Boxoffice-October.27.1951

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IJenry McNeil, manager of the Roseland and
Academy in New Glasgow for Odeon, is
Riving special attention to candy sales, improving
facilities so that the stands will be
the most decorative in the chain
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at Montreal on a business trip, Fred Gregor
of New Waterford was called back home when
wife underwent an operation.
A monthly calendar, listing the coming bills
at the Bedford in Bedford, N. S.. a suburb
of Halifax, has been introduced by W. Russell,
operator of the theatre. He has obtained
one-half dozen Bedford merchants as advertisers.
He gave special attention to films of
the second Robinson-Turpin fight for a twoday
run . interior of the Strand at
Mines will be revamped extensively
by Odeon and will include streamlining of
front and installation of a new marquee.
James McLaggan, former manager of
theatres in Halifax, is at the Strand helm,
with Johnny Farr supervising.
favorable comments have been received
by Farr on the interior decorations at
the Odeon in North Sydney of which he is
The art work was by Mi-s. Lionel
"Lee" April of St. John, who has a twoway
affiliation with the Odeon chain. She
is a daughter of Abe Garson, maritime head
of the circuit, and wife of the Garson assistant
in directing the affairs of the maritime
section of the chain.
Famous Players is reported to be resuming
attention on a drive-in project for Cape
Breton Island. The chain was the first to
consider a drive-in for the maritimes but
did not go ahead with it. A site between
Sydney and Glace Bay, which had been reported
under consideration by FPC, is now
a location for the first Cape Breton outdoorer,
and work on it has been under way
by a Sydney contractor for Franklin & Herschorn.
Two film shows each week are being presented
by the United church at Burin, Nfld.,
and the Angelica church there is offering a
film program each Saturday night in the
The city council of Sydney
church hall . . .
has ordered collection of a $25 annual tax
on pop vending machines for the balance of
this year. The levy has not been picked up
for several years. The council decided to
.seek repeal of the civic legislation imposing
the tax at the next session of the Nova
Scotia legislature, which will be in the spring
"David and Bathsheba," the price
sale at the Paramount in Halifax (FPC) wa-.
raised to $1.10 at nights and 75 cents for
afternoons.
Installed as officers of the St. John local of
the lATSE and MPO were Ted Chase, president;
Roy Burnet, vice-president; J. A.
Whitebone, secretary and busine.ss manager;
Cecil Beesley, recording .secretary; Joe Wedge,
treasm-er; L. J. McCourt, Les Sprague and
N. A. Peters, trustees. It was reported that
all members are fully employed, with virtually
all working agreements signed in St.
John and Moncton. A favorable year was indicated.
President Chase has been a member
the past three decades and is on the staff of
the Capitol in St. John. The retiring president,
A. C. Sprague, was unable to attend
the installation because of illness.
While the Kent at Spryfield, N. S.. was
shuttered for three weeks. Manager George
Heffler had the front of the theatre repainted
and the marquee altered. Heftier,
who is an uncle of Malcolm Walker, head of
the Walker chain of which the Kent is a unit,
is a retired employe of the C.N.R. and joined
his nephew's staff after his retirement from
the railway ... A member of the cast of "Out
West of Eighth," which folded recently after
four performances in New York, was Edne,
Preston, an erstwhile stock favorite in St.
John and Halifax.
At the Gaiety, Halifax, each afternoon except
Saturday is bargain day, with prices of
ten and 20 cents, tax included. The policy
calls for double bills, subsequent run. The
Gaiety is in the Walker-affiliated chain,
based at the Gaiety . exhibitors
have been having cifficulty maintaining a
semblance of permai.ency in their staffs.
Many girls quit or prove unsatisfactory after
only a week or two on jobs ushering, selling
candy or selling tickets.
Stevie Doane, chairman of the Nova
Scotian censor board, has returned to Halifax
after vacationing in Boston and New York
City. He was accompanied by his wife . . .
Billy Whalen and his cowboys from Halifax
have been varying bookings at film theatres
with fairs through Nova Scotia . . . The
Community, Yarmouth, N. S., has been redecorated.
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