Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1936)

Page scan 000480 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Nov-Dec 1936
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1936)
Leaf #:
000480
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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86 MOTION PICTURE HERALD November 28, 1936 [THEATRE RECEIPTS— CONT'D! Theatres Hollywood Chinese 2,500 30c-S5c Pantages 3,000 30c-65c W. B. Hollywood 3,000 30c-65c Indianapolis Apollo 1,100 25c-40c Circle 2,800 25c-40c Loew's 2,800 25c-40c Lyric 2,000 25c-40c Kansas City Mainstreet 3,100 2Sc-40c Midland 4,000 25c-40c Newman 1,900 25c-40c Tower 2,090 25c Uptown 2,000 25c-40c Los Angeles Carthay 1,518 50c-$1.50 Four Star 900 30c -55c Grand Intern't'l. 750 35c -40c Hillstreet 2,700 30c-65c Loew's State ... 2,500 30c-55c Paramount 3,596 30c-55c W. B. Downtown 3,400 30c-65c Minneapolis Lyric 1,239 20c-25c Minnesota 4,000 25c-55c RKO Orpheum.. 2,900 25c-40c State 2,300 25c-40c World 400 25c-35c Montreal Capitol 2,547 25c-60c Hi* Majesty's.... 1,700 25c-50c Loew's 3,115 25c-60c Palace 2,600 25c-65c Princess 2,272 25c-65c New York Astor 1,141 55c -$2.20 Capitol 4,700 25c-85c Criterion 1,700 25c -75c Palace 2,500 25c-65c Paramount 3,700 25c-85c Rialto 594 25c-55c Rivoli 2,200 25c-99c RKO Music Hall 5,954 40c-$1.65 Roxy 6,200 25c-75c Strand 3,000 40c-99c Current Week Previous Week Picture Gross Picture Gross "Pigskin Parade" (20th Cent.-Fox) 11,000 and "Mad Holiday" (MGM) "Smartest Girl in Town" (Radio) 6,000 and "Love Letters of a Star" (Univ.) 'Come and Get It" (U.A.) and.... 15.500 'The Captain's Kid" (F.N.) "Charge of the Light Brigade".... 4,800 (W. B.) "A Woman Rebels" (Radio) and.. 4,400 "Rose Bowl" (Para.) "Come and Get It" (U.A.) and.... 7,800 "The Longest Night" (MGM) Under Your Spell" 9,850 (20th Cent.-Fox) (on stage: Dave Apollon and revue) "Three Men on a Horse" (F.N.).. 10,200 "Come and Get It" (U.A.) and.... 11,800 "Legion of Terror" (Col.) "The Man I Marry" (Univ.) 4,500 "Without Orders" (Radio) 7,400 (plus stage show) "Pigskin Parade" (20th Cent.-Fox) 4,000 "Romeo and Juliet" (MGM) 6,500 (7th week) "Under Your Spell" 2,400 (20th Cent.-Fox) (2nd week) "Cloistered" (Best) 2,500 "Smartest Girl in Town" (Radio).. 6,000 and "Love Letters of a Star" (Univ.) "Pigskin Parade" (20th Cent.-Fox) 13,000 and "Mad Holiday" (MGM) "Hideaway Girl" (Para.).... 25,030 (on stage: Martha Raye and revue) "Come and Get It" (U.A.) and.. 12.600 "The Captain's Kid" (F.N.) "Libeled Lady" (MGM) 5,000 (25c-55c) "Dodsworth" (U.A.) 9,000 "A Woman Rebels" (Radio) 3,500 "Ladies in Love" 7,000 (20th Cent.-Fox) (6 days) "Fcstacy" (Eureka) 4,000 (4 days) "East Meets West" (GB) 800 (3 days-2nd week) "Pigskin Parade" (20th Cent.-Fox) 8,500 and "Panic on the Air" (Col.) "Broken Blossoms" (Imperial) and 5,500 "She Shall Have Music" (Imperial) "Star for a Night" 11,000 (20th Cent.-Fox) (plus stage show) "Charge of the Light Brigade" 12,000 (W. B.) "Our Relations" (MGM) and 7,500 "Murder with Pictures" (Para.) "Romeo and Juliet" (MGM) 7,500 (14th week) "Libeled Lady" (MGM) 18,000 (6 days -3rd week) "One Way Passage" (W.B.) 10,000. "Here Comes Carter" (F.N.) and 8,000 "Cain and Mabel" (W.B.) "The Big Broadcast of 1937" (Para.) 30,000 (on stage: Clyde Lucas and Orch.) (4th week) "Our Relations) (MGM) 11,000 "Come and Get It" (U.A.) 31,000 "Theodora Goes Wild" (Col.) 76,000 (plus stage show) "Pigskin Parade" (20th Cent.-Fox) 46,300 (plus stage show) "Charge of the Light Brigade".... 20,000 (W. B.) (3rd week) "The Great Ziegfeld" (MGM) 11,000 'A Woman Rebels" (Radio) and.. 7,700 'The Man I Marry" (Univ.) 'Cain and Mabel" (W.B.) and.... 19,500 'The Case of the Black Cat" (F.N.) "Cain and Mabel" (W.B.) 5,500 "Wedding Present" (Para.) and.. 3,200 "Don't Turn 'Em Loose" (Radio) "Tarzan Escapes" (MGM) and 8,300 'Adventure in Manhattan" (Col.) "The Captain's Kid" (F.N.) 9,500 . (plus stage show) "Charge of the Light Brigade" 8,100 (W. B.) "Tarzan Escapes" (MGM) and.... 11,900 "Our Relations" (MGM) "Pigskin Parade" (20th Cent.-Fox) 7,600 "The Captain's Kid" (F.N.) 7,800 (plus stage show) "Daniel Boone" (Radio) and 3,200 "The President's Mystery" (Republic) "Romeo and Juliet" (MGM) 5,800 (6th week) "Under Your Spell" 4,000 (20th Cent.-Fox) (1st week) "Builders of Socialism" 1,900 (State Rights) (2nd week) "A Woman Rebels" (Radio) and.. 7,300 "The Man I Marry" (Univ.) "The Great Ziegfeld" (MGM) 19,000 "The Gay Desperado" (U.A.) 19,200 (on stage: Charles Collins and revue) "Cain and Mabel" (W.B.) and.... 20,000 "The Case of the Black Cat" (F.N.) "Sworn Enemy" (MGM) . 2,000 "Libeled Lady" (MGM) 20,000 "Walking on Air" (Radio) 16,000 (plus stage show) (35c-60c) "Wedding Present" (Para.) 2,000 (5 days) "East Meets West" (GB) 4,500 (9 days1st week) "The Devil Is a Sissy" (MGM) and 9,500 "Women Are Trouble" (MGM) "Seven Sinners" (GB) and 5,500 "Love in Exile" (GB) "Adventure in Manhattan" (Col.).. 10,500 (on stage: Ina Ray Hutton and Orch.) "The Great Ziegfeld" (MGM).... 10,500 "The Magnificent Brute" (Univ.) 8,500 and "The Girl on the Front Page" (Univ.) "Romeo and Juliet" (MGM) 9,500 (13th week) "Libeled Lady" (MGM) 43,247 (2nd week) "Polo Joe" (W. B.) 7,000 "Give Me Your Heart" (W.B.) and 7,000 "Unde Your Spell" (20th Cent.-Fox) "The Big Broadcast of 1937" (Para.) 32,000 (on stage: Clyde Lucas and Orch.) (3rd week) "Without Orders" (Radio) 7,000 "Ladies in Love" (20th Cent.-Fox) 14,000 (2nd week) "As You Like It" (20th Cent.-Fox) 59,000 (plus stage show) "The Girl on the Front Page" 32,000 (Univ.) (plus stage show) 'Charge of the Light Brigade".... 31,000 (W.B.) (2nd week) High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from January, 1935) (Dates are 1936 unless otherwise specified) High 2-22 "Modern Times" 26,000 Low 5-4-35 "West Point of the Air" 4,900 High 9-12 "My Man Godfrey" and ) "Yellowstone" | 21,000 Low 4-13-35 "Mister Dynamite" and \ "Great God Gold" J 2,500 High 11-14 "Cain and Mabel" and \ "The Case of the Black Cat" ) 19,500 Low 6-27 "The Big Noise" 4,000 High 9-12 "My Man Godfrey" 8,000 Low 6-27 "Sins of Man" 1,600 High 10-10 "Anthony Adverse" 10,000 (25c-55c) Low 3-16-35 "Transient Lady" 2,000 High 10-24 "Libeled Lady" 15,000 Low 4-6-35 "Casino Murder Case" 2,750 High 9-12 "Pepper" 14,000 (on stage: Major Bowes' Amateurs) Low 2-7-35 "Murder of Dr. Harrigan".. 5,700 (on stage: vaudeville) High 11-23-35 "Case of the Lucky Legs" 22,000 Low 1-12-35 "I Sell Anything" 2,000 High 8-24-35 "China Seas" 25,000 Low 9-14-35 "Bonnie Scotland" 6,000 High 5-25-35 "Goin' to Town" 14,000 Low 5-18-35 "Dinky" 3,000 High 1-18 "Magnificent Obsession" 14,500 Low 3-14 "Lady of Secrets" 5,000 (plus stage show) High 9-7-35 "Steamboat Round the Bend" 11,000 Low 7-27-35 "Black Sheep" 2,100 High 5-18-35 "Les Miserables" 7,800 Low 12-17-35 "Return of Peter Grimm" 2,400 High 7-25 "Ecstasy" 5,000 (6 days-2nd week) Low 12-7-35 "Such a Girl You Never Forget" 900 High 9-12 "My Man Godfrey" and ) "Yellowstone" J 24,000 Low 11-2-35 "Three Kids and a Queen" 2,800 High 12-7-35 "Mutiny on the Bounty".. 24,500 Low 10-26-35 "Way Down East" 6,200 High 8-22 "Yours for the Asking" 33,000 (on stage: Eddie Cantor -and Bobby Breen) Low 6-27 "Case Against Mrs. Ames"... 9,126 (plus stage show) (5 days) High 11-14 "Cain and Mabel" and 1 "The Case of the Black Cat" J 20,000 Low 6-27 "The Big Noise". 3,800 High 11-21 "Libeled Lady" (25c-55c).. 5,000 Low 11-3 "Hollywood Boulevard" and } "I'd Give My Life" J 900 High 1-4 "The Bride Comes Home" 31,326 Low 4-4 "Klondike Annie" 8,000 High 9-21-35 "Top Hat" 18,000 Low 6-13 "The Golden Arrow" 3,000 High 9-19 "Sing, Baby, Sing" 8,000 Low 10-17 "The Last of the Mohicans" 4,000 High 9-5 "Secret Agent" 6,000 Low 9-19 "The Private Life of Louis XIV" 1,900 High 2-9-35 "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" 15,500 Low 8-3-35 "My Heart Is Calling" and } "College Scandal" J 7,000 High 10-17 "Nine Days a Queen" ) "Two's Company" J 9,000 Low 6-2-34 "All Quiet on the Western Front" 3,000 High 9-26 "Public Enemy's Wife" 1 (John Boles on stage) J 15,000 Low 6-15-35 "Mark of Vampire" and I "Baby Face Harrington" J 5,500 High 12-7-35 "Mutiny on the Bounty".. 15,000 Low 7-20-35 "Drake of England" and ) "The Nitwits" } 7,500 High 2-22 "Modern Times" and 1 "Guard That Girl" J 12,500 Low 12-28-35 "Remember Last Night?" ( and "East of Java" j 3,000 High 1-5-35 "Forsaking All Others" 87,400 Low 5-30 "Three Wise Guys" 7,000 High 10-5-35 "Top Hat" 15,000 Low 7-25 "The Poor Little Rich Girl" ) and "Dancing Pirate' J 4,800 High 1-19-35 "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" 65,300 Low 12-21-35 "Millions in the Air" 10,000 High 2-15 "Modern Times". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651666 Low 6-29-35 "Nell Gwyn" 8,100 High 9-7-35 "Top Hat" 131,200 (plus stage show) Low 11-30-35 "Crime and Punishment".. 45,000 (plus stage show) High 1-4 "If You Could Only Cook".... 62,000 (plus stage show) Low 4-20-35 "My Heart Is Calling" 17,500 (plus stage show) High 5-11 "The G Men" 60,138 Low 4-4-36 "Snowed Under" 6,100