Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 18, 1948)

} Qn The FesStiumnt SK wi WEOOSON The Tales They Tell AN OLD-TIMER was recalling the dim-and-distant past and he maintained that the high-jinks of the modern college student lacked robustness and imagination compared with those of then. He pointed to the cow-in-the-steeple and the wagonon-the-roof stuff they used to pull long ago as examples of daring and deviousness not to be found today, then recalled one somewhat grisly stunt. It was not to be admired but it’s hard to push out of your mind once you hear it. In those long-ago days Toronto’s main hospital was in the eastern part of the city and there medical students went to dissect cadavers. Nearby was one of those butcher and grocery Stores that had a small roof over the pavement. You may remember that those butcher shops of yesterday had a series of hooks hanging at the edge of such roofs and on these hooks were hung carcasses of freshly-killed cows, pigs, etc. The students had taken quite a dislike to the butcher, who had probably complained about their pranks, and they got even in their own grisly way. They robbed the hospital to do it. The butcher learned about their vengeance when he noticed that a crowd had gathered outside. There, among the carcasses of cows, Sheep and pigs, hung a naked cadaver! A CERTAIN ART DEALER has worked out a very good impetus to trade, an appeal to vanity which brings him the highest prices for paintings from persons who usuallydon’t buy them. This art dealer has developed connections among those in charge of the art that goes on the walls of public galleries, city halls, legislative buildings, schools, institutions and such places. \ S eNS J. ARTHUR RANK GW WN SSS = Presents SNOWBOUND Adapted from “The Lonely Skier’ ~ ss WIE, Sank t * * vi SS Produced by: AUDREY BARING ' ' Director David MacDonald Contact your local EAGLE-LION Branch for fast play dates Wink wane > . Dos le 8N © CAGLE LION FILMS of Conade, Limited Canadian FILM WEEKLY WSS 3 “3 4 4 A He has also made it his business to learn about the backgrounds and interests of potential customers. : The art dealer suggests to the official in charge of—let’s say—an orphanage that a certain prominent contributor to its funds, whom he doesn’t name, has expressed a desire to purchase a painting if it could be hung on one of the institution’s walls. The orphanage official, rather than risk offending a supporter cf the institution, agrees to hang the picture if the donor is as important as the art dealer says he is. The art dealer then approaches the potential buyer, explaining that he is sure that the painting will be accepted by the orphanage and hung where passing visitors could see it. On the frame, of course, would go a brass plate with the donor’s name. The art dealer, in a gesture of sincerity, offers to make the sale contingcnt on acceptance of the painting by the institution. That, added to appeal of: high-class personal publicity, sells ‘em almost every time. A STRANGE FEUD between two gamblers is old and still unsettled. They had been playing for high stakes, with thousands of dollars having changed hands, and the game had attracted many spectators among the poker fans at the club. At the end of the long evening the one named George had wen most of the money and his opponent, Bill, quit while he still had $1,000 in his pocket. Bill left with the money, which was his bankroll for tomorrow’s game. As Bill reached the street a masked man stepped out of the gloom. “Okay, George, take it easy,”’ he said. “This is a stickup.” Since Bill would no more oppose a gun than a royai flush, he gave up the $1,000. Then he went back in to George and demanded $1,000. It was George he pointed out, that the holdup man was waiting for, since he called him by that name. Bill contended that, since it was a case of mistaken identity and George was the intended victim, he was entitled to be recompensed. | But George didn’t see it that way. So the bad blood is still there. It's a problem! IAN? N a LONG Y ry sepa! ta NS <AXSE “Bul they told me at the beauty parlor *Snowbound’ would curl my hair!” August 18, 1948