Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Mar-Apr 1945
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Mar–Apr 1945)
Leaf #:
000206
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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LAUNCHING the Montague Twentieth Anniversary Campaign at the New York home office, Columbia officials toast their general sales manager. Lefr to right, front row, are Rube Jackter, assistant general sales manager; N. B. Spingold, vice-president; A. Montague; A. Schneider, vice-president-treasurer; Frank P. Rosen berg, advertising-publicity director; Louis Weinberg and Louis Astor, circuit sales executives. AN EXHIBITOR PLAYS HOST to stars, right. Al Galston, owner of the Hawaii theatre, Hollywood, greets Barbara Belden and James Lydon, at the opening of PRC Pictures' new production, titled "When the Lights Go On Again". The premiere was sponsored by the Beverly Hills Veterans of Foreign Wars. AT REPUBLIC, right. At the studio, in Hollywood, left to right: Joseph Kane, associate producer-director; Harry C. Arthur, Jr., president of the Fanchon & Marco circuit, St. Louis; Larry Ceballes, dance director; Roy Wolff, of the Los Angeles and Hollywood Paramount theatres, and Les Kaufman, Republic studio publicity director. SIGNING. Ernesto P. Smith, of Columbia Pictures of Cut; signs a contract, while Ramos Cobian, of the Cobian circuit, watches. The first picture the circuit will play under the new is "A Song to Remember", April 23, at the Fausto and El Encanto theatres. Spectators are Dr. Camejo, Sigwart K Pedro Martinez and Varlos Perez, all of Columbia. Mr. Cobian's circuit is one of the largest in the Caribbean re IP BUST, left. Being shown to the public now, at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. O, is the bust of the late Wendell Willkie, chairman of the board of Twentieth CenturyFox Film Corporation. He posed not long before his death in the autumn of last year. The sculptress, Dr. Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson, is shown with her work. LOST, right. Lieutenant David Henderson Richey, 20, A.A.F., son of Henderson M. Richey, MGM's director of exhibitor relations, this week was one of ten crew members still missing from a B-24 bomber which crashed Saturday off Montauk Point, Long Island. He was navigator. 12 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 17, I