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| THE PICK OF | THE PICTURES
REVIEWS INFORMATION RATINGS
Vol. 8, No. 39
REVIEWS FROM FILM DAILY, NEW YORK
September 22, 1943
*-Phantonr Hits JP. -Hail Tops
Barron Was Hired
‘Unbeknownst
The appointment of Win Barron as commentator for the Canadian edition of Paramount News was announced last week by A. J. Richard, director of Paramount News.
The method of selecting the commentator, Richard revealed, was a real tribute to Win Barron, who is Paramount's Canadian exploitation representative. The fact that Barron was already an employee of Paramount did not influence the decision as the judging was done from sound tracks only with no knowledge of who the speakers might be and came about in this way.
A. J. Richard decided that the edition of Paramount News which is specially edited for Canadian consumption required a Canadian commentator. Accordingly Gordon Lightstone, Canadian General Manager for Paramount, was delegated to make voice tests of several well known Canadian commentators. Each of them read a typical commentation on two newsreel sub
jects on a sound track with the |
identity of the candidates con-|
cealed. When those sound tracks were judged in New York, the unanimous choice was Win Barron. It was only then discovered that Barron was Paramount’s own exploitation man in Canada. After the selection it came to light that Barron was not exactly a novice as he had conducted his own radio program in Toronto for several years.
Win starts on his new job immediately with the good wishes of all of his associates, with whom his engaging personality has made him a popular favorite. He will retain his old post as Canadian exploitation man for Paramount.
Taube Resigns From Candy Machine Co'y
Syd B. Taube, popular figure on the Canadian theatre field, has resigned as general manager and Canadian representative of the Canadian Automatic Confections, Ltd. He was connected with the company, branch of a USA outfit, for eight years.
‘The Phantom of the Opera’
with Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude’ Rains Universal 92 Mins.
REMAKE OF HAIR-RAISER IS ACES IN EVERY DEPARTMENT; HAS THE MAKINGS OF STRONG BOX OFFICE CONTENDER.
Universal’s remake of ‘The Phantom of the Opera” exerts the same potent box office lure as did the first film version of the Gaston Leroux hair-raiser in 1925. Dressed in superb Technicolor, the produc
tion is a mine of entertainment!
which should gain an enthusiastic |
response from audiences everywhere to the enrichment of the showman. The studio will be more than well repaid for calling upon the phantom: of the Paris Opera for an encore,
By toning down the gruesome details and playing up what light moments the subject affords Universal has widened the film’s appeal to women and those who are not out-and-out shocker fans. The studio also has been wise in building up the musical aspects of the story and cutting down the Phantom role. The box office potentialties of the film have been additionally enhanced by refraining from making the phantom, as played by Claude Rains, the hideous and repellent creature that Lon Chaney made him in the original version of the story.
Rains does excellently, as the opera violinist who is secretly in love with a member of the same company (Susanna Foster) and who, after his features are marred by acid, launches a wave of terror
in his efforts to help the girl’s|
career.
Nelson Eddy and Susanna Foster | | dramatics which follow somewhat |
play the lovers who neyer seem to be able to get together, thanks no little to the competition offered by Edgar Barrier, a police officer.
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They take care of the film’s sing|
ing burden perfectly.
CAST: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Jane Farrar, Barbara Everest, Steven Geray,
Frank |
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Puglia, Leo Carrillo, Hans Herbert, Frit |
Feld, J. Edward Bromberg, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Blake, Elvira Curci, Rosina Galli, Fritz Leiber.
CREDITS: Producer, George Wagener; Director, Arthur Lubin; Screenplay, Eric Tayler, Samuel Hoffenstein; Adaptation, John Jacoby; Based on story by Gaston Leroux; Musical Director, Edward Ward; Cameraman, Hal Mohr; Technicolor Cameraman, Duke Green; Art Director, John Goodman.
DIRECTION, Fines PHOTOGRAPHY, Fine.
*’So Proudly We Hail!’ *
with Claudette Veronica Lake,
Colbert, Paulette George Reeves, series Britton
Paramount 126 Mins.
ROUSING SAGA OF THE PHILIPPINES’ FALL 1S STRONG BOX-OFFICE, AND MEMORABLE ENTERTAINMENT.
Most branches of the armed forces have received glorification at the hands of Hollywood's feature producers, but to Mark Sandrich goes the palm for delineating the heroics of the Army Nurse. In so doing, he has provided exhibitors and public with what is certainly one of the top flight wartheme attractions,— one which packs all the elements of fine entertainment, plus those inspirational values constantly needed to keep our war effort unflagging.
In recounting the dramatic story, Sandrich has employed the technique of “Power and the Glory,” and that film’s successors in the field of narrative-accompanied action, “Citizen Kane” and “Lydia.” Claudette Colbert, furnishing the central characterization,—that of Lieut. Janet Davidson—, is the vortex of this action, and her experiences, highlight of which is her romance with George Reeves, Army Lieutenant, are told in offscreen narration by some of the nurses.
The screenplay commences and ends aboard a ship which is bringing the handful of surviving Army nurses back to the United States | from Australia, following their escape from the Philippines by plane. In many of its sequences, | “So Proudly We Hail!” rises to the | stature of a very great picture, the | sole tempering influence militating | against its full consistency being resort to understandable melo|
the pattern of predecessor produc| tions. But if not always great, the | picture is always better than good, and should prove to be a gold mine for showmen and a feast for the
fans,
CAST: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton, Walter Abel, Sonny Tufts, Mary Servoss, Ted Hecht, Dick Hogan, Dr, H. H, Chang, James Beil, Lorna Gray, Dorothy Adams, Kitty Kelly, Bill Good. i win, Mary Treen, Helen Lynd and others.
CREDITS: Producer, Mark Sandrich: Director, Mark Sandrich; Original Story, Allan Scott; Art Director, Hans Deier, Earl Hedrick; Cameraman, Charles Lang; Soundmen, Harold Lewis and John Cone; Set Decoration, Stephen Seymour.
DIRECTION, Excellent. PHOTOGRA. PHY, Fine,
| The
« Novel ee aR
Bow For TITA
“This Is the Army,” Warners filmization of the famed USArmy show, had a novel Canadian pre
miere yesterday. It made its Dominion debut at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, for officers and men of the Engineer Corps of the Northwest Army Command. The theasecond of its kind Alaska Highway,
tre, on the was constructed of army huts joined together and was opened with TITA.
There is some talk that the theatre may be called “TITA” “Irving Berlin.”
The premiere
or
was staged at the invitation of Gen. James A. O’Connor, in command, and Brig.-Gen. L. D. Worsham, Division Engineer.
CBC carried the event in a halfhour broadcast national This broadcast, called “The Footlight Front," devoted the first 15 minutes, originating in Toronto, to the great work of the Canadian entertainment industry. last 15 minutes came directly from Whitehorse.
The theatre is 1500 miles from Edmonton, Alberta, and 500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska.
over a4 hookup.
SEAT REPAIRS
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Seats returned same day as received.
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CHAIR CO.
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