Canadian Film Weekly (Jan 28, 1970)

Page 2 men in the news Joe Hyams has been named a vicepresident of Warner Bros., Inc. Hyams will make his headquarters in New York, reporting to Daniel Stern, newly-appointed vice-president of advertising and publicity, worldwide. Hyams joined Warner Bros. in 1960 as national publicity director, after holding publicity posts with Columbia Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, HechtHill-Lancaster, John Wayne’s Batjac Productions and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Figaro Productions. Daniel Stern has been named vicepresident of advertising and publicity, worldwide, for Warner Bros., Inc. Stern fills the vacancy left by Richard Lederer, who is now a production vice-president at the studio in Burbank, Calif. Peter George has been appointed manager of Famous Players’ Capitol Theatre in St. John’s, Nfld., it was announced by W. N. Murray, general manager in Toronto. George replaces Robert Stiles who has left the company. Arthur R, Barron has been appointed vice president, finance, of Paramount Pictures. Barron will fill the post held by Dan J. Lala, who has resigned to take a new assignment elsewhere. Barron’s prior position was that of vice president of finance and administration for Paramount Television. Canadians can qualify for AFI school course The American Film Institute in Washington will inaugurate a twoyear course in film making, starting next September. The course will accommodate 15 applicants, and consideration will be given to two Canadians. In order to qualify for the course, applicants will be asked to submit a film they have made. The films submitted will be shown to a panel of judges who will deem if an applicant qualifies for the twoyear course. There is no age limit for applicants, and they can be either male or female. Further details for any one in Canada interested in this course can be had by writing to Julian Roffman, Meridian Films, 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5. Vol. 1, No. 3 Jan. 28, 1970 Editor: ED HOCURA CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5, Ont. Second class privileges applied for Published by Motion Picture Institute of Canada, 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto 5, Ontario Canada * Phone 924-1757 Price $7.50 per year CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY oLooking Aad. YAN CANNON has _ been signed to star opposite Stacy Executioner. Keach in MGM’s The Travelling Miss Cannon, who won the New York Film Critics award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, will portray a murderess awaiting the electric chair who uses her wits and wiles to avoid execution. The Travelling Executioner, to be produced and directed by Jack Smight, begins filming next month on location at Kilby Prison in Alabama. * * * Milly Vitale has been signed for a featured role in the Columbia Pictures comedy Contestazione Generale, now filming in Rome with Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Alberto Sordi. Miss Vitale, who played her first screen role at the age of 11, returns to films after a seven-year absence. * %* %* Donald Pleasence and Robert Duvall have been signed by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola to star in THX 1138, an American Zoetrope production for Warner Bros., which is_ being filmed in and around San Francisco. THX 1138, written by George Lucas and Walter Murch, is being -"Ceuggrasao*" directed by Lucas, based on a short subject entitled THX 1138 4EB, which he made as a University of Southern California student and which won the National Student Film Festival’s grand prize in 1967. * * * Columbia Pictures has concluded a deal with Gianni Hecht Lucari of Documento Films for A Girl in Australia, starring Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti, which will be filmed in Italy and Australia next spring. Adapted from an original story by Rodolfo Sonego, the film deals with a mail order bride who emigrates to Australia to become the wife of an Italian who has settled there. Producer Lucari is currently negotiating for a director to make the film. Sordi and Miss Vitti recently costarred for Columbia in Help Me, Darling, directed by Sordi, which has become one of the year’s top boxoffice hits in Italy. Sordi is also now filming Contestazione Generale for Columbia, co-starring in the comedy satire with Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi. * * * Petro Armendariz, SJr., son of the late Mexican actor and a star in Mexico in his own right, has been signed for a role in Chisum, a Batjac Production for from anywhere you sit... from the whispered proposition to the creak of a stair, with the superior quality of General Sound Hi-Fi Stereo Equipment, sensitized to meet modern technological sound tracks. Service when you want it — fast. Day or night. Canada’s Theatre Supply House General Sound AND THEATRE EQUIPMENT LIMITED Branches Across Canada January 28, 1970 Warner Bros. being filmed on location at Durango, Mexico, with John Wayne starring. Armendariz will play one of Wayne’s men in the story of the 1870’s cattle wars, which Andrew V. McLaglen is directing. * * * David Ladd has been signed by producer-director Stanley Kramer for a top featured role in R.P.M.*, the Columbia Picture presentation starring Anthony Quinn, Ann Margaret and Gary Lockwood. Ladd’s last previous role was in Misty. At that time he gave up his acting career to enroll at the University of Southern California, graduating last June. His first film role since his temporary retirement is that of a student activist apprehended by the police following a campus revolt. Peter O’Toole will star in four films for a newly formed overseas production company, to be owned jointly by O’Toole (with his partner Jules Buck) and Sagittarius Productions, Inc. Shooting is scheduled to begin in England this summer for the new company’s first production starring O’Toole. This will be The Ruling Class, Peter Barnes’ successful play, which was produced on the London stage this past season. Barnes has been commissioned to write the script for the film, which will be directed by Peter Medak. Veteran CBC artist, Byng Whitteker dies Byng Whitteker, a veteran of Canadian broadcasting for more than 30 years, died of an apparent heart attack in Toronto this week. He was 56. Whitteker joined the CBC in 1937 and appeared on such popular talk and record shows as Audio, Byng’s Choice, Court of Opinion and Small Types Club. He also covered many royal tours, often filling long, silent gaps with interesting chatter. In 1956, he was named chief commentator, special events, for the CBC and later helped develop programming for broadcasters covering 1967’s Centenial celebrations. Whitteker, born in Dundela, Ont. in the Ottawa Valley in 1914, was christened Genzmer Earl. He discarded the names for the familiar Byng when he was a student at Waterloo College. He began his radio career with CKCR in neighbouring Kitchener in 1935. Two years later he moved to the CBC where he remained except for the years from 1943-1945 when he was on loan to the BBC in London. He is survived by his wife, June Dennis, a free-lance broadcaster, two sons and two daughters.