Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 24, 1942)

oe Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan | June 24th, 1942 Flynn, Sheridan | In Warner Film are the stars selected by Warner Bros. for the leads in the film adaptation of “Edge of Darkness,” recently published novel by Wil-| liam Woods which has already attained a place on the best-seller lists. It is a story of life in Norway under Nazi domination. The picture, to be produced by Henry Blanke, is slated to go before the cameras as soon as Flynn completes his current picture, “Gentleman Jim.’”’ Miss Sheridan is slated for a vacation after she finishes her role in “George Washington Slept Here,’”’ which is nearing completion. cS % * Four important additions have been made by Warner Bros. to the cast of “Casablanca,” which has just gone into production with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid in the leads, and Michael Curtiz directing. Conrad Veidt has been borrowed from MGM and Dooley Wilson from Paramount for character roles. The latter is the Negro actor who played the lead opposite Ethel Waters in the stage production of ‘‘Cabin in the Sky.” Claude Rains, who has distinguished himself in many Warner productions but is now a free lance, returns to the studio again for ‘‘Casablanca,” and from the ranks of the studio’s own contract players Sydney Greenstreet has also been assigned to the cast. = at * Geraldine Fitzgerald, who made her American film debut in the second lead to Bette Davis in ‘Mark Victory,” will perform -a Similar chore for Warner Bros. in “Watch on the Rhine,” next starring vehicle for Miss Davis. The other leads in Warners’ film version of the most successful of all the anti-Nazi plays will be Paul Lukas and Lucile Watson, who will play the roles they created in the stage production. Suggests Incomes Be Revealed Publication of individual incomes by the Income Tax Branch was advocated in the House of Commons recently by Rev. A. M. Nicholson, CCF, Mackenzie. He pointed out that United States authorities revealed American earnings regularly. Revenue Minister Gibson, who was leading the house at the moment, said that the Income Tax Act required that individual incomes should be kept confidential and officers were required to renew their oath of secrecy every four months. Canadian FILM WEEKLY For King and Country ~ <2 Page 7 Wilcox-Neagle 20th CENTURY THEATRES |lour Opens Employees Who Have Joined The Armed Forees MIDTOWN, TORONTO Carson Nelson RCAF KENWOOD, TORONTO Pte. Wm. Widgett Army Harry Geller RCAF Bernard Weisberg RCAF Bob Liss RCAF COMMUNITY, TORONTO Jack Lawrence Army Al Chartrand Army Jack Dobson Army Charlie Perrot RCAF Art Perrot Army Jim Munroe Army REVUE, TORONTO Maurice Weldon Navy Jack Banting Army PIX, TORONTO Max Schiene RCAF H. M. Solomon Army GRANADA, NAPANEE James Plumley RCAF COMMUNITY, HAMILTON Ken Murdock Air Cadets ROYAL, NORTH BAY John Shaw Army Albert Boyer RCAF Clifford Pask RCAF REX, LONDON Glen Robinson Navy Len Stothers RCAF Jack Malone RCAF Ed Summerfield Army J. Gruber RCAF CAPITOL, COBOURG B. Taylor Army Henry Winters Army Alfred Winters Army Clifford Bradbury (killed) RAF George Paige RCAF Wm. Lavis Navy Frank Taylor RCAF ELGIN, OTTAWA Ted Lajoie Army John Charron Army Lorne Wiggin Army Lloyd Cochrane Army Jack Dempsey RCAF Bert Guest RCAF George McDonald RCAF Milton Budd RCAF Robert Sparrow RCAF Leo Kelly RCAF Fred Huges RCAF Jack Parker Navy Bert Gorman Navy PARK, SARNIA Garnet Heatherly Army GRANADA, ST. CATHARINES Frank Doumoulin Army PARK, WELLAND John Mathies Army GRANADA, ST. THOMAS Reg. Meyers RCAF Chas. Robinson Army PARK, CHATHAM Bill Norton CENTURY, KITCHENER Gilbert Patterson (Invalided Home) Army RCAF Victor Clayfield Army Ralph Wilson Army Leo Steit Army CENTURY, TRENTON Ted fraser Navy Art Johnson Army Jim McWilliams Navy Garnet Rosenblot RCAF Hugh Ferguson RCAF Harold Buck Navy CENTURY, HAMILTON J. Herbert Glide RCAF Raymond Hand RCAF CAPITOL, BELLEVILLE J. A. Calcutt Artillery Ed Aylesworth Ordnance GRAND, SUDBURY Arthur Tovey Army Earl Retty Navy Jos. Maloney RCAF Ed:Hanson Veteran Guard Chas. Frost Navy Fred Papke Army CAPITOL, BELLEVILLE J. A. Calcutt Artillery Ed. Aylesworth Ordnance MARKS, OSHAWA Jack Marks Army Ted Marks RCAF Allen Hepburn RCAF R. Guthrie Army Ross Winacott Army Vernon Burns RCAF VANITY, WINDSOR Russell Barr Navy Donald St. Louis Army Stanley Burge Robt. Arnott Ernest Hales CAPETOL, PORT HOPE George Martin Harry Jackson Army Eric Newman Jones Army Harry Cook Army Wilfred Lewis Navy David Newton Naivy Lyall Carr Army Keith Long Army CENTRE, LONDON Garnet Heatherly Army Wm. Ellison Navy J. P. Simmons Army Ed Cooper Army Wm. Bratford Wireless Hubert Hummell RCAMC Joe Knight Army Lloyd McKnight Army Donald Ray Army REX, LONDON Margaret Ross Fleet Aicraft The Herbert Wilcox-Anna Neagle Celebrity Parade, a volunteer company of 400 performers organized to tour the Dominion of Canada for the benefit of the Air Marshal Bishop Fund, to aid the Air Cadet League of Canada, gave its opening performance Mcnday evening, June 15th, at the Victoria Theatre. With receipts aggregating 3$97,300, this sum constitutes a world record for any benefit devoted to the British war effort. A cheering throng heard Air Marshal W. A. Bishop, V.C. announce the total at the conclusion of the two-hour show, built around two plays, Noel Coward’s “Still Life’ and Monckton Hoffe’s ‘The Lady Who Wishes to be known as Madame,” and a 40-minute musical divertissement. The Celebrity Parade will continue its tour, playing this week at Ottawa and Montreal. The itinerary for next week embraces Winnipeg, Regina and Edmonton. Heading the cast of the show, which Mr. Wilcox produced and directed, are such notables as Anno Neagle, Dennis King, Colin Keith-Johnson, Lady Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Richard Gaines, George Patton, Moyna MacGill and David Tihmar. With its orchestra of 60 pieces, the company is augmented by representatives of the RCAF, the Northwest Mounted Police, the Army, Navy ‘and Women’s Air Service. Vitagraph Bookers In Annual Derby Jack Sherwin, Vic Beattie, Ed Grant and Bill McGuire of head office, along with Vitagraph bookers throughout the country, are champing at the bit for the big annual handicap race which Warners features every August. A fair-sized purse of spendable stuff goes to the branch whose bookers snaffle the highest percentage-above-quota results during the period and smaller money goes to those who finish in the place, show and other payoff positions. Richard Carlyle, Born In Guelph, is Dead. Richard Carlyle, 63, well-known screen actor of other years, died at the Veteran’s Hospital, San Fernando, California last week. He had been ill for nine years. Carlyle, who was born in Guelph, Ontario, played in many films before his illness interfered with his career. Some of the pictures in which he appeared were “Tol'able David,” “Kismet,” “Brotherly Love,” “It Can Be Done” and “In Old California.”