The Canadian Motion Picture Exhibitor (Dec 15, 1941)

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December 15th, 1941 BENE EES MEE NEE RE UE EE NEE ER 2H br % ea British Studios delivered top grossers for 1940-41 BRITAIN WILL ALWAYS DELIVER THE GOODS Esquire Films Limited wishes all a Happy Xmas and the best for 1942 RUE MEME MMSE HEE MEME MEME NEUE MEME ME UE MERE NEE NEN I Ne Ne a ee ee De De De ee ee De De he AAAs AAAIAAAAAM AWA MBB is BP EME MEME ME NE MEME NE NE NE NEU NRE NE YEN NN eh Ne NN ene De er Dern be bere William Lee Passes William J. Lee, father of Arthur Lee, died in New York on December 5. The late Mr. Lee was one of the first to see the promise of the film business. In 1910, while in vaudeville booking, he branched out into motion picture field. He was highly regarded everywhere. "Fantasia’ Cut < Walt Disney will cut “Fantasia” by 45 minutes for its general release in January or February. The super-musical runs to 125 minutes now. Chopping will be done on Deems Taylor’s narration and excessive shots of Stowkowski. “New Super GARDINER Projector” With Barrel rear shutter Has no equal for fine projection ‘and long life. As low as $9.00 weekly. GET OUR PRICES AND YOU WILL SURELY BUY FROM US “YOU CAN ‘GUESS THE REASON” 5 \JE 207 oR MORE OF YOUR MONEY DOMINION THEATRE EQUIPMENT ¢O S47 DAVIE ST VANCOUVER B.C. The Exhibitor Picture Pickups Damon Runyon, now an RKO producer, is also one of the continent’s best-loved and widely-read columnists. He writes for the King Features Syndicate and his work has often expressed his affection for motion pictures. Lately he has devoted several columns to that civic peculiarity of Los Angeles, Main Street. All who have been there know it to be a mixture of the Bowery of New York, the Kasbah of Algiers—and anything else you can think of. It’s one of the tangiest thoroughfares anywhere. There are any number of movie houses on Main Street, some ‘of them owned, incidentally, by Harry Popkin, a Canadian fellow who left Toronto years ago, became an usher on the Coast and now counts 25 theatres as his own. Of the Main Street movie situation Runyon writes: “We had a chat with the owner of a movie theatre who charges seven cents admission and who told us that he plays to 25,000 customers per week and makes $5,000 a year from the enterprise. His box office was also a candy stand and all you could see of the lady ticket taker was her eyes framed in candy bars and he said he sold as much as $25 worth of candy each week. “He also informed us that the candy business in movie houses started right there on Main Street. One of the owners of a big theatre in Los Angeles happened to see the candy display in a Main Street box office and installed the same thing on a large scale in his own theatre and the candy is now a fixture in cinema emporiums everywhere. The Main Street man wanted to know if we cared to buy his theatre, saying he also had another place a short distance up the street that was doing very well, but we thought we should stick to our own racket. “This man told us he gave his customers two feature pictures, a western, a cartoon and a newsreel for their seven cents, running from 9 o’clock a.m. until about 10:30 p.m. He said now you take a Mexican with a wife and five or six children looking for an evening of entertainment—where could they get as much for their limited bankroll?” ce Se ee Al Liscombe, who stayed in the game as a projectionist when he got out of the exhibition end, used to own the Greenwood in Toronto, now the Guild. That was in 1915. A lot of water has fiowed under the bridge—and over it—since then. Liscombe loves to hark back—and it makes good listening for young-timers. He used to get out a weekly news bulletin for the house. Some of the picture titles may tease your memory and set you musing about days that are dead and gone. Harry Carey’s return to the stage makes this ad interesting: “Here! ... One of Broadway’s greatest actors... Harry D. Carey in That Beautiful Drama of Regeneration ... 4 Great Acts ... “Just Jim” ... Pronounced the Strongest Photoplay of the Year.” Somewhere along the years Carey lost the D and pickeé up cinema saddle sores. About that time the Greenwood was showing “Circus Mary,” three-reel drama with Mary Fuller; “The Grail,” two-reel drama with Anna Little and H. Rawlinson; “The Broken Coin,” episode No. 4; “The Curse of Work,” two-reel Billie Ritchie comedy; ‘“‘The Eleventh Dimension,” two-reel Bison with Marie Walcamp; and “Jewel,” a Broadway Universal Feature in five parts. The ad for this last one shows “Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley Who Directea Ella Hall and Rupert Julian.” % * % % % The roughest ride a reviewer has given a picture in some time is the one the Errol Flynn starrer, “They Died, With Their Boots On,” got in the New York Telegraph. No picture could be that bad. This one isn’t. There’s enough shootin’ and ridin’ in it to captivate the large horse opera custom. The film is about Custer’s last stand at Rig Horn. Here’s the tail end of the aforementioned review: “Maybe ‘They Died With Their Boots On’ is a proper title to put on the whole business after all. They certainly died, all right. Flynn and the other players, and the script and the story, and the dialogue and the direction. That’s a massacre that even compares with the Little Big Horn.” Page 9 NN EN MEN ENE NE NE NUE NE NEN NN NS A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year JOHNNY POOLE and the staff of PARAMOUNT ART SERVICE and METRO DISPLAY CO. 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