Boxoffice-November.24.1951

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VANCOUVER
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T^ave GillfiUan, manager of the JARO 16mm
exchange, is in General hospital
Jennie Palmer, Rex
for a checkup . . .
Theatre cashier was back in the boxoffice
after an operation . . Margaret Chapman is
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the new stenographer at RKO, replacing
Lilian Harrison, who resigned ... J. Medcalf,
general manager of Sovereign Films, was in
on an inspection trip from Toronto
Charles Adam of the Tillicum
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Terrace in northern British Columbia was a
Filmrow visitor, lining up his winter programs
. . John Gilmour, 66, father of Vancouver
Sun film critic Clyde Gilmour and
one of the founders of the Alberta drama
festival, died in Edmonton. He was a former
newspaper reporter.
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The Tillicum Drive-In near Victoria on
Vancouver Island will stay Fridays and Saturdays
Jack Richards, who
this winter . . . was in show business for 45 years in Vancouver,
died in his 83rd year. He was in
the booth at the Kitsilano Theatre before he
retired because of ill health . Perry Wright,
Empire-Universal manager, was away on a
sales trip in the interior . . Bill Forward,
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manager of General Theatre Supply Co. returned
from a Toronto sales meeting.
Jack Zaitzow, owner of two Melville theatres
who now makes Vancouver his home,
was in Winnipeg lining up product for his
Saskatchewan theatres, the Roxy and Princess
at Melville. He reports that show business
in the prairie provinces is only fair due to
snowbound sideroads . . . Bill Boyd, who
operates the drive-in at Kelowna, was on a
trip to Toronto.
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Joe Millman, retired manager of the Kitsilano
Theatre, is back from a four-month
trip to his native England . John Schuberg,
one of Canada's oldest theatremen, was a
welcome visitor to the Canadian Picture
Pioneers stag party held in the Olympia
social suite. He can tell some tall stories about
the old days of the tent era.
Residents of the east end of Vancouver are
getting peeved at the Odeon circuit, which
operates the Olympia Theatre in that zone,
and the trade boards are after the chain
to do something about improving the house
with new seats and other changes.
Mrs. Katharine Flanagan is seriously ill
with bronchial pneumonia in Vancouver
General hospital. Before entering the hospital
she had been working on galley proofs
of a new book. More than one million copies
were sold of her "Mrs. Mike," which was later
made into a film released by United Artists.
The book told the story of Mrs. Flanagan's
experiences as the wife of a RCMP constable
in northern British Columbia and Alberta
after their 1903 marriage. Since "Mrs. Mike"
was made, Mrs. Flanagan has been dividing
her time between California and Vancouver.
"The Lavender Hill Mob" was premiered
Sunday at the Vogue Theatre as a benefit
at a dollar a seat for the Vancouver Sun's
March of Dimes campaign. Odeon circuit
donated the theatre and JARO the film. The
Sun gave the film top publicity which will
help the regular showing at the Vogue late
this month . . . Mickey Goldin, Studio Theatre
manager, held "Laughter in Paradise"
over for its sixth week. It still was playing
to capcaity at the 460-seater.
FPC-Spencer Chains Ally
To Open St. John Para.
ST. JOHN, N. B.—The Paramount Theatre
has been opened at Kentville, N. S., by the
alliance of Famous Players and Spencer
chains, under the direction of the Spencer
head office at St. John. The new situation,
seating about 900, replaces the Capitol, which
was destroyed three years ago in a fire that
followed a furnace oil-refilling.
Electrolux Profit Down
MONTREAL—Electrolux Corp. has advised
the Montreal stock exchange that for the
three months ended September 30, a net
profit of $798,410 was realized after taxes
and all other charges, equivalent to 65 cents
a share on the 1.230,500 shares of outstanding
common stock. This compares with a net
profit of $1,023,665. equivalent to 83 cents
a share for the corresponding period of 1950.
Net profit for the nine months ended September
30 amounted to $2,813,537 after taxes
and all other charges, equivalent to $2.29 a
share on the 1,230,500 shares of outstanding
common stock. This compares with a net
profit of $3,134,345, equivalent to $2.55 a share
for the corresponding 1950 period.
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United Amusement to Pay
Extra 10-Cent Dividend
MONTREAL—Directors of United Amuse-'
ment Corp. have declared an extra dividend,
of ten cents per share, together with a regular
semiannual dividend of 25 cents a share on
the class A and class B and voting trust, all
payable December 15, to shareholders of record
November 30.
A 25-cent dividend was paid on June 15
and this will make a total of 60 cents per
share this year. Earlier this year the stock
was split-four-for-one. so that the present
year's payments would be equivalent to $2.40
a share on the old stock, against $1.75 paid
in 1950 and $1.75 in 1949.
Sale of Video Sets Drops
In Canada for July
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MONTREAL—Sales of television receivers
in Canada, which fell sharply in June, showed
a further drop in July, while sales of radio
receivers declined for the third successive
month, according to figures compiled by the
Dominion bureau of statistics. In the first
seven months of this year, sales of television
sets were higher than in 1950, while there
was a decrease in the number of radios sold.
Producers sales of television receivers in
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July totaled 305 as compared with 1,764 a
year earlier, and the value at list prices was
$158,815 against $685,043. In the seven months,
20,014 units were sold with a value of $11,-
057,228 compared with 8.917 at $3,556,763 a
year ago.
Canada Taxes Up in 1952
To Meet Old-Age Pension
OTTAWA—Increased taxation is in sight,
effective in 1952, for film companies and for
Canadians generally, to help meet the cost
of old-age pensions for persons over 70 years
of age.
D. C. Abbott, minister of finance, said that
the additional taxation would include a sales
tax of 2 per cent and an increase of 2 per
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cent in the corporation profits and income
taxes. There was no word, however, of a revival
of the federal amusement tax, the
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ticket levy now being restricted to the provincial
field.
Variety Village Given
Movements of Watches
TORONTO—Toronto Variety Tent 28 has
received an unusual gift from Handy & Harman
of Canada for use in the watch-repair
class at the Variety Village school for cripi
pled boys. The donation consisted of the
movements from 80 discarded watches, which
had been turned in by jewelers for the salvage i
of gold cases. The works would have been
thrown away, but are useful to the clock class.
On World Film Trip
VANCOU'VER — A veteran Canadian
cameraman left here November 1 on a
tour of the world's capitals where he will film
on-the-street interviews. In Seattle E. Wallace
Hamilton, manager and technician for
Trans-anada Films, conferred with officials
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of TX station KING, for whom he is making
the news-gathering tour. From there he went
to Washington, where he was board a military
air transport service plane for Europe.
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