Canadian Film Weekly (May 2, 1945)

Vol. 10, No. 18 May 2, 1945 HYE BOSSIN, Managing Edt/or Address all communications—The Managing Editor, Canadian Film Weekly, 25 Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada. Published by Film Publications of Canada Ltd., 25 Dundas Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Phone ADelaide 4317. Price 5 cents each or $2.00 per year. Entered as Second Class Matter. Printed by Eveready Printers Limited, 78 Wellington Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Says BOB HOPE im All Star Bond Ralls: I'd like to interrupt this show for a minute and tell you why we are all here. You know, this All Star Bond Rally is being held in the interest of the 8th Victory Loan: Now, it is not for me to tell you why you should buy Victory Bonds. The fact that you're Canadians is reason enough. It was no military accident that Canadian troops were picked to take an important part in that famous action at Dieppe. It was no freak chance which selected Canadians for the breakthrough at Caen or to open up Scheldt Estuary in the Dutch Lowlands or for outflanking the Siegfried Line at Cleve. It was not hit and miss generalship which asked the Canadians to further distinguish themselves in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. It was simply because the daring and tenacity of your fighting forces is traditional and the results they achieved is history. Historically also, there has never been a greater opportunity for a nation to welcome its men home with more promise of security and economic control after the victory which we all look forward to with hope and eagerness. Here is a promise which must be kept. These men have won the war for us. We must by our purchases of Victory Bonds and exira Victory Bonds, show them that the end which they so dearly bought is theirs to keep, that the security of their homes, their families and their country is theirs by right of loyalty and courage to have and to hold. Fixup Limit $500 By New Order (Continued from Page 1) than a year ago, when conditions made it possible to raise it to $1,500. Construction of theatres, auditoriums, etc., continues to be prohibited but favorable consideration was being given to applications for licenses to build or extend industrial plants in areas where no labor shortage exists. The department recognizes the need of increased export trade, improved working conditions and increased productivity of labor as factors in post-war security and desires to encourage them. Licenses for the construction of homes were being granted on a basis of essentiality and urgency is the main factor in allowing hospitals, etc., to be erected. Past policy has been to permit rebuilding of burnt-out theatres. H. Thomas Now PRC Sales Chief Harry H. Thomas, has been appointed vice-president in charge of distribution and general sales of PRC Pictures, Incorporated, according to an official announcement made by Leon Fromkess, president, at a press reception for the new officer in New York. Thomas has been eastern sales manager for Monogram Pictures, Corporation, for the past five years. He took over his new asSignment on April 23. A pioneer of the film industry, Thomas entered show-business in 1907 when he opened the Bushwick Palace Theatre in Brooklyn. He subsequently became associated with Greater New York Film Company, General Film Company and Alexander Film Company, which he organized, and Merit Film Exchange and First Diyision, which he formed. He joined Monogram in 1939, Canadian FILM WEEKLY V Loan Campaign Gets Good Start (Continued from Page 1) The raising of this great sum of money will bring Canada’s financial record in two war loans and eight Victory loans to nearly $10 billion, representing an average investment of more than $860 for every man, woman and child. The minimum objective is $50,000,000 greater than that of the Seventh Victory Loan last fall, when there were 3,306,990 applications for $1,517,642,700. In the current loan there are identical objectives of $675,000,000 for individual and for ‘‘special names” subscribers, which include commercial and industrial concerns, insurance companies, pension funds, unions, railway brotherhood and others, Provincial and municipal Governments and boards. Forging ahead in the final phase of the European conflict, Canada’s armed forces overseas opened their part of the campaign April 9, and reports of success now are being received daily. In five previous loans forces overseas have rolled up 396,529 applications for $38,396,150. In the six loans the grand total from the three services at home and abroad has been 1,739,015 applications for $179,064,150. With war outlays and borrow ing needs running at an all-time peak it would be dangerous to think the end of the war with Germany will immediately mean a great reduction in government war expenditures, stated Graham #. Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada and general chairman of the National War Finance Committee, in urging the public to support the Eighth Victory Loan. Film Men Attend Fire Session Among those who will attend the annual meeting of the Dominion Fire Prevention association in Quebec City on May 14 to 17 are Ed Wells, executive secretary of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association; A. H. Jolley, executive secretary of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario; and O. J. Silverthorne, head of the Theatre Inspection branch of Ontario. Megger 25 Years Robert Florey, one of filmlands “Big Ten” directors, began his 25th year as a megaphonist with the recent shooting of the opening scene of Warner Brothers’ “Danger Signal,’ Starring Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott, May 2, 1945 Odeon Kid Pix Open in June (Continued from Page 1) ning of June, when it is expected that Mr. Rank will personally perform the opening ceremony. He will be accompanied by Paul Nathanson, Odeon’s Canadian president, and it is anticipated that many Canadian notable will be present. In charge of the Dominion-wide Movie Club movement is Thomas Bowyer, who recently joined Odeon Theatres and has already been assured of the co-operation of many leading Toronto citizens. Only selected movies will be shown at Movie Club meetings and these will include pictures made for and acted by children in Rank’s film department in London. This department is headed by Mary Field, the well-known maker of educational and documentary films, who recently visited Canada. Similar films will be be produced in Canada in the very near future under the joint supervision of Messrs. Rank and Nathanson. In Great Britain children from the ages of six to 14 are shown specially arranged movie programs on Saturday mornings at some 200 Odeon theatres in the U.K. These are attended by over 200,000 young Britons every week. E. McQuaid, controller of the Odeon National Cinema Club for Boys and Girls in Great Britain has been over here making a survey for the similar clubs which are to be established in Canada. On the eve of his return to England, McQuaid stated that he felt Canada would welcome the inauguration of these Movie Clubs, judging from the interest shown by juvenile welfare organisations in every citey he visited from Halifax to Vancouver. SMPE Men Prep For Hollywood Session Announcing the 57th semiannual conference of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, to be held in Hollywood from May 14 to 18 inclusive, Donald E. Hyndman, president of the organization, stated that the meeting would be of vital importance because the film industry was looking forward to the adoption of new technical methods in the postwar period for both domestic and international benefit. Television will be high on the list of topics to be discussed at the convention and it will be the subject of several of the major papers among those to be presented to the delegates by technical experts. A number of Canadian delegates are expected to attend,