Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Mar-Apr 1940
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1940)
Leaf #:
000505
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:
August 29, 2022
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MOTION PICTU RE HERALD CHARLES AND SAM ROTH, left and right below, of Valley Enterprises, Harrisonburg, Va., visit the Rockefeller Center offices of Quigley Publications with William Michalove, manager of the circuit's State theatre in Harrisonburg. JOSEPH PASTERNAK, Universal producer, comes to town and is given a luncheon at the Astor hotel, New York. Clockwise beginning in the foreground: John Wright, Rivoli theatre; Fred Meyers and John J. O'Connor, RKO; Joseph Seidelman, Mr. Pasternak, William A. Scully, and Nate J. Blumberg. ABE FREEDMAN, right, is the 1940-41 chairman of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association leading the war on rentals. By Staff Photographer FOX WEST COAST managers visit Paramount, left, after their annual convention at the Los Angeles Ambassador hotel. Left to right: Lloyd Howell, Watsonville; Douglas Graham, Salinas; Jackie Cooper, and Jack Foley, San Francisco. LYNNE OVERMAN, costumed for his part in Cecil B. DeMille's "Northwest Mounted Police", greets Fox West Coast managers Jack Ryan, Hanlon, Vallejo; Robert T. Sharp, Fox, Richmond; G. F. Sharp, Wilson, Fresno; Evan Jeffries, Grand Lake, Oakland, and Clint Eberly, Senator, Oakland. E. I. PARKER and Fred Williams, second from left and extreme right above, president and vice-president of the Consolidated Amusement Company of Hawaii, visit the New York offices of the International Projector Corporation and A. E. Meyer, International sales manager; K. Streuber and J. Brozek, export managers for National Theatre Supply Company and International Projector, respectively. DINNER IN MIAMI, below. Louis Frisch and Sam Rinzler, New York circuit operators, are hosts at the Carrousel, Miami Beach, to vacationing friends. Present are Herman Becker, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Buxbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Max Cohen, Tom Connors, Mr. and Mrs. Frisch, Mr. and Mrs. Ted O'Shea, Mr. and Mrs. Rinzier, Mike Rudin, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schnitzer, Mr. and Mrs. William Scully. On his return to New York this week Mr. Frisch was in turn the guest of friends at a dinner at Dinty Moore's.