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September 16th, 1942
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Current Releases
BOMBS OVER BURMA
China’s Burma Road—timely as today’s newspaper With Anna May Wong
MEN OF SAN QUENTIN
Filmed inside San Quentin's
historic walls
SWAMP WOMAN
A. strip-teaser in the Florida swamps Ann Corio and Jack LaRue
DUKE OF THE NAVY For fun only Ralph Byrd and Veda Arnborg *
THE MAD MONSTER George Zucco, Anne Nagel, and Johnny Downs
THE PANTHER’S CLAW
A chilly-thrilly-eerie-horror bill —heaven for horror addicts With Sydney Blackmer 7
GALLANT LADY
A woman doctor and a mercy killing Rose Hobart and Sidney Blackmer in a story adapted from Collier’s Magazine
PRISONER OF JAPAN
Timely story about Japanese espionage Alan Baxter and Gertrude Michael *
THEY RAID BY NIGHT The Commandos in Norway Lyle Talbot, June Duprez,
and Victor Varconi
BROADWAY BIG SHOT Ralph Byrd and Virginia Vale *
JUNGLE SIREN
Georgeous Corio in a nurong Ann Corio and Buster Crabbe A YANK IN LIBYA Nazi espionage gets punch drunk from desert heat H. B. Warner, Parkyarkarkus,
Walter Woolf King and Joan Woodbury
Producers Releasing Corporation
LIMITED H. J. ALLEN, General Manager Executive Offices: 277 Victoria St., Toronto, 2, Ont.
Canadian FILM WEEKLY
USA Handbook
Ts Valuable
The Office of Civilian Defence in Washington has issued a “Handbook for War” which could stand imitation in Canada. At present no like document exists here. The handbook calls upon exhibitors to adjust their hours of operation where necessary, so that war workers can get enter
tainment; show documentary films; take care of men in uniform; and assure theatre em
ployees and the public of protection against air raids.
“You can do four important war jobs,’’ reads the handbook:
“J, Make a point of showing documentary films which tell people about the war, about our fighting forces and our Allies, about the great work of our war factories and farmers and about civilian defense. Consult your Defense Council about securing such films.
“2. See that your theatre gives the greatest possible service to the community. With war factories operating 24 hours a day, many war workers have no chance for the relaxation and amusement which they need. Adjust your hours to give both night and day workers a chance to relax at the movies. Co-operate with other theatres and with your
Defense Council schedule.
“3. Give special men in uniform.
“4, Like retail merchants, you have a serious responsibility for the protection of your employees and customers against possible air raids. If you have not already taken the necessary precautions it would be well to do so right away. Your local Defense Council will advise you how to organize your ushers into a protection unit, how to blackout your theatre, and how to handle an audience in case of emergency.”
The existence of such a handbook in Canada would help make clear the needs of the government to municipal councils who have banned midnight shows without consideration for the war workers thus robbed of entertainment and relaxation, as well as suggesting things to exhibitors who haven't thought of them up to now.
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Jap Plunder
The Japanese, when they threw their sneak punch at the USA, grabbed $3,000,000 in rentals accumulated in Nipponese banks, $400,000 of which belonged to United Artists.
Vitagraph Readies Regional Meetings
Wolfe Cohen, Vice-President of Vitagraph, Ltd., has announced that the Canadian Regional Meetings of this film firm will be held at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, September 28-30.
In addition to the sales personnel from the various Canadian Branches, the following will attend from New York: Messrs. J. Bernhard, B. Kalmenson, R. H. Haines, N. H. Moray, A. Sachson and A. W. Schwalberg.
A, general session will be held September 28th; screening of several important reléases for the new season September 29th; and individual meetings with Branch Managers, September 30th.
MGM Long on Shorts
Metro has scheduled 78 short subjects and 104 issues of News of the Day for 1942-43. It was thought that this season would see a reduction but the increased interest in shorts has made this unwise.
Twenty-eight of the short subjects will be in Technicolor. The log includes Crime Does Not Pay, John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade, Pete Smith Specialties, Our Gang Comedies, Traveltalks and cartoons.
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iJos. M. Schenck,
Fox, Is Paroled
Joseph M. Schenck, former chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., has been released on parole from the Federal prison at Danbury, Conn., where he had served four months of a year-and-a-day sentence.
Schenck, sentenced for perjury, entered the prison May 2 and was released Monday, it was disclosed at the office of U. S. Attorney Mathias F. Correa, who prosecuted him. Sentence on income tax evasion charges was suspended.
Originally Schenck was sentenced to serve three years imprisonment but the term was reduced because he assisted the Government in the conviction of William Bioff and George E. Browne, motion picture union officials who were convicted of extorting $1,000,000 from film companies under threats of nationwide strikes.
Neagle's Owl Bow
Here’s something new. RKO’s “Wings and the Woman,” the Anna Neagle starrer, was honored with the first “swing-shift premiere.”” It was shown in two California theatres at 3.30 a.m. to defence workers and Anna Neagle made personal appearances wearing Amy Mollison’s own uniform.
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