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Pix Maintained Army Morale
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Motion Picture Industry, expressing the thanks and gratitude of Canada. The overseas army has been receiving the films since September 1944.
“These films and others,’”’ Gen
eral Foulkes's letter says, ‘made available by the motion picture industry have been the most important morale-building mediums utilized by the Canadian Armed Forces. The success of this important phase of the joint war effort would not have been possible without the generosity and cooperation of the motion picture industry.
“Would you, therefore, please
transmit to the members of your committee the appreciation of the Departmen of National Defense for the ever-present cooperation and effective collaboration which resulted in the provision of the best possible film service.”
Replying, G. J. Schaefer of
WAC, expressed the committee's appreciation for Lieut. General Foulkes’s tribute to the industry.
“We in the industry,” Schaefer
declared, “are fully conscious that whatever we did was only what should have been required and demanded of all civilians.”
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GUILTY MEN
Canadian FILM WEEKLY
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It Was a Merry Christmas
I've been through so many Christmas parties that I burp every time I breathe in. Never, everyone agrees, have they ever been as large and as joyous.
The Odeon and Famous Players parties each provided an excellent time, while those of Oscar Hanson, Premier, Columbia, PRC, United Artists, 20th Century Theatres and Paramount were grand,
At the Famous Players party prexy Fitzgibbons announced that no one had to report for work the next day until 11 a.m. and Harrison Patte and some others didn’t hear him. They got in at nine and their hearts were broken when they heard the news.
Ed Morey, Monogram exec from New York, was at the FPCC foodfest and shindig, and so was ASN’s Bill Singleton from Montreal. Notably absent were the speeches and the head table, a gesture hailed by all.
Taking in things Canadian was Jeff Sullivan of Loew’s Boston office, who gabbed with the lads at the UA party after being intro’d by Stan Gosnell of Loew’s Uptown.
After-midnight theatre parties were much fun, the Toronto FPCC suburbanites romping cn stage and off at George Morrell’s Runnymede under the emceeing of the Tivoli’s Len Bishop, whose own funning made him the poor man’s Bob Hope. The food there was really something.
The Imperial boys and girls also had much fun, with lucky and unlucky draws, the men winning ladies’ prizes and viceversa.
The Casino staff held awow of party, chorines stomping with staff lads and trombonist Jack Katz hopping about with Mrs. Haley, the wardrobe mistress. Leading the fun was maestro Lou Appleby. Murray Little didn’t sit down until dawn, he being busy seeing that every one was stuffed with stuffed turkey and a variety of choice foods.
I would like to write more about what went on in the Toronto show and film picture this Yuletide but I’m just not in condition. mm.
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Heard Hereabouts
Frank Kavanaugh did that swell ad for Twinex on the back cover of our Xmas issue . . . Many requests have come in from non-subscribers for copies of the Christmas number because af the Jack Arthur story and if, by some chance or reason, any of you desire another copy, you'd better hurry... Thanks to Ernest Ouimet for that Varga calendar for Xmas .. . The neighbors gave Milt Kahn a farewell gift when the left the King’s Playhouse, College street, Toronto . . . Got a card from Syd Taube’s boy, Erwin of the RCAF, still in UK... Thanks to all of you for those lovely Christmas cards... The Tribell boys and girls have their annual show coming to the Victory soon under the direction of Joe Fox and again Allen Kahn of Regal will be glad to look after your ticket needs . . . Ben Cronk’s Christmas card bore a color reproduction of one of his own fine paintings called “The Lesson of Canada.” It shows two Dutch peasants instructing a child and quite a few filmites are having it framed as a miniature. The Dutch theme is no mere fancy for Ben is of that extraction, his ancestors having landed around Mayflower time . .. Charlie Cashman was reelected to York Township Council by acclamation. That’s eight out of 11 terms that way ... Bill Weiss, allied co-op head, will meet with Indies in the Ottawa area on January 7th at the Chateau Laurier.
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Reasonable Query
Len Bishop of the Tivoli tells the gag about the stew sitting on a curb and gazing blearily at the road. A pigeon landed a few feet from him.
As it wadddled by the stew spoke to it. “Hey.” he mumbled. “Any messages?”
January 2, 1946
Theatre Men Hail End of Bingo
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In many’ places bingo games almost nightly worked to the detriment of theatres, since they provided an unfair competition for patrons. Theatre managers point out that they provide a theatre which must meet safety and other standards. Bingo often was operated in halls which obeyed no safety regulations and had become in very many instances a flourishing racket.
While the new ruling from the attornecy-general’s department does not prohibit bingos entirely, they may be held in future “only occasionally” and only for religious purposes. Even then they may be operated only with the consent of local authorities.
“This means,” one official said, “that, while churches and charitable organizations may hold bingos once in a while, they will no longer be permitted to advertise ‘Bingo Every Tuesday’ as so many do.”
The attorney-general has ordered that complaints against any one promoting an illegal bingo, raffle or lottery “or against newspapers and other publications for carrying advertising or publicity referring to such illegal schemes” will be referred to local law enforcement authorities for action.
All raffles and lotteries, except for charity, are forbidden and articles raffled for charity must not exceed $50 in value and must be offered for sale first. Fear that lotteries, encouraged and extended during the war with the bingo craze, had fallen into the hands of professional operators whose “expenses” ran to as much as 30 to 60 per cent of the receipts, prompted the action by the attorney-general.
Hint New Theatre To Go Up in Halifax
Sale of a 125-foot strip of Halifax city-owned property to barrister Nathan Green for an undisclosed client has raised rumors that Malcolm Walker, manager of the Gaiety Theatre, had acquired the property to build a theatre. Walker would neither confirm nor deny the report.
Fire Razes Theatre At Stony Mountain
Overheated stove pipes set fire to the Oak Theatre, Stony Mountain, Man., recently, burning the building to the ground at a loss of $10,000. The loss is partly cavered by insurance, E. R. R. Mills, owner and operator of the theatre, declared. Adjoining buildings were slightly damaged.
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