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November 21, 1956
CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY
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HEADED by Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th-Fox, a committee has been set up by the Motion Picture Association of America to
co-ordinate its business-building campaign. One of the things to be handled by this committee in its effort to boost the boxoffice will be a national Academy Sweepstakes or Oscar Derby, which will be a competition for moviegoers based on Academy Awards.
CONTRACT for providing commercial TV in Wales and Western England may go to a group headed by Senator Rupert Davies, Candian newspaper publisher and TV station operator, who was born in Wales and maintains a second home in that country. The group, known as Western Television Limited, is one of four competing for the licence and includes in it Edward Hulton, British publisher; Tom Arnold, an impresario; and Lord Aberdare, a former member of the Independent Television Authority.
PRESENTATION of an inscribed wrist watch was made to Julius Androchowicz on his recent retirement as theatre inspector for Northern Saskatchewan. The gift was made at a dinner in the Elite in Saskatoon honoring Androchowicz and his wife, which was sponsored by the Northern Saskatchewan Theatre Exhibitors and Projectionists. Frank Beattie of Kerrobert was the chairman of the affair and Andy Russell of Prince Albert made the presentation.
COMPLETION of the purchase of the entire capital of African Theatres Limited by Twentieth Century-Fox has been completed, Spyros P. Skouras, president, announced in an interim report to the shareholders. Edward F. Lomba, Fox African chief for many years, is now managing director of African Theatres, which embraces 144 theatres and important office buildings. The report also showed that the 26-week earnings of 20th-Fox were down from $2,790,800 in 1955 to $2,156,670 and the common share dividend fell from $1.06 to 82c — even though income, at $56,030,173, was only $779,826 smaller. Taxes was the main reason for smaller earnings and dividends.
Joan Blondell Signed
Joan Blondell returns to MGM for This Could Be the Night, which also stars Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa. The comedy-drama, produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Robert Wise, is now under way.
TEN FROM TUDOR
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dent of Tudor. In the USA the pictures will go to exhibitors who fell in with his request for ‘‘pay or play” flat rental contracts, there being 500 so far of the expected 3,000. In Canada the films will be marketed in the ordinary manner.
Kerman is at present discussing possible production of four of the 1957 films by Hal Roach, Jr., the budget on these being written in at $175,000 each. The other features will be divided between Hollywood, Mississippi and Arkansas as production locales.
Actually production plans call for from 10 to 20 features and the program will be expanded if other Independent producers decide to come under the Tudor banner.
A number of exhibitors will be members of the board of the company Kerman will organize for production.
The initial ten films will be produced by William L. Nolte from scripts by Paul Leslie Peil and titles of the first eight have been already lined up. They are Ambush at Cimarron Pass, Natchez Trace, Blue Chip Badman, Feud at Calico Creek, Comanche Moon, Don Rebel, Cajun Fury and Big Bend. These titles are subject to change and names have not been picked as yet for the remaining two films, which will be of the “horror” type.
OUR BUSINESS
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ed out generally because of the theatre’s obsolescence and because of the public’s desire to see its movies “hot.” In many cases the place of such theatre has been taken by the drive-in, of which today there is a plethora, and one drive-in can easily supplant three or four such units. The modern suburban theatre with the necessary attributes and a good “run” rates being around for a long time.
We are presently witnessing the disappearance of theatres now past their “three score and ten’ and some _ which should never have been built in the first place, but we are still a long way from seeing the demise of the motion picture theatre. At the moment few people would _ consider building new and really modern theatres. This will change and when it does our segment of show business will be in for a new era of excitement. Our business will always need good businessmen and good managers, and those who qualify in this category need have little trepidation for the future.
Marlon Brando In ‘Sayonara’
Marlon Brando has been signed by Warners to star in James Michener’s Sayonara.
SIX-MONTH IMMIGRATION UP
Immigrants to Canada in the first six months of the year totalled 69,924 compared with 58,417 a year earlier, the Department of Immigration reported recently in Ottawa.
The figures for the half-year, with last year’s figures in parenthesis, showed the following nationalities contributing the major gains:
English, 14,328 (10,311); Irish 3,074 (2,004); Scottish, 4,567 (3,476); Danish, 1,610 (873); German, 10,141 (8,112); Greek, 2,162 (1,397); Italian, 12,457 (12,026); Portuguese, 1,323 (1,143); Swiss, 553 (344); Yugoslavia, 817 (765); Austrian, 1,348 (901); Belgian, 1,098 (621).
The intake of Netherlanders remained fairly steady at 4,584 as
against 4,553 in the January-June period last year. The influx of Chinese dropped to 1,198 from 1,272.
DUPLESSIS NAMES DIRECTORS
Seven Quebec Government representatives were named to the 21-member board of directors that will be responsible for the construction and supervision of the Montreal Concert Hall. The Government of Premier Maurice Duplessis, who made the appointments, has authorized the contribution of up to $2,500,000 of the estimated $6,000,000. The other directors of what will be known as the Sir George Etienne Cartier Centre represent the City of Montreal and the public subscribers.
The seven Government representatives named are Paul Gouin, producer of the Montreal Festivals; Robert Letendre, chairman of the Montreal Festivals; Judge Roland Paquette, governor of the University of Montreal; Roger Martel, Montreal insurance man; Rejean Desjardins, Montreal municipal councillor and former president ‘of the Montreal Junior Chamber of Commerce; John P. Rowat, chairman of the Greater Montreal Protestant School Board; and Herbert J. O’Connell, Montreal contractor.
Already named to represent Montreal are Mayor Jean Drapeau, City Councillors Roy E. Wagar, Armand Dupuis and J. Cecil McDougall; Parks Department Director Claude Robillard; Roger Mathieu, newspaperman and labor leader; and Jean Lallemand, industrialist and past president of Les Concerts Symphonique.
Those appointed by public subscribers are Samuel Bronfman, Paul Bienvenue, Gordon R. Ball, Herbert H. Lank, Bartlett Morgan, Honore Parent, QC, and Louis A. Lapointe, QC.
JAMES A. WHITEBONE, MBE
Veteran Maritime IATSE official, who will be presented with an ancillary award at the Canadian Picture Pioneers’ annual Pioneer of the Year award dinner. Affair will take place at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto on November 22.
Columbia's "Young Rebels‘
Dorothy Green has been signed by Columbia to star in The Young Rebels.
UK Trade Talk
The Motion Picture Research Council issues a monthly newsletter designed to keep execs aware of new developments in technology. Member companies and those in allied industries direct information to the MPRC .. . It appears that the BBC will limit itseli as to the number of feature films it will show yearly but be free to use any source of supply. Trade organizations asked that it limit itself.
J. Arthur Rank has signed Vancouver actor Philip Gilbert, 24, to a seven-year contract after his appearance on the London stage . . . Robert Goldstein, European production chief for 20th-Fox, said that his company will make 10 quota pictures . . . Many old pre1950 films have been withdrawn from Italy by the Motion Picture Export Association after a complaint that they glut the market and hinder exhibition of domestic product.
Rock Around the Clock won’t be shown in Rank houses, its exhibition having caused so much turbulence among the teen-agers... BBC psychologist William A. Belson said that a two-year survey shows that the cinema hasn’t felt the full impact of TV yet ...A London equipment house has displayed a worn and torn seat in its display window, with this sign: “Tf Entertainments Duty was abolished you would not be forced to sit in seats like this one”... Part of UPA’s cartoon feature, Don Quixote, will be made in London.