Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1947)

PICTURE CROSSES A statistical compilation and comparison of Box Office Performance in first run theatres Figures directly below picture title compare estimated dollar gross with average gross and show relative percentage of ail engagements tabulated. Figures opposite theatre names represent percentage of tabulated grosses to average weekly business based on the six months' period ending April 30, 1947. SYMBOLS: (DB) Double Bill— associate feature title; (SA) Stage Attraction; (MO) MoveOver Run; (AA) Advance Admission. INDEX: Over-all performance percentage figures from previously published final reports appear in Service Data section of Product Digest. See last column of Release Chart for Index. THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (WB) First Report: Total Gross Tabulated $474,000 Comparative Average Gross 473,400 Over-all Performance 100.2% BOSTON — Metropolitan 95.4% (OB) Big Town (Para.) BUFFALO — Great Lakes, 1st week .... 117.0% BUFFALO— Great Lakes, 2nd week .... 70.0% CHICAGO— Roosevelt 86.9% LOS ANGELES— Warner Downtown, 1st week 115.1% LOS ANGELES— Warner Downtown, 2nd week LOS ANGELES — Warner Downtown, 3rd week LO'S ANGELES— Warner Hollywood, 1st week LOS ANGELES— Warner Hollywood, 2nd week LOS ANGELES— Warner Hollywood, 3rd week LOS ANGELES— Warner Wiltern. 1st week . LOS ANGELES— Warner Wiltern, 2nd week . LOS ANGELES— Warner Wiltern, 3rd week . NEW YORK— Hollywood, 1st week .... NEW YORK— Hollywood, 2nd NEW YORK— Hollywood, 3rd NEW YORK— Hollywood. 4th NEW YORK— Hollywood, 5th NEW YORK— Hollywood, 6th NEW YORK— Hollywood, 7th NEW YORK— Hollywood, 8th SALT LAKE CITY— Centre ....... m.1% SAN FRANCISCO — Paramount 134 2% (DB) Danger Street (Para.) weekweek week week week week week 89.07c 62.8% 140.8% 80.9% 52.8% 139.4% 80.3% 81.0% 167.7% 117.4% 93.9% 104.0% 67.1% 57.0% 57.0% 53.7% THE RED HOUSE (UA) Final Report: Total Gross Tabulated $491,500 Comparative Average Gross 477,900 Over-all Performance 102.8% ATLANTA— Loew's Grand 127 7% BALTIMORE— Mayfair, 1st week 107 1% BALTIMORE— Mayfair, 2nd week 89 3% BALTIMORE— Mayfair, 3rd week 89 3% BUFFALO— Hippodrome 123 9% (DB) Three on a Ticket (PRC) BUFFALO— Teck, MO 1st week 83 6% (DB) Three on a Ticket (PRC) CHICAGO— Oriental, 1st week 113.6% (SA) Vaudeville CHICAGO— Oriental, 2nd week 107 9% (SA) Vaudeville CINCINNATI-RKO Albee 56 5% CINCINNATi-_RKO Shubert, MO 1st week . 84.6% CLEVELAND— Loew's Stillman 126 0% T\Tf?r^rLA^^7j:-0?W's °hio MO lst week • 84-5% INDIANAPOLIS— Loew's . . 85 i<7 (DB) The Whistler (Col.) KANSAS City— Midland 93 0,% (DB) The Thirteenth Hour (Col.) ' ' ' LOS ANGELES— Music Hall Beverly Hills, 1st week 1?c m LOS ANGELES-Music Hall Beverly Hills ' ' 2nd week imic LOS ANGELES-Music Hall Beverly Hills,' ' 3rd week <>•> w LO'S ANGELES— Music Hall Downtown ' ' ' lst week iqi 7w LOS ANGELES-Music Hall Downtown ' ' ' 2nd week 137 ow LOS ANGELES-Music Hall Downtown ' ' ' jrd week fstacr Lot ANGlLEtl^US-ic Sa!i Hawaii! 1st week m.6% T AMrJrlrS181' Ha" Hawaii. 2nd week 100.0% Lol ANCFT^~M US'C #a,waii' 3rd week 83-3% i-US ANGELES — Music Hall Hollywood ,st week 130.4% MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JUNE 7, 1947 LOS ANGELES-Music Hall Hollywood. ' 2nd week 108.6% LOS ANGELES — Music Hall Hollywood, 3rd week 86.9% MINNEAPOLIS— State 90.9% PHILADELPHIA— Stanton, lst week . . . 125.1% PHILADELPHIA— Stanton, 2nd week . . . 85.8% SALT LAKE CITY— Utah 102.9% SALT LAKE CITY— Studio, MO lst week . 123.0% SAN FRANCISCO^United Artists, lst week 143.9% SAN FRANCISCO'-United Artists, 2nd week 93.9% SAN FRANCISCO— United Artists, 3rd week 87.1% SAN FRANCISCO^-United Artists, 4th week 59.0% ST. LOUIS— Loew's State 108.0% ST. LOUIS— Loew's Orpheum, MO lst week . 81.4% (DB) The Thirteenth Hour (Col.) TORO'NTO^Loew's . 94.3% (DB) Susie Steps Out (UA) BOOMERANG (20th-Fox) Final Report: Total Gross Tabulated $932,500 Comparative Average Gross 944,400 Over-all Performance 98.7% BALTIMORE, — New, lst week 107.7% BALTIMORE— New, 2nd week 94.8% BOSTON— Boston 96.7% (SA) Vaudeville BUFFALO— Great Lakes 92.5% BUFFALO— Teck, MO lst week 103.6% CHICAGO'— Oriental, 1st week ....... 132.0% (SA) Tex Beneke and Orchestra CHICAGO— Oriental, 2nd week 84.9% (SA) Tex Ber.eke and Orchestra CINCINNATI-RKO Grand, lst week . . . 131.4% CINCINNATI— RKO Grand, 2nd week . . . 76.1% CLEVELAND— RKO Allen, lst week . . . 125.0% CLEVELAND— RKO Allen, 2nd week . . . 69.8% DENVER — Denver 93 7% (DB) Cigarette Girl (Col.) DENVER— Esquire 97 8% (DB) Cigarette Girl (Col.) DENVER— Webber ' . . 94 5% (DB) Cigarette Girl (Col.) DENVER— Aladdin, MO lst week . . . 86'% (DB) Cigarette Girl (Col.) INDIANAPOLIS— Indiana 63 3% (DB) Backlash (20th -Fox) KANSAS CITY— Esquire 73 8% KANSAS CITY-Uptown ' 716% LOS ANGELES— Chinese, lst week . . ' 1264% LOS ANGELES— Chinese, 2nd week . 105 8% LOS ANGELES— Chinese, 3rd week .... 70.6% LOS ANGELES — Loew's State, lst week . 130 8% LOS ANGELES— Loew's State, 2nd week . . 91 2% LOS ANGELES— Loew's State, 3rd week . . 61 5% LO-S ANGELESr— Loyola, lst week . . 132 0% LO'S ANGELES— Loyola, 2nd week U3.2% LOS ANGELES — Loyola, 3rd week 84 9% LOS ANGELES— Uptown, lst week ..." 139 3% LOS ANGELES— Uptown, 2nd week . . 110 6% LOS ANGELES— Uptown, 3rd week . 819% MINNEAPOLIS— State .... ' ' ' 1023% MINNEAPOLIS — Lyric. MO lst week .' ' ' 77 7% NEW YORK— Roxy, lst week .' H6.'l% (SA) Ed Sullivan and others NEW YORK-Roxy, 2nd week 97.5% (SA) Ed Sullivan and others NEW YORK— Roxy, 3rd week 83.6% (SA) Ed Sullivan and others PHILADELPHIA— Fox, lst week . . 138 0% PHILADELPHIA — Fox, 2nd week ' ' 990% PHILADELPHIA — Fox. 3rd week . ' ' ' ' 66 9% SALT LAKE CITY — Uptown ... ' ' ' SAN FRANCISCO— Fox . . 7o*« (DB) Alias Mr. Twilight (Col.)" ST. LOUIS— Shubert 7R w (DB)Nora Prentiss (WB) NameFoundation Unit Committees Area committees for the Motion Picture Foundation in Buffalo, N. Y., and Washington, D. C, were elected during the past week. In Buffalo, Max Yellen was elected national trustee and George McKenna local chairman of the exchange area committee at a meeting Monday at the Hotel Statler. Louis A. Novins, assistant to Barney Balaban, Paramount president and chairman of the Foundation's temporary steering committee, was principal speaker. Vincent McFaul was elected treasurer. In Washington, Carter Barron, Loew's eastern division manager, and John J. Payette, Warner Washington zone manager, have been elected national trustee and permanent chairman, respectively. The committee consists of Mr. Barron, Mr. Payette, A. J. DeFiore, William Crockett, Morton Thalhimer, Lawrence Schanberger, Lauritz Carman, Benjamin Pitts, Hunter Perry, Elmore Heins, Edward Evans, Sam Galanty, Sidney Lust, Rudolph Berger, Morton Gerber, Tom Reed and A. Julian Brylawski. Midwest Meetings Map Skouras Drive Final ^ Managers in the several districts of the Fox Midwest circuit last week held a series of meetings to map the final two weeks — Elmer Rhoden Weeks— in the annual Charles Skouras drive. So far, managers have reported drive results to be not quite up to those of the 1946 drive, but on a par with those of 1945. Meeting with the managers were Mr. Rhoden, head of Fox Midwest; Lon Cox, film buyer and assistant to Mr. Rhoden; Charles E. Shafer, treasurer; Senn Lawler! publicity, and Howard Hilton of Mr. Rhoden's staff. Meetings took place in Wichita, for western Kansas, Howard E. Jameyson, district manager; St. Louis, southern Illinois, Fred Souttar, district manager; Kansas City, for eastern Kansas, Edd Haas, district manager; Kansas City, for Missouri, James J. Long, district head. Leon Robertson, manager for Greater Kansas City, held a meeting for his district this week. Film Program in Michigan Sells State's Advantages A series of 17 motion picture programs publicizing the state of Michigan to its citizens has been inaugurated there. Suggested by Governor Sigler the films point out Michigan's advantages as a place in which to live, work and play. Theatres cooperating in the program include the United Detroit Theatres, Allied Theatres, Cooperative Theatres, Mutual Theatres, Associate Theatres, Wisper and Wetsman Theatres, General Theatres, Butterfield Theatres, Telenews Theatres, Michigan Independent Theatre Association, the Fox, Adams, Downtown and RKO theatres. 53