Canadian Film Weekly (Nov 21, 1962)

November 21, 31962 CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY Page 3 ATLAS-DOLA (Continued from Page 1) known names of the TV and film businesses, “We have the largest library of TV films in the world,” states Harry Allen, brother of Leslie, who recently left the reportorial staff of The Telegram, Toronto, to head special projects. The best-known Leslie Allen companies are Atlas Telefilms Ltd., the company that was based on New Vinray Mines Ltd., a mining firm listed on the Canadian Exchange, Montreal, and acquired by the Allen group, and Dola Films Ltd. Harry Ginsler, for many years a prominent film salesman, is handling film sales and Fred Chandler, who resigned from Phonodisc recently, is in charge of TV sales. Roy Davies is booking both TV and theatre accounts, Wib Perry, one of the leading figures in the Ontario radio and TV fields, is in charge of operations in these areas. The company recently acquired radio station CHIC Brampton, subject to the approval of the Board of Broadcast Governors, and it is looking around in the TV station field. Roy Hawkins is in facilities. Dola, as part of its increased activity, will distribute the King Features cartoon series in Canada. These are Krazy Kat, Barney Google-Snuffy Smith and Beetle Bailey. The cartoons in “trilogy.” to be ready for debut in the fall of 1963, total 50 in each group. ASS D-BRITISH (Continued from Page 1) neth More, Lloyd Nolan and Joan O'Brien, the last two from Hollywood, and featuring Mischa Auer, is a Daniel Angel co-production now awaiting release. Also ready is The Punch and Judy Man, with top comedian Tony Hancock, Sylvia Syms and Ronald Fraser; Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasance, a film about the famous murderer in which James Robertson Justice is the captain of the Canadabound ship on which Crippen and the woman he murdered his wife for, played by newcomer Samantha Egga, are fleeing; and Sparrows Can't Sing, a lusty, down-to-earth film directed by Joan Littlewood, who, as a stage director, discovered the play, A Taste of Honey. AB films to be made in 1962 include The Pot Carriers, Guns of Darkness, The Bargee, another Charlie Drake starrer and The Golden Fool. Many Associated British films are released in Canada by International Flm Distributors. WB's ‘Wall Of Noise" Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin and Dorothy Provine will star in WB’s Wall of Noise. charge of Lome a Pe Be? Bed es Pe On The 4, SQUARE qd ue. RUE ail WESOSOW | TED FORSYTH, ex-Odeon assistant g.m. in this country and now putting The Big Push behind Rank’s Old Country bowling division. sends his kindest regards to the friends he left behind him here . . Spectacularama is a good word to use in describing the all-new Ice-Capades, iced by John H. Harris and seen at the Gardens, where two extra full-house matinees had to be added. Though loaded with Canadians, it’s full of Yankee Doodle Dandyism, not even the narration allowing for the fact that this isn’t the USA... By the way, isn’t it time the Gardens opened an advance window, so that people who are there to pick up reserved or paid-for tickets don’t have to waste time behind others who are negotiating for theirs? They both have to get into the same line now ... Municipal Parking, which stops collecting fees at Il p.m., charges 15c per hour and a 50c maximum after 6 p.m. Yet if you pull in at 1045 p.m. the guy in the coop grabs you for the maximum or a little less. Why? Seems like a good way for him to accumulate a little for his old age if he’s so inclined. He can’t be charging for past-l1 parking, for that’s not mentioned on the signs, so there’s no charge for it... The Bontb is influencing the age-old patterns of conversation. “It looks like rain,” a person would say and the reply would be, “Yes it does” or “The farmers need. it.” Now the reply goes something like this: “It’s better than having a bomb dropped on us!” “BUSINESS is so bad that people I offer passes to ask ‘Are these good on Saturday and Sunday?’,” said one manager the other day . . That Channel 11 travel program, Destination, is very much like one Win Barron tried to sell the TV stations around here for a couple of years without luck ... My comedian friend Wally Dean, who does the funniest drunk in the business, invented a new word. “I’m dying of malnuthirst,” he said Bill Redpath, who sold The Allens projection equipment in 1907, has retired from General Films after all these years. Bill, one of nature’s noblemen, has many interesting tales to tell about the early days ... ‘Half the people who pick up their Savings Bonds in November cash them right away,” a bank clerk told me ... Sydney Newman, though he is leaving the UK’s ABC-TV to take the top drama post at the BBC, is much praised and much quoted in ABC-TV’s new 223-page illustrated volume, Anatomy of a Television Play. Sydney, who started with the NFB and headed CBC drama before going to ABC-TV, would be a tremendous addition to some USA network — if he could be induced to come back to America... Murray Sweigman, the theatre postersnumismatics man, just sold one of those teenchy-weenchy 1921 Canadian silver nickles (Remember when the girls had them made into bracelets?) for $950. The complete set of 1962 Canadian coins, if in mint condition, now brings $6, though it cost $3 packaged and the coins total $1.91. “Who needs the stock market?” Murray asked me. OUR XMAS EDITION, now in preparation, will offer Ranisaye in Retrospect, an article drawn from personal letters to me by the late Terry Ramsaye, author of A Million and One Nights and the best film trade journalist of his time ... Did you know that a former Toronto burlesque drummer now runs an art house? I write of Curly Posen, who operates the Kent. What good’s a stripper’s grind or bump without a roll or a rim shot? Curly was a big man with the peelers in the old Casino .. . Show Business secretaries in Hollywood have a club called Good Fridays of Show Biz. That same gal who is calling herself a “Good Friday” is often thought of as a portal-guarding “dragon” by those who'd like to drop in on her boss—and spoken of that way. Better they should have called themselves “The Hollywood Dragons” .. . “Mare Tanno, 22-year-old singer who is a direct descendant of Rudolph Valentino,” is in Hollywood for a career, notes The Hollywood Reporter. How do you become “the direct descendant” of a man who fathered no children? . . . Competence and arrogance don’t have to go together in an accomplished actor. Peter Ustinov, in Toronto and Montreal for Billy Budd, proved that . . Who says Toronto is a metropolis? Not only doesn’t it have a civic museum but it’s without an amusement park! ... By the way, Vd like to get a postcard of Sunnyside Amusement Park to add to the ones I have of Hanlan’s Point and Scarboro Beach. I would then have a complete set of our vanished fun centres ... New York Police Academy valedictorian could begin his speech with: “Dear FellowSisters—.” They dress as women to catch muggers, you know. News Clips Ely Landau, former NTA and National Theatres’ partner, was in Toronto as producer of Long Day’s Journey into Night and was interviewed on all mediums. The film, highly praised, is being distributed by IFD and opened with a premiere at the International Cinema ... Part of the increase of competition for motion picture theatres in Toronto comes from racetracks. Years ago the total number of racing days in Toronto (including Long Branch) for a year was 88. Today there are 198, 80 of which are devoted to the trotters: The trotters race at night—the theatres’ best period for business. However, there are now Sunday movies in Toronto but still no Sunday racing . . . The Queen Mother opened Associated BritishPathe’s new _ £2,000,000 social centre at Croydon, London. Two films have been made with subliminal perception, not to sell goods but to increase thrills, by the principals of Precon, a company which just obtained patents. Considerable use is seen for psychotherapy and education. Neither the Federal Communications Commission nor the Motion Picture Association of America has taken action against the use of subliminal perception, although the several bills introduced in the NY State Assembly and Congress did not become law. Subliminal Projection Co., Inc., of NY, which used the hidden-sell method at a theatre in 1957, has also applied for patents . . . Norelco’s new FP20-S shutterless 35 mm. projector, developed by Philips engineers in Eindhoven, Holland, will be demonstrated at the combined TESMA-TEDAAllied trade show in Cleveland Dec. 3-5. Henri Audet of CKTM-TV, Three Rivers was re-elected president and Aurele Pelletier of CHRC, Quebec City was returned as_ vice-president by the French-Language Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters at the recent annual convention in Montreal Affiliated Arts Co. Ltd. and Real Operating Corp. Ltd., two new companies in the entertainment field, have been incorporated in Ontario and both have their head office in Metro Toronto . . . Twentieth Century Theatres has reopened its 712-seat Park Theatre, closed for exactly a year, in Welland, Ont., where it also operates the only other house, the 1,200-seat Capitol . . . 200,000th patron for Emp-U’s A Touch of Mink in Toronto, Mrs. E. C. Labbett, was presented with a mink stole by Keith Wilson, manager of the Odeon Fairlawn, along’ with other prizes. * 6 @