Canadian Film Weekly (Sep 22, 1943)

Pago 2 R cor? y Greats x COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Robert Donat LAST OF THE MOHICANS Randolph Scott SANDERS OF THE RIVER Paul Robeson SCARLET PIMPERNEL Leslie Howard HENRY VIII Charles Laughton ELEPHANT BOY Sabu GHOST GOES WEST Robert Donat LAUREL and HARDY FEATURES 1. Pack Up Your Troubles 2. Pardon Us 3. Beau Hunks * WATCH FOR CORREGIDOR Otto Kruger, Elisa Landi * Producers Releasing Corporation LIMITED Executive Offices: 277 Victoria St., Toronto, 2, Ont. Canadian FILM WEEKLY Exhibs to Boost Saving of Fuel (Continued from Page 1) Industry was settled at a meeting in Toronto between the executive of the War Service Committee and members of the Fuel Control Committee of the government. Theatre heating experts, after a study of fuel conservation methods, have prepared a guide which will be printed on a card for easy reference by engineers and man~ agers, A form pledging theatre men to save at least 30 per cent of the amount of fuel used last winter has been sent out and is being returned to the Committee. All exhibitor bodies and Film Boards of Trade have passed or will pass resolutions recommending conservation, copies of which will be sent to Mr. Kingsland and Ray Lewis, secretary of the Motion Picture War Services Committee, 277 Victoria Street, Toronto. A representative of the Fuel Control Committee will endeavor to be present at any meeting of exhibitor bodies. Tremendously important to the general campaign will be the theatre men’s efforts to keep up a regular flow of publicity, since furnaces must be attended so often | and forgetfulness means a falling | back to old habits of stoking. Pamphlets will be distributed to | patrons and special news clips will be shown. Slugs for insertion in | ads will be provided. A slogans contest, with prizes of $25, $15, $10 for the best, will Odeon-Rank Story Uncredited Here (Continued from Page 1) ator in the British Empire, recently promised the government that he would not extend his holdings in the British Isles further. The suggested interest in Empire theatre activities may be the course of expansion charted in view of that position, Odeon Theatres of Canada, now headed by Paul Nathanson, came into being in 1941, when the late N. L, Nathanson withdrew from Famous Players. At present Odeon controls 76 houses in the Dominion. The lawsuit between Odeon Theatres and Famous Players over the disposition of certain theatre properties is still to be heard by the courts. be conducted by the Committee and judged by the Fuel Control setup. All details will be announced in both Canadian trade papers. ‘Standby Charge Denied By Covert (Continued from Page 1) and Canada from time to time for the past 25 years, and I have not found any standby stage hands or projectionists being paid. We, as an International, insist on our men being employed only when there is work for them to do, and if any exhibitor issued a complaint to our General Office, and could prove such complaints, our International would discipline the Local Union responsible.” The St. Thomas Times-Journal charge was made editorially in a recent issue. Two movie theatres in St. Louis, the newspaper claimed, were closed for three years because the management refused to pay stage hands with no regular work to do, “The union which supplies the operators of the reels,” the editorial said, “refused to allow its | members to work for theatres} | which would not pay members of | other unions for simply looking on, and so the owners were helpless. After being in darkness for nearly three years the movies are being shown again because the owners found that they could not buck the unions. And loafers are being paid.” The newspaper called the conditions denied as existing by Covert, second vice-president of the IATSE, as “union blackmail.” It said that the same thing was being done by other unions and called for post-war correction. Vandals Interrupt Midnight Show A Sunday midnight show at the Capitol Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario, recently was interrupted when “stink bombs” were thrown into the auditorium during the performance. Police arrested two boys who were caught tearing down the display in front of the theatre. Vol. 8, No. 39 HYE BOSSIN, Managing Editor Sept. 22, 1343 September 22, 19438 Heres List of Tax Free Shows (Centinued from Page 1) profit enterprises, don’t have to pay the 20 per cent amusement tax. They not only lower prices, run two-for-one admission schemes, but advertise right alongside standard commercial exhibitors. The shows are run by merchants to attract people to their towns for shopping and Keep local citizens from visiting theatres in nearby places. Profits are paid out as salaries but merchants behind the scheme make theirs through increased business. The tax-free shows have spread and there are over 30 in Saskatchewan right now. One Saskatchewan exhibitor wrote a letter of protest to Mr. Isley, who replied that some consideration might be given for the next budget. The National Council of Independents has asked President Archie Mason to go to Ottawa on the matter if necessary and the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario has interested itself. Prairie exhibitors, used to drawing their patronage from an area of 10 to 30 miles from their theatres, have been hit hard by gas rationing, enlistments and population shifts. Lower-priced competition under tax-free schemes has some of them desperate. Some of the population centres in Saskatchewan with tax-free shows sponsored by Boards of Trade, Canadian Legion, lodges and so on, are Crooked River, Fairholm, Glaslyn, Measted, Hudson Bay Junction, Lashburn, Loon Lake, Langham, Lintlaw, Middle Lake, St. Benedict, Preeceville, Parkside, Prud’Home, Spalding, St. Walburg, Theodore, Togo, White Fox, Aylsham, Tramping Lake, Broadacres, Major, Shellbrook, Cut Knife, Carnduff, Carlyle, Arcola and Bienfait. Itinerant and NFB 16 mm. exhibition have been none too good for rural operators. The 35 mm. tax-free shows offer a direct challenge. An appeal will be made to distributors to restrict the sale of film to tax-free theatres. We Wl Rent om Lease Your Theatre I} Price Ia Right Canadian Film Weekly * eee ee Oe! het pee Fi’ »