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CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST
Terento and District
By BILL PRESS
Wide-vision screens are becoming generally installed in units of 20th Century Theatres, the latest group being the Centre, Park and Elmwood Theatres in London. All five of the main Toronto combination, Downtown, Glendale, Scarboro, State and Mayfair, have the equipment. A new screen has also been put into the Esquire at Brantford.
Prior to the opening of the engagement of “The Glenn Miller Story” at Peterborough, a local music store, Cherney’s Record Bar, featured a sales campaign on a Decca album of the music in the screen production.
Manager Bill Burke of the Capitol Theatre, Brantford, is featuring a variety of entertainment, as well as diversions from regular policy. For three afternoons this month, a Loblaw cooking school was conducted at the theatre starting at 1.30. On Wednesday night, March 3,
“The Gondoliers” was presented by the ©
Eaton Operatic Society under Brantford Kiwanis auspices while the Barber Shop Quartets are giving a concert March 19. Previously the National Ballet had appeared one evening at the Capitol.
Two former employees of Station CFRB, Toronto, have joined Kitchener’s television station, CKCO-TV, in which Famous Players has a direct interest. The two are William McGregor, operations manager, and Ellen McDonald, traffic manager, who are man and wife in private life. They assist General Manager Eugene Fitzgibbons at Kitchener.
The latest development in juvenile shows has been introduced by the Roxy Theatre, Dundas, where the policy has been adopted of conducting a Children’s Matinee Party every Saturday afternoon for which the manager, Jack East, calls himself “Uncle Jack” for the role of host. Stage games and stunts are added to the program of special films,
In a first-week offer of Sunkist chinaware at the Famous Players’ Centre Theatre, Windsor, a cup and Saucer went to every lady patron without charge of any kind, the subsequent service fee being five cents.
Continental pictures continue to have full sway at theatres in Toronto, Ham’]ton, Windsor, Otfawa and elsewhere as a matter of regular policy. In Toronto, the recent presentations included “L’ Amore Si Fa Cosi” at the Pylon; “Altri Tempi”, otherwise “Times Gone By”, at the Studio, where it played as a restricted-attendance feature, and “Sins of Pompeii” for a second week at the Savoy.
Paul Earl, a member of the Quehee Legislature for Notre Dame de
Grace, Montreal, called on the pro
vincial government to appoint a Protestant English-speaking member to the eight-man Quebec Board of Cinema Censors, following the banning of “Martin Luther’.
BELL AND HOWELL TO MANUFACTURE IN CANADA
Operations of its Benograph division will cease March 3lst, it is announced by Associated Screen News Limited, Montreal.
The merchandising division of the company has been representing, in Canada, leading manufacturers of motion picture and photographic equipment of the United States, Britain and Germany. Its major line was the Bell & Howell motion picture equipment. An agreement was reached between Bell & Howell and Associated Screen News Limited to facilitate the formation of Bell & Howell of Canada Limited, who will set uD assembly, service and manufacturing facilities in Toronto, and will also take over the distribution of Bell & Howell cameras, projectors and accessories.
District sales representatives of Benograph have been invited to continue representing Bell & Howell equipment in various parts of Canada.
JOHN J. FITZGIBBONS SEES VISTA VISION
A second week of demonstrations of VistaVision on the Paramount preview stage were held last week.
John J. Fitzgibbons, President of Famous Players Canadian Corporation, after attending a demonstration of VistaVision along with other leading exhibitors, issued the following statement:
“VistaVision in my mind is the newest and best process of motion picture presentation developed to date.
“VistaVision has greater flexibility for the exhibitor and economic factors most vital to the exhibitor today. The method of photographing pictures by the VistaVision process gives unsurpassed clarity and definition of focus on every square foot of the screen, and opens new horizons for producers and directors to get greater composition into pictures than has ever been dreamed of before.
“Among the many favorable factois of VistaVision is that it makes every seat in the theatre a good seat for the
customer, This is most important to me as an exhibitor.”
TEST TUSHINSKY LENS
Joseph Tushinsky of RKO Radio Pictures, cO-inventor of the variable: anamorphic lens system which Paramount Pictures has recommended, is having his lens tested by Columbia Pictures, as well as other major studios,
MARCH 20, 1954
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— Correspondents — BRUCE PEACOCK ...Regina, Sosk. JACK DROY... TRA Vancouver, B,C. WILL McLAUGHLIN .............. Ottawa, Ont. BILL PRESS...... ...Toronto, Ont.
HELEN CROWLEY ........ Scint John, N.B.
Prairie News
BRUCE PEACOCK
New theatre in Swift Current, Sask., is The Cinema, a $150,000 house owned and operated by Douglas Burke.
Theatre, which seats 500, is of modern design and equipment is all of the newest type. Features include a cry room and a party room, the latter a self-contained unit for parties of 10 to 12 persons. Smoking is permitted in the party room. Building has office space on the main floor and second floor.
At a meeting of the Saskatchewan legislature's public accounts committee recently, Labor Minister C. C. Williams reported that Alberta film censors joined together all portions they had censored from films for a number of years.
They called the finished product “The Dirt of a Decade,” he said. Manager of the Green Acres drive-in
theatre at Lethbridge, Alta., since it was opened in 1950, Fred A. Levitt has taken over managership of the Chinook drivein at Calgary, Alta.
Formerly owned by Western Drive-in Theatres, the Green Acres drive-in was purchased recently by Famous Players.
Mr. Levitt has been associated with theatre business since 1930 when he began as an usher in the Capital theatre, Lethbridge.
ANNUAL MOTION PICTURE BONSPIEL
The Second Annual Motion Picture Bonspiel was held on Feb. 22nd at the Maple Leaf Rink, Winnipeg.
The winner of the “Henry A. Morton Memorial Trophy” was the rink skipped by Mr. Lowel Hurwitz. The runner-up in the Main Event was the rink skipped by Mr.-C. Krupp.
The Consolation Event was won by the rink skipped by Mr. L. Littman and the runner-up was Mr. Hy Triller.
After the completion of the Bonspiel,
. the “Henry A. Morton Memorial Tro
phy” was presented by Miss Elaine Morton to Mr. L. Hurwitz and the “Jacoh A. Miles Memorial Trophy” was presented by Mr. Lou Miles.
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