Canadian Film Weekly (Nov 7, 1945)

Page 4 Grierson Aims At Theatres? (Continued from Page 1) New York, authority on the documentary field. The Dominion’s film commissioner is in the British Isles at present. The company, it is said, will have offices in Ottawa, Washington, Prague and London and its first year will be devoted to analyzing and detailing the fields in which it will work, commercial and educational. Those interested with Grierson are Robert Flaherty, Jean Benoit-Levy, John Fernhout, Stuart Legg, Raymonde Spotiswoode, Mary Losey and M. A. Adamson. Vancouver, Victoria Get Odeon Houses Two large neighbourhood theatres in Vancouver and a new downtown movie house in Victoria, B.C., will be built by Odeon Theatres of Canada Limited, as soon as a construction license is obtained and materials are available. The Vancouver houses will have seating capacities of 1,200 and 1,000 respectively. These theatres are part of Odeon’s building program calling for 100 new movie houses across Canada. Other announcements will follow. ee eames oe Rain checks, customers are po D.S.E.L. refunds, 7 or boxoffice --y Service — selling tickets; jet ical Staff worry Te customers ee Changeovers A batch of clippings reveal that Curly Posen is busy in Ohio doing his “Mr. Five By Five” routine and carrying on Comedy Gift Night. He’s being missed from around here . Charlie Chaplin, UA chief, and Larry Stephens, publicity man for the same company, won front page space when their ads for houses to live in attracted much attention. Folks thought Charlie was one of the bosses, the other and more famous Charlie, and that Larry was the Stevens who sings with Jack Benny. But the boys didn’t get any results. .. At the Lansdowne Theatre Manager Lou Ross heard that a group of juveniles were messing up the floor of the ladies’ room with black chalk. He fixed them by bringing mops and making them clean up their dirty work right there. Ther he banned them from future visits to that department, though not from*the theatre. . . Stan McNeil, manager of the Capitol, Smith’s Falls, Ontario, did a fine thing recently. A repat train’ was delayed in the town for several and disgruntled i you worry about Dominion’s skillea about keeping the sol>. Dominion Sound Equipments LIMiteod ’ Head Office: 16 or MaeurOae TORONTO ~ Oeowcres ¢ A National Theatre Service, 20 Notre Dame Street West, winemiPse Montreal stoings caroaey vancouver such as maintained by Dominion —aon organization with a i imi ns Sound Equipments Limited, mea 5 Ou read enargeny ially frained personnel fo prov! a fobs equipment and supp technical service, lies for theatres. Canadian FILM WEEKLY 2 e Ke ‘wile Nc SOSSWN On The _ SQUARE: hours and Stan, through arrangement with the Red Cross, entertained them gratis at the theatre. They paraded to the theatre 300 strong, behind a band. His gesture won the gratitude of the men and his fellow-citizens, who were faced with a challenge to their hospitality. ok 4 s Observanda Lieut. Jack Rosefield, Lou’s boy, is still in uniform, being a hospital case. He was wounded in Italy. . . Had a nice note from Will McLaughlin, cinema editor of the Ottawa Journal, about the recent Ray and Jay story. He commented on “the very fine spirit of co-operation which obtains among all ranks of show business in Canada’. . . It’s a girl at the Walter “Buzz” Blondell’s and a good cigar from him. He’s the Imperial treasurer. . . Alan Field, CCO producer, was around the district and rubbed sleeves with film men at Mickey’s for lunch. He got in on “the jibe” when, upon being introduced by name and connection to a leading booker, drew in acknowledgment to his greeting the remark, “Everybody’s a producer!” . . . That Menzo Craig of Ridgetown is an honest’ man. Exhibs from the _ sticks who have joined the 11 O’clock Snooker Club at Karry’s for a short session have always deprecated their own ability, then went on to give the big city boys a beating. We still have scars from our experience with Clarence Markell of Cornwall. Menzo said he was rusty. He was and took a licking. But he came close. When the rematch takes place against Tom Daley and I a story will follow to the local paper if Menzo reverses the decision. Es % Short Throws Had a note from Roy Castleman, who was UA pub man prior to entering the army. Cass is out of the service and back in the USA, his current stop being Miami. He’s handling Alan Ladd and a bevy of Hollywood beauties, sponsored by an industrial concern through Paramount. . . Leon Bamberger, RKO’s special exploitation overall boss, called me up from New York the morning after his address to the MPTAO. All put out because he forgot to comment on the quality of Canada’s own trade papers. Old-timers around these film parts still remember Leon when November 7%, 1945 Hoad Projector Draws Interest (Continued from Page 1) projector is to reduce eyestrain and nervous fatigue through more definition, keener focus and a brighter screen. It is Hoad’s contention that his projector, a dual one, will eliminate the present principle, persistence of vision. The Hoad idea originally called for two projectors hooked together with their shutters 90 degrees apart from each other, with identical films and the same frames at each aperture. Thus, when one machine was receiving a light beam, the other was closed. He later simplified the method so that one film would accomplish the same result. A positive was made from the regular negative in a dual printing process. First the odd number frames were printed, then the positive was switched ahead on the negative the space of several frames, and even number frames were printed between the odd number frames. The projector mechanism to receive this was built with two film trap members, two lens mounts, and two _ intermittent movements, one above the other. Each intermittent movement pulls down two frames at a time, with even-number frames projected through the upper aperture and odd number frames through the lower aperture. In this way continuous action was accomplished. v Embezzler’ Set Vincent Price and Lynn Bari will be starred by 20th-Fox in “The Embezzler.” he was Paramount’s man locally and was known to one and all as “Bam’’. Wellington Jeffers, financial editor of the Globe and Mail, quoted the RKO ace’s comment that “free and indiscriminate spending is stopping, and people are beginning to shop for their entertainment,” using it to lead off his observation that “the consumer is the best price controller’ and for that reason controls should be lifted so that competition can lead to pre-war prices and quality. . . There is no truth in the current rumor that the Film Exchange Building has been sold, nor is it being negotiated for. The only change is that Canada Permanent has taken over the administrative duties from the Estate of J. B. O’Brien. . . The place to go for & nice dinner and an easy evening right now is The Lobster, where Jackie Lewis’ sprightly Gay 90s revue brightens life for a few hours. There’s no cover charge yet and there are three shows a night.