Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Showmen's Trade Review
Date:
Oct-Dec 1940
Publisher:
[New York, etc.]
Volume:
Showmen's trade review
Leaf #:
000132
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:
Established in 1933 by Charles 'Chick' Lewis, who previously edited the 'Manager's Round Table' section in Quigley's MOTION PICTURE HERALD. Lewis originally called his new publication SHOWMEN'S ROUND TABLE, but after a lawsuit from Quigley, he changed the title to SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW (STR). Over the next two decades, STR proved to be a formidable competitor to Quigley's HERALD and steadily grew in circulation. It's easy to see why exhibitors wanted to subscribe. STR's editorial voice, reviews of features and shorts, 'Box Office Slant' tips for how to promote movies, and concise and well organized 'Booking Guides' made it a trustworthy and highly useful magazine for exhibitors. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
November 10, 2022
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Page 12 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW October 19, 1940 HERE'S HOW 1940-41 PROGRAMS STAND COLUMBIA Selling 44 features, 16 Westerns and "Fight for Life." COMPLETED Durango Kid (W) Thundering Frontier (W) Fugitive From a Prison Prairie Schooners (W) ramn Nobody s Children So YoS Won't Talk? West of Abilene (W) Fight For Life BEING EDITED Arizona Great Swindle Beyond the Sacramento Lone Wolf Keeps a Date , VV1 Nobody s Children Blondie Plays Cupid Outlaws of the Panhandle Ellerv Queen (W) Girls" Under 21 £?ssag£ -Y^^ Great Plane Robbery Pinto Kid (W) Wildcat of Tucson (W) IN PRODUCTION Si£rraS ^nrThln^ Called Love METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Selling 52 features. COMPLETED 101 Dr Kildare Goes Home 104 Haunted Honeymoon illH&r 1" ?W Finger, Left 103 Strike Up the Band Hand BEING EDITED Bittersweet Escape Gallant Sons Go West Hullaballoo Little Nellie Kelly Philadelphia Story Should Dr. Kildare Tell? RKO-RADIO Selling 53 features. COMPLETED 171 Ramparts We Watch 107 Laddie 101 Men Against the Sky 104 They Knew What They 102 Dreaming Out Loud Wanted 103 I'm Still Alive 106 Too Many Girls 181 Wagon Train (W) HI Mexican Spitfire Out 105 Villain Still Pursued West Her Triple Justice (W) ' BEING EDITED Fargo Kid (W) No, No, Nanette Li'l Abner Little Men Remedy tor Riches 20th CENTURY-FOX IN PRODUCTION Citizen Kane Play Girl Kitty Foyle Let's Make Music IN PRODUCTION Come Live With Me Comrade X FHght Command Wild Man of Borneo Maisie Was a Lady MONOGRAM Selling 26 features, 24 Westerns. COMPLETED The Ace Range Busters (W) Drums of the Desert That Gang of Mine Ol' Swimmin' Hole Trailin' Double Trouble Outsider „,(Wl c -u Orphans of the North Chamber of Horrors BEING EDITED Oklahoma Bound (W) Phantom of Chinatown IN PRODUCTION Triple Threat (W) PARAMOUNT Selling 46-50 features, including 6 Westerns. COMPLETED 4001 Rhythm on the River 4007 Christmas in July 4002 I Want a Divorce 4008 Dancing on a Dime 4003 Rangers of Fortune 4009 Arise My Love 4004 The Quarterback 4050 Three Men From 4005 Cherokee Strip ,Trex?,s . (V£! 4006 Moon Over Burma World m Flames BEING EDITED Aldrich Family in Life Texas Rangers Ride Again With Henry (W) Date With Destiny There & Magic in Music D.O.A. Victory Love Thy Neighbor Virginia Night at Earl Carroll's North West Mounted Round-Up Police* Second Chorus IN PRODUCTION Doomed Caravan (W) Shepherd of the Hills I Wanted Wings You're the One Reaching for the Sun Lady Eve Bullets and Bandits (W) Mr. and Mrs. Smith Three Girls and a Gob You'll Find Out Reluctant Dragon * 1939-40 Program REPUBLIC Selling 28 features, 30 Westerns. COMPLETED 51 Colorado (W) 61 Oklahoma Renegades 72 Frontier Venegeauce (W) , , ^ , 43 Ride Tenderfoot Ride 17 Girl From Havana (W) 1 Hit Parade of 1941 71 Tulsa Kid (W) 5 Melody and Moonlight 62 Under Texas Skies (W) 52 Young Bill Hickock (W) BEING EDITED 7 Friendly Neighbors 41 Melody Ranch 18 Meet the Missus 73 Texas Terrors (W) 63 Trail Blazers (W) 6 Who Killed Aunt Maggie? IN PRODUCTION Barnyard Follies Border Legion (W) Complete Summary of 1940-41 Feature Releases Com Being In Sold pleted Edited Prod. Columbia 45 4 9 3 Westerns 16 4 4 I MGM 52 7 8 5 Monogram 26 7 i — Westerns 24 2 I I Paramount 40-44 10 10 5 Westerns 6 112 RKO-Radio 53 10 5 8 Republic 28 3 4 I Westerns 30 7 2 I 20th-Fox 52 17 II I United Artists 24 7 I. 4 Universal 52 13 8 3 Westerns 7 2 3 — Warner Bros 48 7 10 4 TOTAL 503 101 78 39 Selling 52 features. COM 101 The Man I Married 104 Girl From Avenue A 103 Return of Frank James 106 Pier 13 109 Young People 110 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum 105 Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1 116 Yesterday's Heroes PLETED 107 Brigham Young Frontiersman 108 Gay Cabellero 113 Down Argentine Way 114 Night Train 111 Great Profile 102 Street of Memories 119 Youth Will Be Served Bride Wore Crutches Girl Must Live BEING EDITED Chad Hanna Ride, Kelly, Ride For Beauty's Sake Golden Hoofs Hudson's Bay Jennie Mark of Zorro Murder Over New York Michael Shayne, Private Detective Romance of the Rio Grande Tin Pan Alley IN PRODUCTION Western Union UNITED ARTISTS Selling 24 pictures as follows : Chaplin — 1, Goldwyn — 1, Korda — 3, Selznick — 2, Wanger — 2, Small— I, Roach— 5, Lesser— 1, Lubitsch— 1, Loew-Lewin — 2, Roosevelt — 2, Rowland — 1, Pascal — 1, Corfield — 1. COMPLETED Foreign Correspondent Blackout (Corfield) (Wanger) Great Dictator (Chaplin) Pastor Hall (Roosevelt) Long Voyage Home Westerner (Goldwvn) (Wanger) Thief of Bagdad (Korda) BEING EDITED Road Show (Roach) Son of Monte Cristo (Small)* IN PRODUCTION Cheers for Miss Bishop Flotsam (Loew-Lewin) (Rowland) Lady Hamilton (Korda) Major Barbara (Pascal) 1939-40 Program UNIVERSAL Selling 52 features, 7 Westerns. COMPLETED 5013 Argentine Nights 5006 Hired Wife 5051 Leather Pushers 5020 Mummy's Hand 5046 The Fugitive 5001 Spring Parade 5019 Diamond Frontier 5024 Slightly Tempted 5023 Meet the Wildcat 5036 I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now 5061 Ragtime Cowboy Joe (W) 5062 Law and Order (W) Margie A Little Bit of Heaven Caribbean Holiday !"1939-40 Program BEING EDITED Boss of Bullion City (W) Lucky Devils Bury Me Not on the Lone Give Us Wings Prairie (W) Pony Post (W) Dark Streets of Cairo San Francisco Docks Devil's Pipeline Seven Sinners Fireman Save My Child Who Killed Doc Robin? IN PRODUCTION Bank Dick Invisible Woman Trail of the Vigilantes WARNER BROTHERS Selling 48 features. COMPLETED Calling All Husbands Father Is a Prince No Time for Comedy Dispatch From Reuters City for Conquest Tugboat Annie Sails Again Knute Rockne — All American BEING EDITED Always a Bride Lady With Red Hair East 'of the River The Letter Four Mothers Meet John Doe High Sierra Santa Fe Trail Honeymoon for Three South of Suez IN PRODUCTION Carnival Trial and Error She Couldn't Say No Footsteps in the Dark