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MOTION PICTURE HERALD
December II, 1937
[THEATRE RECEIPTS-CONTINUED]
TL _ X (Average weekly grosses for 66 week period
I neaTreS from January 4, 1936, to April 3, 1937)
Average
Now Ynrlr Receipts
6W IOrK Seats Price Per Week
Astor 1,142 55c-$2.20 15,600
Capitol 4,700 25c-85c 33,400
Criterion 1,700 25c-75c 12,000
Paramount 3,700 25c-99c 36,100
Rialto 594 25c-55c 7.70O
Rivoli 2,200 2Sc-99c 23,100
RKO Music Hall 6,200 40c-$1.65 79,000
Roxy 5,954 25c-75c 35,400
Strand 3,000 40c-99c 20,800
Oklahoma City
Criterion 1,700 10c-40c 5,300
Midwest 1,500 10c-40c 4,300
Tower 1,100 10c-40c
Omaha
Brandeis 1,200 25c-40c 4,900
Omaha 2,200 25c-40c 6,900
Orpheum 3,000 25c-40c 9,200
Current Week
Picture Grass
"The Hurricane" (U.A.) 15,000
(4th week)
"The Firefly" (MGM) 38,000
"The Barrier" (Para.) 8,000
"Ebb Tide" (Para.) 30,000
(stage: Frances Langford) (3rd week)
"Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" (MGM) 7,800
"Damsel in Distress" (RKO) 14,500
(2nd week)
"Nothing Sacred" (U.A.) 112,000
(plus stage show) "Merry-Go-Round of 1938" (Univ.) 43,000
(plus stage show) (8 days)
"The Life of Emile Zola" (W.B.).. 32,000 (2nd week)
"Live, Love and Learn" (MGM).... 7,000 (stage: musical revue) (10c-55c)
"Damsel in Distress" (RKO) 4,300
"Second Honeymoon" 3,900
(20th Cent. -Fox)
"Damsel in Distress" (RKO) and.. 6,300 "West of Shanghai" (F.N.)
"The Firefly" (MGM) and 6,700
"A Girl with Ideas" (Univ.)
"Second Honeymoon" 17,600
(20th Cent. -Fox)
(plus stage show) (35c-55c)
Previous Week
Picture
"The Hurricane" (U.A.) 13,800
(3rd week)
"Live, Love and Learn" (MGM)... 20,000
"Fight for Your Lady" (RKO) 7,500
"Ebb Tide" (Para.) 41,000
(stage: Frances Langford) (2nd week)
"Danger Patrol" (RKO) 5,800
"Damsel in Distress" (RKO) 27,800
(1st week)
"Stand-In" (U.A.) 79,500
(plus stage show)
"Second Honeymoon" 33,000
(20th Cent.-Fox)
(plus stage show) (2nd week) "The Life of Emile Zola" (W.B.).. 45,000 (1st week)
"Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1937" 4,000 (U.A.)
"Conquest" (MGM) 3,600
"45 Fathers" (20th Cent.-Fox) 1,800
(6 days)
"The Awful Truth" (Col.) and 6,200
"Trapped by G-Men" (Col.) (2nd week)
"Navy Blue and Gold" (MGM) and 7,200 "Bulldog Drummond Comes Back" (Para.)
"This Way, Please" (Para.) and.... 7,200 "Danger— Love at Work" (20th Cent.-Fox) (plus "Ali Baba Goes to Town" (2Cth Cent.-Fox) preview and Big Apple Dance Contest on stage)
Philadelphia
Boyd
Fox ,
San Francisco
Fox
Geary
Seattle
1,300
40c -65c
9,200
2,400
40c -65c
14,800
40c -65c
17,000
3,700
40c -65c
15,700
5,651
15c-75c
11,000
.. 1,400
55c-$1.65
15c-55c
16,600
. . 2,440
15c-55c
8,200
, 2,670
15c-75c
13,300
1,200
15c-75c
6,900
2,680
15c-75c
15,300
2,500
30c-55c
7,700
., 1,800
30c -55c
7,700
, , 2,450
30c -40c
6,000
.. 3,050
30c-55c
5.200
"Nothing Sacred" (U.A.) 16,500
"It's Love I'm After" (W.B.) 12,000
"Submarine D-l" (F.N.) 16,500
"Damsel in Distress" (RKO) 13,000
"Submarine D-l" (F.N.) 21,000
"The Hurricane" (U.A.) 10,500
(3rd week)
"Damsel in Distress" (RKO) 19,000
(plus vaudeville) "The Awful Truth"(Col.) (6th week) 9.000 and "Life Begins with Love" (Col.) (2nd week) "The Last Gangster" (MGM) and 14,000 "Sh! the Octupus" (W.B.)
"The Prisoner of Zenda" (U.A.).... 9,000
(2nd week) "Navy Blue and Gold" (MGM) and 10,000 "Dinner at the Ritz" (20th Cent.-Fox)
(2nd week)
"Heidi" (20th Cent.-Fox) 8,100
"The Awful Truth" (Col.) 7,600
(2nd week)
"Live, Love and Learn" (MGM).. 6,100 (MGM) and "45 Fathers" (20th Cent.-Fox)
"Conquest" (MGM) and 5,750
"Dangerously Yours" (20th Cent.-Fox)
"Breakfast for Two". (RKO) 5,000
"Live, Love and Learn" (MGM).. 13,000
"Second Honeymoon" 15,000
(20th Cent.-Fox) "The Firefly" (MGM) 10,000
(6 days-2nd week)
"Second Honeymoon" (20th Cent.-.. 16.000 Fox) and "45 Fathers" (20th Cent.-Fox)
"The Hurricane" (U.A.) 9,500
(2nd week) "There Goes the Groom" (RKO).... 17,800
(plus vaudeville) 'The Awful Truth" (Col.) (5th week) 9,000 and "Life Begins With Love" (Col.) (1st week)
"Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" 13,000
(Rep.) and "Borrowing Trouble" (20th Cent.-Fox) (6 davs) "The Prisoner of 'Zenda" (U.A.).. 13,000 (1st week)
"Navy Blue and Gold" (MGM) and 15,000 "Dinner at the Ritz" (20th Cent.-Fox) (1st week)
"The Firefly" (MGM) 7,450
(2nd week)
"The Awful Truth" (Col.) 12,000
(1st week)
"Alcatraz Island" (F.N.) and 5,750
"Danger, Love at Work" (20th Cent.-Fox)
"Ah Baba Goes to Town" (20th.. 8,300 Gent. -Fox) and "The Man Who Cried
Wolf" (Univ.) (8 davs)