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 #:
000603
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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THEY'LL RUN THEY'LL WALK THEY'LL EVEN Short Product in First Run Houses NEW YORK— Week of April 7 CAPITOL: Calling on Costa Rica MGM Part-Time Pal MGM A Gun in His Hand MGM Feature: 1+ Happened in Brooklyn MGM CRITERION: The Tennis Wizards. . . .Columbia Feature: Johnny O'Clock Columbia GLOBE: Melody of Youth Warner Bros. One Meat Brawl Warner Bros. Feature: That's My Man Republic HOLLYWOOD: Goofy Gophers . .Warner Bros. Harness Racing Warner Bros. Feature: The Two Mrs. Carrolls Warner Bros. MUSIC HALL: Double Dribble RKO San Francisco RKO Feature: The Late George Apley . . 20th Cent.-Fox PALACE: Melody Time RKO Flicker Flashbacks RKO Feature: Trail Street RKO RIVOLI: Ice Skippers RKO Pepifo's Serenade United Artists Feature: The Farmer's Daughter RKO ROXV: Mighty Mouse Crying Wolf 20th Cent.-Fox The Teachers' Crisis 20th Cent.-Fox Feature: Carnival in Costa Rica. . 20th Cent.-Fox STRAND: Cat's Tale Warner Bros. A Boy and His Dog Warner Bros. So You Want To Be a Fa/her. .. Warner Bros. Feature: Stallion Road Warner Bros. WINTER GARDEN: Miniature Musical Universal Feature: Stairway to Heaven Univ.-lnt. CHICAGO— Week of April 7 CHICAGO: Selling the Sun Paramount Feature: Suddenly It's Spring Paramount GARRICK: Sistic Mystic I Popeyel .Paramount Feature: 13 Rue Madeleine 20th Cent.-Fox GRAND: Smoked Hams Universal Feature: Smash-Up Universal ROOSEVELT: Sentimental Over You Warner Bros. Feature: Nora Prentiss Warner Bros. UNITED ARTISTS: Henpecked Hoboes. .MGM Feature: The Secret Heart MGM Skouras Reduces Holdings In 20th-Fox Through Gift Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th-Fox, gave gifts amounting to 42,000 shares of common stock during January, according to a report from the Securities and Exchange Commission in Philadelphia. In doing so he reduced his holdings to 5,250 shares. According to Mr. Skouras he had acquired the 42,000 shares last August by exercising an option. Other film stock changed hands during the month of February 11 to March 10 when Ned E. Depinet and N. Peter Rathvon acquired 20,000 shares each of RadioKeith-Orpheum common, making their holdings 26,000 and 25,000 shares respectively. Harry M. Warner acquired 4,000 Warner Brothers shares. Actors' Guild Asks $100 Per Day for Bit Players The Screen Actors' Guild, in negotiations with the producers for a new contract, intends to ask pay raises for bit players amounting to $65 a day and $235 for those employed on a weekly basis. Current rates are $35 a day and $115 a week. The union bases its argument on the theory that film bit players work infrequently and can not exist on prevailing rates. The Guild also asks that the new contract contain a clause specifically prohibiting the exhibition of any picture with Guild actors in television. Negotiations with the producers will get under way April 15. Canadian Exchanges Discard License Agreements Toronto Bureau Following his induction as president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, Gordon Lightstone, general manager of Canadian Paramount, said Monday that the major film exchanges would discard next August the controversial Can MOTION PICTURE HERALD, APRIL 12, 1947 adian license agreement which forms the industrial code for film rental contracts. In the recent Distributor Association election, Dave' Griesdorf, PRC, was elected vicepresident. The association's new board of directors includes : Louis Rosenfeld, Columbia ; O. R. Hanson, Monogram ; H. L. Nathanson, Regal Films; Sidney Samson, 20th-Fox; C. S. Chaplin, United Artists; A. W. Perry, Empire-Universal ; H. M. Masters, Warners; L. M. Devaney, RKO and Mr. Lightstone and Mr. Griesdorf. E. H. Wells will continue as secretary. Lift Power Restrictions For Ontario Theatres Ontario theatres may now have as much light out front as they desire. April 3 the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission lifted the restrictions on the use of electric power which have been in effect since December throughout most of Ontario. Under the restrictions, theatres had to blackout signs and marquees until 8 P. M. Honor B'nai B'rith President New York's Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith will honor its retiring president, Jack H. Levin, and welcome its incoming president, Robert M. Weitman, at a dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York, April 29. Opens Spanish School Leocadio Lobo, in charge of the school for languages maintained by Loew's International, will open to the general public April 15 a school for the teaching of Spanish at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building, New York City. NTS Meeting April 25 The National Theatre Supply Company will hold its first post-war district meeting at the Statler Hotel in Cleveland April 2527, to be followed by a series of regional meetings. Walter E. Green, president, will preside.