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Eric Johnston Set For Hays Post
(Continued from Page 1) named the “Hays Office,” is the current president. He will remain in an advisory capacity.
Active direction and management will be in Johnston’s hands, while Hays will provide the benefit of his experience. The present prexy conferred recently in the White House with President Truman, saying afterwards: “We discussed the international situation generally and, of course, the potential usefulness of motion pictures in the period ahead all over the world.”
The story is that Johnston will be given a five-year contract at $150,000 annually, plus an expense account of $50,000.
Affiliates of the MPPDA, represented in Canada by the office in charge of Ed Wells, feel that they need a strong man to head their group. Competition for them has arisen on this continent through the formation recently of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers in Hollywood and the’ growing strength of the British Film Producers Association, which is headed by J. Arthur Rank. Donald Nelson, former Washington official, heads the Independent group.
Chatam Rotary Men Hear Jolley Speak
Guest speaker at a _ recent meeting of the Rotary Club, Chatham, Ontario, Arch. H. Jolley, secretary of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, addressed the club on “Fifty Years of Growth in the Motion Picture Industry.”
Harry Wilson and Frank Reid, managers respectively of the Capitol and Centre _ theatres, Chatham, were guests at the meeting. Wilson was accepted as a member of the Rotary Club.
Fort Erie Theatre Marks Fifth Year
Parkway Theatre, Fort Erie, Ontario celebrated its fifth anniversary recently by making several substantial donations to charitable organizations and service clubs in the community.
The Fort Erie branch of the Canadian Legion received $100; the Lion Club’s British War Victim’s Fund was given $120; and $100 was contributed to the Red Cross.
Donations were presented at a ceremony in the theatre attended by hundreds of spectators.
Canadian FILM WEEKLY
RKO Holds First Dom ’n Confab
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adian staff of RKO was generated through the screening of two of the company’s features for the 1945-46 season, ‘The Spanish Main” and ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s.”
“The Spanish Main,” in Technicolor, has Paul Henreid, Maureen O’Hara and Walter Slezak as its co-stars and is a swashbuckling adventure story of the kind that provides an interesting and entertaining journey away from contemporary problems.
“The Bells of St. Mary’s,” directed by the masterful Leo McCarey, features Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Impartial observers have declared the film to be something rare in industry history, one with appeal beyond that of any film in recent years.
Scene of the screenings was the York Theatre, St. Catharine Street West, prior to the Monday and Tuesday sessions.
The Canadian delegation at the conference included Leo M. Devaney; W.S. Jones, branch manager, Vancouver; Reg Doddridge, branch manager, and Joe Bermack, salesman, Calgary; Mark Plottel, branch manager, and Myer Nackimson and Murray Devaney, salesmen, Toronto; H. F. Taylor, branch manager, Harry Decker and. Joe Dorfman, salesmen, and Harry Cohen, booker, Montreal; H. H. McArthur, branch manager, Saint John; George Degnon, Canadian publicity representative; and Ted Carey, auditor at Toronto.
From New York came Ned E.
Depinet; Robert Mochrie, general sales manager; M. G. Poller, assistant to the sales manager, Harry J. Michalson, short subject sales manager; S. Barret McCormick, director of advertising and publicity; and A. A. Schubart, branch operations manager.
Delegates were entertained at the famed El Morocco Club, where dinner was served and a floor show presented, and at a cocktail party and dinner at Windsor Hotel’s Blue Room.
Among the Quebec theatre men who were guests at the various social affairs were George Ganetakos, president, United Amusements; John Ganetakos, general manager, Confederated Theatres; and Alex Adilman and George Rotsky, Consolidated Theatres. From Toronto came R. W. Bolstad, vice-president of Famous Players Canadian Corporation; Ben Geldsaler, general booking manager of that circuit; and Ray Tubman, its Ottawa district manager.
A detailed report on RKO Radio’s program for the new season was carried in the Canadian Film Weekly of August 22nd.
Aide Appointed to
Columbia's Prexy Commander Arthur A. Schmidt has been appointed special assistant to Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, with the title of advertising consultant. He took over his new duties after discharge from U.S. Navy.
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September 26, 1945
To Allied Co-Op
ZEKE SCHEINE
Eastern division booker for Odeon Theatres, Zeke Scheine has resigned and will join the booking department of the recently-organized Allied CoOperative Theatres.
Zeke, the mildest-mannered booker in the business, got into show business as an usher at the Astor Theatre, Toronto, and served in various capacities there and later at the Dundas Playhouse, now the Brock.
In 1931 he became a poster clerk at Associated Theatres,
_ Shortly after that company
opened for business, was assigned to booking. In that capacity he served with Hanson Theatres and then Odeon.
Thank Showmen For Farm Commando Aid
Arch. H. Jolley, executive secretary, Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, has received a letter from V. C. Phelan, director of information, on behalf of the Department of Labor, Ottawa, thanking theatre men “for the assistance -given so kindly in connection with the distributing and exhibiting of the clips on farm labor.”
Over 600 theatres in Canada co-operated in the Farm Commando Campaign to which the letter referred. Some houses ran four-minute trailers and all ran 45-second clips.
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