Canadian Film Weekly (Feb 27, 1957)

opti Atlee naisnyinines ee elialitealtts SSS es February 27, 1957 Vol. 22, No. 9 February 27, 1957 UM ated bbl Bn dnc Assistant Editor Ben Halter Office Manager Esther Silver CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5, Canada Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published by Film Publications of Canada, Limited 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada — Phone WAlInut 4-3707 Price $5.00 per year. SUNDAY PAPER (Continued from Page 1) Available to the public by 11 p.m. Saturday night and to sell on Sunday through channels now being studied, the price will be 10 cents — the same as the Saturday edition of The Telegram, which carries Weekend magazine, an insert. L. M. McKechnie, assistant editor of The Telegram under J. D. McFarlane, vice-president and executive editor, will likely be editor. Appearing in the Sunday Telegram will be some of the paper’s daily columnists, among them Clyde Gilmour and Wes Hicks, along with others not members of the regular staff. One of these will be Stan Helleur, who recently resigned as general columnist to become editor of Mayfair Magazine, and another Jim Coleman, one-time Globe and Mail columnist now in public relations. Closely connected with the planning is George McFarlane. Both the Globe and Mail, a morning paper, and the Star, an afternoon one, will likely follow the Sunday Telegram with one of their own. The Star’s national weekly, the Star Weekly, which has a circulation approaching a million, will not be affected when and if a Toronto Sunday edition is issued. How the Telegram’s new weekly will affect or influence its use of Weekend is probably not known at this point. Member papers share the advertising profits with the Montreal Standard Company, the publisher. Theatre advertising department heads have not yet been approached by The Telegram, although one of the four sections planned will be devoted to amusements. It may be that Sunday papers will help relieve amusement pages during the week. Toronto amusement pages are often crowded until they look choked, although Montreal papers seem not to have that trouble. Some objection to Sunday papers may be forthcoming from the Lord’s Day Alliance. To Star In "Separate Tables’ Sir Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster, Vivien Leigh and Deborah Kerr have been named to four of the five starring roles in HechtHill-Lancaster’s Separate Tables, based on the Terence Rattigan Broadway hit and which Olivier will direct. CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY ‘The Digest’ Ends (Continued from Page 1) their subscriptions transferred to the Canadian Film Weekly, which now becomes Canada’s only motion picture trade journal. For the greatest part of its 41 years the Digest was under the editorship of the late Ray Lewis and, upon her death in 1954, was continued under the direction of her son, Jay Smith, who had been associated with her for a number of years on the Digest. In announcing the sale of the Digest, Jay Smith expressed his sincere appreciation for the support he had received from the industry in Canada during the past three years and stated that it was only his desire to return to the Southwestern United States for personal health reasons that brought about his decision to discontinue publication of the Digest. The Digest, edited by Ray Lewis almost since its founding by C. H. Moody of Montreal in 1915, came into Ray’s possession that same year and, except for a short time in 1918, had been under her direction ever since. She was one of the most remarkable of women—a musician, linguist, journalist and Shakespearean actress who had attended institutions connected with each of those arts. In addition she had been a lecturer, publicist and a candidate for parliament. She KALEE RCA MOTIOGRAPH PERKINS MONTREAL 16 helped bring British pictures to Canada as the representative of The Allens in Britain and later she opened the Alliance exchange, through which she _ distributed American and European films. She was instrumental in building the Pylon and Avenue theatres and was one of the three founders of the Canadian Picture Pioneers, which honored her publicly shortly before her passing. She was well known and popular throughout the entire film world and her passing brought messages of regret from anywhere films were being made and shown. The leading figures of the industry sent their condolences to Jay, her only child, and to her grandchildren. She was until his death the wife of Joshua Smith, a famed portrait painter in Britain, where she met him, and later in Canada. Jay Smith was associated with his mother in all her enterprises and took over their operation personally at her death. Col.'s "Bitter Victory’ Columbia has secured world-wide distribution rights to Bitter Victory, to be produced in France by Transcontinental Films, S.A., with Richard Burton, Kurd Jurgens and Raymond Pellegrin heading the cast. STOCK REDUCTION BARGAINS OF NEW AND DEMONSTRATION EQUIPMENT Many Items At Less Than Cost PROJECTORS ARC LAMPS RECTIFIERS AMPLIFIERS SPEAKER SYSTEMS VYNAL SCREENS. STEREOPHONIC SOUND AMPLIFIERS SPEAKERS, STEREOPHONIC SOUND M.G. SETS 125-250 AMP. AND 70-140 AMP. SUPERIOR MODEL A PROJECTORS BALLANTYNE PD 50 AMPLIFIERS. DE-VRY 35 MM AND 16 MM PORTABLES. FILM CABINETS TABLES SPOT LIGHTS DRAPE MATERIALS. PYRENE SODA AND ACID EXTINGUISHERS. USED SPECIAL iovirmenr” aiso. many 35MM PORTABLES BARGAINS cow intensity tames recririers From $25 PERKINS ELECTRIC CO. LTD. 289 DUNBAR AVENUE PHONE RE. 9-1901 Page 3 KpRepeoRRE OUR BUSINESS (Continued from Page 1) observer and chronicler of the Canadian motion picture scene in all its aspects — theatrical and non-theatrical — and in the research and recording of the history of our business. The Canadian Moving Picture Digest has a long and honorable record of service to the motion picture industry spanning four decades. The consolidation of the two trade papers into one is symptomatic of the changes taking place in our business. It now becomes increasingly important that the established policy of honest reporting and treatment of the news, so successfully carried on until now under the editorial direction of Hye Bossin, be continued and that there never be a doubt of the impartiality of the Canadian Film Weekly as the voice of the Canadian motion picture industry. As president of Film Publications of Canada Limited I am happy to say that the editor and publisher of the Canadian Film Weekly, Hye Bossin, will, as in the past, have complete autonomy in the operation and editorial policies of this trade paper. It is to be hoped that he will now receive even greater support from all sections of our business — one in which there is an ever-growing spirit of optimism. PemR UNE ea 2 AE STFD. FESTIVAL (Continued from Page 1) the direction of Leonid Kipnis, producer of Oedipus Rex as a film, is being arranged with the help of John Hayes, production manager of the Festival. It will run for two week, July 31 to September 6. There will be no awards in the Film Festival but each entrant will receive a Certificate of Participation. The embassies in Ottawa have been approached and are arranging for the submission of several features from the countries they represent, as well as shorts. Though the features must not have been shown in Canada before, it will not be a firm rule and exceptions will be made where merited. This, of course, is particularly true of the Canadian program. Hayes has consulted with Dr. A. W. Trueman, National Film Commissioner; Graeme Fraser of Crawley Films; Art Chetwynd of Chetwynd Films, president of the Canadian producers and labs association; and others about what should be used. A special committee will select all films to be shown. This will be the second international film program under the auspices of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. A Film Festival brochure will be issued April 1.