Canadian Film Weekly (Mar 24, 1943)

Page 6 28 DAYS OF EPIC HEROISM THAT SHOOK THE WORLD Corregidor From the ‘Blood Red Rock’ comes the most poignant story of the war. Here is that story, re-created in realistic drama that all may see and know how these heroes of Corregidor died that we may live. Starring ELISA LANDI OTTO KRUGER DONALD WOODS with Frank Jenks, Ricki Vallin, Wanda McKay, Ian Keith * CORREGIDOR Alfred Noyes, noted English poet, wrote ‘Corregidor’ especially for the picture. The poem, narrated in the picture by Mr. Noyes, has been published everywhere. * Producers Releasing Corporation LIMITED Executive Offices: 277 Victoria St., Toronto, 2, Ont. Canadian FILM WEEKLY A. Levey Guides Para’s Television Following a meeting of the Board of Directors of Scophony Corporation of America, Arthur Levey was signed to a five-year contract to serve as president and general manager of the television company. It was announced that the Board took this action to insure continuity of management and to keep Levey at the helm of the organization which he established. Television Productions, Inc., a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, Inc., and General Precision Equipment Corporation are associated with Levey in the operation of Scophony. American enterprise and capital may be said to have contributed largely to the successful development of the new “supersonic” television which brings to this country the only system to compete with the “electronic’’ method used in all other American television systems, inasmuch as Levey, 2 founder, director and one of the major shareholders of Scophony, Ltd., the British company, is an American citizen. Born in New York City, Levey served with the AHF in the first world war, after which he went to London and became prominently identified with the film industry. Among his business associates at /|various times were Lord Beaver brook, Sir William Jury, Sir Bonham Carter, John Maxwell, Oscar Deutsch, £o]l. A. C. Bromhead and the American producers, Walter Wanger, Rex Ingram and Al Lichtman. For nearly a quarter of a century, Levey has been active in enterprises to further the cause of Anglo-American unity and was the moving factor behind the Lord Northcliffe Mission to the United States in 1920. As the result of a luncheon, to the Mission at which Mr. Levey was host, at the Hotel Astor, attended by industry leaders on Feb. 17th, 1920, the Motion Picture Division of the AngloAmerican Unity League, Inc., was formed and among its directors were Samuel Goldwyn, Richard A. Rowland, J. D. Williams, Lewis J. Selznick, Austin Keough and Arthur Levey. Lord Northcliffe’s representative, W. G. Faulkner, and Levey toured the country, enlisting thousands of Americans in the Unity League. Levey was then twenty-one years old and chairman of the National Executive Committee of the League which he founded, It is an interesting commentary that in 1921 Levey was Foreign Sales Manager of Associated Producers, Inc., an organization of leading American film producers —Thomas H. Ince, Mack Sennett, Allan Dwan, Maurice Tourneur and others — who had seceded from Paramount, and Levey had the responsibility of leading the fight against Paramount, especially in Great Britain. Today, Paramount through its subsidiary, Television Production, Inc., has joined Levey as a partner in Scophony Corporation of America, which is expected to play an important part in the development of the television industry and should therefore provide post-war employment for many men now in the armed services. Strong Buildup For Mono’s ‘Silver Skates‘ For the opening engagement of “Silver Skates,” Monogram’s ice special, in the Hollywood Theatre, Toronto, the management has put on an extensive publicity campaign. In addition to the regular newspaper space, tieups have been made with two of the broadcasting stations to broadcast the two song hits of the picture. All the leading orchestras in the city have been playing the hit numbers of the pictures two weeks prior to the engagement. The picture was screened a week before the opening for the heads of the Toronto Skating Club, the Granite Club and the leading amateur skaters of the city. Romance Don Ameche and lovely Janet Blair are the stars in the new Columbia musical hit, “Something to Shout About,” which features songs by Cole Porter. March 24, 19438 jMetro, Korda Hook Up One of the most important mergers in the history of British and American film production and one with far-reaching effect on the future relations of the film industry in the United States and Great Britain has been announced. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, which in the past produced many successful films in England, and Sir Alexander Korda have merged their British production interests. Hereafter they will be associated in making outstanding films in Great Britain. Sir Alexander, a leading figure in the film world, was responsible for such notable British pictures as “The Private Life of Henry the Highth,” “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” “The Ghost Goes West,” “The Thief of Bagdad,” “Four Feathers,” “Lady Hamilton,” and others. He brought to the screen such outstanding stars as Robert Donat, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon (Lady Korda), Vivien Leigh, Sabu, Binnie Barnes and many more. He founded London Film Productions, Ltd., in 1932 and Alexander Korda Film Productions in 1938. He also built and operated the Denham studios near London. Metro has produced a number of successful pictures in London including “A Yank at Oxford,” starring Robert Taylor; “The Citadel,” starring Robert Donat; “Goodbye Mr. Chips,’ also starring Donat and introducing to the screen Greer Garson, this year’s Academy award winner, and the forthcoming “Sabotage Agent,” a topical spy drama starring Donat. Sir Alexander is now at the MGM studios conferring with Louis B. Mayer and other studio executives concerning future productions in London. No definite plans have been made yet for the first pictures to be put into production, but decisions will be made before Sir Alexander leaves for London within a month. “I am happy to become affiliated with the great Loew organization, with its unexcelled production and distribution facilities,” Sir Alexander said. “We plan to maintain the same high standards set by both organizations in British pictures of the past.” Garneau Back Lieut.-Col. Raymond Garneau, V.D., who organized the financing of the Capitol Theatre Limited, Quebec, has retired from active service and returned to Greenshields & Co. Lieut.-Col. Garneau served in the last war from 1915 to 1919 and in this one since 1939, * x a 4 *