Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 25, 1954)

at a= Page 8 GOLF TOURNEY (Continued from Page 1) ture Pioneers, which Dan Krendel and his committee made the best of its kind ever held. Each IA man got a mantel radio and a miniature, courtesy of Famous Players, Odeon, Empire-Universal, MGM and the Bank of Nova Scotia. The JARO lads got Senator desk lighters and miniatures, courtesy of Dave Ongley, IFD, Columbia, Tops Restaurant, Sovereign Films, Cardinal and Astral. Fred Cross and Bernie Herman got 77 and Pete Myers 79 in the Individual Low Gross, A Flight (1 to 16 handicap) and the first-named won the draw to again acquire the Famous Players trophy and a record player. Herman got a pop-up toaster and Myers a dozen golf balls, all prizes being via the Imperial Bank, Royal Bank, Crosstown Motors and Ben Ulster. Projectionists Local 173 trophy went to Gurston Allen, who was again the winner in the Individual Low Gross, B Flight (17 to 27 handicap) with an 84, he being followed by Dawson Exley and Monty Beder, with the former winning the draw and getting a pop-up toaster. Allen got a record player and Beder a dozen golf balls, with prizes coming from St. Andrew’s Golf Club, The Telegram, H. M. Masters, Continental Can and Theatre Posters. Other results: Twentieth Century Theatres trophy for Individual Low Gross, C Flight: Bill Freedman (90), Michael Taylor and Vic Beattie (94). Prizes courtesy of General Films, Barnes & Davidson, United Artists, Adfilms, Canadian Automatic Confections, Alliance Films and Paramount Pictures. Canadian Film Weekly trophy (see picture). Prizes were Ed Provan slacks, movable charcoal grill and six lbs. of hot dogs from Shopsy and a Grand & Toy thermos set. Tom Daley trophy for Bookers Low Gross: S. Hanson (83), S. Sarick (86) and Z. Sheine (94). Prizes were Sainthill-Levine slacks, $20 Robert Simpson money order and $15 Canadian Film Weekly money order. Winners in various nine-hole competitions were Andy Pura, Dave Romberg, Harry Wiseman, Nick Georgas, D. Clarke and C. Godfrey. C. Lynch took the 18hole Individual Low Gross in the special awards for Affiliated Industries with a 77, while the Individual Low Net went to J. Vorvis for a 74. Joe Paul of Welland was the oldest golfer and Bob Beder the youngest golter, Dave Romberg won the gin rummy elimination contest and Lionel Lester was second. Trophies and prizes went to the winner and runner-up in the last-named event. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Zs tii) f Pigs iy ” DID YOU SEE OUR ’53 deficit figure on two-country tourism? Canadians spent $63 million more in the USA, a country tentimes greater in population, than Americans did in Canada. So many Americans think of Canada living lushly on the Yankee tourist dollar that they consider you’re kidding when you give them figures which show that we outspend them socially and outbuy them some years. The Chief of Police in Kennebunkport, Maine told Tom Daley and I that all the resorts in that area would have had a bad time this season if it wasn’t for the thousands of Canadian ttourists. Just thought you might be interested in these comments, since the motion picture industry, through the CCP-MPAA + plan of boosting our tourism via USA screens, “8 has a connection... Yowre round if you say ‘“Kenn-e-bunk,” because all the local squares pronounce it “Kennee-bunk” ... Believe It or Leave It: 185,000 tons of rock dropped into the Niagara River at Niagara Falls, NY—right where Daley and I had stood a few days earlier. We sailed the pond in Boston Common on a swan boat and several days later 25 of the tame wild ducks that lived on it died mysteriously. A day after we went through Kittery, Maine an earthquake shook it. Do you want: to buy the two USA $2 bills I carried with me through all that? They’re said to be very bad luck. It’s a good thing Daley had the Luck o’ the Irish with him . . . Want to make a Maine native froth? Tell him you prefer Nova Scotia lobster. a MGM SURE WHOOPED it up big for the seven unmarried House brothers from a farm near Port Stanley. Quite a House(ing) project, designed of course to increase rentals—on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which some claim is the best musical ever made. Understand the boys were a bit touchy. They asked and got an apology for something from the London Free Press, which furthered Fred Jackson’s search for seven single brothers and got the first news of the Houses from a reader. Kinsmen sponsored the Canadian preem in Fred’s house, Loew’s London, and Leo the Lion coughed up $500 for a local playground. The unsung hero of all this, if you ask me, is the person who phoned the paper .. . Bob Roddick bought himself a large old-time residence in the sleepy village of Bayfield, Ontario, to which he retired after quitting Famous Players in Halifax. This was the house of a famous character, Tudor Marks, who owned a grain elevator in the days when Bayfield, then the harbor for the whole Huron Tract, had about 20 hotels. Bob is living quietly among the vanished glories . . . Nice to see George Dowbiggin of Winnipeg at the Pioneers’ golf tournament. He should have been given a prize as the pioneer from the most distant point. Among the out-oftowners were Jack Ward and Walt Lovett of Niagara Falls and Vern Hudson of St. Catharines . . . Fridolin’s subtitled feature, Tit-Cog, will get a Famous Players first run in Toronto. THE MONTREAL STAR columnist, Andy O’Brien, who will be heard in the NFB reel of the BE Games, tells this about that agonizing finish of marathoner Jim Peters of England. Cameraman Felix Lazarus shot a few of Peters’ 12 downsand-ups, then sat back to watch. Director Jack Olsen asked why he had stopped shooting. Said Felix: “This is the first marathon race I have ever seen—don’t all the runners always come in in this way?” I don’t believe it... Between 1900 and 1910 50,000 movie houses went into business in the USA and Canada—which is almost three times as many as there are today . . . Hoisted a few with Joe Tensee the other night and heard about his forthcoming sizzler, Toronto Confidential, of which he has six chapters done. Go, Joe, go! . . . There’s a good one in Napier Moore’s Scratch Pad, which appears in The Financial Post. A ticket agent told him about a telephone enquiry as to the cost of transporting a corpse to a distant point, made to a weary information girl. Asked the girl: “One way or return?” . . . Shades of Victoria! The People’s Church on Bloor Street recently announced that its guest preacher the next Sunday would be “A Converted Actress.” Wasn’t there a time when actors weren’t considered respectable enough to vote or be eligible for the Legion of Honor in France or a mandarinate in China? August 25, 1954 News Clips James L. Smith of Alliance Films recently closed a deal for Canadian distribution of Out of This World, the Lowell Thomas feature ... NFB 1,000-foot reel of the BE Games was cut from 16,000 feet .. . Criticism of CBC TV by Fitz, Montreal Gazette columnist, for using a program of old Chaplin films brought letters pro and con from readers. Commentator for the program was Walter O’Hearn, drama critic of The Montreal Star . Omaha tent of Variety Clubs International will entertain Chief Barker George Hoover at its annual field day and summer dinner dance . . . NABET, CIO affiliate, and the CBC have agreed to place contract renewal differences before a conciliation board. Attendance at the recent six ‘day Calgary Stampede was a record 482,182 . .. Arthur M. Parry of Shell Oil of Canada was elected president of the Advertisers Guild recently Crawley Films has a 16 mm. subject in work for Aluminium Fiduciaries Limited and another for General Foods Limited .. . Alfred Strowger, 79, for a quarter of a century manager of the old Grand Opera House in Hamilton, died recently in Niagara Falls . . . Next country to try its luck in the English-language market with dubbed films will be Mexico, which found that subtitles were unacceptable Business in Australia has gone up considerably of late. For Sale 450-seat_ theatre, town of 3,000. Modern projector and screen. In good repair. Price $35,000. Terms can be arranged. Contact HARLAND RANKIN, c/o O’Brien Realty, 128 Queen St., Chatham, Ont. well-located in | QUALITY COUNTS! We have been selected to distribute on an EXCLUSIVE basis the Advertising Trailers for many leading Canadian accounts. 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