Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Date:
1954
Publisher:
Toronto : Film Publications of Canada, Ltd.
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly 1954-55 Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Leaf #:
00045
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Canada, Hollywood Studio System, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
April 18, 2024
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Oftowa Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. District Manager Ray Tubman London Office: 301 Dundas Bldg. District Manager . W. K. Trudell Windsor Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. District Manager . Eugene Fitzgibbons Skyway Drive-In Theatre Ltd. Tivoli Theatre Bldg., Hamilton, Ont. District Manager . . Lloyd Taylor WESTERN DIVISION Western Division Manager Robert J. Eves Vancouver Office: 719 Seymour St. District Supervisor .... Frank Sow District Manager . Maynard Joiner Purchasing, Engineering & Maintenance John McCausland Winnipeg Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. District Supervisor . John Ferguson District Manager . Harold Bishop Fort William & Port Arthur: City Manager James Cameron Subsidiary companies are Theatre Confections Ltd., General Theatre Supply Co. Ltd., Trans Canada Telemeter Ltd. and Remington Air Con¬ ditioning Co. (Canada) Ltd. All but the lastnamed, of which A. E. Brown is general manager, are listed separately in this book. FRANKLIN & HERSCHORN THEATRE CO. LTD. Mayfair Theatre Blda., Saint John, NB. (Phone 3-2922) Family Theatre Blda., Halifax, NS, Can. (Phone 3-8552) OFFICERS President . Joseph M. Franklin General Manager . . . Mitchell Franklin Secretary . Peter Herschorn Chief Booker & Ass't Sec'y . Samuel A. Babb NS Supervisor . Carlton Brown GARSON THEATRES LTD. 80 Prince WiNiam St., Saint John, NB. (Phone 3-2671) OFFICERS President A. I. Garson Vice-President . . L. J. April. Booker . L. I. Michelson 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 2-2000) CANADA MARCUS LOEW'S THEATRES LTD. Suite 2100, 44 King St. W. (EMpire 4-4252) OFFICERS President . . Joseph R. Vogel Vice-President . Leopold Friedman Vice-President & Comptroller .... Harold J. Cleary Vice-President . Eugene Picker Vice-President . . John Murphy Vice-President . B. V. McCrimmon Secretary T. R. Mackie Assistant Secretary . Eliot Rosenthal Assistcnt Secretary . Archie Weltman Assistant Treasurer . . Leonard Pollock Assistant Treasurer . Matt J. Madden Assistant Treasurer . Jacob Stillman DIRECTORS Vogel, Friedman, Cleary, McCrimmon, Mackie, W. J. Stevens, J. H. Clarke. The Canadians on the board are McCrimmon, Mackie, Clarke and W. J. Stevens. The others also on the board of Loew's Theatres, Inc., which was organized earlier this year when Loew's, Inc., meeting the terms of the USA government Consent Decree, 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 operoted 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, Inc. but is owned and operated by Con¬ solidated Theatres Limited, a Famous Players' af¬ filiate. The three theatres are under the super¬ vision of Charles E. Kurtzman of Boston, mana¬ ger of the North-Eastern Division of Loew's, Inc. City Manager (Toronto) . J. H. Clarke Publicity (Toronto) . Gerald M. Collins ODEON-MORTON THEATRES Odeon Theatre Building, Smith Street, Winnipeg, Man. General Manager . Harry W. Hurwitz THE ODEON THEATRES (CAN.) LTD. 20 Carlton St., Toronto, Ont. (EMpire 3-5961) OFFICERS President . . L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC Vice-Pres. and Sec.-Treas . C. R. B. Salmon General Manager . David Griesdorf Asst. General Manager . . E. G. Forsyth Assistant Secretary . . C. P. Hughes Assistant Treasurer . . E. B. McConkey Director of Advertising . W. C. Tyers Asst. Director of Advertising . J. Hardiman Director of Buying & Booking . W. E. H. Hunt Supt. Engineering, Maintenance & Purchasing A. J. Pauley Director of Movie Clubs . . R. Gardner Director of Confectionery Sales . T. F. Moran District Manager, BC . . G. A. Sutherland District Manager, Que . Arthur P. Bahen Supervisor, BC . . K. Earle Hayter Supervisor, Ont. Dist. B . . Bob Harvey Supervisor, Ont. Dist. A . Chris Holmes Supervisor, Lakehead . . Don Gauld Supervisor, Ont. Dist. C . Steve McManus Supervisor, Ont. Dist. D . . M. Keith Wilson DIRECTORS J. Arthur Rank, chairman; John Davis, L. W. Brockington, D. C. Coleman, J. S. Duncan, J. S. 43