JUNE

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MONTREAL
Cam loffe. a paster designer with Montreal
Ptv-ur Exchange, haa been an artLst In
hliii production for 35 years settlnR backurounds
and scenery
and title writing for
trailers, etc. For a
while he was in South
Africa with African
Films Production and
Kinemas. Ltd., and
-m later was in the mld-
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Sam Joffe tournament at St.
Lambert Golf and
Country club, but they had Just begun to
play when the worst thunder and hall storm
of nine years struck the district. Tliey reached
the clubhouse In badly soaked condition. The
tournament has been pastponed until Thursday.
July 10.
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. . .
George Ganetakos, pre.sident of United
AmiLsement Corp.. was ill following penicillin
treatment Lawand, booker, received
a big welcome at his Confederation
Amusements office and from film exchange
colleagues after an absence of three weeks
from his desk, during which he spent eight
days at the Royal Victoria hospital. Lawand
will work only half days for .some time
Peter Myers. Canadian general manager for
20th-Fox, spent a few days in Montreal.
D. V. Rosen, Toronto, Canadian general
manager for International Films, called at
the local exchange, then left for Ottawa with
Jo Oupcher. Montreal manager . . . Jack
Roher, president of Peerless FMlms, and salesman
Eloi Cormier have left on a sales trip
to Ottawa and Hull.
Cardinal Films expects heavy demand from
exhibitors in this territory booking the films
of the Ray Robinson-Maxim fight, which took
Mrs. Gaspard Martineau
place Monday (23i . . .
of the Royal Theatre. VaJleyfield, was
a Filmrow visitor . . . Lois Maxwell of
Kitchener and F\)rt Erie, Ont., is .starring in
a British film, a studio version of the stage
play, "Women of Twilight." Formerly in Hollywood
she traded her long-term contract
. . . Camilla
there for an 18-hour day in Itahan film studios.
She will return to Italy following completion
of her British picture
Pelletier of the Cinema Francais, La Sarre,
Que., Is a new subscriber to BOXOFnCE.
A ten-minute sound film in color dealing
with firefighting methods is being produced
at Geraldton, Ont., under the direction
of the Thunder Bay Timber Operators Ass'n
and the Ontario department of lands and
forest. The film is part of the training program
for woods operators instituted by the
department.
Frontier Films, Ltd., of which Richard J.
Jarvis is president, will produce a yet-unnamed
motion picture laid in the mining districts
of Quebec and Ontario, tracing the development
of a mine from the initial strike.
Prance Film Co. has guaranteed distribution
of the French-language version in over 220
theatres in the province of Quebec, and other
markets for this version will be found in
Europe and New England. Distribution in
Britain and Latin America is being arranged,
and the promoters will avail themselves of the
opporl unities given by the Unite«l States television
market which offers a guaranteed
audience of 20 to 30 million viewers.
Ernie Marks, 60 Years
A Thealreman, Dies
OSHAWA. ONT.- Ei-nie Marks, member of
a famous family of seven theatrical brothers
and rt former owner of the Marks Tlieatre
which he relinquished not long ago because
of advanced age, died last weekend (21i. He
had been an officer of the Independent Exhibitors
Ass'n, was mayor of Oshawa in the
1930s and tried unsuccessfully to gain a seat
in the Ontario parliament. His name was
legendary in Canadian theatre circles with
which he had been identified for 60 years.
Booked on Double Bill
Takmi; advantage of the current popularity
of the television program, "I Love Lucy,"
George Landers, division manager for the
E. M. Loew's circuit. Hartford, Conn., recently
booked a double feature combination
which stars Lucille Ball and Desi Ai-naz.
Program combination includes the former
in "Miss Grant Takes Richmond" and the
latter in "Holiday in Havana." The show
was booked into the E. M. Loew's Theatre
in Hartford and drew well after Landers
advertised the show with strong accent on
the TV program.
Crawshaws Control Show
VANCOUVER— Sole ownership of British
Columbia Entertainment Corp. of Royal
Canadian Shows has been obtained by showman
George Crawshaw and his two sons.
Jimmy McAlister, former theatre manager for
the Odeon circuit, is advance man for shows
at present covering the prairie provinces.
CORN FOR JUVENILES—Paramount's
"Greatest Show on Earth" meant free
popcorn to the first 500 kids attending
a special matinee at Edmonton's FPC
Capitol. The theatre front was decked
out circus-style with brilliantly decorated
boxofflce and lobby entrances. Costumed
clowns were on hand to pass out
the popcorn, boxed and supplied by a local
confection distributor. It took all
available theatre hands to keep the crowd
of juveniles from blocking: the sidewalk
and pushing out onto Jasper Avenue,
the city's main street.
WINNIPEG
pxhlbllors on Filmrow recently:
D. Melnyk
of Fisher Branch, Bill Friesen of Altona,
Prank Korpatnicki of Sheho and John Whyte
of Hamiota . Silverstein, Columbia
booker, was married June 18 and has left
with his bride on a honeymoon in Minneapolis
for about thi-ee weeks. Eddie Shell,
Columbia sale.sman, and Bert Segal, Monogram
booker, were ushers at the wedding.
Ben Sommers, "the flying exhibitor" and
BOXOPFICE correspondent for Winnipeg,
returned by air from Cleveland last week and
is leaving this week for Vancouver and San
Francisco next week to return in August.
. . . Visitors to Filmrow
Ilerble Black, RKO shorts booker, was holidaying
in Minneapolis
included George Bailer of the Lux Thea-
tre, Humboldt: William Gladys of the Arborg
Theatre, Arborg: Harry Sage of the Jubilee,
Deloraine, and Lee Cosma, former owner of
the Skylark drive-ins in Moose Jaw and
Regina, who is opening a new drive-in at
Kenosee Lake, Sask.
. . . Herb Black will take over as
Lionel Slavin, assistant booker at Warners,
is playing the outfield for the Winnipeg Maroons
in the Manitoba Junior Baseball
league ... A stag farewell dinner was held for
RKO booker Sid Gutnik, who left for Calgary
to take up his newly appointed position as
salesman
Trust Cy
office manager in Winnipeg . . .
Brownstone to add a new exploitation wrinkle
to the Northmain Drive-In to lure the patrons.
A boxing and wrestling show, sponsored
by the Crescent Boxing club and billed
as "for the first time at any drive-in anywhere!"
was presented at the drive-in, with
Frank Townsend as referee.
Heavy Drive-In Program
Under Way in Maritimes
ST. JOHN, N. B.—The building of drive-ins
in this area is going full blast; particularly
by chain operators. An exception is Ashley J.
Burnett, who built an airer on his Springhill,
N. B. farm, fronting on the Fredericton-
Woodstock road and the St. John river.
Franklin & Herschorn is finishing airers
at Martinon, N. B., Sackville, N. S., and one
half-way between Sydney and Glace Bay, N.
S. Famous Players has chosen sites between
Dartmouth and Tufts Cove, and near Sydney,
within territorial appeal of Glace Bay. Odeon
has begun operations at a site three miles
out of New Glasgow, after abandoning attempts
to use the Blue Acres race track
property.
Charles Staples, St. Stephen Queen, and
Lockwood & Gordon, Boston, have partnered
to build an airer near St. Stephen and Calais,
Me. Reg Pope, Summerside, P.E.I., operates
an outdoorer near Summerside, where he
also has the Regent Theatre.
New House in Quill Lake
VANCOUVER—Jack Longmuir has given
the farming town of Quill Lake, Sask., a new
theatre. He recently opened a 325-seater
there.
Boetticher Directs 'Seminole'
Budd Boetticher will direct the Technicolor
western, "Seminole," for Universal release.
100 BOXOFFICE June 28, 1952