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CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST
MARCH 27, 1954
Teronto and District
By BILL PRESS
You should see the new “calling card” of Jack Chisholm which gives his address in Montreal along with the telephone number which is designated as a smoke signal emerging from the top of the home tepee.
Jack himself is shown astride an ass (donkey) as he travels Highway No.2 from Toronto, the animal carrying a wafer bottle on which appears a “VY” for Variety.
Struggling behind on foot is Mrs. Chisholm as she drags the household effects on a sled.
The card reads: “Welcome New Wigwam—Heap Big Chief Chisholm and Squaw”.
Negotiations have been completed by Gabriel Szovertfy, Hungarian resident of Toronto, with RKORadio for the rights to his 23minute film “The Iron Fence,” it is announced. The picture, which was made around Toronto last summer, is to be lengthened.
John J. Fitzgibbons, president of Famous Players Canadian Corp. for the past 13 years, is being congratulated on the completion of his 50th year in show business.
When he was 14 years of age he became assisfant projectionist at the Bijou Theatre, Meriden Con., where he was born.
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Only two features were graded Adult Entertainment during February by the Ontario Board of Moving Picture Censors. They were “Hot Ice” and the British picture, “The Heart of the Matter.”
Two attracfions which are enjoying holdovers in many situations throughout Ontario are the revived “The Best Years of Our Lives” and the new release “The Glenn Miller Story”, both of which are in two dimension. It is interesting to note that the Glenn Miller picture is playing at advanced prices, $1 top.
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Prairie News
BRUCE PEACOCK Construction of two new theatres are planned for Rocky Mountain House, Alta., this year. John Williams will build a $45,000 theatre this summer and a Winnipeg company, operating a chain of drive-ins, is seeking a location for a $75,000 outdoor theatre. Stanley and Joe Zaba have started construction on a drive-in theatre at Wolseley, Sask., the Twi-lite.
Isador Reinhorn and his son, Leonard, entertained government and civic officials and other guesfs at a preview of “Royal New Zealand Tour” in the Roxy theatre, Regina recently.
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— Correspondents — BRUCE PEACOCK Regina, Sask. JACK DROY Vancouver, B.C. WILL McLAUGHLIN Ottawa, Ont. BILL PRESS Toronto, Ont.
HELEN CROWLEY Saint John, N.B.
-Mawritimne News
HELEN CROWLEY
Mr. Bruce C. Carruthers who passed away recently in California at the age of 52 was well known to many in the motion picture field in which he spent 18 years as a technical advisor, actor and extra. He had jusf finished work on “Rose Marie,” the M. G. M. CinemaScope picture and was technical adviser for the version of the same picture made in 1935. The deceased was a native of Prince Edward Island and received his carly education in Charlotte town. He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Western Canada and served as a Corporal for seven years.
After a long absence, Mr. Carruthers visited his native Province about two years ago and Mr. George Walters, Manager of the ‘Prince Edward’ theatre Charlottetown had the privilege of meeting him and they spent an interesting evening chatting about . . . Hollywood.
Among Mr. Carruthers’ surviving relatives is a sister Mrs. Bonnell, wife of Reverend Doctor J. S. Bonnell, Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New York City.
Mr. Murray Ellman (B & L Head Office) is promoting the Saint John Chess games and is a very active worker in this Club.
“The Glenn Miller Story” played the ‘Strand’ Theatre, Saint John, N.B., (Odeon Circuif) recently for eleven days when it established a record in attendance for this theatre. It is doing the same in Odeon’s “Casino” Theatre, Halifax, N.S., where it is currently playing. The “Casino” recently installed new Lamps and a fwenty horsepower generator.
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