The Canadian Independent (Nov 15, 1937)

afnes 2 Garton NDEDENDENT VOL. 2, NO. 21 — NOV. 15, 1937 S. H. FALK Managing Editor Vablished Semi-Monthly by The INDEPENDENT THEATRES ASSOCIATION 511 Hermant Building 21 Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada Sebeeription ‘Rates: Canada and U.S., $5.00 Per Annum Address all communications to The Managing Editor The CANADIAN INDEPENDENT 21 Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada EDIT VIEWS (Continued from Page 1) truly creative artists that is closer to the wisdom of nature than to the logic of the adding machine. ' There is an essential difference between creation and production. A manufactured product can be turned out at will in any given quantity provided the machinery, manpower and raw material are assembled. At the word. ‘go’ the switches are pulled, the machinery turns, and man stands by to service and direct the mass} making of whatever product | is in the works while it spills or rolls or tumbles out of the machinery in carload lots. Creation is a far slower process, one that can be but little. controlled by the will of man. It involves growth and. change and maturity in season. It does not lend itself to the speeding-up process of modern factory production without disaster. Such a disaster, we believe, was precipitated in the early death of George Gershwin by the forcing process in vogue in Hollywood studios. The. brain of a genius, or a creative artist, is a delicate mechanism. Turned on to work at an unnaturally high rate of speed under too great a pressure, it often becomes a mass of crossed wires resulting in nervous breakdown, or it springs a tumor, or starts turning out routine carbon copies of previous creations. This is one of the tragic manifestations of Hollywood efficiency. ISSUED FOR —————— 'and Thalberg, inkling into how much damage is being done. ‘truth dawns on us when we see artists, more so than actors, have done significant work -at one period, begin to peter | out and fail to create after THE CAMARA sesima INDEPENDENT pe ROMS THE ADVERTISERS WHO MAINTAIN T. =, HEATRE ae Rockefellers Offer — Selznicks Heavy ‘Financing| Selznick International knows what it-is like to have a gold brick hurled through its window. In the midst of negotiations for an outlet for their product, came an offer through the Chase Bank,. speaking for the Rockefeller interests, for financing of a major producing company with releasing outlets. The offer was anything up to $10,000,000. Sal nick has been considering proposals from R K O, Paramount and. MGM. This offer from the Chase Bank, gives them a wide range for choice in expansion. « Much of the talent and genius of the world is being corralled and poured into the cauldron of motion picture production. How much of this is being used to the enrichment of the world at large by the presentation of great pictures, and how much of this genius is being ground between the wheels of the monster machine and destroyed or maimed or reduced to impotence? The large percentage of product that somehow miss es fire, that comes off only as fainter imprints of prevlous authentic works, the early deaths of some of the real geniuses like Gershwin gives us an Also, the writers even who they have breathed the stirile air of the factory for a time. 00-76 So, when one like Muni, has the vision, the will and the sanity to call a halt, to go roaming under the sky i in God’s sunlight and bathing in the stream of humanity so the well-spring of his creativeness may be replenished, let us rejoice and applaud. For when Paul returns to work he will be sure to give us something in the way of another authentic creative work of art. Paramount Signs sam and Elaine | : The new ene ‘team -has been signed by Para mount under separate con tracts for a three-year per| iod. The first picture : in which they will appear. to-: gether will be ‘French Without Tears’, starring Marlene Dietrich. Elaine plays the other woman. Following this one, it is the intention of the studio to costar husband and. wife. Elaine was formerly under contract to MGM, for one year, but was not put. into pictures. Rogers, eeeraias Supervisor of Assoc. British Bud Rogers has’ been appointed supervisor o f sales and distribution of Associated British Pictures for the Dominion of Canada. This gives Mr. Rogers: complete supervision over the whole of North America. SUNDAY AIR RESTRICTIONS (Continued from Page 1) of -dance music of. the “swing’’ persuasion, and such commercial programs as are out of keeping with the Sabbath spirit. 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Universal is attempting to enlist the aid of Washington to have U.S. embassies defend the picture. Nothing daunted by difficulties encountered by Universal with “The Road Back,” MGM is proceeding with plans to film another of Erich Remarque’s books, ‘Three Comrades”, This book, together with others of the same author were publicly burned by Nazis. It is said that the script of “Three Comrades” will remain faithful to the spirit and story as written, but that the screenplay will be submitted to the studio’s experts on international diplomacy for suggested cuts. The story is laid in preHitler Germany, and carries forward the experiences of the three principal characters in the author’s earlier works. COMPLETE THEATRE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES & Coleman Electric Co. 258 VICTORIA STREET TORONTO = INGY ede boom ee aes