Canadian Moving Picture Digest (Feb 13, 1954)

FEBRUARY 13, 1954 CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST PAGE THREE Ray Presents MES: Sanford Delaney, of the Delaney Theatre, Gananoque, Ont., is very ill. She is now a patient in the Kingston General Hospital. I have had a letter from her son, George, who is one of the nine living Delaney children. The oldest son, Jim, is forty-two, and the youngest is Corleen, twentytwo, who is in training. Mrs. Delaney became a mem ber of the Canadian Picture Pio neers in 1953. We missed her at the 1954 Annual Meet ing, and heard then, that she was ill, but we thought, that her illness was only a temporary indisposition. MBS: Delaney has been in Show Business for over fortyfive years, and is now sixty-two years old. Most humans like to hear something good about themselves, that is, if they are good people, who have retained a sense of humor, which gives them a proper balance, and which enables them to keep their fect, in case the intoxication, of sweet praise, goes to their head. I am intending to praise Mrs. Delaney a good deal, and send The Digest to her, to the Kingston General Hospital, with my apologies, for not recounting her various activities, her career, in Tne Digest years ago. AM indeed grateful to George, her son, for the letter he sent to me, and if it were not so personal, I would publish it, as it is so revealing as to the character of the writer. I have never heard, nor read of a son who praised his mother more, and in such sincere language His mother is indeed blessed in such children. EORGE tells me, “Mother has raised a family of nine children. As you know, Miss Lewis, Mother and Dad (deceased) have been in the theatre business for over 45 years, and if ever there was a dear lady to be given a pat on the back, she is our Dear Mother. “I am sure you remember Mother, Miss Lewis; she attended quite a few conventions there in Toronto. Last year Mother joined the Canadian Picture Pioneers, and recently renewed her subscription for 1954. She is also a member of the Ontario Motion Picture Theatre Association. “She was always so delighted to attend any of the conventions there in Toronto. ““r AM sure, Miss Lewis, that most all of the people, associ ated with the Exchanges, and other businesses connected with the theatre business, there in Toronto, will remember Mother.” , Yes, George, we all remember your mother, her always smiling face, her quick appreciation of a good story, and her breezy and constant activities. One would think that giving birth to twelve children, and being blessed to raise nine of these children, was a full-time job, but not for Mrs. Delaney. SHE was organist in St. John’s Church for nearly thirty years. She was an accomplished pianist, and possessed a very. good soprano voice, leading and directing the Church Choir. Mrs. Delaney was one of the town’s counsellors for several years; she was President of the Catholic Women’s League, several times, Vice-President of the Catholic Women’s League in the Archdiocese of Kingston; President of the Choral Society several times; Chairman of the Children’s Welfare many times, and in addition, she managed for several years, The Delaney Theatre, and enjoyed all of her activities keenly. During the various stages of her motherhood, Mrs. Delaney produced plays locally, acted in some of them, Staged amateur shows and presented recitals. Special masses and Novenas are being made and said, while prayers are being continuously offered for her recovery. E, who believe in the miraculous power of prayer, will add our prayers, also, Pioneer Mrs. Delaney, good mother, good servant of perpetual service, good showman! I have given you the address of Mrs. Delaney. I am certain you will pause a moment in your own activities, in your relaxation, to say a little prayer for her recovery, to perhaps write to her for that sweet comfort of knowing she is remembered. If your faith, Mrs. Delaney, is only half as strong as the spirit of your multiple activities has been, it will cast out your affliction, and add to your years of life. “She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up, and call her blessed, But a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruits of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.” (The Proverbs) AST week, I became reminiscent about Bessie Love, and mentioned she would be starred in, The Barefoot Countessa, which would be released by United Artists. Now, I learn, that Mario Nascimbene, one of the foremost contemporary composers, has been signed by Figaro, Inc., to write the music for the romantic drama, which is currently in production, at the Cinecitta Studios, in Rome, production in Technicolor, and which, also, stars Humphrey Bogart. Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, with direction by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Nascimbene, has composed the musical score of over thirty films, and has written several ballets which have been performed in Europe. fl fee Amusement Industry held its Annual Brotherhood Dinner, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, Thursday, Feb. 4th, with the former President, of the United Nations General Assembly, General Carlos P. Romulo, and Robert D. Murphy, United States Undersecretary of State, making the principal addresses. Mrs. Wendell L. Wilkie, and General Lucius Clay, presented to these two distinguished speakers, the first World Brotherhood Gold Medal Awards, given by the National Assembly. j Besos Nizer, whose legal and scholarly fame is, no doubt familiar to our Industry, was toastmaster, A dramatic presentation, on the theme of Brotherhood, featured Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dennis King, Everett Sloane, Hilda Simms and Ben Grauer as players. Last week, in commenting on Mr. Myers, Bathycolpian deeply-rooted-word, I mentioned, in connection with same, Batrachomyomachia, The Battle of the Frogs and The Mice, a mock heroic Greek poem, which poem suggests much ado about nothing, and which is attributed to Pires of Caria. Some have said, that Aristophanes (450-380 B.C.) who wrote satirical comedies on the politics of his day, among which Birds and Frogs, Clouds, etc., wrote The Battle of The Frogs and Mice, as Aristophanes, ay first wrote under a fictitious name. Le eeeehe I am reminded of Aristophanes, by reading that the Board of the American Academy of Daemaae Art cut 130 lines from a production of a play by Aristo. (Continued on Page 5)