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Add 30 Members<br />
MONTREAL—Membership of the CanadUn<br />
Picture Pioneers Quebec division reached<br />
184 with the election of 30 new members<br />
Pioneers of Quebec<br />
t oi the r.<br />
Mel Johnston, head of<br />
tliemilow. and a pass to Her Majesty's, was won<br />
. D. McCulloch Is Named<br />
4PTA of Ontario Head<br />
TORONTO—New directors of the Motion<br />
Icture Theatres Ass'n of Ontario have<br />
lected J. D. McCulloch, properietor of the<br />
roquois at Petrolia, a 359-seat house, as<br />
resident for 1953 in succession to Harry S.<br />
an executive of 20th Century Thea-<br />
The new vice-president is William Summer-<br />
Ule jr., assistant managing director of Bloom<br />
! Pine Tlieatres, Toronto. E. G. Forsyth of<br />
•ush Gift Books<br />
TORONTO—Circuit and independent thetres<br />
all made a play for a share of shop-<br />
Ing for Christmas by using trailers, news-<br />
»pers, posters and badges to push the sale<br />
f gift books of admission tickets. In most<br />
VANCOUVER<br />
poklMrar plcturra of Ocrmun orlKln arc wild<br />
to be meeting with approval of HMtrrn<br />
Canada theulriKocrs and exhibitor* who formerly<br />
piuvsed up the Imports The Odcon<br />
Htustlngs here Ls playing them on midweek<br />
date.s at 75 centn top to better than average<br />
buslne.-M<br />
. . indications are that a<br />
half dozen new drivc-ln theatres will be<br />
opened early In 1953 In BrltLsh Columbia,<br />
and eight arc planned In the three prairie<br />
provinces ... An RKO rcleB.se »ald Clyde<br />
Gilmour of the Vancouver Sun Ls Canada's<br />
foremast screen critic Ollmour recently returned<br />
from a four-week trip to New York<br />
and eastern Canada.<br />
British ColumbU'g worst polio year In history<br />
Is drawinK to a close with a total of 572<br />
cases and 34 deaths reported to date. The<br />
previous high polio year wa.s 1947 when there<br />
were 310 ca.ses and 12 deaths at this time<br />
of the year<br />
.<br />
. . Phil l)n„,. coinmtn-.i m^h-<br />
Icr who was ho*plLalliU- r .-<br />
accident<br />
. Harris of tJi.- .Ht.-.w.l<br />
.sUff resigned to be married TJir Avon.<br />
formerly the SUte, and now a itock compaay<br />
hoase, U having tough going. It hai reduced<br />
prlce.i to try and build budncu . . , since<br />
the retirement of Harry Peanon. stage manager<br />
at the Orpheum, Sydney Summera U<br />
now the oldest stagehand In point of sarrlcc<br />
In Canada. He started In the show budncM<br />
In 1902.<br />
Buck Taylor. Strand Theatre stage manager,<br />
returned from a CallfomU holiday.<br />
ises. theatre employes made a quick doltoiqiie!':|<br />
ir by picking up commissions for sales.<br />
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ol the tt)<br />
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BOWif*<br />
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.illTOlK<br />
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.pplies for TV Tower Permit<br />
TORONTO— Representing Famous Players<br />
anadian Corp.. W. Z. Estey appeared before<br />
le board of control to make formal apphlUon<br />
for a permit to erect a 300-foot tower<br />
T a proposed Telemeter system of broadisting<br />
visual programs into the homes. He<br />
so sought a franchise for this city. Tomto<br />
is one of the two cities with TV<br />
ations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.<br />
Id the civic board decided to take the appli-<br />
•tions from FPCC under advisement for a<br />
issible report in January.<br />
AND BEST WISHES FOR 1953<br />
ASSOCIATED SCREEN<br />
NEWS<br />
MONTREAL LIMITED TORONTO<br />
NORRISH M M.l.l.C. PRESIDENT *_***NaClNG OIRtCtOR<br />
pXOFFICE December 20, 1952<br />
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