Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1944)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Nov-Dec 1944
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1944)
Leaf #:
000315
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:
July 11, 2024
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f "The war in this present month in November alone will cost us 57,500,000,000. That is $250,000,000 a day."— PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. "In the campaign on the Western Front, more than 750,000 rounds of ammunition have been expended. This was at the average rate of 4,000 to 5,000 pounds a minute, every minute — 24 hours a day. In the recent intense fighting around Aachen, the rate of expenditure was, of course, many, many fi'mes greater. . . . Aachen is just a sample."— HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury. "Our schedules call for an immediate increase of 35 per cent over our present output of heavy ammunition, of 31 per cent over the number of heavy trucks we are now building, of 35 per cent in tanks."— GENERAL BREHON SOMERVELL. "The money must be raised, and our men on all fronts depend upon you."— GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER. IN BOSTON. At the Hub City's Sixth War Loan meeting in the Statler Hotel, a meeting which brought hundreds from every New England state, Roy Rogers, Republic's King of the Cowboys, was a surprise feature. He is shown above with Martin Mullin, Mullin & Pinanski circuit. Jack Kirsch, national campaign co-chairman, and Nathan Yamins, Fall River. IN BALTIMORE. The meeting at the Belvedere Hotel there brought political and military notables as well as theatremen. Above are Major General Philip Hayes, Third Service area commander; Frank Durkee, Maryland state WAC chairman; Theodore McKeldin, Baltimore mayor. State exhibitors on Monday started their drive by purchasing $150,000 of bonds. IN NORFOLK, at the Tidewater region's Sixth War Loan meeting: back table, naval chaplain M. Irwin; Tom Baldridge, state theatre drive director; Morton G. Thalheimer, state campaign chairman; Pierre Boulogne, president of the Norfolk Theatre Managers Association; Joe Brecheen, distributor chairman in the Washington exchange area; Fred Biersdorf, Warners; John Allen, MGM; Mrs. John Williams, War Finance Committee. In foreground, Marine S/Sgt. Robert Levine, .Levine Theatres; Evelyn Butler and Mildred Hogge, Colony theatre, [Portsmouth; William Wilder and Harold Lucas, Wilder Theatres, [and Kopeland Ornoff, Hampton and Lenox theatres. IN PORTLAND, Ore., left. Jack Matlack, right, state publicity chairman for the film industry campaign, and O. J. Miller, state exhibitor chairman, are shown In consultation. Mr. Matlack won the Quigley Publications Showmanship and War Showmanship Awards last year, and the War Showmanship award the year previously. IN CHARLOTTE, N. C, at the state's Sixth War Loan meeting, a chief speaker was C. T. Leinbach, right, chairman of the North Carolina War Finance Committee. 'ijf MOTION PICTURE HERALD, NOVEMBER 25, 1944 II