Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1960)

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Windsor Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. City Manager Ed Lamoureaux WESTERN DIVISION Western Division Manager Robert J. Eves Vancouver Office: 719 Seymour St. Division Supervisor Maynard S. Joiner District Manager B. John McCausland Winnipeg Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. District Supervisor John Ferguson Controlled Subsidiary Companies of Famous Players Canadian Corporation Limited include: B.C. Paramount Theatres Limited, Eastern Thea¬ tres Limited, General Sound and Theatre Equip¬ ment Limited, Intercity Drive-In Theatres Limited, Mid-Ontario Theatres Limited, Paramount Theatres Limited, Paramount Windsor Theatres Limited, Skyway Drive-In Theatres Limited, Theatre Con¬ fections Limited and Trans Canada Telemeter Limited. Affiliated companies of Famous Players Cana¬ dian Corporation Limited include: Alcana Theatre Company Limited, B. & F. Theatres Limited, Central Ontario Television Limited, Majestic Thea¬ tres Limited, Newfoundland Amusements Limited, F. G. Spencer Company Limited, Supreme Thea¬ tres Limited, Television de Quebec (Canada) Limitee, Theatre Holding Corporation Limited, United Amusement Corporation Limited, United Century Theatres Limited and Western Theatres Limited. FRANKLIN & HERSCHORN THEATRE CO. LTD. 47 Waterloo St., P.O. Box 219, Saint John, NB. (Phone 3-2922) Family Theatre Bldg., Halifax, NS. (Phone 3-8552) OFFICERS President Mitchell Franklin Vice-President Peter HeTschorn Secretary Samuel A. Babb NS Supervisor James Bullerwell GARSON THEATRES LTD. 80 Prince William St., Saint John, NB. (Phone 3-2671) OFFICERS President . A. I. Garson Vice-President L. J. April LINCOLN THEATRES LTD. St. Catharines, Ont. (Phone 2-1541) OFFICERS President S. H. Fleming, QC Managing Director Roy M. Miller LOEW S THEATRES, INC. 1540 Broadway, New York, NY. (JUdson 6-4400) CANADA MARCUS LOEW'S THEATRES LTD. Suite 2100, 44 King St. W., Toronto. (EMpire 3-9371) OFFICERS President Eugene Picker Vice-President John F. Murphy Secretary . G. R. Mackie, QC Assistant Secretary A. Weltman Assistant Secretary John Podester Treasurer Jacob Stillman Assistant Treasurer Leonard Pollock Assistant Treasurer Irving B. Schlossberg DIRECTORS L. Friedman, D. B. McCrimmon, W. J. Stephens, J. H. Clarke, Picker, Murphy, Mackie. The Canadians on the board are McCrimmon, Mackie, Clarke and Stephens. The others also on the board of Loew's Theatres, Inc., which was organized when Loew's, Inc., meeting the terms of the USA government Consent Decree in 1954, divorced itself from its theatre holdings and kept its film studio and distribution company, MGM. Loew's controls three theatres in Canada, Loew's Yonge Street, Toronto, is operated by Marcus Loew's Theatres Limited, a Canadian public share¬ holder company which owns the Uptown, Toronto. The Uptown is operated by the Yonge-Bloor Theatre Company Limited, a subsidiary of Loew's Theatres, Inc., NY. Loew's, London, is operated by the Dundas Street London Amusements Limited. Loew's, Montreal, is in no way connected with Loew's Theatres, Inc. but is owned and operated by Consolidated Theatres Limited, a Famous Play¬ ers' affiliate. CANADIAN DIVISION OFFICE: Loew's Yonge St. Theatre, Toronto, Ont. Canadian Division Manager J. H. Clarke Adv. & Publicity Gerald M. Collins ODEON-MORTON THEATRES Odeon Theatre Building, Smith Street, Winnipeg, Man. Area General Manager Harry W. Hurwitz DIRECTORS For Morton: Mrs. Rebecca Morton, F. W. Chris¬ tie; For Odeon: L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC, C. R. B. Salmon. THE ODEON THEATRES (CAN.) LIMITED 20 Carlton St., Toronto, Ont. (EMpire 3-5961) OFFICERS President L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC Executive Vice-President C. R. B. Salmon Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr. F. H. Fisher Asst. Gen. Mgr. E. G. Forsyth Secretary C. P. Hughes Treasurer H. T. Blumson Director of Advertising Ron Leonard Director of Buying & Booking W. E. H. Hunt Director of Confectionery Sales Chas. L. Sweeney Eastern Division Mgr. Arthur P. Bahen District Mgr., Maritimes Fred Leavens Supervisor, Que. John Papineau District Manager, BC G. A. Sutherland Supervisor, Lakehead Don Gauld District Mgr., Ont. Steve McManus Supervisor, Ont. W. C. Tyers DIRECTORS Lord Rank, chairman; John Davis, L. W. Brock¬ ington, K. Winckles, J. S. Duncan, J. S. D. Tory, Hon. G. Peter Campbell, C. R. B. Salmon, F. H. Fisher. Odeon-Garson (Maritimes) Super. Fred Leavens Odeon-Morton (Manitoba & Sask.) Harry Hurwitz Odeon-Friedman (Edmonton) S. Binder Odeon-Barron (Calgary) J. B. Barron OTTAWA VALLEY AMUSEMENT CO. (Owned and operated by M. J. O'Brien Ltd.) Renfrew, Ont. General Manager M. J. Murray 30