Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1945)

PICTURE CROSSES A statistical compilation and comparison of Box-OMce Performance in first-run theatres Figures directly below picture title compare dollar gross with average gross and show relative percentage of all engagements tabulated. $9,185,000 Year's Gross for Houses In Mexico City by LUIS BECERRA CELIS in Mexico City Rgures opposite theatre names represent percentage of t^ The record gross revenue of $9,185 000 was business based on the SIX months period ending October 3 1 , 1944. scored last year by Mexico City theatres of 0^^"^??]:^ J?^^ '^^"a^'J ^-t" (SA) St-ge Attraction: (MO) Move-Over Sitt^partlu^aVl^tLd Sfen U ?s considS Run; (AA) Advance Admission. that in this city, Mexico's largest, with nearly INDEX: Over-all performance percentage figures from previously published final reports ap only^'Sout^Too OOo"' theatre-going public is pear in Service Data section of Product Digest. See last column of Release Chart for Index. While jubilant about this big business, exhibi . — tors explain that the profit is far from 'large as their operating expenses are very high. They DENVER-Denver 124 1% ^^Pect that they will succeed in convincing the DENVER— Esquire 124.5% ^^"^'^ government which is probing accusations DENVER— Aladdin, MO' 1st week 155.5% that the theatres' prices are excessive that thev f^D^iSp^j^i^L^ara'^^ : : : : : : : '^fol fhe^'fir^V^^..^'^^'"' ""'"'r °' ^'4 KANSAS CITY-Esquire, 1st week 235.7% ^ ^^^^ ^un theatres, now charging 85 KANSAS CITY— Esquire, 2nd week 128.5% cents, are particularly under fire in this investi ^^^1^1 g^TY-Uptown, 1st week 146.5% gation. Complaints against theatre charges have KANSAS CITY — Uptown, 2nd week 94.8% the harHno nf co-iro,-,! i c I j LOS ANGELES-^Chinese, 1st week 176.5% r °* several influential Senators and LOS ANGELES^Chinese, 2nd week 107.3% ^-Ongressmen. LOS ANGELES— Loew's State, 1st week . . . 119.4% Producers of Mexican pictures are backing the f'nl ^Tf' ^"d ^^^l^ ■ • ■ ,f,-^Z° exhibitors in their stand for high admission, con LU'b ANGELES — Uptown, 1st week 157.1% fpnHJnrr f^,o+ i i , LOS ANGELES-Uptown, 2nd week 109.5% tending that the rates are reasonable because all NEW YORK— Rivoli, 1st week 151.5% pnces here are high and their expenses have NEW YORK— Rivoli, 2nd week 123.9% soared by more than SO per cent during the cast Si^?81f=^rv^H; ^t^H wefk ^.tl Zr rr\ ^r^™'^^"^ '''''''' NEW YORK— Rivoli, 5th week 90.9% "^r Its ruling in this case soon. NEW YORK— Rivoli, 6th week 88.1% V omYm^^^p^"^'™''; ""^^^ Argentinian picture interests have sent a repre • OMAHA— Paramount 101.7% sentativf Frnp<:tr> y-jirdo u^^^ t £ OMAHA-Ottiaha, MO 1st week ICO.0% tentative, iirnesto Zavala, here to arrange for a (DB) The Fighting Lady (20th-Fox) greater interchange . of the films of the two re PHILADELPHIA— Boyd, 1st week 117.7% publics. That, added to word from Buenos Aires ^HILADELPHIA-Boyd, 2nd w 84.7% seems to spike press association stories to the PITTSBURGH — Fulton, 1st week 200.0% effort tUof tU^ A, u i, ■■'j PITTSBURGH-F'ulton, 2nd week 155.5% ^"ect that the Argentine has begun to boycott SAN FRANCISCO— Paramount, 1st week . . . 121.9% Mexican pictures. SAN FRANCISCO— Paramount, 2nd week . . . 90.0% Word received from Buenos Aires by Film Row foRoTT^^ltnTon''"'. ! l ! l ! ! l 1 l ^f^'^^tes _ that all there is to the boycott story is TORONTO— Tivoli 125.6% Argentinians are cold to below par Mexican productions but that they like No. 1 pictures from this • country. GUEST IN THE HOUSE (UA) ■ . ■ ^ First Reports: nine Aj^encan companies operating in Total Gross Tabulated $10?>?0n ^fepcico — Paramount, Metro, 20th-Century-Fox, lotal ^^ross tabulated * X^'nSS Umversal, United Artists, RKO, Columbia, Re Comparative Average Gross 100,000 public and Monogram— are having their periodical Over-all Performance 102.5% labor trouble, demand by their employees for a revision of contract, the only thing new about li^iir^cfTY^i-Snd Vlfem^wes'T' ' 'V" ^-^^ ir MILWAUKEE-Riverside 98.6% ji^e employees who are members of section No. (SA) Vaudeville ^° oi the National Cinematographic Industry SAN FRANCISCO— United Artists, 1st week . 149.2% Workers Union, say that steadily mounting livino siMN<?i?C^^"{jii^"i Artists, 2nd week . . 85.8% ^ Z^rtZeT'^T^'' '"^^''n^?. (DB) Hi. Beautiful (Univ.) ^^^e h gher wages. They support their argument WASHINGTON— Capitol 98.2% by declaring that their employers are apparently (SA) Will Osborne's Orchestra making more money because theatre admissions • are at a new high, the average rate of 85 cents SHE GETS HER MAN (Univ.) "^^H!^ effect for local first run houses. First Repor*s a m employees have given the companies until Total Gross Tabulated $67,500 alon^ Film Tn^ k'^th T'^""' General opinion ~ ,. A -~ along l^Um Kow is that this case will not result Comparative Average Gross 68,100 in a strike this time, as there will be a compromise Over-all Performance 99.1% settlement. BOSTON— Boston 96.1% Most producers, large companies as well as CINCINNAt!-RKO Lyric 120.3% independents, are protesting to the National Com (DB) Eadie Was a Lady (Col.) mittee on Cinematographic Affairs, composed of CLBVELAND^RKO' Palace 96.1% three members, representing the Government film PROVTrT^Mf'!? ^on'-oe's Orchestra • employers and film labor, against its rationing of ^^7) Va^defilTe ' ' ^ ^° -"^w ^^ock for this year. The committee is care ST. LOUIS— St. Louis 107.8% f"lly reviewing each protest as well as considering (DB) Grissly's Millions (Rep.) the problem of apportioning raw stock for copfes « of 36 pictures produced last year. THE SUSPECT (Univ.) A special issue of $500,000 worth of stock and First Reports: bonds the industry's own bank, the Banco CinemaTotal Gross Tabulated $105,500 tografico, S. A., has issued to expand its financing Comparative Average Gross 90,700 °^ ^^'^ business this year, is being traded in on r^w^,. =11 D«,f«..~,=.,^« ii/:^o/ the local Stock Exchange. vJver-all rertormance \\o.6L ti, ■ c * ^ ^.u i t , '° Ihis is the first time the Stock Exchange has BALTIMORE— Keith's 115.6% ever listed the picture bank's securities. DENVER— Paramount 132.3% V (DB) She Gets Her Man (Univ.) This year started off favorablv for the foreio-n NEW YORK-Criterion, 1st week ....... 129.3% p,fhihit;r;n nf Mpvir-a,-, r.,V+,,r»o , -fU +U 1, 1 ■ NEW YORK-Criterion, 2nd week 90.5% exhibition ot Mexican pictures with the booking PITTSBURGH— Fulton ■. . . . 133.3% "Y Alvaro Capdevilla Elias, prominent Spanish TORONTO^Uptown 114.4% theatre circuit operator, of 17 of them. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (WB) Final Reports: Total Gross Tabulated $1,314,800 Comparative Average Gross 1,099,900 Over-all Performance 119.5% BALTIMORE— Stanley, 1st week 124.2% BALTIMORE^Stanley, 2nd week 102.4% BUFFALO^Great Lakes, 1st week 98.8% BUFFALO— Great Lakes, 2nd week 97.0% aNCINNATI— RKO Albee 111.1% CLEVELAND— Warner's Hippodrome .... 150.8% CLEVELAND— Allen MO 1st week 158.57o DENVER-Denver 138.3% DENVER— Esquire 137.6% DENVER— Aladdin, MO 1st week 136.1% DENVER— Rialto, MO 2nd week 108.6% NDIANAPOLIS— Indiana 103.1% NDIANAPOUS— Lyric, MO 1st week .... 94.8% CANSAS CITY— Newman, 1st week 143.4% CANSAS CITY— Newman, 2nd week 131.7% CANSAS CITY— Newman, 3rd week 108.5% -OS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 1st week . 101.0% ,OS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 2nd week . 87.7% ,OS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 3rd week . 119.2% ,0S ANGELES^Warner's Downtown, 4th week . 96.2% .OS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 1st week . 116.7% ,OS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 2nd week . 102.4% OS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 3rd week . 90.4% OS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 4th week . 60.0% OS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 1st week . 101.8% OS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 2nd week . 89.2% OS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 3rd week . 80.3% OS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 4th week . 53.8% TLWAUKEE— Riverside, 1st .week 100.6% (SA) Vaudeville ILWAUKEE— Riverside, 2nd week 100.6% (SA) Vaudeville ILWAUKEJ^Alhambra, MO 1st week . . . 104.1% EW YORK— Hollywood, 1st week 197.4% RW YORK— Hollywood, 2nd week 166.6% EW YORK— Hollywood, 3rd week 153.8% EW YORK— Hollywood, 4th week ..... 149.5% £W YORK— Hollywood, 5th week 137.6% s-.W YORK— Hollywood, 6th week 128.2% EW YO'RK— Hollywood, 7th week 125.2% iW YORK— Hollywood, 8th week 91.7% JW YORK— Hollywood, 9th week 91.7% YORK— Hollywood, 10th week 88.4% iW YORK— Hollywood, 11th week , 88.4% :W YORK— Hollywood, 12th week 144.4% ,;W YORK— Hollywood, 13th week 83.3% :W YORK— Hollywood. 14th week 76.9% -W YORK— Hollywood, 15ih week 81.2% IW YORK— Hollywood, 16th week 77.3% TLADELPHIA— Mastbaum, 1st week . . . 228.1% ILADELPHIA— Mastbaum, 2nd week . . . 125.0% ILADELPHIA— Mastbaum, 3rd week . . . 106.6% ■ILADELPHIA— Mastbaum, 4th week . . . 95.0% :TSBURGH— Penn, 1st week 144.4% "TSBURGH-Penn, 2nd week 116.6% OVIDENCE— Majestic 141.7% NT FRANCISCO— Fox, 1st week 185.2% M FRANCISCO— Fox. 2nd week 126.8% V FRANCISCO— St. Francis, MO 1st week . . 131.0% <! FRANCISCO— St. Francis, MO 2nd week . . 120.7% LOUIS— Fox 105.2% SHINGTON— Earle, 1st week 127.8% \A) Vaudeville SHINGTON— Earle, 2nd week 109.5% ;A) Vaudeville • YS OF THE KINGDOM (lOth-Fox) inal Reports: al Gross Tabulated $840,500 mparative Average Gross 760,900 2r-all Performance MO.4% .TTMORE— New, 1st week 97 3%, TIMORENew, 2nd week 97.3% TON— Metropolitan 112.4% :AGO^State Lake. 1st week 130.2% :AGO^.State Lake, 2nd week 105.6% ::AGO^State Lake. 3rd week ...... 92.1% :iNNATI— RKO Albee 80.0% ;INNATI— RKO' Grand, MO 1st week . . . 109.7% •INNATT— RKO Grand, MO 2nd week . . 73.1% INNATIRKO Shubert, MO 3rd week . . 84.9% MOTION PICTURE HERALD. FEBRUARY 24, 1945