Canadian Film Weekly (Sep 1, 1948)

Page 10 Canadian FILM WEEKLY September 1, 1948 Over 70 Awards Empire-Universal To Exhibs Look For Offer 37 For °49 (Continued from Page 1) In Golf Tourney (Continued from Page 1) the prizes, incidentally, will exceed the total receipts from ticket sales. A party from Montreal, headed by Ben Norrish of Associated Screen News, may be here, states Tom S. Daley, tournament manager. It is expected that George Ganetakos, head of United Amusements and an avid golfer, will compete this year. A National Film Board team will be on hand. Other out-of-towners have signified their intention of being present and it will be even a rarer time than the unforgettable affairs of other years. Out-of-town participants will be welcome at the Variety Club, Prince George Hotel, on the night before the tourney. The Variety dinner meeting is for members only, however. Tee-off time is definitely 10 a.m. Owing to the enormous amount of work entailed in tabulating scores and in order to have prize presentations early at dinner, leaving plenty of time for the dinner and the after-dinner festivities, the committee has decided that players must be ready to tee off not later than 2.30 to be eligible for prizes or trophies. Tickets are being distributed by Curly Posen of Allied Cocperative Theatres, Bond Street, and his committee. They may be obtained from that committee, any member of the general committee, or from this office, 25 Dundas Square. Recognition of the tournament as the prime industry social event of the year is indicated by the number and nature of the prize donors. A partial list of their names follows: B&F Theatres, Biltmore Theatres, Premier Operating Corporation, Imperial Bank of Canada, Northern Electric, Canadian National Carbon, Robert Simpson Co., Royal Bank of Canada, Warner Brothers, Cardinal Films, Odeon Theatres, Astral Films, London Luggage, Famous Players, E. L. Ruddy Co., Bank of Montreal, King Edward Hotel, Royal York Hotel, Film Laboratories of Canada, Canadian Film Weekly, 20th Century Theatres, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Canadian Automatic Confections, EmpireUniversal Films, International Film Distributors, General Films, Sovereign Films, Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, Associated Screen News, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Childs’ Restaurant, T. Eaton Co., Theatre Confections, O’Keefe’s, Eagle-Lion Films, Sam and Ben Ulster, Montgomery’s Restaurant, Canadian Theatre Chair, Perkins Electric, Indepen Morris Carnovsky and on which a $250 showmanship contest is being run with all exhibitors playing it eligible to enter; “Feudin’, Fussin’ and A’Fightin’,” comedy starring Donald O’Connor, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride; “Abbott and Cestello Meet Frankenstein,” with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi, which ran three weeks at the Uptown, Toronto; “Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid,” starring William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey and Andrea King; and Walter Wanger’s Technicolored epic, “Tap Roots,” starring Van Heflin, Susan Hayward and Boris Karloff. Scheduled for release _ this month are “Larceny,” with John Payne, Joan Caulfield and Dan Duryea; and “One Touch of Venus,” starring Robert Walker, Ava Gardner and Dick Haymes. Set for October are “The Saxon Charm,” adapted from the Frederick Wakeman novel with Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward and John Payne; and “The Case Against Calvin Cooke,” starring Fredric March, Edmond O’Brien and Florence Eldridge. Slated for November are “The Unafraid,” starring Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster and Robert Newton; and “For the Love of Mary,” a Deanna Durbin vehicle, with Edmond O’Brien and Don Taylor in the supporting roles. To be released in December are “Rogue’s Regiment,” with Dick Powell, Marta Toren and Vincent Price; and ‘“‘The Countess of Monte Cristo,’’ Sonja Henie’s first picture in four years, with Olga San Juan and Michael Kirby in supporting roles. January releases will be “You Gotta Stay Happy,” starring Joan Fontaine, James Stewart and dent Posters, Gaumont-Kalee, Photo Engravers, General Theatre Supply, Topper Cigar Co., Pictorial Display, Mickey FireStone, Johnny Cohn, W. R. Johnson Jewelers, Charles Mavety, Dominion Sound, Trader’s Printing, Arthur Silverstone, Alliance Films, Eddie Black, BrodieDraimin, Sammy Taft, Superior Electric, Disney Shirt Shops, Ben Granatstein, Johnny Shapiro, Splan and Splan, Frank’s Men’s Wear, Jack Levy Jewelers and Lawson, Stratton, Green & Ongley. : This is the list to date and the committee’s thanks are due to Mrs. M. V. Chinn of the MPTAO and Sam Glasier of 20th CenturyFox, who did much work on the prizes. Eddie Albert; “Mexican Hayride,” with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Features for February release are “The O’Flynn,” with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Helene Carter and Richard Greene; “Criss Cross,” with an all-star cast, headed by Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, Dan Duryea and Richard Long. Of the remainder for which dates have not been set, the six in Technicolor are “Bloomer Girl,’ “Adventures of Sam Bass,” “Tomahawk,” “Sierra,” and “Streets of Cairo.” The balance includes “An Act of Murder, “Harvey,” ‘Night Watch,” “Amboy Dukes,” “Come Be My Love,” “Paradise Lost— 1948," “Air Crash,” Life: -of Riley,” “The Gay Goddess,” “Illegal Entry,” “The Fatal Step,” “It Gives Me Great Pleasure,” “Ma and Pa Kettle,” “Arctic Manhunt,” “The Western Story,” “Shoplifter,” “Salem Frigate,” and “Homicide Squad.” Jack M. Shaim Dies After Long Illness Jack M. Shaim, 46, associated with Biltmore Theatre Limited, Passed away at his home in Toronto last week after a lengthy illness. A life-long resident of the Queen City, he was also president of the Princeton Suspender Company and Service Specialty Company. He attended Ryerson Public School and Jarvis Collegiate and was a member of the Palestine Masonic. Lodge, the Herzl Zion Club and the B’nai B’rith. Surviving are his wife, Rose, and two daughters, Merle and Linda. New Enterprise Pic Enterprise Pictures has signed Robert Ryan to star with Barbara Bel Geddes in Wolfgang Reinhardt’s production of “The Luckiest Girl In The World,” which will be released by MGM. Irene Hervey Cast In Para's ‘One Woman' Irene Hervey, who recently returned from England where she made personal appearances wit her husband, Allan Jones, wiit resume her screen career in one of the three top feminine roles with Alan Ladd in Paramount’s “One Woman.” Donna Reed and June Havoc will play the other two leading feminine parts in this filmization of Tiffany Thayer’s novel about a newspaper reporter who delves into the past of a dead girl. Extra Come-Ons (Continued from Page 1) that flesh was back in theatres on a greater scale than in years and this trend is noticeable in Canada, where quite a few theatres now feature agency-arranged amateur shows on dull nights. The new is, of course, television. Although few believe that people would rather see theatretype entertainment at home instead of at the movies, there are other factors detrimental to attendance, such as_ sporting events and political conventions. Organized baseball will probably ban televising of its games, for many fans stay at home to watch them. In Jersey City, across the river from New York, attendance at games fell very low when the Yankees or Giants could be watched via television. Boxing promoters now withhold television rights until they check ticket sales to make sure of a good house. In Philadelphia and New York courts prevented the unlicensed televising of the Louis-Walcott fight in theatres at the request of the promoters. The would-be exhibitors contended that the. television show was part of the normal business for which they were licensed. Recognizing the exhibitor’s worries, H. A. Spanuth is offering albums which contain films of three or four vaudeville acts of 30 years ago. Back in 1918 and 1919 Spanuth shot over 500 regular big time vaudeville acts, wnich he released to theatres as Spanuth’s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies. Now he is reissuing them, with a modern comment-. ary by Allen Prescott, a radio announcer. It can be seen that exhibitors, uncertain of the entertainment course of the future, will try anything. Kids Barred From Edmonton Movies Youngsters up to 16 years of age have been barred from theatres and all other public gatherings in Edmonton during the remainder of the poliomyelitis season by an order recently passed by City Council. Affected by the ruling, besides theatres, are bathing beaches and tanks, as well as ball games and other sport activities. Ban may extend to schools if the peak of the dreaded disease is not passed by the time they are due to open. Authorities claim that the mathematical chances of a child catching polio are lessened if the child does not mingle with crowds.