 3,000 25c-40c Indianapolis Apollo 1,100 25c-40c Circle 2,800 2Sc-40c Loew's 2,800 25c-40c Lyric 2,000 25c -40c Kansas City Mainstreet 3,100 25c-40c Midland 4,000 25c-40c Newman 1,900 25c-40c Tower 2,000 25c Uptown 2,000 25c-40c Los Angeles Carthay 1,518 50c-$1.50 Filmarte 800 30c-40c Four Star 900 30c-55c Grand Intern't'l.. 750 35c-40c Hillstreet 2,700 25c-40c Loew's State ... 2,500 30c-55c i_ Paramount 3,596 30c-55c W. B. Downtown 3,400 25c -40c Minneapolis Lyric 1,239 20c-25c i^Minnesota 4,000 25c-55c RKO Orpheura... 2,900 25c-40c State 2,300 25c-40c World 400 25c -40c Montreal Capitol 2,547 25c -60c Loew's 3,115 25c-60c Palace 2,600 25c-65c Princess 2,272 25c-65c I New York Astor 1,141 55c-$2.20 Capitol 4,700 25c-85c Palace 2,500 25c -75c Paramount 3,700 35c-99c Rialto 594 25c-65c r Rivoli 2,200 40c -99c RKO Music Hall 5,954 40c-$1.65 L Roxy 6,200 25c -55c | S'trand 3,000 25c55c "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (20th 12.000 (Cent. -Fox) and "Educating Father" (20th Cent.-Fox) "The Crime of Dr. Forbes" (20th 6,000 Cent.-Fox) and "M'Liss" (Radio) "Earthworm Tractors" (F.N.) and. "Boulder Dam" (W.B.) 9.500 "State Fair" (20th Century Fox) . . 3,300 "The Green Pastures" (W.B.) 5.000 'The Devil Doll" (MGM) and. 'We Went to College" (MGM) 'The Crime of Dr. Forbes". (20th Century-Fox) (plus vaudeville) 6,200 7,800 8,000 'Earthworm Tractors" (F.N.). (8 days) 'The Devil Doll" (MGM) 10.000 'The Green Pastures" (W.B.).... 11,500 (8 days) 'The Big Noise" (W.B.) 7,000 . (plus stage show) "Dracula's Daughter" (Univ.) and 3,400 'High Tension" (20th Century-Fox) (6 days -2nd week) 'The Great Ziegfe'id" (MGM) 12,600 (14th week) 'It's Love Again" (GB) 1,750 "Song of China" (Douglas MacLean) and "The Plow That Broke the Plains" 'Secret Agent" (GB) 4,800 (6 days) •Ecstasy" (Eureka) 4,500 (6 days) "The Crime of Dr. Forbes" (20th 6,000 Cent.-Fox) and "M'Liss" (Radio) "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (20th 15,000 Cent.-Fox) and "Educating Father" (20th Cent.-Fox) "Early to Bed" (Para.) and 16,000 "Three Cheers for Love" (Para.) 'Earthworm Tractors" (F.N.) and.. 10.000 'Boulder Dam" (W.B.) 'Sons O' Guns (W.B.) 2,10C "The First Baby" (20th Cent.-Fox) . 19,000 (on stage: Marx Brothers) (25c-65c) "The Bride Walks Out" (Radio).. 6,250 "The Devil Doll" (MGM) 5,500 "Show Boat" (Univ.) 2,500 (5th week) "Hearts Divided" (F.N.) and 7,500 "The Law in Her Hands" (F.N.) "The Witness Chair" (Radio) and.. 9.000 "Hot Money" (W. B.) (plus vaudeville on stage) "San Francisco" (MGM) 10.500 "It's Love Again" (GB) and 6,500 "Ourselves Alone" (British) "The Great Ziegfeld" (MGM) 14,700 (15th week) "San Francisco" (MGM) 26,000 (4th week) "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (20th 4,800 Cent.-Fox) and "Dancing Pirate" (Radio) "Early to Bed" (Para.) 24,000 (on stage: Bob Crosby and Orch.) "And Sudden Death" (Para.) 7,200 "Meet Nero Wolfe" (Col.) 20,000 "The Green Pastures" (W.B.) 94,000 (plus stage show) "White Fang" (20th Cent.-Fox).... 22,000 (plus stage show) "Public Enemy's Wife" (F.N.).... 13.500 "White Fang" (20th Cent.-Fox) and 7,250 "We Went to College" (MGM) 'The Bride Walks Out" (Radio) and 5,100 'Human Cargo" (20th Cent.-Fox) (2nd week) 'Public Enemy's Wife" (W.B.) and 10,000 'Two Against the World" (F.N.) "Public Enemy's Wife" (W.B.).... 3,000 "The Bride Walks Out" (Radio) 3,500 and "Let's Sing Again" (Radio) 'Dancing Lady" (MGM), "The Big 7,000 House" (MGM) and "It Happened in Indianapolis" 'White Fang" (20th Cent.-Fox).... 7,500 (on stage: Roger Pryor and revue) "The Bride Walks Out" (Radio).... 9,603 "San Francisco" (MGM) 10,500 (3rd week) "Public Enemy's Wife" (W.B.) 8,050 "Nobody's Fool" (Univ.) 7,400 (plus stage show) "Things to Come" (U.A.) 1.500 (3 days) "Dracula's Daughter" (Univ.) and.. 3,000 "High Tension" (20th Cent.-Fox) (4 days-lst week) "The Great Ziegfeld" (MGM) 10.500 (13th week) "Song of China" (Douglas MacLean) 1,600 'It's Love Again" (GB) 2,700 (3rd week) 'Lordagskvallar" (Swedish) 1,700 "The Bride Walks Out" (Radio) and 5,400 "Human Cargo" (20th Cent.-Fox) (2nd week) "White Fang" (20th Cent.-Fox) and 9,000 "We Went to College" (MGM) 'Poppy" (Para.) 12,600 (plus stage show) (2nd week) 'Public Enemy's Wife" (W.B.) and 10,500 "Two Against the World" (F.N.) "The Country Beyond" (20th Cent. 1.900 Fox) "San Francisco" (MGM) 14,000 (2nd week) "The King Steps Out" (Col.)... 8,500 "Spendthrift" (Para.) 5,503 "Show Boat" (Univ.) 2,500 (4th week) 'Bullets or Ballots" (F.N.) and.... 8,000 •Educating Father" (20th Cent.-Fox) 'Dracula's Daughter" (Univ.) and 8,500 'Nobody's Fool" (Univ.) (plus stage show) (30c-60c) 'The White Angel" (F.N.)... 10,500 'The Lady Consents" (Radio) and 6,500 'Murder on the Bridle Path" (Radio) 'The Great Ziegfeld" (MGM) 13,600 (14th week) 'San Francisco" (MGM) 39,000 (3rd week) 'High Tension" (20th Cent.-Fox) and 5,000 "Two Against the World" (F.N.) "Poppy" (Para.) 18,000 (on stage: Harriet Hilliard and Ozzie Nelson) (4th week) "Mine With the Iron Door" (Col.) . . 5.500 "I Stand Condemned" (U.A.) 4,500 (2nd week) "The Bride Walks Out" (Radio)... 65,000 (plus stage show) 'Fatal Lady" (Para.) 20.000 (plus stage show) "PnMir Ftiemv',, W,'f»" fV \T 1 i;nnn High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from January, 1935) (Dates are 1935 unless otherwise specified) High 2-22-36 "Modern Times" 26,000 Low 5-4 "West Point of the Air" 4,900 High 9-7 "Top Hat" 19,000 Low 4-13 "Mister Dynamite" and I "Great God Gold" j 2,500 High 9-7 "Page Miss Glory" 15,300 Low 6-27-36 "The Big Noise" 4,000 High 3-14-36 "The Country Doctor".... 8,000 Low 6-27-36 "Sins of Man" 1,608 High 4-25-36 "The Moon's Our Home") and "Silly Billies" ( 9,700 (in place of "Silly Billies," on stage Lum 'n' Abner for Saturday and Sunday) Low 3-16 "Transient Lady" 2,000 High 2-15-36 "Exclusive Story" 15,000 (on stage: Cab Calloway and band) Low 4-6 "Casino Murder Case" 2,750 High 3-28-36 "The Leathernecks Have Landed" 13,300 (on stage: Major Bowes' Amateurs) Low 2-7 "Murder of Dr. Harrigan" 5.700 (on stage: vaudeville) High 11-23 "The Case of the Lucky Legs" 22,000 Low 1-12 "I Sell Anything" 2.000 High 8-24 "China Seas" 25,000 Low 9-14 "Bonnie Scotland" 6,000 High 5-25 "Goin' to Town" 14,000 Low 5-18 "Dinky" 3,000 High 1-18-36 "Magnificent Obsession".. 14,500 Low 3-14-36 "Lady of Secrets" 5,000 (plus stage show) High 9-7 "Steamboat Round the Bend".. 11,000 Low 7-27 "Black Sheep" 2,100 High 4-27 "My Heart Is Calling" 4,000 Low 6-29 "Song of Happiness" 800 High 5-18 "Les Miserables" 7,800 Low 12-17 "The Return of Peter Grimm" 2,400 High 7-25-36 "Ecstasy" 4,500 (5 days) Low 12-7 "Such a Girl You Never Forget 900 High 9-7 "Top Hat" 17,000 Low 11-2 "Three Kids and a Queen".... 2,800 High 12-7 "Mutiny on the Bounty" 24,500 Low 10-26 "Way Down East" 6,200 High 8-10 "Paris in Spring" 32,000 Low 6-27-36 "Case Against Mrs. Ames" 9,126 ( plus stage show) (5 days) High 1-11-36 "Captain Blood" 17,100 Low 6-27-36 "The Big Noise" 3,800 High 7-25-36 "Sons O' Guns" 2,100 Low 8-17 "Don't Bet on Blondes" and ) "Sanders of the River" ) 1,200 High 1-4-36 "The Bride Comes Home".. 31,326 Low 4-4-36 "Klondike Annie" 8,000 High 9-21 "Top Hat" 18,000 Low 6-13-36 "The Golden Arrow" 3,000 High 11-2 "Broadway Melody of 1936".. 7,000 Low 5-30-36 "The Unguarded Hour" 5.000 High 6-8 "Thunder in the East" 5,000 Low 11-16 "Born for Glory" 2.000 High 2-9 "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" 15,500 Low 8-3 "My Heart Is Calling" and 1 "College Scandal" ( 7,000 High 1-11-36 "Broadway Hostess" and) "The Rainmakers" j 15,000 Low 6-15 "Mark of the Vampire" and) "Baby Face Harrington" ) 5,500 High 12-7 "Mutiny on the Bounty" 15,000 Low 7-20 "Drake of England" and ) "The Nitwits" f 7,500 High 2-22-36 "Modern Times" and ) "Guard That Girl" ( 12,500 Low 12-28 "Remember Last Night?" ) and "East of Java" J 3,000 High 1-5 "Forsaking All Others" 87,400 Low 5-30-36 "Three Wise Guys" 7,000 High 10-5 "Top Hat" 15,000 Low 7-25-36 "The Poor Little Rich Girl" ) and "Dancing Pirate" j 4.S0O High 1-19 "Lives of a Bengal Lancer".. 65,300 Low 12-21 "Millions in the Air" 10,000 High 2-15-36 "Modern Times" 65,000 Low 6-29 "Nell Gwvn" 8,100 High 9-7 "Top Hat" 131,200 (plus stage show) Low 11-30 "Crime and Punishment"... 45,000 (plus stage show) High 1-4-36 "If You Could Only Cook".. 62.000 (plus stage show) Low 4-20 "My Heart Is Calling" 17,500 (plus stage show)