Canadian Moving Picture Digest (Jan 23, 1954)

JANUARY 23, 1954 ————— CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST PAGE THREE NVITATIONS to a reception from Columbia Pictures of Canada Ltd., in honour of Mr. A. Montague, Vice-President and General Sales Manager, and Mr. R. Jackter, Assistant General Sales Manager, Tuesday, January 19th, Royal York Hotel Library, 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. Which reminds me, that Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Harnick’s son, Martin Barry, has reached the important age of thirteen, and will accordingly celebrate his Bar-Mitzvah, Saturday morning, January the thirtieth, at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue. The service of a young boy's coming of age, is a very impressive ceremony, following which ceremony, the boy becomes responsible for any sins which he may commit, and for which previous transgressions, he-was not held responsible, being but a child in the Mind of God. R. HARVEY HARNICK, General Sales Manager of Columbia Pictures in Canada, and Assistant to the President, Louis Rosenfeld, has been with Columbia Pictures ever since he started in the Film business, over a quarter of a century ago. . Harvey grew up the hard way, in the Film Business. Give him any job in it, and he can do it, because there is no job he has not worked at. ; “In salesmanship,” said Harvey, “I had the best teacher in the world, and one of the wisest in that field of operation. What Louis Rosenfeld did not know about selling pictures, no one else in the world knew.” Listening to Harvey becoming 1eminiscent about his young apprenticeship in the West, in the days when the plumbing was all outdoors, and the outdoors hovered around forty.below zero, it recalled my own one-night stand, barn-storming days. ““ ZOU broke the ice in the pitcher of water, in your room, with which to wash, and I remember, when after a year of breaking ice, I finally was told to make a town which had running water in my room at the hotel. “When I turned on that tap, and saw the water, I was so overcome with joy, I just looked at it and cried,” said Harvey. I have known Harvey Harnick for many years, a marvellous worker, a prodigious worker, as for the teaching ability of Louis Rosenfeld, I can say to Louis, he did not waste his time training Harvey, who picked up all that Louis taught him, and then picked up some more on his own account. “ S I SAID, Harvey grew up the hard way, and I often wonder, if our young men in Show Business, today, learning salesmanship, exhibition, other branches of our Industry, are willing to apply themselves, to give the service which men like Harvey Harnick have given from the beginning, and give all through their life! Learning a business, any branch of it, does not come easily, that is if you wish to dig down below the surface, and do an efficient and thorough.job. (cae is nothing which can make you sick of a job quicker than your own sloppy service and inefficiency. To learn to do a job well, and to do it well, is a stimulating experience, because it awakens your creative faculties, and the first thing you know, you are improving on the old system, and giving birth to ideas which are workable and profitable. When we shirk on a job, become a time-killer, we are getting away with nothing, we are throwing away the best in ourselves, wasting our precious time, and suppressing our own power to develop, Ra y Presents © ihe MAN who learns more than he is paid to do, is very smart, and smart people are always in demand, for here is a field in which there will always be a shortage. Well, this is a long way from Martin Barry Harnick's Bar-Mitzvah, and the story of Harvey finding water running from a tap in his hotel room and crying for joy. There will be a reception at 9 p.m., Fiesta Room, Prince George Hotel, for the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Harnick. HE Third Annual Communion Breakfast of Catholics employed in the Motion Picture, Radio, Television, Musical and all branches of the Entertainment Industry will take place on Sunday, January 3lst, 1954. Nine o’clock Mass, St. Michael’s Cathedral, Toronto, where Communion will be received. Breakfast will follow at 10.15 a.m., Sheraton Room, King Edward Hotel. — For further information or registration for attendance, write Clare J. Appel, Chairman, Room 111, 221 Victoria Street, or telephone him at EMpire 4-8919, Toronto. John J. Fitzgibbons Jr., Co-ordinator. HERE are twenty-four new members for the Canadian Picture Pioneers initiated into Ontario Class 1954, at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Picture Pioneers, Wednesday, January 20th, in the Crystal Ballroom of the King Edward Hotel. The Digest will be on the press, when the activities of this Annual Event are in progress, but from preliminary reports, it looks like another Pioneer happy evening. The Election of the Board of Directors and Officers, is an important part of the business sessions. N LOOKING over the list of names for induction, into membership, many of the owners will be as familiar to you, as they are to me. Twenty-five years is a long, long time for those, who are but twenty-five, but to the old-timers, the total of these years are but as yesterday. Some of the Initiates have been in the business, of Motion Pictures, over twenty-five years, but not until this year, has the urge been expressed to become a member, of the Canadian Picture Pioneers. Quite a number of people, who are old enough to vote, do not, always, exercise their franchise. OWEVER, it is quite possible, that a few of the new members have only reached the eligibility of the required twenty-five years. When you start in this business very young, and grow up in it, you feel, and all those who know you feel, that countless years have passed, particularly is this true, in a business, in which there has been such development and expansion. The Initiation, of these twenty-four members, is an occasion which I celebrated with poetic license, and remember, if 1 made you younger than you are, or older than you feel, you can always say to me, “I remember you when Universal opened its Exchange in Toronto,” I was here,