Canadian Film Weekly (Sep 1, 1943)

Page 4 OF CANADA LTD. 277 Victoria St. Toronto Sign Up With the NEW MONOGRAM Bigger and Better Films for 1943-44 SIX SPECIALS 1. LADY LET’S DANCE, featuring the skating venus, BELITA. . HITLER’S WOMEN will prove the boxoffice sensation of the year—portraying the savagery of the Reich and its brutal treatment of women and girls. 38. GROUND CREW, ing Jackie Cooper. 4. WHERE ARE MY CHIL DREN? a sizzling exploitation natural. FIGHTING QUARTERMASTER, a booming saga of the services of supply. 6. A second BELITA musical ice spectacle. ww featur oa TEN BOXOFFICE WINNERS FOUR EAST SIDE KID Specials FOUR Big Musicals TWO Charlie Chan Pictures TEN REAL ATTRACTIONS TWO Cisco Kid Pictures TWO Bela Lugosi Subjects SIX to be Announced OUR WESTERNS ARE TOP-BRACHKET PRODUCTIONS FOUR featuring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton FOUR featuring Hoot Gibson and Ken Maynard For Real Profits Buy Monogram Pictures for 1943-44 * The fastest-growing company in the industry MONOGRAM PICTURES Toronto, Montreal, St. John Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver Canadian FILM WEEKLY j Ox n The SQUARE Eyenybear Had a Swell Time That was quite a mob scene out at Charlie Mavety’s Circle M Ranch the other night. Sounded like an Indian raid but was really the chicken barbecue of the National Council of Indies. It was a do-as-you-please evening, with everyone giving way to their inclinations in the spacious surroundings and comfortable facilities. It seemed that the whole industry was on hand. Martin Bloom went riding up and down in front of the envious tenderfeet, which caused George Altman to snort, “The man’s stirrup-crazy.” And Joe Plottel seemed to be drinking it all in, no doubt to get inspiration for the sale of those Dick Foran Western reissues that Warners have. Gary Cass trimmed yours truly at darts while nearby Gord Lightstone was giving O. J. Silverthorne 2 lesson in Boston. While some were wandering about the ranch, others were examining Charlie’s famed Palemino horses. From the chuck Wagon you could hear muffled shouts of joy from those whose mouths were stuffed with grand food raised right there. The elegant ranch house, filled with many interesting souvenirs, among them a $1500 silver saddle made for Robert Taylor as “Billy the Kid,’’ was a favorite hangout. Charlie Mavety was busy making everyone feel at home. The Circle M is no high-class kibitz but a large and serious enterprise. There are 80 horses on the place, as well as a large herd of cows and the cowpunchers have no time for guitar playing. Charlie’s horses return his love, one fellow doing plenty of tricks. He ever kisses Charlie on the cheek when asked to. Ben Freedman, Harry Romberg, Gus and Garson Soloway can take all the bows pebey, went for the Vexy’ enjoyable event. Old Man With the Whispers Bud Barker, overseas with the RCAF, discovered that his bunkmate was a former Odeon man. The two spent the first night arguing the merits of thelr respective companies. ... Harry Lester is a regular Maple Leaf rooter, his pal Harry Davis being the firstbaseman of the team... . Lou Polakoff’s daughter, Helen, was married to Joe Stutz of the Wynola family last Thursday at the Holy Blossom Synagogue, Toronto. The wedding was followed by a family dinner at the King Edward Hotel. ... Edmonton poolroom owner beefed to the cops about the theatre next door blocking off his business with its lineups. . . . Bert Bacharach, in Men’s Wear Magazine, remembers a scene he was part of in a pre-war Berlin beer parlor. One of a group of drinking Prussians, a short-haired, sword-scarred fellow who was somewhat drunk, jeered loud enough for him to hear: “Look at France —in ruins. Look at the Fatherland—untouched. Now tell me who lost the war!’ It won’t be that way after this war... . Nellie Lambert, usherette at the Grand, Kingston, has joined the navy. . . Mitchell Franklin, RCAF, son of Joe Franklin, was married to Miss Agnes Yorke of St. John in New York while on leave. * % = Grandpappy Fitzgibbons J. J. Fitzgibbons, genial president of Famous Players, became a grandfather for the first time last week with the debut of John Joseph Fitzgibbons, III, at the Honolulu Hospital. The father, Lieut. J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., is there with the United States army. Lieut. Fitzgibbons, who is married to a young lady he met while stationed in Hawaii, was formerly assistant manager of the Metropolitan, Winnipeg. Educated in an American military institute, he was a reserve army Officer and was called to the service before the USA entered the war. The contribution of the Fitzgibbons family is a notable one from a standpoint of manpower alone. Son Eugene is in India with the US Army Air Corps, another son is taking a USA navy course, 2 son-in-law is a medical officer with the American army, and a daughter is 2 member of the RCAF, Women’s Division. The new grandfather has never met his daughter-in-law. Now he has a grandson he hasn't seen yet. But he is no less happy about the event. That’s the war for you—-and he knows about war. He’s head of the motion picture war services in Canada, September 1, 1948 Delegates See ‘Silver Fleet’ Netherlands Government officials screened the British-made feature “The Silver Fleet” last week-end for 70 correspondents and i100 global war experts at the Quebec conference. Later, the print vanished into the Chateau Frontenac, presumably to be viewed by unnamed dignitaries in the Roosevelt-Churchill entourage. Purpose of the event was to highlight the fact that Holland, Anglo-American ally in both European and Pacific war theatres, has underground preparations well-advanced to aid United Nations’ troops when the day comes. A production of The Archers (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger), “The Silver Fleet” has been drawing well in Britain as a present-day Scarlet Pimpernel tale. But its background, shot with the co-operation of the Royal Netherlands Navy, and using in its story information smuggled out to the Netherlands Government in-exile, is rated an authentic blueprint of conditions along part of Hurope’s invasion coast. Director Vernon Sewell, RNVR, was seconded to the Netherlands Navy to make the film by the British Admiralty. Ralph Richardson, now a Lieutenant-Commander in Britain’s Fleet Air Arm, was given leave to star in it. Jan Van Stappen, head of the Netherlands’ office in Montreal, was host at the Quebec Conference preview and the showing was held at the Capitol theatre there through the courtesy of J. J. Fitzgibbons and Famous Players Canadian Corporation. Navy Helps ‘Action’ Warners “Action in the North Atlantic” was ushered into Shea’s, Toronto, with appropriate ceremonies. The 90-piece band of HMCS Kent played in front of the theatre and a number of navy and merchant marine men were inter~viewed over the radio. Managers Help in Delinquency Drive Managers of Cornwall, Ontario, theatres will keep a check on children seeking admission at night unaccompanied by parents or guardians. Juvenile Judge P. C. Bergeron made this known recently when dealing with the case of a 14-year-old boy charged with the theft of tickets from the Capitol Theatre. The co-operation of theatre managers ‘will be a great help in our campaign against juvenile delinquency,” Judge Bergeron stated. He believes it will stop patrons from buying tickets for children who stand outside theatres,