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Canadian Expansion Program Started ^ ,<br />
For Film Studios, Theatre Chains<br />
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MONTREAL—Completion of a modern<br />
studio on Cote des Neiges Road in the near<br />
future is the first project of a ten-year program<br />
of expansion by Renaissance Film Distribution,<br />
Inc., which was formed to establish<br />
in Canada an essentially Canadian motion<br />
picture industry designed to produce all-<br />
Canadian films of high quality, using Canadian<br />
talent and technical ability.<br />
The company also plans to construct and<br />
acquire motion picture studios, laboratories<br />
and theatres in Canada, to acquire theatres<br />
in the United States and Europe for exhibition<br />
of its films, and to produce, distribute<br />
and exhibit motion pictures principally in<br />
English, French and Spanish versions in all<br />
forms, including television.<br />
The idea was conceived by J. A. DeSeve,<br />
who has a well-knovm record as a business<br />
man and producer of successful motion picture<br />
accomplishment in France and Canada.<br />
Glen Ireton, former Canadian public relations<br />
director for Warner Bros. Pictures,<br />
Preliminaries Completed<br />
For TESMA Convention<br />
CHICAGO—P reliminary arrangements<br />
have been completed for the 1948<br />
trade show and convention of the Theatre<br />
Equipment and Supply Manufacturers Ass'n,<br />
Inc., to be held at the Jefferson hotel, St.<br />
Louis, September 28-30. The theatre supply<br />
dealers will hold their convention at the<br />
same time and it has been indicated that<br />
an exhibitor organization will also meet at<br />
that time.<br />
Roy Boomer, secretary, says 400 rooms and<br />
suites have been set aside and space has<br />
been taken for 100 booths. Exhibit information<br />
can be obtained from Boomer at 4356<br />
West Washington Blvd., Chicago 24.<br />
is general manager of all Enghsh speaking<br />
relations of the company in terms of administration,<br />
production, distribution and<br />
exhibition.<br />
The new studio building was designed by<br />
Paul Lapointe, Montreal architect, and will<br />
be a self-contained unit able to handle almost<br />
any type of interior sound production.<br />
It includes a sound stage i60 feet wide by<br />
120 feet long by 50 feet highi, large recording,<br />
studio, dressing rooms, rehearsal room,<br />
art department, carpenter and plaster shop<br />
where scenery is made, film vault, canteen,<br />
etc. Included also in the equipment are two<br />
mobile generators to supply power for filming<br />
location shots.<br />
A second enterprise is planned on land<br />
acquired on the site of the former Dominion<br />
Park on Notre Dame street, where the company<br />
expects this year to begin construction<br />
on a project to comprise some 20 to 25<br />
buildings, including three large sound stages,<br />
which will be completely self-contained.<br />
Wallis Buys Another Story<br />
NEW YORK—Hal Wallis has purchased<br />
film rights for "Obse.ssion," national magazine<br />
story by Gertrude Schweitzer. Barbara<br />
Stanwyck probably will star in the picture.<br />
This is the third story property Wallis has<br />
acquired in the past three weeks. Tlie others<br />
are "September" and "Sound of Years."<br />
Paramount will handle release on all the pictures.<br />
'Venus' Release Is May 1<br />
NEW YORK—Crystal Pictures, Inc., will<br />
release "Venus of Paris," French production<br />
featuring Viviane Romance, May 1. The<br />
film has English subtitles.<br />
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^O MAKE all<br />
pictures dialog vehicles would<br />
be to turn the progress of the screen<br />
back at least ten years," said Jesse L. Lasky,<br />
first vice-president of Paramount recently.<br />
"The great value of the motion picture has<br />
been its power to touch swiftly upon<br />
action and then sweep away," he continued.<br />
"This would be impossible were all dialog<br />
between the actors to be recorded."<br />
Lasky states that if sound pictures become<br />
the vogue, the present studios will have<br />
to be rebuilt. Either heavy concrete or brick<br />
will have to be used in place of the present<br />
light<br />
materials.<br />
The Pullman Co. is naming three new<br />
Pullman cars in honor of Dolores Del Rio.<br />
One car is to be named "Ramona" in honor<br />
of her forthcoming film for United Artists;<br />
another is to be named "Del Rio," and another<br />
"Dolores" . Gideon Society is<br />
placing 3,000 Bibles in Hollywood dressing<br />
rooms.<br />
The plan, advanced by Sidney R. Kent,<br />
general manager of Paramount, to reduce<br />
radically the number of film salesmen in the<br />
field, has been discarded. In the meantime,<br />
Frank J. Rembusch, national secretary of<br />
the unaffiliated exhibitors, is calling a conference<br />
to create sales resistance against certain<br />
producers. Rembusch advises exhibitors<br />
to resist the weight of salesmen<br />
2,500<br />
calling on 5,000 accoimts.<br />
Twenty New Realart Films<br />
Dated Until September<br />
NEW YORK—Realart Pictures, Inc., will<br />
release 12 features and eight westerns between<br />
now and September 1948. The company<br />
has released 18 features since its formation<br />
last year.<br />
Scheduled for release are "Drums of the<br />
Congo," "Captive Wild Woman," "Timber,"<br />
"Mutiny on the Black Hawk," "Zanzibar,"<br />
"Rio," eight Buck Jones westerns, "Magnificent<br />
Brute," "Sea Spoilers." "Next Time<br />
We Love," "Men of Texas," "Pardon My<br />
Sarong," "My Man Godfrey."<br />
Title Change by 20th-Fox<br />
NEW YORK—"Leave It to the Irish" is<br />
the final title of the 20th-Fox comedy starring<br />
Tj-rone Power and Anne Baxter. The<br />
picture previously was titled "For Pear of<br />
the Little Men." Fred Kohlmar is producer.<br />
Henry Koster is directing.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: March 20, 1948