Canadian Film Weekly (Jun 30, 1954)

: ? H : Page 6 Franklin-Herschorn J * TV Licence Denied Application of the Franklin & Herschorn Theatre Co. Ltd. for a TV licence in Moncton, NB was denied by the CBC Board of Governors, following the recent meeting in Saint John, NB, in favor of that of Moncton Broadcasting Ltd. Both had applied at the same time and the Board noted that the latter company “is locally owned and operated.” Other TV applications approved were for stations in Calgary, Saskatoon, Brandon and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It recommended deferment of a private licence for St. John’s, Newfoundland, while consideration is given to establishing a CBC outlet there. "Man From Laramie’ Director Anthony Mann has reported to William Goetz Productions at Columbia Studio and has started working with screenwriter Frank Burt on the forthcoming James Stewart starrer, The Man From Laramie, which will be placed before the Technicolor cameras in September. News Clips Associated Screen News is installing equipment for the printing of 35 mm. Eastmancolor... James Bullerwell, manager of the Community, Yarmouth, NS has been elected president of the Yarmouth County Baseball League . . . Alexander Theatre, Wallaceburg, Ontario has closed, leaving the town with one house ._ . . Estimated amusement tax revenue for 1954 by the Province of Ontario is $6,702,000. Theatre licences are expected to yield $280,000... Regent, Peterborough, empty for six years, will become an office building . .. Hat Drive-in in Medicine Hat entertained 22 members of the handicapped association gratis. Nashville newspaper refused to print the program logs of two radio and two TV stations and this resulted in a three-year contract which calls for a sharing of costs in several cases . . Maclean’s will raise its advertisiig rates and publish every two weeks in 1955. This will mean 26 editions annually instead of 24... NFB crews are shooting Les Midinettes in Montreal and a shipbuilding documentary in Sorel, Quebec, and a third will start on a film about the Trans Canada Highway in July . . . Gone With the Wind, reissued by MGM, is doing great business in all its early engagements. It has brought MGM well over $2,000,000 in Canadian rentals in its previous releases. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Short Throws MANAGER of the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, Miss Molly Schultz passed away recently. Born in Winnipeg, she was associated with the Park, DeLuxe and Garry for the past 24 years. EDITORIAL in The Enterprise-Bulletin, Colilngwood, Ontario, headed “Outstanding Public Spiritedness,”’ praised Sam and Joe Russ of the Gayety for donating the theatre’s three-day take to the local building fund for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. They presented a cheque for $1,173. ‘‘This is not the first instance in which the Russ family has made splendid contributions to various projects,” the paper said. LES PRESTON, manager of the Capitol, St. Thomas, Ontario promoted two full-page co-op ads in the past month. These were in the Times-Journal for the MGM features, Kiss Me Kate and The Long, Long Trailer. SIXTEEN-million-dollar antitrust suit of Zenith Radio Corporation and the Rauland Corporation, both of Chicago, against the Radio Corporation of America and others can proceed, it was ruled by Federal Judge Michael F. Igoe. They charge that RCA has since 1919 “been engaged in a conspiracy to monopolize radio and_ television business” and the effect of this was to keep them out of Canada and other foreign markets. PIPE BAND of the 9th Anti Tank Regiment in full kilted garb staged a parade in Belleville, Ontario, which ended at the McCarthy Theatre, where a concert of Scottish airs was given in front of the house. The band members then entered the theatre as guests of Willard Fawcett, manager, to see JARO’s The Kidnappers. MEMBERS of the Lindsay, Ontario Reserve Army Unit, the 45th Battery of the 4th Field Regiment, were the guests of Al Duguid, manager, and the Academy Theatre at the first performance of All Quiet on the Western Front. The reissued film played to a packed house. CANADIAN Broadcasting Corporation was accused of fostering local TV monopolies for itself in large centres by Donald Fleming, PC from Toronto, in the House of Commons. Progressive Conservative and Social Credit members advocated the establishment of a different type of government authority but CCF leader M. J. Coldwell defended the CBC, TOTAL of 460 features were registered in West Germany during 1953 compared with 450 during 1952. Of these 96 were German (including eight German-Austrian co-productions), 230 were from the USA, 48 from France, 32 Italian, 16 British, 16 Austrian and 22 from _ other countries. Screen time for USA productions was down from 42 per cent to 37 per cent. VANDALISM in the form of ruined theatre chairs took place recently at the new Cinema Theatre in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. CRAWLEY Films of Ottawa has completed Five Faces of Quebec for Molson’s Brewery Ltd. A 30-minute, 16 mm. film, 1t is designed for TV and non-theatrical showings. The Powerful Horseshoe, a 16 mm. color film, has also been finished by the production company. It is sponsored by Ontario Hydro, which will distribute it non-theatrically. LARGE SCALE pre release publicity campaign is under way for United Artists’ Operation Manhunt, which was_ recently completed in Canada, in a unique move to maintain a continuing flow of information about the picture right up to its release in the near future. It was produced by Fred Feldkamp and directed by Jack Alexander and is based on the life in hiding of the Soviet code clerk, Igor Gouzenko, who appears in the picture wearing a mask to conceal his identity. CANADIAN district of RKO exceeded its quota in the Sid Kramer Short Subject Drive with the greatest volume of billing for a similar period in its history. The Saint John branch stood first, Vancouver second and Winnipeg third, it was stated by Jack Labow, Canadian general manager. Neil Leroy, Toronto, Now CCAA Prexy Neil Leroy, Toronto freelance artist, was elected president of the Canadian Council of Authors and Artists at the recent annual convention in Montreal, while Louis Belanger of Montreal, Bernard Cowan of Toronto and Len Hayman of Vancouver were elected vice-presidents; Bernard Hogue of Montreal, treasurer; and Fred Diehl of Toronto and Robert Rivard of Montreal, secretaries. The convention, at which 2,000 writers and performers were represented, went on record that the CBC TV setup in Toronto wasn’t Canadian enough. June 30, 1954 C. RAY HARNETT Appointed Canadian sales manager for Warner Bros.’ 16 mm, division by Haskell M. Masters, the company’s chief in this country. Anna Magnani Cast In "Rose Tattoo' Anna Magnani, the internationally famed Italian actress, has been set by Hal Wallis to star opposite Burt Lancaster in Wallis’ Rose Tattoo, her first production to be made in the USA. Miss Magnani will arrive in Hollywood in September to start this screen version of Tennessee Williams’ dramatic Broadway hit, which will be made at the Paramount Studio. Daniel Mann will direct Rose Tattoo, which will be filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor. George Sanders In MGM's 'Moonfieet' George Sanders has been signed by MGM to star with Stewart Granger in Moonfleet, film based on the J. Meade Falkner novel to be produced by John Houseman and directed by Fritz Lang. Sanders will appear as the dissolute Lord Ashwood, who solicits the aid of Granger, a notorious smuggler, in a daring piracy raid on an English Channel village of the 18th Century. Stanley Kramer To Direct Own Prod'n Stanley Kramer will direct as well as produce Not as a Stranger, the best-selling novel which he will film late this summer for United Artists release with Robert Mitchum, Olivia De Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame and Charles Bickford in leading roles. This will be the first film to be directed by Kramer, who had previously served the film industry as a writer and cutter and even has been a_ back-lot laborer. re Ae eee. aes NS ER SE ee ee ggg ae ee a2 me Sd