Canadian Film Weekly (Nov 30, 1955)

November 30, 1955 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Page 5 IPA NOW PCA (Continued from Page 1) at which J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., vice-president and general manager of Theatre Confections Limited of Toronto, was returned as chairman of the board of directors. President Bert Nathan of Theatre Popcorn Vending Corporation of Brooklyn, who was re-elected to his second term of office, said that the new title for the Association would be more properly descriptive of the overall membership of the group. “Under the banner of Popcorn and Concessions Association, our group will attract new exhibitors and greater attendance than it has ever done before,’ Fitzgibbons said. “Popcorn is still a big seller, but we are broadening our horizon to include the entire concession industry, which has never had its own association. PCA will now serve it and represent it.” Fitzgibbons will be one of those aiding Nathan to negotiate the contract with TOA-TESMATEDA for the 1956 joint convention-exhibition, set for September 19 to 25 in the Coliseum in New York City. The success of the 1955. meeting and exhibition under the combined banners of the four bodies led Nathan to announce immediately the chairmen for the 1956 show, one of whom was Kenneth E. Wells of Theatre Confections Limited. He will act as social chairman. A minimum of four regional conferences for 1956 were set. First will take place in New York for the entire southern and eastern area, then will follow a western meeting in Las Vegas, a southwestern session in Dallas or New Orleans and a midwestern conference in Chicago, While it was not announced it is quite likely that there will be a Canadian regional gathering also, similar to the one which took place in Toronto in the early part of this year, under the co-chairmanship of Fitzgibbons and Sydney Speigel of Super Pufft Popcorn Limited. Other officers elected at the Chicago sessions were Allan W. Adams of Adams Corporation, first vice-president; James O. Hoover of Martin Theatres, second vice-president; A. J. Villiesse, A. J. Villiesse Company, treasurer; and Thomas J. Sullivan of Chicago, executive vice-president, secretary and general counsel. Theodore E. Medland, Mrs. Silver Adams, James O. Hoover, Robert Condon, Fred O. Nimz, Irwin R. Tucker and Melville B. Rapp were installed as junior directors of the seven separate segments of the Association, all of whom were elected by mail ballot. WB Reissuing ‘Emile Zola’ The Life of Emile Zola, starring Paul Muni, is being reissued by Warners. ON THE SQUARE (Continued from Previous Page) evitably one, expressing the majority opinion, said in tones of great doubt: “Her?” The next time that happened she would point to the mantle and say: “See?” Mary Pickford captured the audience by her warm and humorous recollections of associations with the others on the stage. Referring to the luxurious working conditions of modern screen players, she said: “We dressed in carbarns.” Buster Keaton she had first met in a Brooklyn theatrical boarding house, when he was with his father in vaudeville. Lillian Gish she had introduced to D. W. Griffith and Mary had left his service for the stage when a new star made a great picture for Biograph and led her to fear that she would soon be through. The star? Mae Marsh. She went to Belasco and induced Lillian Gish to come away. But she realized that there was room for more stars and advised her to go back. She did and soon made a hit picture. Then Mary went back too. Miss Pickford was as bright and active as a woman a generation younger and she remembered for the audience what a friend once told her: “Pay no attention to Time. Time is only the noise the clock makes.” After Miss Pickford Lasky ended the evening with the observation: “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” It was quite an evening and it owed that fact to the fine artists and craftsmen who gave the industry—and the world—so much in an earlier day. That and the sincere affection they created in those watching them here. It was strong enough to overcome the somewhat staid, almost stuffy atmosphere that needed so badly the excitement of people recording it for the world. And it would have been nice to have collected a dressy program or some printed souvenir of the occasion. 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BRANCHES AT: Halifax, Saint John, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, North Bay, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver. News Clips John DeBow and Hugh L. Bearg have been added to the sales staff of Screen Gems of Canada Limited, Columbia TV subsidiary with head offices in Toronto. DeBow is in Montreal and Bearg in Toronto ... NABET and ARTEC, the latter a union of CBC employees, may affiliate... Lloyd Bacon, 65, Hollywood director who made The Singing Fool and The French Line among others, died last week ... Yvonne de Carlo, 33-year-old Vancouverborn movie star, married Robert Morgan, 40 in Hollywood. It’s her first marriage ... India may rule that ten days monthly in theatres must be devoted to domestic films. O’Keefe’s Toronto civic centre, which will have a theatre, is to be located on Front Street, a block over from the Royal York Hotel and across from the federal buildings ... An exchange of TV programs with the Soviet Union was proposed at a 15-country Unesco conference recently .. . Don Carle Gillette, resigned, has been succeeded as editor of the Hollywood Reporter by McCullough St. John ... The Royal Commission that will investigate CBC TV and radio financing will likely be appointed before the new session of Parliament, which begins on December 10. The National Audubon Society of the USA presented Walt Disney with its medal for. distinguished service to conservation at a dinner in New York last week . . Ralph Cole, formerly of 20th Century Theatres’ Century in Trenton, is now manager of the Frank Reid, who resigned... Willow Theatre, Chemainus, BC, has switched to four nights from six, cutting off the first two days of the week . . . Eastman Kodak, parent company of Canadian Kodak, recently declared an extra dividend of 25¢ and an increase in its wage dividend to $32,175,000. City editor of the Hamilton Daily News is now Lew Gloin... Parry Films’ address in North Vancouver is now 1825 Capilano and its phone number YOrk 3164 Saar An amphitheatre in the Humber Valley project outside of Toronto has been proposed, while Controller Cornish of the city suggests a $5,000,000 stadium with a 100,000 capacity for Riverdale Park ... Use of a USA bomber among the Lanctasters in Dam Busters drew a protest in the British Parliament. The USA prints, charged Labor MP Swingler, included a Flying Fortress. Centre, Chatham, succeeding.