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a new theatre and Levi Graham.<br />
operating the Strand at Prince George, is<br />
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the Oliver, at WilUams Lake, B. C.<br />
F. G. E. Stevens is back from his holiday<br />
in California and is again in the Lux private<br />
office with his partner Bill Brown .<br />
Arthur Grayburn, manager of Independent<br />
Booking and Buying circuit, is away on a<br />
well-earned vacation.<br />
Ralph Calladine. Columbia and Plaza<br />
theatres. Victoria, left with his wife for a<br />
motor trip through Washington. Oregon<br />
and California.<br />
Owen Bird of the Paramount staff was<br />
a devotee of table tennis in the old country<br />
and so enthused Pilmrow over that<br />
sport, that the P. R. Board of Trade persuaded<br />
the landlord to turn the old projection<br />
room into a recreation room, with<br />
emphasis on the above game. A table<br />
tennis club has been formed and will hold<br />
its first meeting this week.<br />
Changes in the staff of Universal Empire<br />
have led to Fred Sto7ie taking over<br />
the salesman's desk and Don Findlay that<br />
of<br />
booker.<br />
Bedford, who for a period was the<br />
I<br />
sole occupant of the Grand National of-<br />
has succeeded Mrs. Knowles as secreto<br />
Charles Ramage, M-G-M manager.<br />
License Administrator<br />
Joins Ranks in Sask.<br />
Recina Sask.—A member of the Saskatchewan<br />
government and the minister<br />
under whose jurisdiction lies operation and<br />
licensing of theatres of the province. Hon.<br />
E. M. CuUiton. provincial secretary, has<br />
been appointed a second lieutenant in the<br />
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, acto<br />
an announcement of Brigadier<br />
C. B, Russell, D. S. O., officer commanding<br />
military district No. 12.<br />
Culliton is attached to the second railhead<br />
supply detachment. He enlisted November<br />
15 but promised his confreres in<br />
the government he would not leave for ac-<br />
service until after the current sittings<br />
of the Saskatchewan legislature. He is the<br />
third member of the legislature to join in<br />
active service.<br />
Rex Theatres, Ltd. Forms<br />
London, Ont., Company<br />
London, Ont.—Rex Theatres. Ltd., has<br />
been incorporated as a London company to<br />
operate theatres in Ontario. A lease already<br />
has been signed for the Rex on tlie<br />
Hamilton road here.<br />
Men not previously in the theatrical<br />
business are reported to be taking a leading<br />
part in organizing the new company,<br />
but origin of the capital is being kept secret<br />
until formal announcement has been made.<br />
The only names used so far are those of a<br />
lawyer and his staff, listed as provisional<br />
directors.<br />
To Premier Corp.<br />
London, Ont,—The Premier Operating<br />
Corp. has taken over its 30th theatre in<br />
Ontario with the announcement by Albert<br />
Glazer, supervising engineer of the company,<br />
that it will commence to operate the<br />
Maitland in Ingersoll, 18 miles east of<br />
London.<br />
Premier recently started erection of the<br />
Strand at Tillsonburg, and since has added<br />
to its chain theatres at Simcoe, Delhi and<br />
Aylmer. All those places are small southwestern<br />
Ontario towTis.<br />
Albert Simpson, who has been manager<br />
of the Hollywood, Toronto, will be the<br />
resident manager at Ingersoll. Installation<br />
of an air conditioning and cooling<br />
system and other improvements are being<br />
planned.<br />
"Wind" Strong in Third<br />
Week at Toronto Loew's<br />
Toronto— "Gone With the Wind" now<br />
is in its third week at Loew's for its Canadian<br />
premiere at advanced prices and<br />
the gross for the second week equalled the<br />
take for the first six days, indicating<br />
continued capacity houses.<br />
Three other cities of eastern Canada<br />
have been lined up for engagements under<br />
the reserved seat policy, the feature<br />
having opened at the Regent, Ottawa, on<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 16 and being currently readied<br />
for Loew's, Montreal, and the Capitol,<br />
Hamilton, Ont. All but Toronto Loew's are<br />
Famous Players units and it is expected<br />
that chain houses in London, Windsor,<br />
Quebec City, Kingston, Halifax and St.<br />
John will be among those which will play<br />
the picture this year.<br />
Distinguished Audience<br />
Sees "Louise" Showing<br />
Toronto—In the presence of a distinguished<br />
audience in the Eaton Auditorium,<br />
the French operatic feature, "Louise,"<br />
and a program of French documentary<br />
shorts showing Prance at war were presented<br />
for their first Toronto run under<br />
the auspices of L'AIliance Prancaise de Toronto,<br />
the proceeds being turned over to<br />
the French Red Cross Society.<br />
The patrons included His Honor the<br />
Lieut. -Governor of Ontario and Mrs. Albert<br />
Matthews; Comte Robert de Dampierre,<br />
French Minister to Canada; President<br />
H. J. Cody of the University of Toronto<br />
and Mi-s. Cody; Mr. Justice H.<br />
Chevrier of the Supreme Court; Chairman<br />
Norman Sommerville of the Canadian Red<br />
Cross and many other citizens of note.<br />
Adamson With GN<br />
Vancouver—Willard Adamson is the new<br />
western manager of Grand National, a<br />
post he has taken, following his dual position<br />
as booker for Universal and salesman<br />
for Empire.<br />
J^ANAGER CHARLES BAHRYNOWSKI<br />
of the Metropolitan, Regina, was summoned<br />
east to his home at Port Arthur.<br />
Ont,, where his mother was near death<br />
last<br />
week.<br />
Theatres throughout Canada playing<br />
"Judge Hardy and Son" got good free advertising<br />
through the tieup by the Imperial<br />
Life Assurance Co. who ran a large 500-<br />
line ad on the opening day in each city the<br />
picture played, referring to the companionship<br />
between fathers and sons a7id their<br />
appreciation of life insurance. Local theatres<br />
got mention in the tie-in.<br />
Because many American films show<br />
people enjoying cocktails in swanky bars<br />
—or enough of them have that Canadians<br />
just take such scenes for granted—it has<br />
apparently given a few of the more out-<br />
•spoken hotel men the opportunity they<br />
wanted to attack the liquor laws in most<br />
Canadian provinces, as driving away U. S.<br />
tourist trade. In most Canadian provinces<br />
liquors are prohibited sale in hotels. Only<br />
in Quebec is this not true.<br />
Though the drama was being played<br />
publicly in another hall later in the week,<br />
a special performance of "Penny Wise"<br />
was staged in the Grand, motion picture<br />
house, for benefit of U7iits of the Canadian<br />
army in training at Regina. The affair was<br />
staged through cooperation of Manager<br />
Otis Boices.<br />
H. A. Bercovich, manager of the Rex,<br />
Regina, has gone to Winnipeg on business<br />
of the Roxy. Saskatoon,<br />
grabbed some good word-of-mouth publicity<br />
and newspaper space when Magistrate<br />
J. T. Leger, as French consul, and<br />
military authorities attended a special<br />
showing of "France Is Ready."<br />
William Joseph Hatton. 62, a resident of<br />
Saskatoon for more than 30 years, died<br />
following a long illness. He ivas operator at<br />
the Roxy and before that was long employed<br />
with the old Empire.<br />
Among the first subscriptions announced<br />
for the first Canadian war loan—which<br />
was oversubscribed within a few days following<br />
an intensive motion picture, newspaper<br />
and radio campaign—were the<br />
Dionne Quintuplets. Their guardians invested<br />
$20,000 of their money in bonds.<br />
It was 30 below zero in Saskatoon when<br />
the Tivoli played Deanna Durbin in "First<br />
Love" but crowds came just the same.<br />
Which prompted the management to use<br />
additional newspaper space to boast the<br />
cold couldn't keep crowds away.<br />
Ruth Draper Nets $18,000<br />
For Canadian Red Cross<br />
Regina. Sask.—George Garette. manager<br />
for Ruth Draper, announced that the wellknown<br />
impersonator had netted $18,000<br />
for the Canadian Red Cross in her cross-<br />
Canada tour. She went on tour as a gesture<br />
in aid of the war service society, taking<br />
only expenses and no salary. She was<br />
supported at each stopping point by local<br />
Red Cross units.<br />
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: : <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>17</strong>, 1940 73
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