What's New? (Jul-Aug 1970)

F.P. AND CFCF IN MONTREAL CELEBRATE ’50 IN ‘70 Radio station CFCF in Montreal, Canada’s first radio station to go on the air, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in January, coincidently with our own. Johnny Sperdakos, head of our advertising and publicity in Quebec couldn't let this. natural opportunity slip by, got together with the station’s P.R. people and came up with a dandy. They arranged a super ‘Movie of the Month’ meeting details of these meetings were published in an earlier issue of WHAT’S NEW ... promoted thousands of dollars’ worth of terrific prizes, and held one wing ding of a party. The screening was held in the Cinema Westmount Square, and needless to say the theatre was jam-packed. In the accompanying photo Mr. Frank Phillips. District Manager for Irish International Airlines is shown presenting two return tickets to Ireland, the top prize, to Mrs. B. Carpenter of Verdun while Ken Dobson of CFCF and Sandra Batten, Irish International Airlines sales agent look jee Giqiiu on approvingly. Incidentally, the preview attraction was Warner Bros.’ ON MY WAY TO THE CRUSADES | MET A GIRL WHO Nice going Johnny ... keep swingin.’ SO’N'70 Il SOeNE 7O jill Sone 7O |i SON» 7O MANAGERIAL CHANGES Mr. W.N. Murray has announced the following changes in management and new appointments, effective immediately. A.E.BROWN has been appointed manager of the Toronto-Dominion Cinema in Toronto. SEBASTIAN LOPEZ has been transferred from the Towne and Countrye Cinemas to the Hollywood theatre. FRASER LAWSON who has been on the Toronto relief staff has been named manager of the Baronet in Toronto. PAT TOBIN has left the Parkdale which -has been sold, to assume management of the Palace in Toronto. LARRY FOX assistant manager at the Tivoli in Hamilton has been named manager of the Donlands in Toronto. GEORGE COLE manager of the Fairview Cinema in Kitchener has been appointed manager of the new Fairview Mall Cinema in Toronto. MRS. GERTRUDE MONOGHAN manageress of the Plaza in Oakville has been moved to the Fairview in Kitchener. MICHAEL HOGAN has been assigned to manage the Plaza in Oakville. DENNIS SINGBEIL assistant manager of the Capitol in Winnipeg has been promoted to manager of the recently opened Garden City Cinema in the same City. NEW BRUNSWICK THEATRES WIN INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AWARD Our theatres in New Brunswick have built up an enviable record of practical employee safety precautions and have been rewarded by the New Brunswick Industrial. Safety Council with a merit certificate in recognition of the completion of one full year without a single industrial injury. In his letter of congratulations, Mr. H.E. Briggs Executive Director of the Council comments, “‘This achievement was not reached through chance or luck. It is the result of interest in your employees’ welfare, a knowledge of the things required to maintain a safe working environment, and the awareness on the part of your management and employees of the benefits of safe working habits and conditions.” We hope that every theatre on our circuit can match this record, and the proper kind of co-operation between management and employees can make this a reality. So, read the bulletins regularly sent out by our Insurance Department and pass them along to your staffs. If you implement all the suggestions contained in these memos you too can have a clean safety record. A MAN AND A WOMAN We are not referring to the picture of the same name, merely reminding you of our suggestion in the last issue of WHAT’S NEW that the entrances to your mens’ and ladies’ restrooms be properly identified pictorially. Our art department in Montreal has a most attractive panel measuring 6” x 15” with highly stylized illustrations of a man on one and a woman on the other. They are done on arborite and you have the choice of white on natural wood finish, black on white or white on black. The cost is $2.00 per panel, and we urgently recommend that you order a set immediately, even if you are presently using some makeshift arrangement. Please order them by regular requisition in the normal way through our purchasing department. Delivery can be made in a week to ten days.