Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 7, 1954)

Page 10 FOX CINEMASCOPE (Continued from Page 1) important event in the motion picture industry. Writing in the New York Times of the Hollywood demonstration, Thomas M. Pryor, its correspondent, reported: “The new CinemaScope lenses result in photography of superior quality—as different as night and day in comparison with the texture of ‘The Robe’ and other films made with the early anamorphic lenses. The new picture —The Egyptian is the first to be shot in entirety with the refined lenses—looks infinitely sharper, has more depth of focus and does not fade out at the ends.” Wyler's Next at Paramount William Wyer’s last film at Paramount will be The Desperate Hours. He is reported to have signed a new contract with Allied Artists. News Clips This Is Cinerama in Detroit recently ran an Ontario Day. Now in its second year in the Music Hall, it has been seen by more than 850,000 persons .. . George Forhan, 28, is now manager of the Capitol, Welland, Ontario . . . Cost to date of the Quebec City TV _ station, of which Famous Players is half owner, is $700,000. Due to open any day, it will have a staff of 28. It is known as Television de Quebec (Canada) Ltee. ... Work has begun on a $200,000 renovation of Famous Players’ Tivoli, Hamilton ...A 2,000-car drivein, the world’s largest, opened at Westbury, Long Island, last week. Standard image will be 93 feet wide and 53 feet high, while CinemaScope will cover an area 124 feet wide and 56 feet high. The screen is 50 feet larger than that of the Music Hall, NY. Daily Times-Gazette, Oshawa, quoting the Ontario censor’s annual report, editorializes under this heading: “Film Pre-Occupation With Sex.” One paragraph says: “The motion picture obsession with sex has so trained the public to expect romance that we were afraid during the showing of Everest that it would have been the duty of the mountaineers to kiss an abominable snowman for the camera and we were relieved they met none”... Walter O’Hearn of The Montreal Star got a column out of that blast at Hollywood by the correspondent of Filmindia, Ram Bagai, who contends that films treat Hindus as colonials. “How much chutney does Hollywood have to spread on the bread to please Ram Bagai?” he asks in conclusion, CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Short Throws JOHN A. SHUFF, Akron, Ohio, has succeeded the late Roger M. Kennedy of Detroit as eighth vice-president of the IATSE. EIDOPHOR, the 20th Fox theatre television system that seemed almost forgotten after a flood of publicity more than a year ago, is due for a return to the news. Commercial prototypes of the Eidophor lens have arrived from Switzerland and are being tested in the USA. The theatre TV interest in boxing may be a factor in spurring the arrival of the lenses. An estimated 200,000 persons paid a total of $600,000 to see the Charles-Marciano fight on TV in theatres. It played 61 houses in 45 cities for prices beginning at $2.75. STUART GRIFFITHS has been appointed special programs development officer for TV by Charles Jennings, CBC director of programs. Robert Allen has been named by Ira Dilworth, Ontario CBC chief, to succeed Griffiths as CBLT program director. It was also announced that Geoffrey Waddington, CBC music director, will head the audition program aimed at increasing the Canadian talent content of CBC TV and radio and 20 cities will be visited by July 20. REPUBLIC staffers due _ to work on Timberjack inspected the locale, Vancouver Island, and liked it. They were Joseph Kane, director; Jack Marta, head photographer; John Bourke, location manager; and Kenneth Holms, unit manager. About 150 will be in the crew that will arrive at Cowichan Lake in August, among them the picture’s star, Broderick Crawford. Selection of Vancouver Island came about when Doug Yates visited there some years ago and was struck with the beauty of the scenery. TV PRODUCERS from Europe, Asia and the USA are taking part in a London threeweek study course on programming organized by Unesco in conjunction with the CBC. HARRY WILSON of the Capitol is in the lead for the $100 first prize of the 13-week campaign for Bill Trudell’s seventheatre Famous Players’ C District, Western Ontario. Judging of the contest, which ends on July 31, will be based on gratis promotion activity and points will be awarded by Jim Nairn, Tiff Cook and Bud _ Barker. Second prize is $50, third prize $25 and the best scrapbook each month earns $15. HON. W. E. HARRIS, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, who has cabinet responsibility for the National Film Board, will succeed the Hon. Douglas Abbott as Minister of Finance. Abbott has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. It is unlikely that there will be a transfer of the NFB to the portfolio of another minister, although that was what happened when the Hon. R. H. Winters switched cabinet posts. EQUITABLE tariffs to control the importation of film and canned music was suggested at the convention in Montreal of the Canadian Council of Authors and Artists, which speaks for 2,000 TV, radio and film workers. GLEN W. PEACOCK, Calgary exhibitor, was elected a governor of Rotary International at the 45th annual convention, held in Seattle. He was Calgary president in 1950-51. MRS. J. R. NAIRN, wife of Famous Players’ public relations chief, was honored with an appointment to life membership in the Canadian Women’s Press Club at a dinner given by the Province of Ontario for delegates attending its golden jubilee in Toronto. Mrs. Nairn, president of the Toronto Women’s Press Club, expressed the welcome of the Toronto branch at the dinner, which took place in Hart House, University of Toronto. The last honorary membership bestowed by the CWPC was to Lady Tweedsmuir over a decade ago. FIRST DRIVE-IN in South America was recently opened near Lima, Peru. It has accommodation for 850 cars and seats for 150 walk-ins. The screen is 50 feet high and 67 feet wide and rests on a stage to be used for Sunday concerts. CPR FILMS in 16 mm. available to libraries are Riding High, which covers the annual ride of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, and Canada’s East Coast Playground, a film report on Maritime vacation communities and the Wedgeport tuna tournament. COLUMBIA’S The Wild One was severely criticized by some trustees of the Toronto Board of Education but others said that they did not want to intrude on the function of the censor or condemn the film without seeing it. July 7, 1954 FRED E, PETERS Vice-president and general manager of Dominion Sound Equipments Limited, who was elected president of the Quebec district of the Canadian Picture Pioneers at the recent annual meeting in Montreal, 20th-Fox' 'Untamed' Tyrone Power has been named by Twentieth Century-Fox to star with Susan Hayward in the forthcoming CinemaScope drama, Untamed, South African story dealing with the Boers’ legendary trek from Johannesburg. PQ PIC PIONEERS (Continued from Page 1) Sixty members attended the meeting and these and guests swelled the number at the dinner to 125. Speaker at the dinner was Councillor Frank Hanley, MLA, who was introduced by L. Ernest Ouimet, honorary president, and thanked by Charles Bourassa. Several of the 28 new members were inducted. The award was made to Richards and Makarios, both United Amusements’ managers, for their work on the welfare committee. A _ cocktail party preceded the dinner and a floor show arranged by Phil Maurice followed it. Also elected at the meeting were Georges Champagne, first vice-president; Romeo Vendette, second vice-president; Arthur Larente, secretary; W. H. Mannard, treasurer; and E. Schrider assistant treasurer. Named as trustees were George Ganetakos, Arthur Hirsch, Ben Norrish and J. A. DeSeve. Out-of-town directors selected were Harold Vance, Quebec City; U. S. Allaire, Victoriaville; and Guy Bachand, Sherbrooke. Committee heads are Oscar A. Richards, welfare; John Levitt, membership; William Trow, fund raising; Alan Spencer, publicity; L. K. Jones, finance; and Phil Maurice, house committee,