The Canadian Motion Picture Exhibitor (Jul 15, 1941)

(So July 15th, 1941 . The Exhibitor CINEMA BUNS By Frank Filman The need for silence of a certain kind these days has caused some apt poetry to sprout. A slide with some of it might add spice to the regular announcements of coming features which bore the audience. Here’s one from a barber shop window: If you your lips would keep from slips Five things observe with care, Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where. * * * A sergeant was in charge of a group of rookies at target practice. Their aim was _ terrible. Round after ‘round—and not a hit. “Fix bayonets!” roared the disgusted sarge. “Charge, men! It’s your only chance!” * * * This piece is getting circulation right now. It’s called “Stick to Milk’”’: I had 12 bottles of whiskey in my cellar, and my wife told me to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink. So, I said I would, and proceeded with the unpleasant task. I withdrew the cork from the first bottle and poured the contents down the sink, with the exception of one glass — which I drank. I extracted the cork from the second bottle and did likewise, with the exception of one glass—which I drank. I withdrew the cork from the third bottle and poured the whiskey down the sink, with the exception of one glass — which I drank. I pulled the cork from the fourth sink and poured the bottle down the glass—which I drank. I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next, and drank one sink of it and threw the rest down the glass. I pulled the sink out of the next glass, and poured the cork from the bottle. Then I corked the sink with the glass, bottled the drink and drank the pour. When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted the bottles and corks and glasses and sinks with the other— which were 29—and as the house came by, I counted them again, and finally had all the houses and bottles and corks and glasses and sinks counted, except one house and one sink—which I drank. And here’s something on worrying written by some anonymous author: A centipede was happy quite Until a toad in fun — Said “Pray, which leg moves after which?” This raised her doubts to such a pitch, She fell exhausted in a ditch, Not knowing how to run. Sign by a roadside cafe: “You can eat dirt cheap here.”’ * * * There’s a story about a _ producer who was struck by a performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet” and asked about the author. On being told that he was English he wired his British representative to sign him: to a contract. “Shakespeare dead,” came back a wire. “Sorry,” wired the “Send flowers.” producer. *% * * There’s a saying among the German people that goes like this: ‘If we had half as much to eat as we have to swallow we’d be all right.” —_ oO EEE We Hope You Ain't, Leo Leo Mishkin, movie scribe of the New York Telegraph, weeps for the failure of photoplays to draw on their:own. He shows that even the best of pictures need strong fiesh support in New York houses and other kinds of help elsewhere. Concludes Leo: “And this, friends, is a tragic thing to contemplate. This seems to indicate that’ the screen has reached its peak of form and expression, and that from now on we shall witness only a greater’ and greater emphasis on stage shows, on bank nite, on screeno and free dishes, and nuts to what Hollywood has to offer. Under these conditions the theatres can take what Hollywood has, or leave it alone. Under these conditions, so can public, as a matter of fact. And it all comes back to the same old business—that it’s time Hollywood woke up to what’s going on in the world, and put out scmething in the way of pictures that the public will come to see, in spite of hell and high water, Pictures that the public will want to see as pictures, that is, and not as mere added attractions to the weekly stage shows. “Whaddya say, boys, am I right?” Projection Par Excellence! We only wish that our many good customers and friends could visit the new Centre Theatre, at Chatham, Ontario, where * BRENKERT MECHANISMS *ILEX LENSES * BRENKERT SUPREX LAMPS * DALITE SCREEN could have thought vossible. TRIGRD THE COLEMAN ELECTRIC CO. TORONTO, ONTARIO 298 VICTORIA STREET are delivering the snappiest, most brilliant and most pleasing picture you