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AA TAKEOVER
(Continued from Page 1) small-gauge chief at JARO. Ivight now the IFD head office and the Torento branch are in the 20th Century Theatres building at 175 Bloor Street East, while the shipping and poster departments are in the Film Exchange Building at 277 Victoria Street, Toronto.
IFD’s move means that in the future there will be three exchange buildings a few blocks east of the Film Exchange Building. MGM, now at 277 Victoria, is erecting its own building at the corner of Victoria and Gould, a half-block south of the new IFD quarters, while Paramount has plans for a new structure at Church and Gerrard, several blocks to the north-east.
Some $12,000 will be spent for alterations by IFD.
Currently Rosen is busy lining up a sales staff for the Allied Artists takeover and he said he would announce the name of the new AA general sales manager shortly. The [AA sales chief will succeed Frank Vaughan, who is under contract to JARO and who will assume other important company responsibilities as aide to Frank H. Fisher, Canadian general manager.
IFD’s acquisition of the Allied Artists’ franchise for Canada, which resulted from negotiations in which Rosen, IFD president N. A. Taylor and AA Canadian representative O. R. Hanson participated, along with top AA executives, seems timed with the company’s “new program for entering the high budget picture field with top talent, while at the same time continuing our regular output of pictures in medium and lower budget brackets,” as Steve Broidy, president, wrote to the stockholders.
AA has contracts for films to be made in Britain for it by such leading producer-directors as John Huston, Billy Wilder and William Wyler. Huston’s feature, following his completion of Moby Dick for another company, will be Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King. Sam Bischoff may also make a series of features under a deal with AA.
Ready now is Walter Wanger’s The Adventures of Hajji Baba, with John Derek and Elaine Stewart, and coming is a CinemaScope spectacle being produced in partnership with 20th Century-Fox, The Black Prince, with Errol Flynn and Joanne Dru. David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo and Barry Fitzgerald are in Tonight’s the Night.
Other films coming up are The Annapolis Story, with John Derek; The Human Jungle, with Gary Merrill and Jan Sterling; and The Big Combo, with Cornel Wilde, Jack Palance and Jean Wallace.
CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY
George Georgas Wins Canadian Film Weekly Golf Trophy
Although he tied with Lionel Axler of Toronto and Tom Naylor of Woodstock (83) for Individual Low Net in the Canadian Motion Picture Golf Championships, sponsored by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Picture Pioneers, George Georgas of Owen Sound won the draw. This got him the Canadian Film Weekly's challenge trophy, which is shown here being presented by Ben Halter of our
staff as Tom Naylor looks on.
Columbia's Brazil Pic
Columbia has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Vera Cruz Productions’ Cangaceire (The Bandit), produced in Brazil. The picture won an award at the Cannes Festival.
MGM's 'Paris Story’
Anne Baxter and Steve Forrest head the cast of MGM’s Paris Story, which will be filmed in color on location in the French capital. Mitchell Leisen is slated to do the directing.
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MONTREAL VANCOUVER TORONTO MONCTON
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Short Throws
CANADIAN Movietone News issued an all-Canada subject recently. The items were about the death of Emily Dionne, the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh and the British Empire Games. Shelly Films is the Canadian photographer for 20th CenturyFox.
SUNDAY drive-in operation in British Columbia, under threat of prosecution, is drawing to an end. Operated as charity shows sponsored by service clubs, they have been open on Sundays for several seasons and
the government gets a_ tencents-per-head tax. Operators of standard theatres have
threatened to open if the driveins weren’t closed on the Sabbath. Three ozoners in Burnaby, Vancouver suburb, closed after the RCMP threatened to enforce the Lord’s Day Act. Three others remained open but may be closed now on Sundays.
NICK LANGSTON, manager of the Capitol, Hamilton, gota $1,000 bill and, accompanied by local movie columnist John Robinson, toured the town creating excitement and_ interest for JARO’s Man With a Million.
HALF OF Canada’s population will be within range of a TV transmitter by the end of this year and right now 7,000,000 can watch television. Canada has 13 transmitters and five will be added next year.
EMERGENCY depots established by film distributors will be serviced by Mavety Film Delivery Service, in case of a railway strike, state George Altman, president, and Clare Appel, executive director of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association.
CHARITABLE organizations whose trailers were shown gratis recently are the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, The Salvation Army, Kinsmen’s Illahee Lodge and The Navy League of Canada. They each wrote a letter thanking exhibitors through the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario.
—— OUR BUSINESS
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merit such a gamble. Top drawing motion picture entertainment today is definitely enjoying a seller’s market. We have never had too much of it at any time but, since it is more vital than ever to the welfare of so many exhibitors, such product now can, and does, dictate terms and admission prices,