Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 12, 1942)

August 5th, 1942 Loew's London Asks Offers (Continued from Page 1) ther shareholders took legal steps to prevent the board of directors from disposing of the company’s assets. Later meetings of shareholders refused to allow the appointment of an exclusive agent. The question of a sale com mission was also a _ contentious one. The following ad was published under the heading of “Outstanding Theatre Business for Sale’’: Offers will be received for the assets and undertakings (save and except cash on hand and on deposit) of Loew’s London Theatres Limited, a Company owning and operating a moving picture theatre known as LOEW’S THEATRE, Municipal Number 194 Dundas Street, in the City of London, Province of Ontario, Canada, particulars of which assets are more fully set forth in the last audited Balance Sheet of the said Company for the year ended the 28th of August, 1941, and consisting generally of land and theatre building and all ascessories thereto, built or acquired at a cost of approximately $475,000.00, and investments, all save as varied in the operation of the business since the said 28th day of August, 1941. The Vendor is party to the following agreements affecting the above mentioned assets: (1) An Agreement with Marcus Loew Booking Agency, a New York Corporation, bearing date the 22nd day of September, 1919, and (2) An Agreement with Marcus Loew’s Theatres Limited of Toronto bearing date the 22nd day of September, 1919. Copies of the Company’s last audited Balance Sheet for the year ended 28th of August, 1941, and of the above mentioned Agreements may be inspected at the office of Ivey and Logan, Imperial Bank Building, Richmond Street, London, Canada, Solicitors for the Company herein. It is pointed out that, while the assets include the goodwill of the said business, the same does not include the right to the use of the name “Loew” or any name similar thereto. Offers must be in writing and accompanied by a marked cheaue to the order of Loew’s London Theatres Limited for not less than Fifteen Per Cent of the offered price and delivered to Ivey and Logan, Solicitors for the Company herein, on or before the 14th day of August, 1942, and should specifically state whether the Purchaser will or will not agree to take over the above mentioned contracts and assume all benefits and liabilities thereunder. In case the Purchaser elects to take over the said contracts, indemnification satisfactory to the Vendor must be delivered upon acceptance of offer. In case any offer be not accepted, the marked cheque accompanying the er will be returned to the maker hereof without interest. The highest or any offer shall not mecessarily be accepted by the Vendor. DATED this 30th day of July, 1942. LOEW’S LONDON THEATRES LIMITED Several offers have been reported in the last few weeks, all of them centering around the sum of $250,000. Canadian FILM WEEKLY Herald of Tidings Good and III When the film took unto itself sound it brought faces and voices from the related arts into the theatre. The voice of Lorne Green, which has a magnetic influence on the ears of millions of Canadians each night, has become the best known collection of throat sounds in Canadian theatres. But alas, while Lorne’s tones command the countryside, he must blush unseen. The visual art doesn’t operate for him like it does for Lowell Thomas and others of his ilk, showing them in the act of passing on the latest worries of the world. That’s the visual art’s loss too, since Lorne is a good-looking fellow. Not that he minds blushing unseen, either. When a radio commentator makes an error he turns enough colors to make Technicolor look like sepia. This one, it is generally agreed, has a minimum of errors in the tangled verbiage league. And that’s after fielding some tricky chances batted his way by international events in faraway and almost unpronouncable places. V’ll take even money he can pronounce ettoinshrudllu correctly in two tries. This backscreen and behind-the-radio routine has accentuated the curiosity about Green. This is growing beyond Canada’s fair domain as a result of Dave Coplan’s enterprise in selling NFB shorts to the USA and other English-speaking countries. Harriet Ball, publicity chief of CBC, for which Lorne does his nightly news stint, says she can’t keep up eine the demand for photos and info. He Ain’t No Dope The Voice isn’t just that. This well-built young man with the olive tint has lingered long enough in several halls of learning to carry away some paper evidence of accomplishment. He holds a B.A. from Queen’s University and spent two years on a fellowship at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. He’s an all-arounder, singing somewhat, playing a bit of piano and knocking out the odd chunk of lyrics and lilts. Over six feet and weighing 186 pounds, he played intercollegiate basketball and rugby while majoring in French and German—and presiding over the Dramatic Guild. He’s married, doesn’t smoke any more and likes what he’s doing, though he thought he was going to be a chemical engineer. Born in Ottawa in 1915, he came back there from New York in 1939 and joined the CBC, being transferred later to Toronto as chief announcer. Green is soft spoken and modest, a real nice fellow whom film folks are always glad to see when he makes one of his occasional excursions to The Square. Canadians will have their first look at him in “The Voice of Action,” an NFB short distributed by Columbia as part of the Canada Carries On series, which picturizes the CBC. Maybe Hollywood will notice him too. More pictures than ever are having narration and this boy certainly has prize pipes. = = * A New One Getting a new angle in exploitation is the toughest thing in the world as far as picture business is concerned. When it turns up it usually is a goodwill offering and exceeds anything expected. The talk of the industry right now is the fact that the Robert Simpson Company, one of Canada’s two leading department store chains, saw fit to take a full page ad boosting “Mrs. Miniver.” This, as far as anyone knows, is the first time it happened anywhere. It was entirely unsolicited and came as a surprise to Dewey Bloom, MGM’s exploitation chief in Canada. It’s a tribute to the industry too. The ad came from Mr. J. C. Porter, advertising manager of Simpson’s, who was Dewey’s guest at a screening of ‘Mrs. Miniver.” He was touched by the picture and interpreted the feelings of his company and people generally by running the ad in all Toronto papers. Page 3 {They re Still After Ascap (Continued from Page 1) stituted by 13 operating companies. Ascap’s reply disclosed that it had taken in $10,200,000 from film theatres in the last ten years and that its revenue from that source had increased from $665,500 in 1931 to $1,199,629. Ascap contended that it take was infinitesimal when compared with the volume of business in theatres during 1941, estimated at $1,100,000,000. Ascap revealed that 15,510 theatres in the USA licensed in 1941 paid an average of $77.39. In 1931 10,910 houses paid an average of $60.94. The society claims that these rates are ridiculously low and that theatres would have to pay prohibitive costs if they dealt with the individual composers. Propose Sunday Ball In Toronto Sunday baseball in Toronto at some future time is not an impossibility. President Peter Campbell of the Toronto Baseball Club is in receipt of a request from a high army officer to investigate its chances. 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