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PETE HARRIS
SILENTS PLEASE: The Revue theatre in Toronto will be presenting a Thursday night series of silent films from the collection of American film historian Paul Killiam beginning Jan. 13, These will be colortinted prints, which is the way moviegoers saw a lot of films back in silent days, The opening program consists of a Douglas Fairbanks double bill-The Mark of Zorro (1920) at 7:30, and The Black Pirate (1926) at 9:15, The Jan. 20 program will be devoted to Rudolph Valentino-The Eagle (1925) at 7:45, Blood and Sand (1922) at 9:15, On Jan. 27, Buster Keaton shows up in College (1927) at 7:45 and The General (1927) at 9. Three more Thursday night programs are scheduled,
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WW AND RR: Now here's a superhero crossover that not even my fevered young imagination could have conjured up back in the 1940s--Roy Rogers is to guest star in an upcoming episode of ABC-TV's Wonder Woman. The show will be called The Bushwackers and Roy will portray a rancherwidower whose problems in rearing five war orphans with his own son are complicated by rustlers,
* * = CONSTANT VIEWER: It would be difficult to find another night of movie viewing to match the Sunday, Dec, 26, TV schedule in the Toronto area, The CBC French network had the silent version of The Thief of Bagdad (1924) with Douglas Fairbanks and by coincidence Peterborough's ch, 12, which many Torontonians pick up via cable, had the 1940 Korda version with Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin and, in one of the screen's great exercises in villainy, Conrad Veidt as Jaffar. CBC's ch, 5 continued its Capra series with the original Lost Horizon with Ronald Colman, Sam Jaffe, Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Wyatt, H.B. Warner et al, and Buffalo's ch, 2 had John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, etc. I must confess to a certain amount of dial twiddling but mainly I stuck with Korda's Thief of Bagdad which I hadn't seen in years and which lived up to all my fond memories,
* * * COMIC CUTS: All you fanatics who faithfully clip newspaper comic strips better sharpen up your scissors or lay in a new supply of Xacto blades. The Spider-Man daily strip, written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita, begins Jan, 3. In Toronto, it will be running in The Star. New York magazine quoted Dennis R. Allen, president of the Register and Tribune Syndicate, as saying that editors are hot for the strip "because of its proven readership. They believe it will attract young readers to the newspapers, I can't see a 55-year-old banker delving into the Amazing SpiderMan, but I can see his 22-year-old son interested, because SpiderMan has human frailities. Young people find him believable, "
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