Canadian Film Weekly (Sep 27, 1944)

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Page 3 Your Golf Chief Jack Arthur, veteran theatre man, is chairman of the motion picture golf tournament committee. From here the boys can see a wonderful day of fun and friendship ahead. Bob Hope Here to Serve War Effort (Continued from Page 1) and dozens of indefinite ones. Every booster of a worthy cause is gunning for him and Hope’s indestructible amiability will probably lead him into the busiest few days he has had in a long time. It is but a few weeks since he returned from the Pacific, one of a number of such tours. Hope and company will do their air show from the YMCA Hail at Camp Borden at which, for broadcasting purposes, the attendance will be limited to 700. After that they will move to Lee Hall, which holds thousands. The next day, Wednesday, Hope and his gang will appear at Maple Leaf Gardens for the Stamp Drive sponsored by the Independent Druggists Association. Those who wish to attend are required to buy stamps to obtain admission tickets. Tickets were gone days in advance. The Gardens can hold about 18,000. Hope is slated to play golf on Wednesday afternoon to boost the Community Welfare Chest campaign. The gallery charge it is understood, will go to the Chest. Canadian Paramount News will be on hand. War plants, military hospitals, etc., are after Hope to make an appearance and there is no doubt that he will take a number of these in. Erwin Taube Tops RCAF Photo Class Erwin F. Taube, son of Syd Taube, has been posted to the Malton, Ontario, RCAF station after heading his class in the photography course at Rockcliffe. Canadian FILM WEEKLY Hiya Hye: I have been reading your Film Weekly for quite some time, and would say it has been doing a good job for the industry. Your Flashbacks are very interesting and nostalgic, to say the least. They remind me of a story which goes something like this: At the turn of the century the Cole Bros. Circus was one of the bigger and better shows of its kind. It was owned by Martin Downs, Charlie Thompson and John Griffin. =o: In the late winter of 1905, Thompson and Griffin had their eyes set on a new industry, sold out their interest and made for Toronto, Thompson to open the first film exchange and Griffin to launch the first motion picture theatre in the city, February, 1906. One month later a young man all of sixteen, an assistant parcel boss at Eaton’s, was walking down Yonge street in lunch hour, well satisfied with his job and the five dollars GUS DEMERY a week that went with it, until he spied a sign Veteran in the Box Office of the Theatorium, wanting an usher at nine dollars a week. Visions of a new future loomed before him and his dreams of being a merchant prince were shattered for all time. He applied and in five minutes he was in the money and show business. From here it was on and on, from usher to spieler to song singer and finally to operator, until today he is in his thirty-ninth year as a showman, and also his twenty-fourth year with Famous Players, so I guess all this makes him a pioneer without a waggon, and that’s all, Hye about this old timer. Yeah, you guessed it—it's the writer. So, continued success to you and your weekly, I am yours for the next thirty-nine years, G. R. DEMERY. (Gus Demery is projectionist 2t the Tivoli, Toronto.) is proud to begin in a forthcoming issue the story of L. Ernest Ouimet, Pioneer By HYE BOSSIN Emest Ouimet, still a resident of Montreal, made motion picture history in North America during the early days of the industry. He was the first on this continent to build a de luxe motion picture theatre, the first to challenge the legitimate theatre with two movie performances per day, the first to esiablish a reserved seat policy, the first to run talkies in Canada, the first to make Canadian newsreels, the first—. But read the story of his movie life and times. It is by far the most interesting of all September 27, 1944 Pioneer “lo Be | L. ERNEST OUIMET In a forthcoming issue Canadian Film Weekly will begin a series of Flashbacks on his life and times in the Canadian industry. He was its leading figure in the period of its inception, which was shortly after Edison invented the Kinetoscope, and he left his mark on the industry of this continent. His story will engross the reader, Industry Studies V Loan Campaign (Continued from Page 1) In Victory” and the objective is $1,300,000,000. The campaign will run from October 23 to November 11, Individual subscriptions have an objective of $600 millions, a $75 million increase over the previous loan. “This marks the continuing great importance which is attached to the participatiqn of every individual Canadian who is in a position to buy bonds,” Mr. Iisley stated. “The increased amount is in itself a reminder of the severity of the fighting in which all branches of our armed forces have been engaged.” Production of a Victory Loan short by MGM, “Tomorrow John Jones,” is under way. This is made without charge for the Canadian Motion Picture War Services and presented to the exhibitor the same way. The last short, “The Shining Future,” had great attraction value and this one is expected to be just as good. The national structure of the War Services Committee is stirring again, with provincial branches calling meetings and local branches reviewing the work of the past in order to better the coming effort. a