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MONTREAL<br />
. . Filmrow<br />
The Motion Picture Pioneers eastern branch<br />
will hold its semiannual convention November<br />
28 at the Rialto Hall. Dinner is scheduled<br />
for 7 p. m., after which the Pioneers<br />
will be entertained by a floor show .<br />
salesmen on business trips are Harry<br />
Decker and Ken Snelgrove, RKO, to Quebec<br />
city and Valleyfield, respectively, and Jo<br />
Oupcher, United Artists, to Quebec city . . .<br />
Exhibitors visiting Filmrow were Mrs. Roger<br />
Lalonde, Colonial, Plessisville; Georges<br />
Champagne, Campagne circuit, Shawinigan<br />
Falls; Guy Bachand, Rex, Sherbrooke, and<br />
R. Berlinguette, Paris, Gatineau Point.<br />
Robert Stein, assistant booker, 20th-Fox, is<br />
replacing an ailing member of the cast of<br />
"Ten Nights in a Bar Room" playing at the<br />
Aster Melodrama cafe . . . Bingo, which has<br />
disappeared from province of Quebec theatres<br />
in recent years, came under the scrutiny of<br />
the authorities at the Canadian Legion hall,<br />
which, was raided by police ... On the sick<br />
list are Jackie Osher, cashier, and Bill Weir,<br />
shipper, both of United Artists . . . Leslie<br />
Weinstein, assistant booker, Columbia, attended<br />
his cousin's wedding in New York<br />
City . . . Mary Ann Burton, reviser at Warner<br />
Bros., recently was married to Camille Lefevre.<br />
Peter Delorme, often styled "the pioneer of<br />
Montreal projectionists," died recently following<br />
injuries in an automobile accident. He<br />
worked at different times with Consolidated<br />
Theatres, with Odeon as chief supervisor, and<br />
with Renaissance Films as chief projectionist.<br />
For some time he operated his own business<br />
under the name of R. Delorme et Fils, and<br />
also owned a theatre, the Wilson Pavilion, at<br />
Coteau du Lac. His only son is in the Royal<br />
Canadian air force.<br />
At Columbia, the staff gave Mrs. Angela<br />
Macera-Snook, cashier, a birthday gift of a<br />
gold and silver compact . . . Lois Currie, bookers<br />
stenographer, spent a weekend in Toronto<br />
where she attended the Varsity-McGill football<br />
game. George Ganetakos, president of<br />
United Amusement Corp., was one of the patrons<br />
of the charity ball organized by the<br />
Hellenic Ladies Benevolent society. Ganetakos<br />
is chairman of the Greek War Relief<br />
fund.<br />
Cine club of St. Laurent showed "Hamlet"<br />
at the opening of its Cine-course, and Roger<br />
Champoux, journalist, delivered an interesting<br />
analysis of the picture.<br />
Crosley Factory Branch<br />
To Be Set Up at Toronto<br />
MONTREAL—Organization of a factory<br />
branch of Crosley Radio & Television in Toronto<br />
to handle distribution and sales of Crosley<br />
products in the central and southern Ontario<br />
territory, was announced by W. R.<br />
Campbell, sales manager of the firm. Edward<br />
Barrett, former sales manager of Craigmore<br />
Sales, will be in charge of sales and distribution<br />
activities for the factory branch.<br />
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Crawley Films Produces<br />
'Prayer' for Boothmen<br />
OTTAWA— A "Film Prayer" has been produced<br />
by Crawley Film.s, Ottawa, for general<br />
distribution among projectionists and other<br />
film u.sers, which has proved popular. Judging<br />
by requests for additional copies. The prayer<br />
is:<br />
"I am film, not steel; O user, have mercy.<br />
I front dangers w^henever I travel the whirring<br />
wheels of mechanism. Over the sprocket<br />
wheels, held tightly by the idlers. I am forced<br />
by the motor's magic might.<br />
"If a careless hand misthreads me, I have<br />
no alternative but to go to my death. If the<br />
pull on the take-up reel is too violent, I am<br />
torn to shreds. If dirt collects in the aperture,<br />
my beauty is streaked and marred and I must<br />
face my beholders a thing ashamed and<br />
bespoiled. Please, if I break, never fasten<br />
me with<br />
pins.<br />
"I travel many miles in tin cans. I am<br />
tossed on heavy trucks, sideways and upside<br />
down. Please see that my first few coils do<br />
not slip loose in my shipping case, and become<br />
bruised and wounded beyond power to<br />
heal. Put me in my own can.<br />
"Speed me on my way.<br />
Others are waiting<br />
to see me. Have a heart for the other fellow<br />
who is waiting and for my owner who<br />
will get the blame.<br />
"I am a delicate ribbon of film. Misuse<br />
me and I disappoint thousands. Cherish me,<br />
and I delight and instruct the world."<br />
'Ivory Hunter/ Rank Film<br />
Seen by Royal Couple<br />
TORONTO—Officials of J. Arthur Rank<br />
Distributors of Canada are enthused over the<br />
fact that on their homeward journey across<br />
the Atlantic after a triumphant Canadian<br />
tour. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh<br />
viewed the British picture, "The Ivory<br />
Hunter."<br />
This feature, which was shown at a recent<br />
royal command performance at London, will<br />
be released in the United Kingdom with the<br />
title of "Where No Vultures Fly." It was<br />
made in the African colony of Kenya.<br />
The royal couple also were able to catch up<br />
with newsreel films of their Canadian tour<br />
which they had not been able to see en route.<br />
News pictures were made available on the ship<br />
by Associated Screen News Ltd. The princess<br />
and duke also saw "The Neighbor Next Door,"<br />
a short subject about Canada, a print of<br />
which had been presented to the royal tourists<br />
by Warner Bros.<br />
Crosley Buys Brand & Millen<br />
MONTREAL—The Crosley division of the<br />
Avco Mfg. Corp., Cincinnati, announced that<br />
it is purchasing the physical assets of Brand<br />
& Millen, Ltd., radio and television manufacturing<br />
firm, at Long Branch, Ont.<br />
John W. Craig, Avco vice-president and<br />
Crosley general manager, said the purchase<br />
will have no effect on the present arrangement<br />
whereby Moffats, Ltd., of Weston, Ont.,<br />
manufactures and distributes Crosley refrigerators<br />
and White Goods appliances in Canada<br />
under a license agreement. Craig said Axco<br />
will organize a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary,<br />
Crosley Radio and Television, Ltd., to<br />
conduct the radio and television manufacturing<br />
and distributing activities formerly carried<br />
on by Brand & Millen under contract<br />
with Crosley.<br />
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BOXOFFICE November 24, 1951 85
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