Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Showmen's Trade Review
Date:
Jan-Mar 1947
Publisher:
[New York, etc.]
Volume:
Showmen's trade review
Leaf #:
000444
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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SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, February !, 1947 Edna and Don Gran's SIOUX Sioux Rapidv, Iowa Don and Edna Gran have a new theatre and a new seven room apartment to go with it. For 12 years Mr. and Mrs. Gran operated the old Star Theatre in Sioux Rapids, Iowa — population 1,100. Their principal objection to it was its raised auditorium, which patrons had to reach by way of two staircases. The war over, Don and Edna bought a 75-year-old hotel of wooden construction, tore it down, used the old, amply seasoned, wood as part of their building material, and put up a luxurious new 400-seater with no stairs for patrons but with a fine new apartment upstairs for themselves. They are now re-building their old Star Theatre as a store-and-three-apartments. In this picture of the new theatre, the window with the awning, directly above the main entrance, is that of the Gran's living room, 27 feet long by 16 % feet deep. The projection room, completely separate from the apartment although reached by the same stair and landing, is directly behind this living room. To the right, through a wide arch, the living room opens into the dining room, which is 17'xl3' and occupies one corner of the apartment. The picture of the living room on the opposite page was taken from the dining room, through this arch. Behind the dining room, down the right side of the building, is the kitchen, 15'xl3V2'. At the other side of the living room, occupying the left front corner of the apartment, is a bedroom; with other bedrooms behind it down the left side of the apartment. The theatre, except for the projection THEATRE below, apartment above. Entrance to the apartment is through the lobby of the theatre.