Canadian Film Weekly (May 13, 1942)

Vol. 8, No. 20 VOICE of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY TORONTO, MAY 138, 1942 $2.00 Per Annum Quebec Exhibs Call for Unity Board Restricts Gives and Games Premiums and games have been restricted in Canadian theatres as . future policy, although theatres in which they are being used at present will not be interfered with. The ruling was announced by R. C. McMullen, director of the The(Continued on Page 3) Pix Engineers Talk Shop The application of the motion picture to wartime needs for efficient training methods was one of a number of important subjects discussed at the 51st Semi-Annual Convention of the Society of Motion Pictures Engineers at the Hollywood-Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, last week. Advances in every field of motion picture technique were revealed as the 52 technical papers (Continued on Page 2) Stars Visit Windsor Six Hollywood stars, in Detroit with 20 others to help the war effort, crossed the river and spent two hours at the Essex county sanitorium. Among them were Joan Blondell, Juanita Stark, Pat O’Brien and Jimmy Cagney. War Babies’ Pennies Stolen from Theatre A thief or thieves raided the Classic Theatre, Owen Sound, Ontario, and stole several dollars in pennies from a milk bottle placed there by the Kinsmen Club in aid of Britain’s Bombed Babies Milk Fund. Entry was made through a window of the men’s room, where police discovered strips had been removed from the inside of the window. PARAMOUNT'S 1941 PROFIT: $10,251,242 Propose Inter-Industry Body On Nation-Wide Seale Recognizing that only temporary harmony exists between the various sections of Independent exhibitors in Canada, the Quebec Allied Theatrical Industries, at its annual meeting in Montreal, called upon them, as well as on the o_O He Didn't Forget The Answer With so many film men in the Reserve Army, it was inevitable that tales of Awkward Squad oddities should circle The Square. One deals with the recruit sent by his officer with a message for a sergeant in another part of the “battle zone.” This Reservist forgot the message but in the middle of the enraged sarge’s diatribe he remembered something else. “The officer requested an answer, sir,” he said. “Tell him,” roared the sergeant, “that you don’t know your ear from a hole in the ground.” And the soldier, accepting is as an order and knowing a reply was being awaited, did. That’s just what he told him—with variations. The laugh took the edge off the officer’s anger. Simons to St. Thomas be Louis Simons has become assist ant to Manager Bill Cupples at] the Granada, St. Thomas, It’s a 20th Century Theatres unit. Flesh in. Montreal The Mayfair, Montreal, which used to be called the Gayety, has instituted a two-a-day vaudeville bill. It’s set up along the lines of the Casino, Toronto, having a stock chorus and week-to-week acts and principals.. Vancouver is also trying live stuff. The Orpheum Theatre of that city, managed by Ivan Ackeray, is booking name bands. . $2.64 in 1940, other branches of the industry represented on the National Advisory Council to stop quarreling and get together for the common good. In the chair at the time the resolution was passed was J. A. Hirsch, president of Consolidated Theatres, Ltd. The resolution arose from the report of B. C. Salamis, who is the representative of the organization on the National Advisory Council. The Quebec body is made up of exhibitors who, in Ontario, might find themselves in separate organizations. The hope was also expressed (Continucd on Page 2) Myers Corrects Press Reports Abram F. Myers, general counsellor of the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, who visited Canada recently to investigate the industry under the freezing plan, found it necessary to deny that he had issued any (Continued on Page 3) Sovereign Handles Columbia 16 mm.'s Sovereign Films, Ltd. recently acquired Columbia’s 16 mm. product for Canadian distribution. Columbia makes about 50 of the small-scale prints per year and Sovereign will offer about 20 choice examples. Walter Kennedy is in charge. } A Man of Letters Harland Rankin, manager of the Centre Theatre, Chatham, Ontario, assisted by Joan McClymont, checks on some of the 4,000 letters he gets every week from persons voting for their choices on his radio show, Opportunity Night. The Beaver Lumber Company sponsors the show and local merchants donate the prizes. Paramount's net profit for 1941, $10,251,242, was $2,618,100 ahead of the previous year and the biggest yet. Its common shares were worth $3.41 as compared with