Canadian Film Weekly (Nov 11, 1959)

Vol. 24, No. 43 7 © VOICE of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY Incorporating the CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST (Founded 1915) TORONTO, November 11, 1959 REG PLUMB HEADS SASK. EXHIBITORS TALK OVER CENSORSHIP, 16 MM. SUNDAY SHOWS, TICKET TAX The Restricted Adult classification recently introduced by the Saskatchewan film censor and the exhibition of 16 mm. films on Sunday in certain situations, along with the municipal amusement tax, occupied much of the discussion at the annual Extra Financing For Trans-Video A six-figure investment by a well-known financial figure in Trans-Video Productions, the company which leased Canadian Film Industries for the making of TV commercials and series, has provided additional financing and its program, as announced in July (Continued on Page 7) They re Off For Can. TV Stakes The Board of Broadcast Governors, at its two-day meeting in Ottawa last week, began consideration of some 60 briefs, about 20 of them from the Toronto area, and all offering opinions and suggestions about Canadian broadcasting. The brief of the Associa (Continued on Page 7) Calgary Supply Company Has Faith In Future Sharp’s Theatre Supplies Ltd. of Calgary, operated by W. G. Sharp, is making a $90,000 investment for a new split level building at Ist Ave. and 4th St. which it expects to be Open on or around Jan. 15, 1960. The company will have 6,000 square fect of working space, “The reason we are putting up a new building to house our activities is that we have complete faith in our abilities to operate a successful theatre supply company in the ensuing years,” states Sharp. He feels that “our abilities and services will be required in the successful operation of theatres in this area.” W. G. veteran exhibitor, W. H. B. Sharp, whose circuit, begun in 1924, eventually reached about 46 locations. In 1932 the senior Sharp acquired the Stevens (Continued on Page 6) 162 French Dubs Due For Quebec Market The leading Canadian distributors of Hollywood and British films will release 162 French dubs and about 40 French originals into Canada’s French-language market during the 1959-1960 season, a survey by this publication shows. Most of the sources of patronage are in Quebec, although there is some activity in other provinces. All the dubbed films will be from Hollywood, with the excepion of 12 from Britain from Rank Film Distributors and six from Russia through Astral Films. The number of French originals will be much greater than the 40 carried by the leading national distributors, since there are a pum "Nine Coaches Waiting’ / Dome Productions, new company formed by Mel Ferrer and Dorothy Kingsley, will make Nine Coaches Waiting for Columbia. Ray Tubman, Ottawa, Heart Attack Victim © (Continued on Page 3) _ SS Bookers' Xmas Party A Prince George Dec. 7 Fifth annual Bookers’ Christmas Party will take place in the Fiesta Room of the Prince George Hotel, Toronto on Monday, Dec. 7. Program calls for cocktails at 6, dinner at 7 and dancing to Curley Posen and his orchestra will follow. Price is $3 per person and the party is open to all in the industry. Curly Posen and Syd Sniderman are handling arrangements and tickets can be obtained from them and from bookers in every exchange and circuit office. City manager for Famous Players in Ottawa, Ray Tubman, died last week of a heart attack, we learn as we go to press. Born in Chicago and brought up in Ottawa, he was a leading athlete and was wounded Sharp is the son of the . | ernments meeting of the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Exhibitors Association, which took place last week in the Bessborough -Hotel, Saskatoon. About 50 exhi bitors from all parts of the province were present and they heard C. S. Chaplin, general manager of United Artists, the guest speaker during the afternoon _ session. Among those present at the dinner which closed the meeting were Harry Jones, MP; the Hon. C. C. Williams, Minister of Labor for the Province and cabinet spokesman for the Theatres & Cinema _tograph Branch; Deputy Mayor Wm. Gray; and E. Knowles and N. Patterson, respectively editor (Continued on Page 6) GOVERNMENT of Australia is embarrassed by something that leaves Canadian Provincial govunembarrassed. ~ Australia has federal film censorship and classification and/or treatment of motion pictures for theatres has reached as high as 35 _-per cent in a year. But, like Can ada, theatre films go on Government TV stations untouched, so that inconsistency, discrimination and absurdity rule. The matter will be brought up in Parliament. The film-theatre people pay censorship fees and feel robbed. In Canada film censorship is a provincial right, so that fees are paid in nine out of ten provinces, but _TV is federal and the provinces can’t regulate or change what goes on it. Since the purpose of censorship is to protect immature minds from being exposed to harmful content in theatres, it seems silly in the face of the fact that films enter the home freely. ———— Subsidy Proposal Provokes Interest Nat Taylor’s recent series about the potential future of feature motion picture production in Canada has stirred fresh interest in a subject that is a half-century old. Taylor’s contention that profitable features can be made by knowledgeable people, as reiter (Continued on Page 3) Paramount Buys ‘Satan’ Satan, a novel by the late H. DeVere Stacpoole, has been purchased by Paramount as a property for Roger Vadim, popular French director recently signed to a studio contract. The story, to be made at the Paramount studio, is a romantic adventure drama at sea in the Caribbean. COMEDY TEAM of Marshall & Noonan, stars of 20th CenturyFox’ The Rookies, will meet the press at a luncheon in the Park Plaza Hotel, Toronto, on Nov. 9, at which they will entertain and show some sequences from the film. They will fly to Montreal that afternoon to be guests at the dinner of the Quebec Allied Theatrical Industries at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. On Nov. 19 Sam Glasier, 20th-Fox Canadian adpub director, will be shepherding Fabian, star of Hound Dog Man. CANADIAN Theatre Centre, 1237 Sanguinet St., Montreal, is makking a survey of various theatres and halls to discover what facilities they have to offer so that the information can be made available to domestic and foreign touring companies. Desired are complete details as to stage size, wing space, dressing rooms and (Continued on Page 7) at Vimy Ridge in WW 1. He got into the theatre business in Calgary at the Palace, joined Famous Players in 1925 and worked in a number of cities until given management of the Capitol Theatre, Ottawa, in 1932. —