Boxoffice-May.29.1948

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. . The ST. JOHN Bfter seeing shots of a soapbox derby in a newsreel, Manager Ivan Haley of the Mayfair in Dartmouth started promoting a similar event for Dartmouth. He is a member of the town council. Haley suggested to local organizations of various kinds that they enter competitors. He is using the Mayfair screen in pushing his idea. The Nova Scotia legislature has kayoed a bill that would have authorized the Halifax athletic commission to tax baseball, football and hockey. The measure had been recommended by the bills committee of the leg.slature. Boxing and wrestling are already taxed. Complaints were made at the exclusion of horse racing. A court case in which Franklin & Herschorn chain is plaintiff and Famous Players Canadian Corp. is the defendant is tentatively booked for the last of May in provincial supreme court, Halifax. P&H seeks a share of the profits from the Orpheus, now being . Al replaced by the Paramount. The claim is based on a partnership agreement which was effective for some years Halifax, former . manager of . the Foster of Yarmouth Community and now relief manager for Consolidated Theatres, Montreal, recently visited Halifax. In addition to his theatre work Foster has -been doing some disk jockeying at a Montreal radio station . . . Still active in bowling although he is about 80 years old is Bob Boyce. a St. John theatre worker. Ivan Haley, manager of the Mayfair and Dundas in Dartmouth, N. S., has devised detachable aluminum mouldings for still pictures Jim McLaggan, manager of the . . . Casino in Halifax, takes his pen in hand occasionally to endorse Casino bills over his signature. When the Nova Scotia board of censors moves to a new location it will have its own projection room, with seats for about 25 persons . . . Manager Ernie Hatfield of Yarmouth Community arranged with Yarmouth merchants for printing on peck-size bags, a picture of Esther Williams in swim clothes and the message, "For a peck of entertainment see Esther Williams in 'This Time for Keeps,' at the Capitol" . wife of Syd Wyman, manager of Yarmouth Community, was recently operated upon. Anna/polis Royal, successor of Port Royal, one of the oldest white settlements in the Americas, has been chosen for a short by the National Film board . . . Morrie "Hercules" Elman used to be quite a boy in basketball, tennis and wrestling. Now he has eased his poundage into a chair and is concentrating on chess, checkers and cards. It is questionable if there is anybody in film distribution and exhibition who can outpoint him in any of the three Cs. 1,500 SPRING CUSHION SEATS Upholstered back; available June 1; first come, first served. Write, Wire or Phone J. M. RICE 202 Canada Bldg. Winnipeg. Man. When Stevie Doane, chairman of the Nova Scotia board of censors, picks up a hot potato, he calls in a jury for the mashing process. Assembling representatives of the clergy, women's organizations, professional life, trade marts, industry service clubs, etc., he gets their reactions before determining the fate of a picture in question . . . Reconditioning of the Odeon Casino in Halifax will entail realignment or i-eplacement of brick all around the building. In addition. Odeon will enlarge the seating capacity, install new chairs and set up a fountain and candy counter in the lobby. It is understood the old chairs will go to the Garrick. When Mitchell Franklin was having a sundae at the fountain-lunch bar of the Vogue in Halifax, a woman approached him and introduced herself as his teacher when he was in the first grade of school. She recognized him from his picture and name in the local dailies, although she had not seen him since the time he was in her class. The young executive, now in his mid-30s, informed her she must have exercised unusual influence over him, for he married a school ma'am. The reunion of teacher and pupil was completed over a sundae. Has Stellar Femme Role Barbara Bel Geddes will play the stellar feminine role in "Bed of Roses," an RKO picture. OTTAWA T ocal film folk learned with regret of the death of Mrs. Haoul Belanger. 71, one of whose fom' sons is Jerry Belanger of the Centre. Another son is commercial secretary to the Canadian legation in Brazil. Four daughters also survive . . . The National Film board spon.sored a performance in the Naational Research auditorium here May 18 consisting of a group of five films, two of which originated in England. One picture, tentatively called "Maps We Live By," was made by NFB for the United Nations and will be released soon to theatres in the Canada Carries On series with a different title yet to be announced. After playing three weeks at the main Elgin, "Sitting Pretty" was transferred to the Elgin Annex, popularly called the Little Elgin, for a fourth week. Meanwhile "Adventures of Casanova" took the screen in the larger and adjacent Elgin Victoria day (24) a public . . . holiday, With many theatres staged a Sunday midnight showunder the bylaw which permits owl performances in conjunction with a Monday holiday. The Regent had "I Walk Alone," the Centre started its engagement of "Jassy," the Elgin brought in "The Fuller Brush Man," the Victoria and Rideau combined with "T-Men," the Imperial showed "My Dog Rusty" and .several other theatres offered second run programs. The Rexy and Nola, Odeon units, conducted juvenile matinees on Victoria day, offering premiums to early comers. The Rexy had gifts for the first 300 children while the Nola gave comic books to the first 100 .. . Angelo Stevens, former manager of the Rideau, was in Toronto in connection with his giveaway enterprise. I. H. Allen Organizes Telefilm of Canada TORONTO—With the approaching introduction of television in the Dominion, Telefilm of Canada has been organized here by I. H. Allen to handle the distribution of film for video. "There are some very ambitious plans that you will hear more about," declared Allen, a man of wide experience in the Canadian film industry. For several years he has been the head of Astral Films, an independent company with branches in six cities. Telecasting has not started in Canada because licenses have been withheld by the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp., but a number of applications have been filed. The leading theatre chains have been j, studying developments in other countries. Officials of Famous Players have attended television demonstrations in the U.S. and Odeon is prepared to adopt the British equipment which is ah'eady in use in Arthur Rank theatres in England. No Action on Tele Station Licenses Till October OTTAWA ~ The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. will not consider applications for licen.ses for telecasting in the Dominion before next October. The government corporation will reserve for its own use the first television channel in each locality across the country. As there will be only one authorized outlet in quite a number of locations, this will mean that the CBC will retain the available channel. In Toronto three channels will be in use and there are two applications for licenses from that city, these being CKEY, which is operated by Jack Cooke, and Al Leary, prominent radio veteran. These have been deferred to next October. Station CHML in Hamilton has applied for television rights but the CBC stated that only one channel can be allow-ed there, which {1 it will requu'e for its own network. With an obvious scarcity of television channels, the position of the theatre chains is not clear. Instead of having units of their own, the theatres may find it necessary to take whatever programs the CBC has to offer. CBC to Follow Radio Policy With Respect to Television MONTREAL—The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. board of governors said here that in view of the limited number of frequencies likely to be available for television, it will "exercise great care in recommendations regarding applications from individuals or private companies for licenses." In a prepared statement discussing CBC policy in television, the board said it believes network television should be developed in the national interest. Therefore, "it will follow a policy of not granting permission for individual private Canadian television stations to become outlets for non-Canadian programs." A CBC spokesman said the policy was similar to the radio broadcasting policy under which CBC alone is permitted to carry network programs although licenses may be granted to private stations. Explaining the reference to a "limited number of frequencies" available, the CBC spokesman said that a city the size of Montreal would have six channels. 96 BOXOFFICE : : May 29, 1948
—— —— , , Rose Holiday and Weather Help Toronto Shows VANCOUVER Vancouver columnist whose . because it by the legislature. would first have to be authorized Theatre Chairs - Tickets - Public Address Systems - Carbons -Lenses - Lamps - Batteries Jrene Davies, .secretary at Gaumont-Kalee, Al V\'illiam.son, assistant at the Hastings, underwent an appendix TORONTO—Monday was a general holiday operation , , . Willard Adam.son, People Tell Me column ran in the News in memory of Queen Victoria and with the International Distributors Herald, has retired after 20 years in the British prevailing cool weather first run Columbia theatres manager whose leg was amputated, is newspaper bu.siness . , . Gerry Wellicome resigned at 20th-Fox to work as a lumberjack enjoyed nice weekend business, "The Iron home from hospital , , , A $30,000 Curtain" remained for a second week motion at the picture theatre and a bowling alley in an upcoast organization. Jerry is a nephew Imperial; other holdovers included "I Remember Mama" at the Tivoli and Eglinton and a farming community in the British dian exhibitor organizations have been keep- are planned for Enderby by businessmen of Jack Randall, Strand manager . . . Cana- there, "All My Sons" at the Uptown. Columbia interior. The town now is being ing close watch on all steps in the industry serviced by a 16mm circuit, antitrust suit in the U.S., and are considering seeking similiar relief in the Canadiao (Average Is 100) Donforth and Fairlawn Fame Is the Spur (EL). .--105 Eglinton and Tivoli I Remember Mama A (RKO), deal is in the making for an eastern circuit to take over the two motion picture the- courts, a spokesman here said. 2nd wk 100 Imperial—The Iron Curtain (20lh-Fox), 2nd v^k 105 Loews—State of the Union (MGM) atres at Oliver, B, 120 C, The circuit will close Charlie Ramage, manager for MGM gave Norlown and Victoria Call Northside 777 the small-seat Legion Theatre and continue a farewell party at his home Friday
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