Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 13, 1960)

Page 6 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY July 13, 1960 THE JULE ALLENS (Continued from Page 1) Expositor of June 22, 1910 — became the wife of ‘‘Jule Allen, the young and enterprising proprietor of the Gem Theatre in this city,” is the sister of Louis Rosenfeld, who was The Pioneer of the Year in 1955. Jule Allen was one of the several pioneers honored at the Canadian Picture Pioneers’ banquet in 1952, at which was celebrated the 50th anniversary of the motion picture industry in Canada. Mr. Allen is president of Premier Operating Corp. and the vicepresident is Rosenfeld, who is also president of Columbia Pictures of Canada. The AllenRosenfeld wedding took place on June 21 in the Brantford Conservatory of Music, with music for dancing by the Dufferin Rifles Orchestra, and was “‘in every sense .. . a notable affair.”’ Harry J. Allen, his cousin, was the best man. Later Bertha, Sara’s sister, married Herb, Jule’s brother. Jule Allen wrote his own biography for the back of a reprint of the Expositor story that went to each guest at the Golden Anniversary celebration. Born in Bradford, Penn. in 1888, he left high school at 17 to work in a shoe store, becoming a salesman and moving to Charleston in that capacity. His older brother Jay, working in Rochester also came to Charleston and was a salesman in a clothing store. Jule and Jay worked as managers of general stores for a company that operated in West Virginia mining communities but it was a rough life and they returned to Bradford in 1906. Their father, Barney Allen, advanced them the money to open a show and they sought to do so in Hamilton, from which Jay had returned after a social visit, bringing the information that it had no movie house. Jule went there, couldn’t find a store and went on to Brantford, 25 miles away, where he did and opened the Theatorium on Nov. 10, 1906. Jay joined Jule in Brantford and they opened another theatre in Brantford and one each in Kitchener, Kingston and Chatham, occupying stores and using folding chairs. “Early in 1909 there was a depression and our business suffered. Besides, we felt that the future of motion pictures was questionable and we therefore decided to sell our theatres and look for some other business. Shortly after this, as we didn’t find anything else more promising, we decided to get back into motion pictures.” Jule decided on the opening of a film exchange in Brantford — the Canadian Film Co. — and the distribution of Pathe and IMP product was begun after he completed arrangements in London and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Shalit had immigrated to Brantford from Smélensk, Russia, and told them that that city of 80,000 had no cin Short Throws JOSHUA LIEBERMAN, of B & L Theatres, was recently installed as president of the Saint John Rotary Club. Lieberman, who was honored by the Canadian Picture Pioneers several years ago, has just been appointed one of three deputy chairmen for the 1960 campaign of the United Fund of St. John, NB. ONE YEAR agreement between the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and the Canadian Council of Authors and Artists ended the considerable possibility of a_ strike. The CCAA has 13,000 members drawn from Canadian dancers, actors, writers and TV personalities. PERMISSION to wind up Cinema (Canada) Pictures Ltd. was granted in Osgoode Hall, Toronto, to Russell R. Grant and John T. Frame, liquidator and shareholder respectively. The company hasn’t been active for years. MANAGER of CBLT, Channel 6, Toronto, is now Michael HindSmith, 29, who joined the CBC administration in Ottawa in 1953 and was last at CBOT, Ottawa, as a producer. The post, said J. W. R. Graham, Ontario director of CBC TV operations, is newly created. Hind-Smith will be responsible for new development in local programming, sales and promotion at CBLT. Theatre Posters, Toronto, Takes Over Wpg. Office Operation of Theatre Poster Services, Winnipeg has come under the direction of the Toronto office as of July 1, it was announced in the latter city last week by Murray Sweigman, president and general manager. Somer James, Winnipeg manager, is no longer affiliated with the company. Sweigman stated that he intends to make the branch in the Manitoba capital the main depot for accessories and services for Western Canada. He will name a new manager shortly. ema. Jay was given $3,000 to open a theatre in Smolensk. ‘‘He could only get an upstairs location and couldn’t speak the language. So that venture was unsuccessful and Jay returned to Brantford without any money left, but with a moustache. He was not yet twenty.” Jay, who had just been married to Miss Rae Abramson of Kingston, was assigned to open a film exchange in Calgary with the films from the Brantford exchange. Jule joined him and they expanded in the exchange and theatre field in the West. They transferred their headquarters to Toronto in 1915, Jule coming first and Jay later. And they’ve been in Toronto ever since. News Clips Wm. Castle, producer of Columbia’s 13 Ghosts, stopped off in Toronto as part of his eastern tour following the opening of the picture in Broadway’s Capitol .. . Odeon is installing new projection equipment in its Roseland, New Glasgow, NS, as part of a refurbishing of the theatre . . . Gurston Allen, QC, Premier Operating, Toronto, has been elected one of three vice-presidents of the YMHA, Toronto . . . The Stratford production of HMS Pinafore, to be directed by Tyrone Guthrie, may be filmed, reports Herbert Whittaker in the Toronto Globe & Mail. Dr. Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis are associated in a film company which holds the rights to Hugh MacLennan’s book, The Watch That Ends the Night, and a novel by James Aldridge, The Hunter . . . It is heard that a film about the life of Theodor Herzl, one of the founders of the Zionist movement which led to the establishment of Israel as a state, has been made. Lloyd Bochner is the star, Leo Orenstein the director, Dr. George Luban the producer and Irving Teitle the scripter. Film was completed in 17 hours during the free time available at the studio of CHCH-TV, which Ken Soble heads. Fifty-year history of the Royal Canadian Navy was filmed by the National Film Board for a onehour CBC TV program at 10 p.m. on July 19. Called An Enduring Tradition, it was produced by Walford Hewitson, directed by Kirk Jones and has a commentary by M. Charles Cohan Allied Broadcast Services Ltd. has been incorporated in Ontario by H. E. E. Pepler and A. E. Stewart to act as radio and TV station representatives and as an ad agency, with head office in Toronto . . . Charles Cohen has been named executive assistant to Richard Lederer, Warners’ new ad and publicity director, NY .. . Richard F. Walsh, president of the IATSE, was elected chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital and Research Laboratories, Saranac Lake, NY, to succeed the late Robert J. O’Donnell. The institution is open to anyone in the American and Canadian amusement industries . .. The annual IATSE convention will be held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, on August 1, with the executive board meeting, to be attended by Hugh Sedgwick, vice-president from Canada, on July 25... In the UK Rank and Rediffusion announced their joint entry into pay-TV through Telemeter. WB's 'Girl Of The Night’ Kay Medford stars in Warners’ Girl of the Night, now before the cameras in NY. TV HURT FILMS? (Continued from Page 1) mons in answering a question by D. M. Fisher, CCF MP from Port Arthur, Ont. Fisher, pointing to a recent statement in Famous Players’ annual report about the adverse effects of TV, had said that “there has been in the last decade quite a revolution taking place on both the technical and distributive side and I want to know how the National Film Board is gearing to this.’’ Its annual report made only a minor reference to it. Fisher was also told that NFB-CBC co-operation was fine as is, despite both being producers and distributors separately. That and other NFB matters came up before the okaying of $4,493,504, a raise of $91,000, for the next year’s NFB activity. The Hon. J. W. Pickersgill, Mrs. Fairclough’s predecessor as cabinet officer of the NFB, asked ‘“‘whether the CBC is now paying for the Film Board films which it uses what they are really worth?’ He was told the 80 hours of CBC time used for NFB films was paid for at from one-third to half the cost of the films as rental. They are available 30 days later for distribution through non-TV channels. Pickersgill suggested opening of NFB theatres at the new Gander air terminal and at Montreal’s Dorval when it is finished, for the benefit of visitors and Canadians waiting between planes. Georges Valade, PC from Montreal, and Fisher both asked about complaints against the NFB by private producers, the former saying he knew one firm that had to close its doors because it could not meet the competition of the NFB. The NFB, said Mrs. Fairclough in reply, co-operates with the private producers and even assists them sometimes but she could not agree with their suggestion that it should vacate the field. It was agreed by the Hon. Lester Pearson, leader of the Opposition, and H. W. Herridge, CCF MP from BC, that the NFB was doing fine work. BUSHNELL WINS (Continued from Page 1) cation for a TV station to serve the Ottawa Valley. Granada is also in this group. The Halifax licence will go to a company organized by radio station CJCH in which Canastel Broadcasting Corp. of Toronto, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Associated Television of Britain, is a shareholder. The BBG granted an increase of power to CKCO-TV, Kitchener, which Famous Players operates, and approved purchase of CKGNTV, North Bay, by Mrs. C. E. Campbell of Port Credit, daughter of publisher Roy Thomson. BBG recommendations must have final approval by the cabinet and are issued through the Dept. of Transport.