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 #:
000423
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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"Sure to receive immediate applause! It will please even the non-musical!" cheers the Motion Picture Herald for Short Product in First Run Houses NEW YORK— Week of March 24 CAPITOL: Calling on Costa Rica MGM Part-Time Pal MGM A Gun in His Hand MGM Feature: It Happened in Brooklyn MGM CRITERION: The Tennis Wizards Columbio Feature: Johnny O'Clock Columbia GLOBE: You're an Education .. .Warner Bros. Feature: The Red House United Artists HOLLYWOOD: American Album of Sports Warner Bros. Rabbit Transit Warner Bros. Feature: Nora Prentiss Warner Bros. MUSIC HALL: Double Dribble RKO Radio San Francisco RKO Radio Feature: The Late George Apley ... 20th Cent.-Fox PALACE: Campus Boom RKO Radio Feature: Sinbad the Sailor RKO Radiq, RJ4LTO: Queens of the Court Paramount Stork Crazy Paramount Feature: Dangerous Millions 20th Cent.-Fox R/VOLI: Ice Skippers RKO Radio Pepito's Serenade United Artists Feature: The Farmer's Daughter RKO Radio ROXy. Mighty Mouse Crying Woif 20fh Cent.-Fox The Teachers' Crisis 20fh Cent.-Fox Feature: Carniva I in Costa Rica 20th Cent.-Fox STRAND: Birth of a Notion Warner Bros. Saddle Up Warner Bros. Feature: Pursued Warner Bros. WINTER GARDEN: Miniature Musical. Universal Feature: Stairway to Heaven Univ. -Int. CHICAGO— Week of March 24 CHICAGO: G.I. Hobbies Paramount Feature: My Favorite Brunette Paramount GARRICK: Snow Man 20th Cent.-Fox Feature: 13 Rue Madeleine 20th Cent.-Fox GRAND: Smoked Ham Universal Feature: Smash-Up Universal ROOSEVELT: Goofy Gophers ... Warner Bros. Feature: Pursued Warner Bros. UNITED ARTISTS: Henpecked Hoboes. .MGM Feature: The Secret Heart MGM Fabian, Gamble Not to Run Again Determination to retire from their positions with the American Theatres Association and not to accept any further nomination for office was announced by S. H. Fabian, president, and Ted R. Gamble, board chairman, this week. Their decision is in line with a previously expressed conviction that the Association's head offices should be on a rotating basis, with no one individual holding them for more than one year. A slate of nominees was to have been drawn up in conferences this week. Mr. Fabian indicated that he was ready to suggest a successor to himself. However, it was understood that, once a slate of nominees had been drawn up, it will be referred to a large nominating committee which remains to be appointed. This week also was to have seen a decision on the time and date of the forthcoming ATA convention. The meeting probably will be held between April 19 and May 1 in either Chicago or Washington. Other ATA officers, in addition to Mr. Fabian and Mr. Gamble, include Robert W. Coyne, executive director ; Charles Skouras, Los Angeles, first vice-president; William Skirball, Cleveland, second vice-president ; Sam Pinanski, Boston, treasurer, and William F. Crockett, Virginia Beach, Va., secretary. THEATRES WANTED If your theatre is showing a profit and priced right we can sell it for you within 30 days. Send complete information as we have buyers waiting. All information confidential. Buyers, we have the theatre you want. Contact us. NO BROKERS, DIRECT DEALS ONLY. THEATRE ENTERPRISES 730 E. llth Street Houston 8. Texas Phones: V. 2-2839, V. 2-7841 Siritzky Company to Produce in Hollywood Siritzky International Pictures will produce two pictures in Hollywood later this year, and will begin distributing French films in 16mm in July, Sam Siritzky, vicepresident, and Leon Siritzky, president and his father, announced in New York last week during a press reception they tendered in behalf of Tino Rossi, French singing star. * < The French films to be distributed in 16mm on a percentage basis beginning July 1 are "The Baker's Wife," "Harvest," "Toil de Carotte," and "The Well Digger's Daughter.'' Mr. Rossi, their guest at the reception, will make a personal appearance September 26 and four weeks thereafter at the Ambassador theatre, New York, owned by the Siritzkys, in conjunction with the showing there on a reserved seat basis of Marcel Pagnol's "Le Schpountz." Mr. Rossi before that date will tour Latin America and then work in France in Mr. Pagnol's "La Belle Meuniere." French Theatres Cooperate In Cost Reduction Plan The French motion picture industry is cooperating with the French Government's decree ordering a 10 per cent reduction in the market price of all commodities, including theatre admissions, according to Jacques Chabrieier, the American representative of Pathe Cinema. Mr. Chabrieier recently returned from a -three-week visit to Paris, where he discussed release details on the RKO-Pathe Cinema production "Man About Town," starring Maurice Chevalier. The French cost reduction was ordered in an attempt to prevent inflation. MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 29, 1947