The Canadian Independent (Mar 1, 1938)

Leena eee ISSUED FOR THE BENEFIT OF INDEPENDENT THEATRE OWNERS " SURSEE ES AAS TLE NAR EE) Alan Mowbray ordered twenty-two dress extras in evening clothes and two Indians in full war regalia from Central Casting to see him off at the railroad station when hé trained east the other day. It set Alan back $400, but what’s the diff, one way or the other, we pay for friendly displays. Studio employees chipped in and bought Connie Ben nett a silver cigarette case. The spokesman for the crowd told Connie they thought she was tops despite aerial stench bombs hurled at her recently. If a gal can rate with the mob on the lot, she’s apt to have the ‘makins’ herself and the cigarette case is all she needed. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable are leaving on a hunting trip to Mexico. is there left to hunt for? If they are going together what Johnny Weismuller became a human pincushion when he fell off a cliff and landed in a cactus bed. He went to the hospital to be plucked. Nobody can call him spineless until the job is done, then they are welcome to try. Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone are said to be making single tracks for a disunion. Joan is pitching her “tone”’ a little higher for grand opera stuff right now. And talking of singing ambitions, Jeanette MacDonald is putting up a fight for a three-month leave in her con tract for concert. work. gageme contra ‘Is Jimmy Fidler’s face red? Montgomery in a recent broadcast to stay away from dramatic stuff and return to comedy. as a contender for the Academy award for acting in the She lost a $10,000 concert en nt because of the prohibiting clause in her presen : : vet = ub Some ea a Ee = ging. clause in Dek present. Fyou so kindly reprinted inoe Now Robert is named role that brought out Fidler’s comment, and the picture, “Night Must Fall’? was named as the best production of the year by the Film Board of Review. The best thing about advice is that you can take it or leave it. Louise Hovick was offered a part in a Broadway pro duction provided she would use the name, Gypsy Rose Lee, made famous in strip-tease burlesque. Louise turned the offer down, she believes like Juliet that “a rose by any other name—” but unfortunately sweet smells and Broadway publicity are not the same thing. Wayne Morris bet Priscilla Lane that he wouldn’t catch her cold while working in a cold rain on some swim ming pool sequences. He lost the bet. The picture they were working on was Warner Bros’. “Men Are Such Fools.” Paul Muni, after a stay in Paris, is now visiting Pales tine, Jean Acker, widow of Rudolph Valentino, arrived at the Hollywood hotel, went to an old hotel register on display, and tore out the page that she and husband Valentino registered on during their honeymoon. to depart with the souvenir. Anita Louise has a sculptress friend who does statu She was allowed ettes of Louise’s boy friends with likenesses of their heads placed on classic Greek bodies. heart’s desire Louise? Warren William has made an unique trap to scare off A little nearer to the tats who were getting away with the chicken feed on his ranch. This trick trap fastens a collar with a bell on the neck of the rat, then lets it go to scare all the other rats. This. is one better than belling the cat. ean enlarge the trap—. Now if Warren He advised Robert Dominion Film Statistics 1936 Paid Admish. 22,301,324 $5,198,000 22,006,918 7,205,339 8,950,627 Gross receipts in 1936 as compared Theatres 102 62 32 31 Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver Average Ad. Price 23.3 cents 21.8 cents Gross Receipts 4,797,300 1,592,000 1,850,000 with 1935 declined by 0.1 percent in Winnipeg;2.8 percent in St. Thomas; and 5.5 percent in Victoria. The average admission price was highest in London, Ont., at 27.6 cents and lowest at St. John, N.B., at 19.2 cents. An Open Letter To Roly Young My Dear Mr. Young; If I may make so bold as to interrupt your’ present somnolent mood, I would like to call a few facts to your attention: 1. The editorial appearing in the Edit Views column of the Canadian Independent, excerpts of. which your column of the Mail and Globe on February 22, was written by me, the editor, not by Mr. Nat Taylor. 2. Mr. Nat Taylor does not publish the Canadian Independent; this paper is published by the Independent Theatres Association, of which Mr. Taylor is vicepresident. 3. Neither Mr. Taylor, now the organization of which he is the head, namely, the Exhibitors Booking Association, awe ever submitted to you pictures for criticism. Exhibitors Booking is a buying and booking service, not a film exchange. 4. If you have ever been invited to preview pictures in the screening room of Exhibitors Booking, 21 Dundas Sa., Toronto, it was by invitation of the distributors of those pictures, and the screening room was let for that purpose by Mr. Taylor’s organization. 5. “Peter The First” and the other Amkino films you mention in your column are distributed in Canada _ bv Cosmopolitan. Films, 277 Victoria St.. Toronto. The screening of ‘Peter’ took place at the screening room of .Exhibitors. Booking by “White Oaks” at Toronto Mazo de la Roche’s London Hit “WHITE OAKS,” the play adapted by this famed Canadian author from her Atlantic Monthly $10,000 prize novel ‘‘White Oaks .of. Jalna,’’ will. «be shown at the Royal Alexandra theatre at Toronto for one week beginning February 28th. This is the first Canadian play that ever made : hit in London. Miss de la Roche was born and educated in Toronto. Novel Exploit Stunt at Loew’s, Toronto Candid cameramen are loose in downtown Toronto, and the fortunate victims of their shots may find cabinetsized photo of themselves posted on the outside wall of Loew’s theatre, entitling them to a free admission ticket to the current show. arrangement between the two Companies. 6. Besides getting the first prize at the Paris Film Exposition, ‘‘Peter the First’’ was hailed by all able critics and praised by William Dieterle, director of ‘The Life of Emile Zola” as one of the finest films he had ever seen. Its theme is historic, of a period long before the advent of the present Soviet government and it is entirely free of “‘propaganda.” Now I will tip-toe out and let you go back to sleep again. . Yours very truly; S. H. Falk. Editor, Canaflian Independent. | ee A oa |