The Film Daily (1945)

iFriday, July 27, 1945 DAILY: LJrcuits Expanding In British Columbia (Continued from Page 1) trictions are lifted. FPC has purhased a downtown property with an ,0-foot frontage, and Odeon also has cquired property for a new theater. Odeon has also purchased the )deon and Metro Theaters, New Westminster, from Richard McCarie who had previously leased them 0 the circuit. Purchase price is •eported at about $125,000. FPC announced the opening of two British Columbia houses which have )een dark for many years. Theaters, jhe Strand, Kamloops, and the Capi [ol. Nelson, will give the circuit two ■heaters in each spot. ; Royal Theater, show business land Inark for many years, was sold this Iveek to State Theaters, Ltd., for I ',71,200. House will be closed for six fiveeks while alterations are being |nade. 1 Harry Cohen, former Warner manager at Calgary, plans a new subur)an theater in Calgary's exclusive *^orth Hill district as soon as materials are available. A number of theaters in Prairie provinces community halls are being mproved. List includes St. Walberg md Kenaston, Saskatchewan; Emoress Duchess and Elnora, Alberta, ind the St. Cloud and Laurier, Manicoba. NAVED Sets Impromptu tonclave for Aug. 9-10 (Continued from Page 1) meeting with U. S. Treasury officials, and consequently a board meeting ihas been called for Aug. 9 and 10, which will be turned into an open meeting, with regular members of the organization in and about the Capital district invited to attend. Washington's Hotel Statler will be venue of the "impromptu" convention. Agenda will be devoted almost entirely, it is understood, to post-war problems. Re-opens Edmore Coliseum Edmore, Mich. — The Coliseum, the town's only theater, has been reopened by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wood. The theater has been closed since April because of a fire. SERD BIRTHDflV GREETinCS TO: July 27 Charles Vidor Lawrence Cray Natalie Moorhead Joseph Quiilan Albert Wetzel Hank Kaufman Howard Levinson Martha Perrin July 28 Joe E. Brown Blanche Mehaffey Rudy Vallee Edward Martindel Skeets Gallagher July 29 Dennis D. Caplin William Powell Warren Douglas Clara Bow Negotiations by y, S. Reps. Old-Timers' Corner • • • PASSING of Winnie Sheehan was the top topic of conversation at luncheon tables and in home offices yes'day His colorful career evoked many reminiscences covering his more than three decades of active association with filmland Some of our celluloid ole timers went all the way back to the '14-'15 season, and what they recounted was brand new stuff to some of our current cinema sophomores Just outa curiosity and in the interests of accuracy, this comer went scurrying to the files to see just what was happening an even 20 years ago, — midway between Winnie's entry into the pic biz and his final farewell Here were some of the headlines and items, and doggone if some of 'em don't sound right timely today: ▼ , ▼ ▼ • • • WELL, Joe Seider and Charley Petlijohn had quite a tilt at Ampa on the workin's of Arbitration, and their views provided some lively meat for listeners at the meetin' W. E. Atkinson resigned as v.-p. and gen. mgr. of Metro-Goldwyn to become associated with Arthur H. Sawyer, Herbert Lubin and S. L. Rothafel in the erection of a circuit of theaters in Greater New Ytork, the first of which will be the "Roxy" "Roxy" himself severed relations with the Capitol and Major Bowes succeeded him Syd Chaplin announced that his next one would be "Good Night Nurse" for Warners And from the Coast wafted word that John Barrymore would star in "Don Juan" The lads over at the Hays office continued investigation into insurance rates with ultimate idea of buying such protection for all members as a group, thus reducing rates ▼ T T • • • NINETY-SJX Army theaters, attached to Army posts, throughlout the U. S.. decided to support "Greater Movie Season," and Joseph M. Schenck, Los Angeles flashed, would be the grand marshal of the "Greater Movie Season" parade in that city Long controversy o'er in Passaic, N. J., was ended as Abe Fabian, Si's dad, took over the Capitol Theater there (then New Jersey's largest house) Tom Mix trained through Salt Lake City en route to location for his next cactus classic Famous bought a half interest in the holdings of WilUam W. Farley, prexy o' the Farash Theatrical Enterprises in up-State New York The Engineering News-Record rep(orted that from January to July, new theater construction contracts amounted to $26,687,105 (those were the good old days, eh?) Pix reviewed by Ye FILM DAILY were "Lightnin'," "The Light of Western Stars," "The Goose Woman," "Private Affairs," "The Love Gamble," "The Overland Limited," "The Home Maker" and that visually cooling opus "Tracked in the Snow Country," starring the big box office bow wow, Rin-Tin-Tin T T T • • • LOCAL celluloid circles woke up to find that movie exhibition had yone high-hat at last, as Gloria Gould, daughter of George J. and Edith Kingdon Gould, was named managing directress of the new Embassy Theater, which M-G-M was readying to open John Zanft, in charge of theater operations for Fox, took off for Europe on the Leviathan Gevaert was advertising plenty of raw stock for sale (how times have changed!) And Artie Sfebbins was clarioning to the trade: "When you are thinking lof insurance, you are thinking of Stebbins" ...... Brooks (then at 1437 B'way) was advertising that it had uniforms "for everybody who is anybody" (now about everybody who is anybody is in uniform) "Silence" was before the Hollywood cameras under personal supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, with Rupert Julian directing T T ▼ • • • WE'RE AVENGING PEARL HARBOR! i (Continued from Page 1) luctant to discuss the films situation. The only new pictures which have entered France since the start of the war were the 40 features handled by the OWI and "The Great Dictator" which entered on a special permit. Unless a quick agreement can be reached, it was said yesterday, American companies would have to pull out of France as the overhead expense did not warrant the continuance of business on the old product. The American companies are asking that a minimum of 108 features be admitted into France yearly. UA Opening Three-Day Western Meeting Today A three-day Western regional sales meeting of United Artists will be held today, tomorrow and Sunday at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, with J. J. Unger, Western sales manager, presiding. He will be assisted by District Manager Rud Lohrenz. Members of the UA sales staff from the following exchanges will attend: Chicago — Branch Manager Nat Nathanson and salesmen Jack Armgardt, Oscar Bernstein, Morris Hellman and Walter McVay. Indianapolis — Branch Manager Elmer Donnelly and salesmen Harry Hays, Guy Hancock and Morton Krueger. Milwaukee — Branch Manager Robert Allen and salesmen Edward Krofta, William Young and Noe Provecher. Minneapolis — Branch Manager Ralph Cramblet and salesmen Edward Stoller, Frank Eisenberg, Ernest Frace, Claude Dickinson, Charles Weiner and Casper Chouinard. St. Louis — Branch Manager Bernard McCarthy and salesmen William Sharpe, Allen Kane, Harold Cass and Ronnie Hammond. Omaha — Branch Manager D. V. Lucas and salesmen Harry Barker, Albert Mendenhall, Carl Reese and Edward Rostermundt. Kansas City — Branch Manager W. E. Truog and salesmen Guy Bradfoid, Paul Hannon and Joe Manfre. Form Circle Film Library Detroit — Norman Meyers and Ray Hartmus have formed Cixx^le Film Library, specializing in rentals for schools and churches. STORK REPORTS Phil Pike, assistant to Harry Rosenquest, of the Warner Theaters film buying staff, is the father of a boy, who has been named Barry. Detroit — John Finlayson, motion picture critic of the Detroit News, became the father of a baby boy, John, Jr., born July 20.