Boxoffice-January.10.1953

was
MONTREAL
•The first week of the New Year is more
generally recognized as a holiday in
Montreal and Quebec than in other parts of
Canada, following the custom of their French
ancestors. Fiench-Canadians have always
celebrated the long year-end holiday up to the
Twelfth night, or as they call it the Fete des
Rois. As a consequence, there are many
visitors here from the smaller communities
and they include exhibitors who take advantage
of the visit to the metropolis to call
on Filmrow.
Twenty-year-old Brenda Styan, a thirdyear
arts student at Bishop's college, Lennoxville,
has been crowned "penny princess"
of Quebec's eastern townships, which brings
her a step closer to a coronation trip to England.
Miss Styan was chosen from 15 applicants
in the J. Ai'thur Rank organization
contest. She will face her next test in the
national finals in Toronto. Brenda is a
daughter of Clai-ence Styan, a Dominion Textile
Co. foreman, who is chairman of the
Magog, Que., protestant school board.
A protest was voiced in the Montreal Star
against "excessive nationalism" spreading to
motion picture production. The writer cites
an advertisement which styles a recent picture,
"The First All-Canadian Full-Length
Feature," and points out that people go to
motion picture theatres for entertainment,
not because of nationalism. He adds, Did
we ever conceive of the possibility of someone
taying 'the first all-Canadian flop?'"
. .
Arthur Gottlieb, 52, millionaire film producer,
husband of the former Ziegfeld Follies
beauty, Gladys Glad, was seriously injured
when he fell downstairs at his home in Pickering,
Ont. He suffered head injuries and
was taken to Oshawa hospital, where he was
A Mexican film, with
reported improving . .
subtitles, "Angelitos Negros," (Little Dark
Angels I given its Canadian premiere at
the Kent . An automobile accident in which
Julius Adler and four members of the cast
of the musical comedy, "A Thousand Wives,"
were injured, caused postponement until
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Friday (9) of the opening of the Yiddish-
American musical comedy.
The much-debated but unanimously
adopted bill in the Quebec legislature rules
that all televised films must be approved by
the provincial t)oard of motion picture cen.sors.
The penalty for showing uncensored television
film is a maximum of $500 . . . "The Windswept
Isles," new National Film Board documentary,
was photographed by Jean Roy and
directed by Jean Palardy off the Magdalen
islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the
summer of 1952 when they made a stay of a
month there. Although nearer to Prince Edward
Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
the Magdalen islands form part of the
province of Quebec. The picture opens with a
sweeping view of the islands taken from the
air.
Canadian Net Arranges
For Big U.S. Video Shows
TORONTO— After less
than four months of
television operation at Toronto and Montreal,
mainly with Canadian programs, the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. reorganized its
young TV setup as it entered 1953 in a move
to bolster video effectiveness.
Not only was there a shakedown from the
original rates for commercially sponsored
programs, but contracts were signed by the
CBC with three large networks in the United
States for the first time. The first of the big
TV shows were brought across the border during
the week of January 5.
Previously the only television programs
from the States were a few recorded shows
from the DuMont network. Now available to
audiences in the Toronto and Montreal districts
are TV programs from the National
Broadcasting Co., Columbia Broadcasting
System and the American Broadcasting Co.
The CBC rates for sponsored programs in
Canada were chopped to $750 an hour, in the
case of the Toronto outlet, from the previous
charge of $1,600. The fee for Montreal TV
time was cut in half from $750 to $375 an
hour.
Fire Damages Toronto Willow
TORONTO—A fire
was discovered recently
in the Willow, a 992-seat suburban theatre,
operated by the Aliens, but there was no interruption
to performances due to quirk work
by staff employes. Attracted by smoke in
the empty house, Manager Lawrence Allen,
projectionist Dale McCoy and Arthur Dupuis
ran to the stage where they found the drapes
aflame.
HANDY