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...perhaps the third time in his life he had "gone to the movies." What he saw-D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-made his eyes pop, his heart thump. An industry doing things like that, he decided, was the place for him. So Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies...
...pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...
From the transaction, Publisher Quigley emerges as the only man solely to control the entire national trade press of a first-magnitude U. S. industry...
...gathered delegates to an historic cinema conference. Present were representatives of the great U. S. and German concerns interested in talkie patents-John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products Co., Inc., Charles J. Ross, John Cecil Graham representing Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathe, Radio Corp., George E. Quigley of Warner Bros. They settled down to debate their problems amicably until they decide whether to make an agreement or start a trade war. Will Hays, on the motion of Dr. Curt Sobernheim, general manager of the Commerz-und Privat-Bank of Berlin, was elected chairman. Said Chairman Hays (Presbyterian...
...Quigley Publishing Co. of Chicago for cash to Harper & Co. of New York: Polo (monthly), only U. S. magazine on that subject; on its third birthday. Continuing as editor: slim, spry, shrewd Peter Vischer. Changes ordered (beginning with the June issue): larger pages, new type dress and page designs, four-color printing, amplified text...