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. . Maureen<br />
. . Norman<br />
. . Jimmy<br />
VANCOUVER<br />
/^oing and returning from vacations were<br />
Donna McLean. 20th-Fox: Ben Pentreath<br />
and Betty Wynne. Odeon district office;<br />
Charlie Doctor, Capitol: Harry Pearson. Orpheuni;<br />
Charles Ratnage and Via Bedford.<br />
MGM: Charlie Backus, Empire-Universal:<br />
Peggy Menzies. Dominion; George Gerrard<br />
sr. and Wally Woolridge, Strand, and Gay<br />
Johnstone, Paradise.<br />
The 125 members of Canadian Picture<br />
Pioneers and their families held their annual<br />
picnic Sunday at Birch Bay. Wash.. 50 miles<br />
from here. The crowd played softball and<br />
golf. Mickey Goldin's softball team beat<br />
Harry Wolf's by a score of 9 to 5. Jessie<br />
Stabor of the Studio won the Flying Saucer<br />
event and ladies ball throw. The Studio<br />
staff carried away most of the prizes. Johnny<br />
Schuberg. Canada's oldest exhibitor, was present<br />
with three generations of his family.<br />
Walter Mead, projectionist at the Studio.<br />
was elected president of the provincial Mink<br />
Market Ass'n, formed to assist all prairie<br />
breeders seeking markets for mink pelts.<br />
Mead operates the largest mink farm in<br />
western Canada . . . Cecil Cameron, formerly<br />
with Famous Players here and now manager<br />
of the Sunset Theatre in Hollywood, was here<br />
on vacation . Patterson. 20th-Fox<br />
manager, went to Toronto for a regional sales<br />
meeting . Murphy cashier at the<br />
Odeon. West Vancouver, was married to Krnest<br />
Sauer. manager of the Lux here. The couple<br />
is honeymooning in Portland.<br />
Holl}-wood star Alexis Smith, a native of<br />
Penticton. B. C. was here on her way to<br />
Malibu Lodge on Princess Louisa Inlet upcoast<br />
from here, where she will shoot scenes<br />
for "Fair Trail," in which she stars with Joel<br />
McCrea . L. Carter, president of<br />
Paramount Gulf Theatres New Orleans, is<br />
on vacation here.<br />
The parents of Johnny Bernard, booker at<br />
Odeon district office, celebrated their golden<br />
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. . .<br />
. .<br />
wedding anniversary Maxine Klassen,<br />
17-year-old Circle cashier, was elected Miss<br />
Mount Pleasant in a beauty contest and will<br />
appear at the Pacific National Exhibition in<br />
the finals for Miss British Columbia late this<br />
month . Paul Nathan.son of General Theatres<br />
former head of Odeon Theatres, here<br />
returned from a Los Angeles visit.<br />
Bob Murphy, Paramount manager; Charlie<br />
Doctor, manager of the Capitol, and Clyde<br />
Gilmour, Vancouver Sun and CBC film<br />
critic went to Seattle to meet Gloria Swanson,<br />
who was making a personal appearance<br />
for "Sun-set Boulevard." She could not make<br />
the trip to Vancouver so Paramount .sent the<br />
The second Monday in<br />
boys to Seattle . . .<br />
October has been set as the date for Thanksgiving<br />
day, a statutory holiday which is<br />
fixed each year by federal order-in-council.<br />
Price of chocolate bars jumped from five<br />
to seven cents here. The hike is expected to<br />
reduce business at theatre candy counters<br />
Yvonne DeCarlo. visiting her native<br />
. . .<br />
Vancouver to appear at the Kamloops<br />
stampede, slapped a libel suit against the<br />
Vancouver Sun asking damages for a yarn<br />
by reporter Paul St. Pierre. The article later<br />
was retracted.<br />
Projectionists Local 348 has signed up four<br />
more theatres, the Main, Studio. Lougheed<br />
Drive-In and the Steva, to standard agreements<br />
including 25-cent hourly wage boosts.<br />
Contracts with the Lulu. Bay and State and<br />
two drive-ins still are outstanding. All disputes<br />
went through conciliation boards. All<br />
are independent theatres. A picket line is<br />
in action at the Lulu on Lulu Island, which<br />
is a few miles from Vancouver. The Lulu<br />
booth is manned by the resident manager.<br />
Construction of the new Armond Theatre<br />
at Cranbrook, B. C. for Cranbrook 'Theatres.<br />
Ltd., will go ahead after demolition of an<br />
old auditorium, providing satisfactory tenders<br />
are received. The new theatre is designed<br />
to seat 450 and is expected to replace the<br />
present Rex.<br />
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Four Drive-Ins Opened<br />
In Prairie Provinces<br />
WINNIPEG—Famous Players Canadian has<br />
opened the Green Acres Drive-In at Brandon,<br />
Man. Cars formed a two-mile lineup on<br />
opening night, necessitating the a.ssistance of<br />
three Canadian Mounted Police cars in controlling<br />
traffic. Over 600 cars were turned<br />
away.<br />
Two drive-ins were ojjened two days apart<br />
in Saskatoon. Harold Howard opened a 400-<br />
car outdoor theatre there employing 25 persons<br />
and offering four changes a week, including<br />
a Sunday midnighter. FPC opened<br />
the Sutherland Park Drive-In. It is a 500-<br />
car situation, also employing 25.<br />
Mayor C. G. Langrill officiated at the opening<br />
of the 400-car Crest Drive-In in 'Vorkton,<br />
Sask. It is constructed by Rothstein Theatres<br />
at a cost of $70,000, and is supervised<br />
by W. J. Johnston and L. Manahan.<br />
OTTAWA<br />
\X7hen Manager Frank Gallop played "Rock<br />
Island Trail " at the Centre here he used<br />
a numbered throwaway in the form of a long<br />
railway ticket as promotion. The reverse side<br />
carried an advertisement of Allan's Travel<br />
Service and 20 lucky numbers, which were<br />
posted in the theatre lobby, each good for<br />
a double pass to the Centre.<br />
A. B. Zumar, projectionist at the Capitol,<br />
reports that his three brothers in Los Angeles<br />
are doing very nicely. Harry Zumar, former<br />
manager of the Elmdale here, is managing<br />
a theatre in Los Angeles and the other two<br />
have been very successful with a sign business.<br />
A local visitor was Don Lurie. emissary of<br />
Oxford Films. New York, who talked with<br />
National Film Board officials on matters<br />
concerning short subjects. Lurie was identified<br />
with Paramount for some years . . .<br />
Two 19-year-old men were sentenced to five<br />
years in the penitentiary at Portsmouth. Ont.,<br />
in police court by a judge at Perth when<br />
they w-ere found guilty of illegal entry at the<br />
O'Brien Theatre.<br />
The newly opened drive-in at Cornwall is<br />
the scene of religious services each Sunday<br />
night. Such services were introduced last<br />
June at the Britannia Drive-In near here<br />
by the Rev. W. A. Armstrong . . . The Cameo<br />
at Morrisburg is making use of a photo night<br />
stunt to bolster midweek patronage. Coming<br />
attractions are advertised on a month's<br />
calendar printed by the Pan-American Advertising<br />
Co. at Port Hope.<br />
The work of the Grenfell Mission is shown<br />
in a film which has been produced for American<br />
and Canadian theatre distribution by<br />
Crawley Films here for the Grenfell Ass'n of<br />
America. The mission operates five hospitals,<br />
schools, nursing homes and supply ships in<br />
remote areas of Newfoundland and Labrador.<br />
Everything For Your Theatre<br />
COMPLETE SOUND<br />
SYSTEMS<br />
An Expert Repair Department<br />
Records Bring in the Returns<br />
Bing Crosby claims that he makes more<br />
money from the sales of his records than<br />
from any other source.<br />
32 BOXOFFICE<br />
:<br />
; August 19, 1950
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