Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 9, 1944)

Page 8 Canadian FILM WEEKLY August 9, 1944 . Outsider Led 42 Ottawa Honors Stars, Jim McGarrigle Jack L. Warner (Continued from Page 1) Film Dough Derby Individual salaries of top executives and stars in 1942 didn't come up to the amount made in commissions by an unknown newcomer, Sdney R. Fleisher, moving picture negotiator for the Dramatists Guild, who received $635,000 in 1942 from Twentieth CenturyFox. This figure puts him at the head of the USA treasury’s first edition list of top salaries paid to individuals for personal services in that year. Claudette Colbert led the star listing with $360,000 received in salary from Paramount Pictures compared with $240,000 in the previous year. Fred MacMurray was next in line with $347,333 from Paramount. Some other Paramount salaries: Bing Crosby, $336,111; Paulette Goddard, $152,500; Bob Hope, $148,333 (Samuel Goldwyn Inc., Ltd., also paid Hope $100,000); Fredric March, $100,000; George Marshall, $131,708; Joel McCrea, $90,000; Raymond Milland, $130,125; Ginger Rogers, $245,000; Victor Moore, $103,125; Preston Sturges, $229,000; Franchot Tone, $121,000. Dorothy Lamour received $127,416 from Paramount. Gary Cooper got $247,397 from Samuel Goldwyn Inc., Ltd. Twentieth Century-Fox list included Don Ameche, $194,500; Jack Benny, $125,000; Henry Fonda, $167,625; Bryan Foy, $160,000; Betty Grable, $92,375; Sonja Henie, $100,000; Tyrone Power, $162,872. Bette Davis received $220,000 from Warner Brothers. Other Warner salaries: Humphrey Bogart, $114,125; Olivia De Havilland, $79,916; Errol Flynn, $175,000; Cary Grant, $100,000; Ida Lupino, $142,175; Ann Sheridan, $82,333. The amount paid L. B. Mayer, who led the lst for 1941 with $949,765 received from Loew’s, Inc., in salary and other compensations, was not included in the figures recently released. Metro May Use B.C. British Columbia territory, near Victoria, scene of the shooting of much footage for “Commandos Strike at Dawn” two years ago, may be used again by MGM for “Son of Lassie.” Herman Webber, assistant director, favors the location. MGM Loan Short Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will produce the special trailer for the Seventh Victory Loan, due in autumn, it was announced recently by J. J. Fitzgibbons, national chairman of the Canadian Motion Picture War Services Committee, Division), which was attended by industry leaders and representatives of the Dominion and USA governments, Don Henshaw of the National War Finance Committee, who presented the awards, paid high tribute to the Canadian Motion Picture War Services, which sponsored the production and dis tribution of the film. “On behalf of the artists who participated in the making of ‘The Shining Future,’ I am both happy and proud to accept this plaque. I know I speak for every one of them when I ask Mr. Henshaw to carry back to his government the message that we regard it as an honor and a privilege to have been of service to our good friend and neighbor, the Dominion of Canada,” said Mr. Warner. “I hope that long after the picture has served its purpose of helping the Canadian Government to sell War Bonds it will be remembered as still another way in which friendly nations united together in a common cause to help defeat a common enemy. “On behalf of the whole motion picture industry, I want also to thank Mr. Henshaw, Mr. Griffis, Mr. Gamble and Col. Hanson for their generous statement. The use that our war government and our armed services have made of the motion picture and the extent to which they have called upon us for assistance constitutes a milestone in the development of the film as a means of carrying information and inspiration to large numbers of people. “The war is still with us. There must be no last-minute realization lest complete victory — the only kind that counts — slip through our fingers. But we who make motion pictures must not forget that the pictures we are making today may play to audiences that have seen the end of the war. It is timely—it is urgent—that we think carefully about the kind of picture we will be releasing to the world at that time. I am sure that every motion picture producer agrees that the motion picture with its great potential power to do good must not be content with entertainment alone. I know that in the years after the war, just as during the war, our total product will include many pictures that will carry the great truth of our times, “Looking ahead, I venture to suggest some principles that should serve as a guide to us all. They are principles which the founders of this country knew very well but which many were forgetting until war came as 2 powerful and tragic reminder of their external truth. “There are six points—six mes Sages — which postwar pictures must carry to the American people and to the world: 1. Every one of us is responsible for safeguarding our great heritage of freedom; 2. Every one of us must remember that freedom if taken for granted can be lost: 3. We must be quick to recognize the forces that will destroy freedom: 4. We must be physically able to put down those forces if they attack us: 5. We must be morally able to keep them from developing within our country: 6. We must never forget that the world cannot exist half-slave and halffree. : “In the postwar world motion pictures must have the same freedom of expression as is guaranteed to the press and the spoken word. We must be constantly on the alert to resist all forms of dictation or attempted regulation. We must refuse to be intimidated from expressing our honest con~ victions on the screen. “As Anthony Eden pointed out, we are fighting not just to win a fight, but to win a world in which our children and their children can know the security of peace and freedom. That struggle will go on even after the Axis has been defeated. It may go on for ten years after the war, “These will be the critical years in which the motion picture can be of real service in dramatizing the issues of the day and keeping alive our traditions and ideals. The tribute which these gentlemen here today have paid to the service of the motion picture in winning the war should inspire us and remind us of our responsibility to work for a strong America which will be secure in a peaceful world. That way, we in motion pictures, can in some measure help to discharge our debt to our fighting men.” New Theatre Planned For Calgary, Alta. A. post-war theatre will be erected in Calgary, Alberta, when restrictions are removed for interests represented by Harry Cohen, sales manager of General Distributors, 130 9th Avenue W. Cohen purchased a 12-lot site from the city for $2,082. Calgary, with a population of almost 90,000, has 11 theatres now. It has been rumored that various interests have plans under way for new theatres. Plenty Chipper If you wish proof that freedom from worry will pay dividends, not in cash, but in mental and physical health, you can find it in Jimmy McGarrigle of Saint John, New Brunswick, whose diversified activities have included being a pioneer film exhibitor. Three and a half decades ago he was operating picture theatres in Liverpool, Bridgewater and Shelburne in Nova Scotia and Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. Before establishing himself as a theatre operator he did advance work on behalf of film features that were road shown through the central and maritime provinces. Jimmy was also advance agent and an actor with touring dramatic repertoire troupes through the maritimes and Newfoundland, including the old Klark-Urban Company, routed through the Atlantic region each year for about 25 years. Too, McGarrigle was in advance for carnivals covering the maritimes and New England and was on advertising and emcee for fall fairs held in the maritimes. For sports events, chiefly boxing, he has been a picturesque announcer. He is an authority on ring lore and baseball. Although in the seventies, Jimmy is as chipper as the average man of half his age. His basic philosophy is to steer clear of all worries. “I eat regularly and Sleep like a top,” says he. As a reminiscencer and raconteur, the debonair and jaunty old line exhibitor and all-round entertainment promoter has few superiors. He has a remarkably retentive memory. Is handicapped in personal contacts by defective vision, but even at that, can identify immediately anybody he has not seen for many years and at one look. As for names and approximate or exact dates, he can remember them promptly. He is & firm believer in money being unable te achieve happiness for the possessor. His theory is to adjust oneself to all circumStances that develop, adverse or otherwise, and above all, to hold aloof from worry. In recent years he has been a, salesman of novelty merchandise and travels considerably through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Memory of Howard Honored in Britain Tributes to the memory of Leslie Howard were paid by nearly 200 British film men at the Denham Studios recently. Speakers, among them Del Guidice, Michael Powell and Lord Grantley, expressed the deep regret of all present at the loss sustained by films everywhere,