Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 5, 1942)

Page 4 RKO to Offer ] 45 Features (Continued from Page 1) W. Koerner, vice president in charge of production, others distributed will be made by such independent producers as Samuel Goldwyn, Walt Disney, Herbert Wilcox, Sol Lesser, Jerry Brandt, Jack Votion and Edward A. Golden. There are now eighteen of the scheduled features finished and four in work. The short subjects include 155 single reelers and 32 two-reelers. There will be 18 Walt Disney subjects as well as a wide variety of material from straight news to sport shorts. The leading pictures are ‘Journey Into Fear,’’ acted and produced by Orson Welles; “Once Upon a Honeymoon,” co-starring Gary Grant and Ginger Rogers; “Look Out Below,” which brings Fred Astaire back to the RKO studio for the first time in years; “China Sky,” starring Claudette Colbert; Damon Runyan’s “The Big Street,” co-starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, and “Stand By to Die,’”’ with Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray. Broadcast "Holiday Inn" Score Toronto dial twisters will get a musical feast on Wednesday August 5th, 9.30 to 10, when CBL will carry Paramount’s “Parade of Bands,” featuring the score of “Holiday Inn.” There are 14 original Irving Berlin tunes in the picture. “New Super GARDINER Projector’ With Barrel rear shutter Has no equal for fine projection and long life. As low as $9.00 weekly. GET OUR PRICES AND YOU WILL SURELY BUY FEOM US “YOU OAN GUESS THE REASON” SAVE 207 OR MORE OF TOUR MONEY ed HEL LSU 22 _ sulk pancreas COME DOMINION THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO 297 DAVIE 3T UNNCCUVER EC They Like Canadian FILM WEEKLY ‘OnThe quare with Hye Bossin ake 4S You can’t talk about the personal popularity of a theatre man without bringing in the name of Harry Lester, who operates the Bonita, Toronto. Right now Harry is president of the Gerrard Business Men’s ’ Association of his home district. For many years he’s had a finger in everything that’s been going on around there. A finger? I should have said a shoulder—a shoulder to the wheel. People swear that he knows every man, woman and child in the district and they know him—and like him. Recently when the Reserve unit of which Harry, a last war veteran, is a member, paraded by a great cheer arose at the sight of the lean, frosty-topped favorite seated on a carrier. It was loud enough to embarrass him—and he takes some embarrassing. Any day now the news will break of the latest and greatest stunt of Harry’s association in behalf of the war effort. Mary Pickford has promised to build a first-class home which will be raffled off in a coast-to-coast stunt. The home will be in a fine Toronto neighborhood and if an out-of-towner wins it, he or she can have $10,000 instead. That’s putting things over in a big way. But that’s the Harry Lester way. 1 * * * 5 Roar, Lions! Ernie Warren and Lloyd Mills had quite a time roaring around with their fellow-Lions during the recent international convention in Toronto. There are more movie men in the Lion’s Club than in any other organization but they were hard to locate, since the convention made no arrangements to bring them together. .. . Bob Innis of Columbia goes into the army soon. ... Murray Little of the Casino got plenty of space in that recent article in Maclean’s by Frederick Edwards. The article was about the colorful side of Toronto life and the Casino, he seemed to think, was an important part of it. Incidentally, Curly Posen is back in the pit of the Casino, waving the baton, after a long stretch off with a busted piece of underpinning. * + mm * * Eary Notes Alex Meyers of Audio is now with the National Film Board as an editor. ... Syd Cohen of Empire-Universal is in the army now and Myer Axler of the Victory Theatre is awatiing a nod from the RCAF... . There are some familiar faces in the new Canada Carries On short, ‘‘The Voice of Action’’—Lorne Greene, Roy Chapelle, Wells Ritchie and other radio and press fellers. Guffaws and giggles livened up the EBA screening room as the boys and girls of CBC saw each other at work. The owner of the best known voice in Canadian homes and theatres, Lorne Greene, was on hand to quiver at the sight of himself, the reaction all new movie players get the first time or two. Lorne, incidentally, turned out to be a good screen subject. I’m surprised that Hollywood, which is going in heavily for narration these days, hasn’t tried to borrow the boy with the 18-karat pipes. Or maybe it has. * * bd * * Incidental Intelligence There’s a gag around about the mother of a khaki’d son who was bragging that he had just been promoted. ‘What did they make him?” someone asked. “I don’t know for sure,” she answered. “I think his letter said that they made him a Court Martial or something!” . . . A movie patron asked me why ushers always lead customers down the aisle that is furthest from the empty seat. You tell him—I don’t know... . What ever became of Sigrid Gurie, Sam Goldwyn’s find for Marco Polo? Last time she appeared, it seems, was in “Algiers.” ... Bert Pearl of the Happy Gang is in Hollywood for some reason... . August 5th, 1942 Gurston Allen is Busy These Days (Continued fram Page 1) Or rather, the government changed them. For your information, Lieutenant Allen is now a fixture at the Directorate of Special Services, National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa. It’s unlikely that he’ll do more than drop around Dundas Square—if that—until the big job is done. Lieutenant Allen began spending less time at his civilian duties when the war began and this absence continued to increase, particularly since the last year, during which time he was attached Auxiliary Services, Headquarters, Military District No. 2. He was on part time reserve duty in charge of recreational equipment for army camps and stage materials for army theatres. His experience as a theatre and exchange executive came in mighty handy for the boys in khaki. He was a very busy man as chairman of the War Efforts Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress. For that organization he directed the work of supplying recreational equipment to all active army units in Ontario, as well as supervising religious and other matters affecting Jewish enlisted personnel. A graduate of Upper Canada College and an honor graduate of the University of Toronto, where he obtained his B.A., he is the donor of the “Gurston S. Allen” prize. At Osgoode Hall he had the distinction of being the only graduate to win a prize in each of the three years and was awarded the Chancellor Van Koughnet Scholarship. Gurston is the son of Jule Allen, who opened the first motion picture theatre in Canada, the Theatorium, Brantford. Since the Casino, Toronto, opened the younger Allen has been in charge of booking all vaudeville acts. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Training Centre Battalion of the University of Toronto, COTC, in September, 1940. Luigi Romanelli Dead Was Once With Allens Luigi Romanelli, 57, musical director for the United Hotels in Canada, died at Murray Bay, Quebec, on July 29th of a heart attack. Romanelli, whose home was in Toronto, was one of the first orchestra directors to write musical backgrounds for silent pictures. Before joining the hotel chain in 1923 he was music director for the Allen chain of theatres. He was survived by his wife and daughter, e