Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

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THIS WEEK the Camera reports TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of service. Famous Players Canadian Corporation, the circuit which for that period has been serving Canadians from coast to coast, is .celebrating its silver jubilee by honoring employees who worked for the company a quarter of a century. The scene above is from the dinner in Vancouver for such employees. Left to right, Wendell B. Farris, Chief Justice of British Columbia; Mrs. Farris; J. J. Fitzgibbons, FPC president; Mrs. J. W. Cornett, and Mayor Cornett, of Vancouver. IN LONDON, Phil Reisman, left, RKO Radio Pictures foreign sales vice-president, has a happy reunion with son, Lieutenant William Reisman, USMC. Lieutenant Reisman, recently discharged from a hospital, called the RKO London office to ask that a message be sent hori telling his family he had recovered. His father, just arrived from the United States, answered the phone. Between father and son is Major Reginald Baker, president of the KRS. RETIRING after 30 years in the industry, 16 with Warners' Los Angeles exchange, Mrs. Betsy Bogart, booker, is show at the dinner honoring her, with H. M. Warner and Charles Skouras. PARAMOUNT, HOST, left. The company entertained leading Philadelphia exhibitors at luncheon last week in the Hotel Warwick, there. Left to right, some guests: Abe Sablosky, Arcadia Theatre; Abe Rovener and Robert Abel, Rovener Theatres; Norman Lewis, Lewis Theatres; Edwin Harris, Rovener Theatres; David Sablosky, Norristown Theatres; Louis Rovener, Rovener Theatres. . RED CROSS canvassmen in the 1944 War Fund theatre drive for Multnomah County, Oregon, are, left, standing, Edward Boyer, Mount Tabor Theatre, and Ray Grombacher, Esquire Theatre; and, seated, Harold Lake, J. J. Parker Theatres comptroller; Lillian Lockwood, Irvington Theatre, and Mrs. J. Lyman Barber, Laurelhurst Theatre. IN CHICAGO, a cocktail party. Alan Ladd was the guest, Paramount the host. Mr. Ladd is shown with Mrs. M. M. Rubens and Mr. Rubens, division manager of the Publix-Great States Circuit. 10 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 10, 194