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JULY 17, 1954
CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST
VANCOUVER NEWS
The annual Calgary Stampede is having a record-breaking attendance for 1954.
Glen Peacock, owner of the Isis Theatre, Calgary, was elected a governor of Rotary International at the 45th annual convention held in Seattle.
Sucha Singh has opened his 450car Sun Down Drive-in near Kamloops in the B.C. interior. Shirl Wilson, manager of Perkins Electric back from Edmonton, where he installed equipment in the new Belmont ozoner in South Edmonton.
Use This Information As Your Guide on Release Dates TORONTO
IMPERIAL Fifth week. 3 Coins In The Fountain (20thFox) CinemaScope and Technicolor with Clifton Webb, SHEA’S Second week. Dial M For Murder (WB) WarnerColor with Ray Milland. UNIVERSITY Second week. The Royo! Tour CinemaScope and Technicolor, EGLINTON Knights Of The Round Table (MGM) CinemaScope and Color with Robert Taylor. NORTOWN Executive Suite (MGM) with William Holden. ODEON
(20th-Fex)
Johnny Dark (E-U) Technicolor with Tony Curtis. UPTOWN Second week. Prisoner Of War (MGM) with Ronald Reagan. LOEW'S Fourth week. The Student Prince (MGM)
CinemaScope and Color with Ann Blyth. HYLAND & CHRISTIE Thirteenth week. The Kidnappers (JARO) with Vincent Winter. TOWNE CINEMA La Ronde (IFD). INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Nineteenth week, Hobson’s Choice (IFD) with Charles Laughton. DOWNTOWN Arrow In The Dust (AA) Technicolor with SterlIng Hayden.
MONTREAL PALACE
New Faces (20th-Fox) CinemaScope and Technicolor with Eartha Kitt. LOEW'S Knock On Wood (Para.) Technicolor with Danny Kaye. PRINCESS Secret Of the Incas (Para.) Technicolor with Charlton Heston. CAPITOL Princess Of The Nile (20th-Fox) Technicolor with Debra Paget. IMPERIAL The Golden Mask (UA) Technicolor, and Go, Man, Go (UA). ORPHEUM The Golden Idol (AA) and Pride Of The Blue Grass (AA) Color. KENT Thirteenth week. The Kidnapper’s (JARO) with Vincent Winter. VENUE 2 The Intruder (IFD) with Jack Hawkins. L = Mea week. You Know What Sailors Are (JARO) Technicolor with Donald Sinden, STRAND SNOWDON OUTREMONT Hell’s Half Acre (E-U) and Flight Nurse (E-U). oN week. Women Without Manon (CARDINAL).
Nomes and
ALOUETTE Troques Dans La Ville. WINNIPEG CAPITOL
Rose Marie (MGM) CinemaScope and Technicolor with Ann Blyth. LYCEUM Conquest Of Cochise (E-U) Technicolor and China Venture. MET Dial M For Murder (WB) WarnerColor with Ray Milland. ODEON Second week. The Eddie Cantor Story (WB) Technicolor with Keefe Bresselle. GARRICK Lucky Me (WB) CinemoScope and WarnerColor with Doris Day. GAIETY Jubilee Trail (E-U) Trucolor with Vera Ralson. DOMINION Sabre Jet (UA) Color and Juggler (UA).
VANCOUVER CAPITOL
Second week. Lucky Me (WB) CinemaScope and Worner Color with Doris Day.
ORPHEUM Knock On Wood (Para.) Technicolor with Danny Kaye.
STRAND She Couldn’t Say No (RKO) and The Ringer
The Reluctant Casanova (IFD) Technicolor with George Cole.
VOGUE Second week. The Long Wait (UA) with Anthony Quinn.
PLAZA Playgirl (E-U) with Shelley Winter. PARADISE Dragonfly Squadron (AA) and Pride Of The Blue Grass (AA) Color.
DUNBAR Ninth week. The Kidnapper’s (JARO) with Vincent Winter.
VARSITY Sixth week. The Maggie (JARO) with Paul Douglas,
CALGARY CAPITOL
Third week. River Of No Return (20th-Fox) CinemaScope and Technicolor with Marilyn Monroe,
PALACE Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th-Fox) Technicolor with Jane Russell.
UPTOWN Tangonyike Roman.
STRAND Gorilla At Lorge (20th-Fox) Technicolor and The Forty-Niners (AA),
(E-U) Technicolor with Ruth
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Harry Howard, head of Theatre Equipment Supply and Cecil Steele, Northern British Columbia exhibitor, are planning a standard type 450-seat theatre at Kittimat, the new 20-million mining community, near Prince Rupert.
Dave Borland, manager of the Dominion Theatre, has a complete file of publicity covering his 37 years in show business at Regina, Victoria, Prince Rupert, Nanaimo and Vancouver, way back to the silent film period. Borland is a Canadian Picture Pioneer and a member of Famous Players 25-year club.
Doug Stephenson, assistant manager at the Odeon-Plaza and his wife Virginia, formerly of the LUX, are the parents of an 8 pound, 4-ozs. boy, born in North Vancouver Hospital.
Two members of the floor staff at the Orpheum, John Walters and Irene Egilson, will be married in September and will make their home in Australia.
Frank Marshall of the eastside LUX,. was the winner of the top showman award for the 11th week in the Odeon Canadian contest. The 13-week drive finishes this week.
Micky Isman, Montreal manager of Empire-Universal Films, was here visiting his parents. Bob Eaves, general manager of FPC Western Division, in on a short trip from Toronto.
Motion picture advertising in the Vancouver province reached an_ all-time peak of 16 columns over the holiday weekend issue. The Vancouver Sun had 14 columns.
The Alberta government is building 3,000-seat auditoriums, costing about $1,250,000 each in Calgary and Edmonton as part of the celebrations for the oil province's 50th anniversary to be held in 1955,
DOMINION SOUND INSTALL CINEMASCOPE
The Montreal office of Dominion Sound Equipment Limited installed CinemaScope equipment recently at the Centre Paroissial, Thetford Mines, which is managed by Father DeBlois and also the Regent Theatre, Hawkesbury, which is owned by Oscar Legault. Both of these theatres opened with “The Robe.”
A new Astrolite Magniglow screen with completely invisible seams was installed at the Montrose theatre, Montreal by Dominion Soung Equipments Limited on June 24th,
The Sky-Hi drive-in theatre, operated by Ottawa Valley Amuseme opened on Saturday, June 26th, with equipment supplied and installed by Dominion Sound Equipments Limited,
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