Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 10, 1946)

Vol. 11, No. 15 VOICE of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE TORONTO, APRIL 10, 1946 INDUSTRY $2.00 Per Annum Ottawa Order Will Clear Air Loeal Control O£ Building Weleomed By Industry The Order-in-Council which places responsibility for theatre permits in the hands of municipalities was welcomed by the theatre industry as a reasonable answer to a knotty problem. Much unfavorable publicity, considerable Alberta To Set Up Three-Man Board Alberta will return to the three-member board of censors and the appointment of two persons will be announced shortly, the Honorable A. J. Hooke, Provincial secretary, stated recently. Mrs. Christine McCaig has been the only censor since the resig (Continued on Page 8) Duplessis Whacks Film Board Pix Quebec censors have been ordered to examine National Film Board subjects for content sympathetic to Communism, Premier Duplessis told the Quebec Legislative Assembly last week. His position won the support of Adelard Godbout, Liberal opposition (Continued on Page 8) Anseo of Canada Will A Novel Approach To Love Stuff During the recent session of the Alberta legislature the possibility of political censorship of films caused some vigorous debating. A. V. Bourcier, member from Lac Ste, Anne, claimed the Hollywood films were boosting “isms’’ and made a statement that will puzzle and amuse screen scripters. “Hardly one picture from Hollywood, but has socialist propaganda woven through it,” he claimed. “It even enters the love scenes.” Scmeone spoke up: must have seen ‘Kitty.’ ” “You Build Plant Here Ansco of Canada, Ltd., division of General Aniline & Film Corporation, USA, has purchased a 16-acre site on the Queen Elizabeth Highway, west of Toronto, for the erection of a plant. The first to be built by that company outside the USA, it will house offices, stockrooms, shipping and receiving departments and a processing lab for amateur roll film. Main purpose of the plant will be to handle the company’s expanding photographic supply business, according to George Giles, Canadian head and a member of the board of directors. The growing demand for color and other film makes the step necessary. Associated Screen News in Montreal is making preparation to handle Ansco’s color processing of 16 mm. amateur (Continued on Page 3) i 7 angie Capitol, Toronto Has Serious Fire Fire during the morning caused $15,000 damage to the Capitol, Toronto. . The theatre lounge was gutted and 337 seats in the balcony destroyed by the blaze which had gained considerable headway before firemen were called. The heat from the blazing furniture, firemen said, melted brass rail ings. No damage was done in the steel and concrete projection room or its equipment. with MARIA MONTEZ, ROBERT PAIGE, and SABU, is a spectacle of INT @ DRAMA! It has a title tagged with timely selling. That means Book it NOW through EMPIRE UNIVERSAL of it stirred up by politicians, has followed announcements of theatre projects, it having been contended that they would interfere with attempts to relieve the housing situation. Since many communities have an unemployment problem rather than one of housing, plans for theatres which have already received civic blessing will proceed. The government would take steps to assure the equitable dis(Continued on Page 3) Maynard On Own Paul Maynard has left Alliance Films to handle some theatre lines on his own. He'll appreciate it if you can help him get some office space in the Toronto film area. New Show Policy In Toronto Field Toronto will be the scene of an innovation in Canadian motion picture exhibition, to begin Haster Week, when the Cinema Theatre, North Yonge Street, renamed the International Cinema, will begin a policy of showing foreign and special films ex (Continued on Page 7) Production Code For Canada 16s? A draft production code and proposed constitution for an organization of Canadian film producers will be presented for approval to a meeting of the 16 mm. industrial and educational film makers and slide film producers in the Toronto area in the (Continued on Page 7) WB ‘Wild West Show’ Gets Under Way Members of the head office and Toronto branch staffs of Warner Brothers and their families staged an outing at Charlie Mavety’s Circle M Ranch recently to mark the beginning of the Dominion’s part in the company’s 17-week United Amusement Profit For 1945 United Amusement Corporation’s 21st annual report for the year ended December 31st, 1945, shows that net profit for the year amounted to $140,673, equivalent to $1.74 per share on the 80,829 outstanding no par value shares of the company. Dividends of $1.25 a_ share were paid in 1945 and in 1944 the net profit equalled $1.62 per share after adjustment of the standard profit claim with the government board. 1946 sales drive, which is tagged ‘‘Warners’ Wild West Show.” According to the announcement of Haskell M. Masters, general manager, the drive will end on July 27th. The Warnerites and their wives and kids went western for the day, riding horses and the oldtime coach on the ranch. There was even a bulldogging contest, a mild-mannered cow being used in the absence of a bull. Ben Kalmenson, the company’s general sales manager, was in Toronto for aconferencewith Haskell Masters, who has since be (Cantinued on Page 3) RIGUE! DANGER! BUSINESS AT ANY BOXOFFICE! FILMS LIMITED for BIG BO RESULTS ! -_— i: ca Sl OO