Film Weekly 1956-57 year book : Canadian motion picture industry (1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Film Weekly 1956-57 year book : Canadian motion picture industry
Date:
1956
Publisher:
Toronto : Film Publications of Canada, Ltd.
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly 1956-57 Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Leaf #:
00039
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema, Hollywood Studio System, Year Book, and Canada
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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London Office: 301 Dundas Bldg. District Manager . W. K. Trudell Windsor Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. District Manager . Eugene Fitzgibbons WESTERN' DIVISION Western Division Manager . Robert J. Eves Vancouver Office: 719 Seymour St. Division Director . Maynard S. Joiner District Manager . John McCausland Real Estate . Frank Gow Purchasing, Engineering & Maintenance Douglas Gow Winnipeg Office: Capitol Theatre Bldg. District Supervisor . John Ferguson District Manager . Harold Bishop Purchasing, Engineering & Maintenance Don MacKenzie Fort William & Port Arthur: City Manager . James Cameron Subsidiary companies are Theatre Confections Ltd., General Theatre Supply Co. Ltd., Trans Canada Telemeter Ltd. and Skyway Drive-In Theatres Ltd. All but the last-named are listed separately in this book. FRANKLIN & HERSCHORN THEATRE CO. LTD. Mayfair Theatre Bldg., Saint John, NB (Phone 3-2922) Family Theatre Bldg., 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 William 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 LOEWS 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 Financial Vice-Pres. & Treas. .. Leopold Friedman Vice-President . Eugene Picker Vice-President . John Murphy Vice-President . B. V. McCrimmon Secretary . A. Weltman Comptroller . Leonard O'Donnell Assistant Treasurer . . Leonard Pollock Assistant Treasurer . . Matt J. Madden Assistant Treasurer . Jacob Stillman DIRECTORS Vogel, Friedman, McCrimmon, Mackie, W. J. Stephens, J. H. Clarke. The Canadians on the board are McCrimmon, Mackie, Clarke and W. J. Stephens. 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 theotres are under the super¬ vision of Charles E. Kurtzman of Boston, mana¬ ger of the North-Eastern Division of Loew's Theatres, Inc. City Manager (Toronto) . J. H. Clarke Publicity (Toronto) . 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; For Odeon: L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC, C. R. B. Salmon. THE ODEON THEATRES (CAN.) LTD. 20 Carlton St., Toronto, Ont. (EMpire 3-5961) OFFICERS President . . L. W. Brockington, CMG, QC Vice-President . . .... C. R. B. Salmon Executive Vice-President in Charge of Theatre Operations . F, H. Fisher Assistant, Theatre Operations . E. G. Forsyth Secretary . C. P. Hughes Treasurer . . H. T. Blumson Director of Advertising . Ron Leonard 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, Lakehead . . . Don Gauld District Mgr., Ont . Steve McManus DIRECTORS J. Arthur Rank, chairman; John Davis, L. W. Brockington, D. C. Coleman, J. S. Duncan, J. S. D, Tory, Hon. G. Peter Campbell, C. R. B. Salmon, F. H. Fisher. Odeon-Garson (Maritimes) . A. I. Garson Supervisor . Lee April Odeon-Morton (Manitoba & Sask.).. Harry Hurwitz 37