Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 7, 1944)

OF OANADA LTD. 277 Victoria Street, Toronto. Presents Lady Lef?'s Dance Starring BELITA She’s lovely as she Dances and Skates * Where Are Your Children? Starring JACKIE COOPER GALE STORM The Year’s Most Timely Film * Women In Bondage Starring GAIL PATRICK NANCY KELLY What Happens to Women Under the New Order And COMING SOON x Johnnie Doesn't Live Here Anymore Starring SIMONE SIMON JAMES ELLISON A Gay Comedy of Errors In Wartime Washington SURE-FIRE HITS from MONOGRAM The fastest-growing company in the industry MONOGRAM PICTURES Toronto, Montreal, St. John, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver. ed Canadian FILM WEEKLY “OnThe $ quare with Hye Bo IG Summer Urge Have you ever stood amid the din, heat and glare of the early afternoon and found yourself with an almost painful longing to be close to-some favorite foliage or flower in its natural state? I had that urge but wasn’t sure which of the earth’s loveliest children I preferred until a boy with a sprig of lilac in one hand strolled by. That was it—lilacs! But lilacs downtown in the warm bleakness of these many-eyed brick-and-steel giants? Never. So I turned sadly to business and called on Tom Daley in the Imperial Theatre. Tom is a sentimental fellow with an understanding heart. He knows that whims and nonsense are things apart, since the first springs from the heart and the other from the head. I told him my lilac trouble. He smiled sympathetically and said “Come with me.” I followed him into the most private room of the men’s lounge. He peered through the iron grill of a window. “Look,” he said. There stood the most graceful and shapely lilac tree I had ever seen. Not a bush but a tree perhaps thirty feet high. It did nof droop in the feminine fashion of lilac bushes but stood proudly. Its split trunk reached up like a pair of hands holding a bouquet. It would be a boon to the eye of the most discriminating lover of beauty. Then I looked at its surroundings. The lilac tree was trapped on every side by walls higher than itself. On one side it was opposed by the barred windows of the main street jewelry store in whose back yard it was jailed. It seemed locked in a brick cell with only a natural skylight through which it was fed. There was trash on the roofs above and the chimneys stood like guards. Smudgy smoke performed an ugly, challenging dance around it. But the lilac ¢ree stood with dignity and seeming disdain, a prisoner of the never-ending war between man and nature. In solitary confinement, with not even the comparative liberty enjoyed by its city brothers in their refined block-long chain gangs. Once, no doubt, it shared this piece of earth with neighbors who loved it and catered to its every need. Children laughed and played under it, lovers sang and old folks rested. Now its neighbors were tradesmen, there for profit. Such people leave their laughter at home and return to it in the evening. These must be lonely days for the old lilac tree. Reel iatelines Art Cauley, manager of the Capitol, Peterboro, is back on the job after a spell in the hospital. . . Max Chic, of Artkino Pictures, is in the hospital. . . Leading Stoker Jack Willard, formerly of the staff of the Capitol, New Toronto, was on the Valleyfield when it went down. He dropped around to chat with the boys the other day. . . Wrote Roly Young about the fact that the Associated British Newsreel would be discontinued shortly: “The story of how this English newsreel was squeezed out of Canada is an intriguing little saga.” XY asked Harry Kaufman why his company was dropping the reel and he said: “It isn’t making money, that’s all. It’s as simple as that.” Could there be a dark secret here? ... Also on the sick list is Dewey Bloom. Jackson Barker, Famous Players artist, is doing a sprightly column in Jimmy Nairn’s “What’s New.” Artists usually make sO many errors in spelling that a critic once defended them with “Why should they be able to spell? Can writers draw?” Fortunately Jim’s eagle eye operates in Jackson’s behalf. “TEST FILM, 10,000 cycles 35 mm., with easy instructions, so that you can focus your Sound Lens in absolute precision and secure clear sound and the Maximum from dat VE 2072 oR MORE OF ous st Rabe sults fen 383 whe ie your sound System. Just ce 2 BSle aie wil: [GAkK WAC KACKS US: * SOMINION THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO 897 CAVE ST VANCOUVER EC what many theatre owners have longed for! Bargain $6.60.” Jun» 7, 1944 Skinner Wins NS Contest (Continued from Page 1) ning book has been forwarded to the headquarters of the Committee to be entered against the winners of the other provinces for the Dominion prize. “Running a close second to Freeman Skinner of the Orpheus for the amount of personal effort contributed was Hugh E. Best of the Capitol Theatre, Shelburne,” reports co-chairman R. 8S. Roddick. “Shelburne is not a large city by any standard of measurement, but the evidence in Hugh’s scrap book would do credit to any man in any community. Third place in the Nova Scotia contest was given to Ernie Hatfield of the Capitol Theatre, Yarmouth. Ernie is another one of those community spirits that practically takes over the town when a drive or campaign is organized for any worthy cause. .. The judges were very strong in their praise of the evidence of Bob Harvey’s efforts. . . Frankly, the evidence of community spirit was tremendous, and the selection of winners was very difficult.” Judges for the Nova Scotia contest were the Hon. Harold Connelly, Provincial minister of publicity and industry; Gerald Redmond, Provincial chairman of the War Finance Public Relations Committee, and R. J. Rankin, editor of the erale and Mail, Halifax. Exhibitors and managers who acted in an official capacity submitted their scrap books but asked that they not be entered in the judging. The co-chairman will retain some of the books and pass on the ideas in them when the next drive comes along. 30 Million Weekly in British Movie Houses Attendance in British movie houses is up to 30,000,000 per week, it is estimated. The figure on January ist of this year was set conservatively at 24,000,000 but it was raised by the thousands of American troops in Britain, 20th Century-Fox Has Nine to Go Releases for the first five months of the 1944-45 season by 20th-Fox in the USA. are “Wing and a Prayer,” “Take It or Leave It,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” “Greenwich Village,” ‘Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” “In the Meantime, Darling,” “Laura,” “Something for the Boys,” “Thunderhead (Son of Flicka)” and “Sunday. Dinner for a Soldier.”