The Canadian Independent (Nov 15, 1937)

THE CANADIAN INDEPENDENT Vol.-2., No. 21 SN\\ NY qu N A AYA ‘WW Ww NX. WN A i Ww \ \ AS . 2 2 PRODUCTION VERSUS CREATION \\ ‘ F Z ZEAA2Z Z Paul Muni, having completed work in one of the most significant pictures ever filmed, bringing to life the vibrant personality of Emile Zola as another unforgetable portrait in the Hollywood Hall of Fame, rejects. all suggestions made by Warner Bros. for his next | picture, and goes on a long. eight-month holiday on the continent. When a star, like Paul Muni, has become big boxoffice, his producer naturally would like to cash in on the incoming tide of his popularity. Aside from the man’s own ability, a great investment in money and cooperative effort is behind him. Therefore his producer feels, not without justice, a proprietary right in his success, and would like to realize on it while the going is good, while the star’s boxoffice appeal is at its height. So, stars who resist work and insist on long holidays between pictures are often charged with ‘“temperament” and considered unreasonaby difficult to handle. OLE AIG But there is a sweet reasonableness in the _ instinct that governs the behaviour of (Continued on Page 2) Current Hits Heidi. The Bride Wore Red. Life Begins In College. Life of Emile Zola. Stage Door. 100 Men And A Girl. The Awful Truth. The Sheik Steps Out. Toronto, November 15th., 1937 Quebec Indies Present Petition To Prime Minister Duplessis Committee Graciously Re ceived and Promised Serious Consideration of Petition for Government Intervention. On October 25th, a delegation of the Quebec Allied Theatrical Industries waited upon the Honorable Maurice Duplessis, Prime Minister and Attorney General of Quebec to present a petition praying for a Government investigation into the motion picture industry. The delegation was introduced by the Honorable Senator Fanteaux who, together with Mr. D. A. Burpee, secretary of Quebec Allied, spoke for the serious considering of the petition in hand. The petition was signed by sixty-five independent theatre operators in every part of the Province of Quebec, from the northern mining towns to the lower St. Lawrence Valley and west to the Ontario boundary. It called for Government intervention on behalf of independent theatre owners in (Continued on Page 4) Ontario Theatres Increase Seating 4 The opening of 10 new houses and the remodelling and reopening of five others in Ontario has increased the total theatre seating of the Province by four percent during the third quarter of this year. The additions and changes in the last three months have provided for 9,017 extra seats, bringing the total seating accommodation in the Province to a total of 237,964 seats in film (Continued on Page 4) $5.00 Per Anan ARBITRATION A FARCE SAYS I.T.A. PRES. Mr. H. Freedman, President of the Independent Theatres Association of Toronto, says that ‘ ‘Arbitrariness’ not Arbitration is practised by the Arbitration Board of the Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors Association of Canada. KUYKENDALL OUTLINES POLICIES Ed Kuykendall, president of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners Association of the U.S. in speaking before a luncheon meeting of midwestern theatre owners at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Denver, recently, outlined a program of “National Policies.” He declared that too many petty ideas were holding back the main issues in putting forward a trade practice program of National import; that lawmakers, willing to act, are at a loss to know what the industry as a whole wanted. He stated that there have been suggestions from the U.S. Department of Justice that the trade get together to form (Continued on Page 4) Quebec Reformists Ask Sunday RadioCensorship Church groups in Montreal have banded together to impose new restrictions on Sunday broadcasting of commercial material. A committee of reformists will appear before the Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Nov. 16, to press for the deletion (Continued on Page 2) “Arbitration, to my way of thinking,’ said Mr. Freedman, ITA president, ‘‘is the attempt by a selected group of fair-minded, informed people, to arrive at a just decision in a contended situation with the least possible loss of time, money and good-fellowship between the contending parties. To achieve this the decks should first be cleared of legal restrictions so that extenuating circumstances may be considered and the case be decided on its actual merits rather than by the strict interpretation of the law. “The way in which the Arbitration Board has been functioning has defeated the very purpose and intentions of such a device as arbitration. I have been called in on two occasions to act as . arbitrator. Before the case was presented I was shown a copy of the Standard License Agreement signed by both parties whose matter was before the Board. The clause covering the point in dispute was pointed out, and the legal interpretation (Continued on Page 3) Held Over In Toronto The Prisoner of Zenda. Victoria The Great. Forget Me Not. The Awful Truth. The Life of Emile Zola. nie Ge RS sre Se