Canadian Film Weekly (Dec 19, 1945)

Page 6 Griesdorf Now PRC Vice-Prexy (Continued from Page 1) Mills’ knowledge of exploitation and theatre operation. He will have as his assistant Harry Geller, back after extended service with the RCAF. Harry Bailley, Jr., son of the Toronto branch manager for 20th Century-Fox, has been added to the Toronto staff by Cohen. He is recently of the RCAF. Willard B. Adamson, manager for some years of the Vancouver office, has returned to that post after service in the navy. Bill Grant will work with Adamson. The executive and head offices of PRC are now on the fourth floor, 21 Dundas Square. B.C. Town to Get 700-Seat Theatre Loris Gillespie of Ulsh and Gillespie Theatres, Seattle, Wash., announces his intention of opening a new theatre with 700 seating capacity in Oroville, B.C. With P. A. Forester, manager of the company’s Okanagan Valley theatres, Gillespie conferred with the Oroville town council to arrange the theatre’s erection. ut i NATIONAL es ey BOARD ‘CANADA CARRIES ON’ RELEASE fe DECEMBER Suffer Little Children Canadian FILM WEEKLY Typodermic Injections Warren Jenkinson has been looking after the Royal, Aurora. and the Star, Carlton Place, since the passing of Eddie Warren, which came as a shock, for he was always friendly and very popular. Eddie, born in Toronto, was connected with the advertising department of various newspapers before entering the film business . . . Ken Smith, Imperial usher, found a roll of $145 lost in the theatre by F/L S. H. Jones and got himself five dollars toward his Xmas shopping for his honesty . . . Ralph Tiede of the Community, Welland, won himself a Ronson lighter and a photograph of Claudette Colbert inscribed to him personally in the International Pictures’ contest. He was one of the three Canadians to enter the winner's circle of 100 . . . That diehard Northerner and all-round good guy, Jack Nelson of North Bay, is chairman of the festival at Lake Nipissing, part of the Northern Ontario Outfitter’s Association campaign for greater tourist interest and the protection of wild game. A grand draw will be held to select a Queen of the North. The doings will occupy the week from February 4th to 9th. Jack was in town the other day, gabbing with the lads in the trade... Harold Kay is looking for some items of second-hand clothing for children as aid to a widow and five children. You can get him at Mono. = * * Observanda Abe Fox, head Columbia booker, has been painfully ill for a while ... Oscar Hanson’s annual romp for staffs and friends will take place again this pre-Xmas at Charlie Mavety’s Circle M Ranch at Kleinburg. It’s an afternoon and evening affair of hay rides and sleigh rides . . . First thing Raoul Auerbach and Meyer Axler did when they got to Chicago for the FPCC powwow was rush out and buy those lifetime pens that you fill every two years. The next night they went to the John Balaban banquet and were each presented with one! The Chicago affair was a great experience and the local lads are still raving about it, particularly the hospitality of the B & K lads... That was a legitimate beef the British had about “Objective Burma,” which emphasized the USA’s part in the campaign and a British film of it will be distributed on this side with more accurate information and implication. The British had 670,000 combat troops and the Yanks 7,000. There were 43,000 British in the air and 30,000 Americans. Lines of communication were maintained by 120,000 Americans and 38,000 British ... “What, No Picture Show?” is the heading of a story in the Oak Lake, Manitoba, News, calling on the citizens to get behind Mr. Kurtz, who puts on a weekly movie. * + * Will-O’-the-Whispers Writing about Jack Arthur, as I do occasionally and have at considerable length for our next, the Christmas, issue, I want to mention that he still has the old knack. He made a recent appearance on the radio show, “Canadian Cavalcade,” and Young & Rubicam’s man, Bob Simpson, praised him for a superlative job . . . Barney Fox reports something that gave him a pang of pleasure recently. He passed three houses in a row and the first had a sign, “Welcome Home Bob,” the second “Welcome Home Joe” and the third “Welcome Home Neighbors” . The nimble-witted Glen Ireton of Warners, who whacks out prize copy in any medium, is putting his insomnia to work. Awake at 4 a.m. the other morn, he thought up an idea for a Broadway production — and perhaps a movie. It’s tagged “World’s Fair’ and the setting is in the year 2000. Seems like a teriff idea and earned all the laughs it got from me when I heard it outlined the other day ... Eddie Wells, Esq., of Clarkson’s landed gentry, is out garnering cash for the $15,000 fund aimed at building a community hall and church. The Squire says the gross is upping . . . Tom Daley is playing Disney’s screamie, “Hockey Homicide,” in which one team is called “The Loose Leafs,” Ought to call them “The Lose Leafs,’ opines Tom. December 19, 1945 WB Skeds 46 Pix For Next Year (Continued from Page 1) York by Jack L. Warner, executive producer. Shooting and preparation for production of 46 important features will be undertaken during the first quarter of 1946. To carry out this program the company’s contract talent roster of 33 stars and 44 featured players will be augmented by top-ranking outside artists. The heavy shooting schedule is being launched this year, with four pictures now before the cameras and three more set to start later in the month. A filming peak is expected to be reached early in 1946. Famous New York stage hits and best-selling novels make up the bulk of the pictures to be turned out.. Among the former are included ‘Life With Father,” which will be filmed in Technicolor, and “The Voice of the Turtle.” Currently in production are “Escape Me Never,” starring Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker and Gig Young; ‘The Beast With Five Fingers,” starring Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre and Victor Francen; “The Verdict,’ with Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Jean Lorring; and “Two Guys From Milwaukee,” starring Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and Joan Leslie. “Humoresque,” starring John Garfield and Joan Crawford; a Bogart Bacall starrer, ‘‘Cheyenne”; and the picturization of “The Women in White,” a famous mystery story by Wilkie Collins, are the other pictures getting under way this month. Among the 39 other properties which will be produced on the company’s 22 sound stages and varied outdoor locations during the coming season are included “Cry Wolf,” starring Barbara Stanwyck; “The Fountainhead,” a Bette Davis-Henry Fonda starrer; “The Hasty Heart,” from the Broadway hit; “Stallion Road,” which will be made in Technicolor as Ronald Reagan’s first starring vehicle since his return from the army; “The Jazz Singer,’ “The Life of Will Rogers” and “Silver Lining,” the story of Marilyn Miller. an H. Binns, Ex-Airman, Is Midland Manager Howard Binns, former Fit. Lieut. in the RCAF, is now manager of the Capitol Theatre, Midland, Ontario, succeeding Harvey Fingold, who had charge of the theatre during the summer. The latter has returned to Toronto to continue his studies at the University of Toronto. &