Boxoffice (Nov 3, 1951)

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MONTREAL The Duke of Edinburgh is an amateur film fan. Just before leaving Vancouver for Montreal, where the couple spent two days (30, 31), he went fishing and took with him a color motion picture camera. Not only did he get some lively fishing scenes but also some pictures of lumberjacks at work in their picturesque shirts, blue jeans and high boots. A special exhibition of tree-topping was given for the royal pair, and Prince Philip duly recorded the scene which will be shown to the royal family back in England. “The March of Styles” is the latest documentary to be shown by Doree Day, fashion director of T. Eaton Co. department store to a large gathering of the Montreal Avertising and Sales Executives club, whose members were duly thrilled and impressed by the latest models from Paris ... John Bastien of the RKO Films head office at Toronto was a Filmrow visitor ... John Filion Arrow Films manager, and Frank L. Tait, Toronto head office sales manager, traveled to Quebec City. Eugene Venne, manager for International Film Distributors, returned from Drummondville where he visited the Riviera Theatre, owned by Marc de Courval, and was impressed by the large business done by “The Prince of Peace” ... Harry Cohen, RKO manager, and Harry Decker, salesman yisited exhibitors in Granby, Shawinigan Falls, Grandmere, Three Rivers and La Tuque, while Ken Snelgrove, another RKO salesman, worked in the Ottawa district. Harry Burko, district manager for General Theatre Supply, spent a few days in New Brunswick ... Jean Jacques Guertin is now secretary to Mme. Marie Desmarais, president of Cine-France Distribution . . . Jean Billard, booker for Cine-France, spent a weekend holidaying in the eastern townships. . H. Harnick, general sales manager for Columbia, spent a few days here ... The Cine Club of La Familiale Cine club of 100 members meets in private sessions to view quality films . . . Canada will be represented at the first international cinematograph festival in India. Eight films will be sent there by the National Film Board The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts viewed “Family Portrait,” a British documentary by Humphrey Jennings. Allen Spencer of the advertising department of United and Confederation Amusement corporations is back at his desk after an absence caused by illness . . . Edgar Hamel, accountant at Quebec Cinema Booking, Ltd., won the team-of-four championship for Canada at the seventh annual fall tournament of the Montreal Bridge league, held at the Windsor hotel . . . Dick Haynes, U.S. film star, made a personal appearance at the Seville. The Professional Photographers Ass’n of Quebec requested members who take photographs during the visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to use plastic safety shields over the flash-bulb reflectors ... “Hidden Treasures,” a religious-scientific film, and the mission film, “To Every Creature,” were shown at the Salvation Army citadel. Exhibitors Edgar Dufour of St. Jovite The BOXOFFICE :: November 3, 1951 atre in the town of that name, and Claude Richards of the Souris at Souris, P. E. I., called on distributors on Filmrow ... “Flying Leathernecks” and “His Kind of Woman” did big business at the Capitol. Another RKO feature heralded is “Two Tickets to Broadway,” a color musical extravaganza ... Mary Zipay, billing clerk at Columbia, replaced Irene Upton, resigned. Helen Murphy of the Montreal Herald chronicles the making by the National Film Board of *V for Volunteers,” made in cooperation with the Canadian Welfare council and the Association of Junior Leagues of America, and of “A Friend at the Door,” produced in cooperation with the Welfare Council of British Columbia. Both films were shown here under the auspices of the Junior League. ‘Sireetcar’ Gets 125 As Toronto Leader TORONTO—Six Toronto theatres held over their features for the week, and “A Place in the Sun” and “The Desert Fox” are both doing a third week. “A Streetcar Named Desire” scored 125 in a second week; it is playing at $1 top. (Average Is 100) Biltmore—Women in Prison (SR); Colorado Territory (WB) . pees (11) Fairla wn—Night “Without Stars (JARO); The Moon Is Down (J ), reissue. Se: Hyleog= —No Highway in tho Sky “(20th-Fox), 5th Imperial—A. Placo in tho Sun (Para). ard » .. $0 Loew's—Texas Carnival (MGM)... HS Odeon—Tho Desort Fox (20th-Fox), it) Shea’s and Eglinton—His Kind of Worn RKO} 105 Tivoli and Capitol—That’s My Boy (Para), Znd d. t. wk.; The Big Camival (Para)... 105 University, Nortown —Jim Thorpe—All . American (WB), 2nd wk. MORES FS Uptown—The Lady From Texas (U-I).. ERNE bf) Mita recite Streetcar Named Desire (WB), ” Ond w : 25 ‘Crosswinds,’ ‘Place in Sun’ Best in Vancouver VANCOUVER — Unsettled weather conditions have kept boxoffices fluctuating, but on the average, current films have done fairly well. The royal tour brought crowds downtown over the weekend, giving theatres extra business. Best in town were “Crosswinds” at the Strand, a second week of “A Place in the Sun” at the Capitol and a third session of “Laughter in Paradise” at the Studio. Capitol—A Place in the Sun (Para), 2nd wk. co Cinema—Worm’s Eyo Viow (Astral); Wherover Sho Goes (Astral) Moderate Dominion—Captain Horatio Hornblower (\ WB); Alico in Wonderland (RKO), 2nd d. t. wk Average Hastings —Yellow Sky (20th-Fox), reissue, plus stage show Fair Or Hea Rocke of Arms (WB) : sow-ceen++-e MOD Orate Paradise—Penitentiary (Col); Women in Prison (Col). reissues Coe senee Prowler (UA): ~ Tho Macomber Altair = (UA), arte rage sitehere “Girl “(Col), plus stcege show Fair Strand—Crosswinds (Para) st gd Good Studio—Laughter in Paradise (FD), 3rd \ ...Good Vogue—White Corridors (JARO) Bingo Games Eeanehed At Kent in Toronto TORONTO—Bingo games have invaded the Toronto theatre field as a regular weekly feature at the Kent, neighborhood house on Upper Yonge street near the Hollywood and Hyland, both circuit units. The Kent bingo night, for which there was no extra charge, was introduced October 25 along with a double bill, “Casablanca” and “Mother Was a Freshman.” This independent theatre also has the Foto-nite stunt the first three nights of each week. OTTAWA he first color film of the royal tour went into the Odeon Saturday (27) with Manager Gord Beavis giving it special advertising play. The main feature was “Night Without Stars”... Casey Swedlove’s theatre at Prescott has been renamed the Princess. Ted Barton of Prescott is the manager. After Gene Autry appeared in person at the Ottawa auditorium, Manager Fred Leavens of the Elmdale staged a Gene Autry show for children. The feature was “Loaded Pistols” ... The Harlem Globetrotters gave a basketball display at the auditorium and two 20th Century theatres, the Rideau and Imperial, shared attention by playing the picture of the same name. Manager Don Watts of the Rideau had several of the basketball specialists put on a demonstration on the stage. The second Ottawa drive-in called it a season when the Britannia played its last show of the year. This is operated by 20th Century Theatres. Previously, the Aladdin had closed. Two others continue ... The Fotonite prize feature was started at the Ottawa Linden by Casey Swedlove. At 2 meeting of the Ottawa Radio Electronic Technicians Ass'n, a panel discussion on television prospects here was conducted under the direction of Joseph Bouzek, with W. Welsh in the chair. The unanimous decision was that the quality of TV reception in the local area did not warrant the high cost of equipment and installation. ey TONE ENGINEERED FOR QUALITY SOUND acai) NEW MODEL 9 TSR SOUNDHEAD patentee engineering skill has simpllfied soundhead operation to a foolproof, almost mechanical procedure. Sensational new innovations in design and construction provide greater accessibility to the interior of the soundhead for threading and adjustments, Now you'll get ALL of the sound on the sound track ... the high tones and the low tones . the shouts and the whispers...in perfect clarity and fidelity. Perkins Electric Co., Ltd. 2027 Bloury St.. Montreal 277 Victoria St., Toronto Complete Theatre Equipment & Supplies 45