Canadian Moving Picture Digest (Nov 13, 1954)

PAGE TWO Ou the Seam tie-in with the movie industry on the Fabian series, Astral Films were quick to take advantage of the public interest to put into release their feature film, “Fabian of Scotland Yard,” with resultant box-office success for the picture. In line with Mr. Bassett’s conviction that wider coverage of the entertainment world will sell more papers, and his feeling that cooperation with the Motion Picture Industry is to the best interests of the paper, the Industry and the public, he is instituting some startling changes in the amusement pages of the Tely. Ken Johnson, who has been movie columnist and critic for the Tely for the past two years, is being promoted to Entertainment Editor in charge of the amusement pages, with Clyde Gilmour, former movie critic for the Vancouver Sun, -being appointed .movie columnist for the Tely, Mr. Gilmour will continue to act as a network reviewer for the CBC, and movie editor of Maclean’s magazine. Under Ken Johnson’s guidance as entertainment editor, the amusement pages of the Tely will undergo considerable revamping. Starting next Monday, special movie features will be run daily, with photos, plus a special Saturday layout that will give widest possible coverage to the current movies in Toronto. In addition, and this is most important, the Tely will discontinue the practice of charging the film companies and theatres for the cuts that are used. In addition, amusement page adyertising rates will remain at 45 cents per line, considerably below the rate of the other Toronto evening paper, which has just foisted another rate hike on the amusement industry. In searching for additional ways in which the Tely could cooperate with the Motion Picture Industry to the greater benefit of all parties, Messrs. Bassett and Mason logically enough consulted with Canada’s oldest motion picture trade paper, The Canadian Moving Picture Digest. Max Chic, Digest Associate Editor, promptly contacted Clare Appel, executive director of the CMPDA, and circuit heads, and as a result discussions are now taking place whereby the Tely may sponsor a Movie Trade Show for public viewing. This Show would incorporate the history and development of the Film Industry, similar to one sponsored by the CIL in Montreal last year. @ (Continued from Page 1) An effort would be made to include personal appearances by Hollywood stars, and proceeds from the show would probably be donated to Variety Village, as Mr. Bassett, a member of Variety Club Tent No. 28, is vitally interested in the progress of the Tent’s No. 1 charitable endeavor. Still additional plans are under consideration -by the Tely for further co-operation with the Film Industry, but at the moment The Digest is not at liberty to disclose these. Certainly one thing is very clear, and bears repeating, in John Bassett Jr., the Tely has a young, progressive and aggressive publisher who is well on his way to making the Toronto Evening Telegram the outstanding daily paper in Canada, and in that same John Bassett Jr., the Motion Picture Industry in Canada has one of its most ardent boosters and valuable friends, 218 Canadian Houses Install Super Panatar The Super Panatar, a variable anamorphic projection attachment, has been installed in a total of 218 Canadian theatres, it was revealed last week by Robert Gottschalk, head of Panavision. The attachment, developed by Gottschalk at the MGM studios in Hollywood, is distributed in Canada by Dominion Sound Equipments, Inc., exclusively. FOR SALE 1,000 AMERICAN SEATING CO. BODIFORM SPRING TO EDGE THEATRE CHAIRS MODERN — EXCELLENT CONDITION Bucket Bottoms x WHILE THEY LAST $6.95 ea. FOB VANCOUVER, B.C, * WRITE, WIRE, or PHONE! Dominion Theatre Equipment Co. LIMITED 847 DAVIE ST. — VANCOUVER, B.C. FOR SALE OR LEASE 500 SEAT THEATRE TECUMSEH Estate to be settied Contact Harland Rankin O’Brien Real Estate Chatham, Phone 334, 20 PICTURES (Continued from Page 1) a personalized service to exhibitors from its Canadian director of advertising and publicity Chet Friedman. MGM's forthcoming schedule for the fall and winter seasons embraces 20 pictures. Of these, 13 will be in color and CinemaScope, the balance will be in color with but two exceptions which will be released in back and white. Only one of the productions which are completed is in CinemaScope but this group includes several of the company’s most pretentious attractions headed by Jack Cummings’ “Last Time I Saw Paris,” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson and Walter Pidgeon and “Deep in My Heart,” with Jose Ferrer, Merle Oberon and a distinguished cast of guest artists and supporting players. Both are in color. What MGM believes to be another sleeper of the “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” variety, and included in this same group, is “Athena,” produced by Joe Pasternak and starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom and Vic Damone. “Green Fire,” an adventurous quest for an emerald mine in South America, is the CinemaScope production in the group with Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly and Paul Douglas in starring roles. In various stages of editing, MGM has the following line-up with five of the six attractions in CinemaScope: “Bad Day at Black Rock,” an outdoor suspense drama, with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan and Anne Francis; produced by Dore Schary and dirécted by John Sturges. “Jupiter's Darling,” a new Esther Williams attraction with Howard Keel and the Champions. “Many Rivers to Cross,” with Robert Taylor, Victor McLaglen and Eleanor Parker. _“The Prodigal,” with Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom, produced by Charles Schnee and directed by Richard Thorpe. “Moonfleet,” a John Houseman production, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Stewart Granger and Viveca Lindfors. This is based on the novel by J. Meade Falkner, a rousing story with a background of the rugged English coast. The sixth picture in this group is “The Glass Slipper,” with Leslie Caron and Michael Wilding supported by Keenan Wynn, Elsa Lanchester and the Ballet de Paris. In production are four more CinemaScope attractions includir, the following: Joe Pasternak’s “Hit the Deck? an extravagant musical with Jar Powell, ‘Lony Martin, Debbie Re noids, Vic Damone, Walter Pip geon, Ann Miller and a suppon ing cast of box-office names. Henry Berman’s production o} “pouievard in Paris’ with Ann lsaxter and Steve Forrest. “at's Always Fair Weather,” anoiher big musical produced by Ar tnur Freed, directed by Gene Keliy and starring Gene Kelly, Cyd Cnarisse, Dan Dailey and Michael Kidd. Jack Cummings is also producing “Interrupted melody” based on the dramatic lite story of the opera star, Marjorie Lawrence. Preparing to go before the CinemaScope cameras are the fol1OWiIng attractions: “Love Me or Leave Me,” a Joe Pasternak production with Doris Day, James Cagney and Keenan Wynn. “The Cobweb,” starring Grace Kelly and produced by John Houseman. “The Scarlet Coat,” with Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Anne Francis and George Sanders. Two other pictures are preparing to go before the regular optical cameras. They are: “Lhe King’s ‘Lhief,” with Edmund Purdom and Michael Wilding, and “Blackboard Jungle, with Glenn Ford and Anne Francis. FOX’S PRODUCT (Continued from Page 1) weeks in scores of key city situations throughout the Dominion, for One of the most important national launchings of a CinemaScope production. Marilyn Munroe, Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Dan Dailey and Mitzi Gaynor star in the film. The pacting of three other CinemaScope pictures with the Famous Players Circuit also was announced by Mr. Silverthorne. Productions are “Desiree,” to open shortly after its Command Performance premiere in New York later this month; “Black Widow,” starring Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin and Gene Tierney; and Walter Wanger’s “The Adventures of Hajji Baba,” starring Elaine Stewart and John Derek. Mr. Silverstone also reported that “Woman’s World” has been set to play the entire Odeon circuit of 80 theatres. Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Lauren Bacall, Arlene Dahl, Fred MacMurray, Van Heflin and Cornel Wilde star in ‘the picture,