Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 2, 1943)

Page 8 All-Time Greats! * SIR ALEXANDER KORDA presents Searlet Pimpernel Leslic Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey * The Ghost Goes West Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette * Elephant Boy Sabu * Sanders of the River Paul Robeson * Henry VIII Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon * Producers Releasing Corporation Exeontive Offlese: 277 Victoria St., Toronte, 2, Ont. Canadian FILM WEEKLY a = 0 —— ‘A Roly Young Unrambled The silver-thatched though youthful (comparitively) celluloid assayer of the Toronto Globe and Mail is breaking in a hospital bed at the time this is written. The author of “Rambling With Roly,” bedded or no, is as pert and punchy as ever. So it shouldn’t be a total loss, as the gagsters have it, Roly has turned his sojourn in the sick factory to good and humorous account, He certainly cleared up something that has plagued me for years. Perhaps it is also one of your unanswered questions. Wrote Roly on the second day of his siesta among the scalpels, stethoscopes and organ grinders: “Just in case any of youse guys have never had the cute experience of having a lovely young lady give you a bath, I'll elucidate on the proceedings. You start out with a perfectly normal face wash, which is rather refreshing, and clears the complexion so you won't have any difficulty in blushing at what follows. Then the lassie suggests that you take off your pyjama coat, and she systematically scrubs each arm. The torso comes next. This is where hostilities develop. You are determined to kéep within certain conventional bounds by holding the sheet tightly around the Plimsol line with some kind of mock virtue that you acquire under these circumstances, while the nurse is equally determined that her sanitary evolutions will be allinclusive. So she swings the wash-rag a bit lower, and you grab the sheet a bit higher, and then at a crucial point in these manoeuvres the darned sheet comes away at the foot of the bed, and you might as well give yourself up for lost. “In less time than it takes to say Ouspenskaya, the nurse dives an arm under the sheet and comes up with one of your legs. “This gets a thorough rinsing, and now you find you have to go into reverse and devote all your energy to keeping the sheet down as well as up! Meanwhile our angel of mercy continues her nonchalant performance, and, as more and more of you gets wet, the area covered by the sheet gets smaller and smaller. “The timing of this performance is quite remarkable, because always, just when you get to the point where you're ready to say, “Okay, t’ell with it!” she suddenly covers you from head to foot, tosses in a washrag and towel in true prize-ring tradition, and says: “Finish it yourself.” “All of which, you see, is almost exactly the same as Lou Appleby dishes out at the Queen Street opera house.” It’s a shame, of course, to steal a sick man’s stint. But his stuff is so much better. And Quality is Our Motto. Radio Buildup for NBC Televises ‘Five Graves’ Last Sunday night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation dramatized high lights from the new Paramount picture — ‘Five Graves to Cairo.” Timed to the split second as no screen debut has ever been timed before, ‘Five Graves to Cairo” was considered an ideal vehicle for use on the CBC program, “Highlights for Today.” Since the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. King, was addressing the country on the same program, “Five Graves to Cairo’ enjoyed one of the heaviest audiences of the year. The program, produced by Stanley Maxted, formerly of Toronto and now with the BBC, gave “Five Graves to Cairo” a wonderful send-off. It was spotted between the Jack Benny Show and Charlle McCarthy, "Thousand Days’ Associated Screen Studios Canadianproduced two-reeler, “The Thousand Days,” was televised by NBC from its New York studios on May 24, Empire Day. It took twenty minutes to broadcast from the main television studio. “The Thousand Days,” a review of the first thousand days of Canada at war, was recently obtained by the USA Office of War Information for distribution in the United States, the first Canadianproduced motion picture to be so listed. It has been recommended by the OWI for showings in the United States to promote United Nations unity. One of a number of war-theme pictures being supplied by the OWI for television broadcasting, “The Thousand Days” told USA listeners about our war effort. ee dune 2, 1948 Here's a Real Good Campaign (Continued from Page 1) nance Committee. Some interesting facts contained in the report were that 33 out of Nova Scotia’s 52 theatres had speakers on the stage to address the audience. Twenty-eight theatres carried the inserts in all the daily papers available in the province at a total contributed expense of $280. Five theatres ran special large endorsement ads at a total cost of $160. Of the 52 Nova Scotia theatres, 40 received and ran trailers to a total of 360,000 feet of film, contributing screen time valued on the basis of .01c per seat per week totalling over $450. Approximately 3,600 lines of free publicity were secured in the newspapers. Of the 52 owner-managers, 33 belonged to bond selling units; 26 were appointed chairmen of their local public relations committees. One hundred and forty-six employees of a total of 260 persons employed in Nova Scotia theatres bought at least one $50 bond each, a remarkable record. The outstanding employee class in bond purchasers were those in cleaning, janitor and cashier positions. Thirty-nine owners or managers report having bought bonds personally or through their theatre account. Special credit should be given to such prominent Victory Loan workers as W. H. Cuzner, unit War Finance Chairman of Sydney Mines; J. Farr, Public Relations Chairman and ace bond salesman of North Sydney; bond salesman Fred Gregor of New Waterford; Public Relations Chairman, Frank Gallop of Sydney; Public Relations worker, N. W. Mason of New Glasgow; Springhill Chairman, His Worship Archie Mason, Mayor; Public Relations committeeman E. Hatfield of Yarmouth, Mrs. Audas of the F. G. Spencer theatre, Amherst; Mr. Fraser of the Spencer theatres in Truro, and T. J. Courtney, Casino Theatre, Halifax. In closing his report, R. S. Roddick expressed his gratitude to Nova Scotian showmen for their assistance in making his job so much easier and complete. Hal Horne Signs Five-Year Contract Hal Horne has signed a fiveyear contract with 20th-Fox to continue as director of advertising, ‘ publicity and exploitation. The old agreement had a year to go. Last year Horne joined Fox. He knows theatres and studios well. He used to be general manager for Far West Theatres and has handled Disney and Wanger Productions and won national awaxds.,