Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Mar-Apr 1947
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1947)
Leaf #:
00068
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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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ten cents per word, money-order or check with copy. Count initials, box number and address. Minimum insertion, $1. Four insertions, for the price of three. Contract rates <>n application. No borders or cuts. Forms close Mondays at 5 P. M. Publisher reserves rhe right to reject any copy. Film and trailer advertising not accepted. Classified advertising not subject to agency commission. Address copy and checks: MOTION PICTURE HERALD, Classified Dept., Rockefeller Center, New York(20) POSITIONS WANTED MANAGER AT LIBERTY— DISTRICT. CITY OR individual house. Long experience in first class operation. Capable in all essentials. Sober and responsible in every respect. Reliable references. Prefer Southern location. Address BOX 2084. MOTION PICTURE HERALD. EXPERIENCED MANAGER, BOOKER,"BUYER> Best references. Honest, reliable, industrious. Proposition must be Rood. BOX 2088, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. USED EQUIPMENT NEW EQUIPMENT CLOSING OUT BOX OFFICE BOWL HEATERS. $2.95; Snowlike flameproof soundscreens up to 10', 21!Ac sq. ft.; to 15', 33c; Superior projector mechanisms, $695.00; Automatic record changers, $19.95; Twin box office clocks, $24.95; New Victor 16mm sound projectors, $454.00; Panic bolts, $22.50; 6 amp Tungars, $2.95; Dimmers — 2450W, $22.50 ; 2000W, $19.95; 1650W, $15.95; 1350W, $13.50. Catalog --mailed. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP.. 449 W. 4>-St., New York 18. FIRE FYTER EXTINGUISHERS, VA QUART with carbon tetro charge and bracket, grey enameled $7.00. HEWES GOTHAM, 425 W. 52 St.. New York City. THEATRE CHAIRS — 3,000 USED SPRING cushioned, part full upholstered back and part insert panel back, with spring edge and box-spring cushions; 1,000 veneer chairs; 800 good back, 500 spring cushions, and hinges. Immediate delivery. Advise how many you need. Write for prices and photographs. Phone Lenox 3445. JESSE COLE, 2565 McClellan Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. 1078 AMERICAN SPRING EDGE CUSHION RE upholstered VA" thick panel back chairs, rebuilt, $8.95; 629 American 7 ply reupholstered panel backs, boxspring cushions, $7.95; 250 Stafford reupholstered fully padded backs, boxspring cushions, $7.95; 250 reupholstered folding chairs, sections of 2/3/4, $5.95; green flameproof plastic coated leatherette, $1.35 yard (60 yd. rolls). Write for Stock List. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP.. 449 W. 42 St.. New York 18. ONE NEARLY NEW ROTH ACTODECTOR. INdividual arc type for two lamp operation. 35 Volts 50-50 Amps. Priced for immediate sale;— $250.00. Also. Factory rebuilt hand operated 3 -unit ticket machine — $95.00. ADMIRAL THEATRE. Omaha. Neb. ARMY SAYS SELL THEM OUT — COMPLETE theatre outfits— Simplex SP, $995.00; Holmes L.I. Arc equipments, $1295.00; DeVry High Intensity Arc equipments, $2495.00. Amprosound 16mm High Intensity Arc equipments $1350.00. Condition excellent. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 449 W. 42 St.. New York 18. PAIR BRENKERT ECONARC LOW INTENSITY lamps like new, $275.00. SOUTHWESTERN THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO., 1416 Main St., Houston 2. Texas. BUSINESS BOOSTERS BINGO CARD. DIE CUTS, 1 TO 100 OR 1 TO 75. $2.75 per thousand. $25.00 per 10,000 S.. KLOUS. care of MOTION PICTURE HERALD. MILITARY INSIGNIA FOR YOUNGSTER shows. Tremendous puller. Embroidered Army patches from lc to 5c. Send for samples. THE INSIGNIA MART. 703 Broadway (Premium Div.). New York 3. N. Y. TRAINING SCHOOLS THEATRE EMPLOYEES: TRAIN FOR BETTER position. Learn modern theatre management and advertising. Big opportunities for trained men. Established since 1927. Write now for free catalog. THEATRE MANAGERS SCHOOL. Elmira, New York. THEATRE UNIFORMS RECONDITIONED USHERETTE UNIFORMS for sale. 3 piece outfits— slacks, satin blouses, bolero jackets. Several styles, all sizes. These uniforms used by California's finest theatres — cleaned and rebuilt. Sample garment gladly forwarded. California's largest theatre uniform service company. HOLLYWOOD ADVERTISING CO., Uniform Dept.. 1914 S. Vermont, Los Angeles 7. Calif. NEW — CASHIER BLOUSES. USHERETTE & ushers uniforms. Available now for immediate delivery. Many styles. HOLLYWOOD ADVERTISING CO., Uniform Dept., 1914 S Vermont, Los Angeles 7 CaHf. STUDIO EQUIPMENT 16MM-35MM. USED AND NEW SOUND AND silent production equipment — cameras, film recorders, disc recorders, projectors, moviolas, tripods, dollies, lights, booms. Reeves Sensitester for Cinex tests, all types laboratory and studio equipment. CAMERA MART, 70 West 45 St., New York City. BH ULTRA SPEED SHUTTLES, $195.00: CAMera Dolly, $275.00; RCA Photophone complete recording outfit, $6,475.00; BH 16mm or 35mm soundprinters, new, $3,250.00; Moviola type sound editor. $495.00; Fresnellites, 2000W, $67.50; new art Reeves Sensitesters. worth $1200.00, $695.00; RCA latest dual playback magazine, $395,000; new Mitchell 24V camera motors, $295.00; BH Eyemo motorized cameras, 3 speeds, 2' lens, 24V motor, case, $295.00; new 35mm film phonographs, $795.00. Send for Bulletin STURELAB. S.O.S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP.. 449 W. 42 St.. New York 18. WANTED TO BUY WANTED TO BUY POWERS 6B PROTECTORS, complete, also 6B bases and mechanisms. BOX 395. Rochester, N. Y. THEATRES THEATRES. BEFORE YOU BUY. CONTACT Nolen Howard, Ritz Theatre Building, Payette, Idaho, or J. C. Butler, 304 S. W. 4th Avenue, Portland. Oregon. Information to qualified buyers only. A.B.C BROKERAGE COMPANY. VETERAN DESIRES TO LEASE OR PURCHASE theatre California or Arizona. BOX 2085. MOTION PICTURE HERALD. OREGON COUNTY SEAT TOWN. ONLY THEAtre for miles around. Modern apartment, 2 car garage and grocery store building included for the low price of $39,500. Terms also. THEATRE EXCHANGE COMPANY, 217 Governor Bldg.. Portland 4. Ore. THEATRE CIRCUIT-5 SMALL THEATRES IN Norfolk, Virginia area. Experienced principals only. BOX 2089, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. THEATRE BLOWUPS. BEST QUALITY, SERV ice. STITES PORTRAIT COMPANY. Shelbyville. Ind. BOOKS INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE ALmanac — the big book about your business — 1946-47 edition now available. Contains over 12,000 biographies of important motion picture personalities. Also all industry statistics. Complete listing of feature pictures 1937 to date. Order your copy today. $3.25 in the U. S. A.. $5.00 elsewhere. Send remittance to QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 6th Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. RICHARDSON'S BLUEBOOK OF PROJECTION. Best seller since 1911. Now in 7th edition. Revised to present last word in Sound Trouble Shooting Charts. Expert information on all phases of projection and equipment. Special new section on television. Invaluable to beginner and expert. $7.25 postpaid. QUIGLEY BOOKSHOP, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20. Essaness May Invade Chicago South Side Area Chicago Bureau The Essaness theatre circuit or independent theatre interests may contemplate an "invasion of the Chicago south side, which heretofore has been dominated by the Balaban & Katz and Warner circuits. Plans have gone ahead for future erection of a 2,000-seat house in Chicago's south shore district. Randolph Bohrer, an attorney, is a partner of the Bohrer & Barkhausen firm which, as the "Double B" Corporation, are the present lessees of the 32 W. Randolph Building, housing the Oriental theatre. The Oriental is now operated by Essaness. Mr. Bohrer is seeking to obtain a zoning variation so that a theatre can be erected at 71st and South Shore Drive. However, numerous residents of the district appeared at a hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeals February 17 to oppose any zoning changes. Mr. Bohrer's petition stated he was desirous of erecting "a theatre of not more than 2,000 seats although erection is not contemplated at the present." Mr. Bohrer acquired the property from the Marshall Field Estate. Ambrose Finn, an attorney representing important property owners in the area of the contemplated theatre, said that the block involved is the only one zoned for business, although half of the area is actually residential. The matter was continued to March 24 to enable the objectors to prepare their arguments against the re-zoning. Raoul Le Mat Dies Raoul Le Mat, 71, one-time Olympic athlete and formerly a member of Le MatMetro-Goldwyn, which held the MGM franchise for many years in Sweden, died of a heart attack in Panama City February 14. During recent years he had been in show business in Washington, D. C, and elsewhere. Surviving are his widow, son and daughter, Mrs. W. Lewis Simpson, wife of the MGM manager in Panama. Si Meyers Si Meyers, 55, vice-president of North Jersey Allied Theatre Owners and legislative representative at Trenton, died suddenly at Miami Beach last Monday. He was buried Friday from the Grovler Funeral Parlors, Moorestown, N. J. He operated the Garden theatre. Trenton. Henry Herbert Henry Herbert, veteran actor, died at his home in New York February 20 at the age of 68. A well known Shakespearian actor, he appeared on the screen in "So Big," with Colleen More, released in 1925. hi MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH I, 1947