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MONTREAL
folder weather in the Montreal district is
helping boxoffice returns in local theatres
Capitol at Quebec City, owned by
Famous Players Canadian, has been equipped
for Cinemascope and has started showing
"The Robe." "The Robe" is in its sixth week
at the Palace here . . . Interna'ional Film
Distributors soon will make available "The
Man Between," starring James Mason and
Claire Bloom. Also to be distributed soon by
the company is "Anna et les Boiureaux,"
starring Rossano Brazzi and Yvette Lebon.
"Anna et les Bourreaux" will be shown at
the Alouette during the holidays.
Leo Choquette, owner of the Choquette circuit,
was host at a reception at his Holyrood
avenue home for his brother hobert
Choquette, poet, script writer and author, on
the occasion of publication of his book "Suite
Marine" . S. Chaplin, Toronto,
Canadian district manager, United Artists,
was at the local offices to confer with Manager
Sam Kunitsky . Amusements
will hold its annual open house December
15; United Artists will be host to its
many friends on December 30 . . . Mike
Krushelnyski is replacing Mrs. Nora Clarke
as accountant at UACL.
Bernicc Runciman, receptionist at Warner
Bros., has resigned . Gelfenstein, former
booker at Warner Bros., has returned
from a trip to Paris, France, where he spent
the summer holidays with his father. Gelfenstein
now has joined Cine-France . . . James
Baii-d of Baird Film Transport has returned
from his amrual holiday trip to New York
City, his home town . . . Condolences were offered
Georges Arpin of France-Film on the
death of his mother. A large delegation of
film people attended the services December 1.
At RKO, Juliette Lachapelle is replacing
Jeanette Ouelette, as revisor ... A daughter
was born at Catherine Booth hospital to
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Bahen. Bahen is
manager of General Theatres, Ltd. . . . Exhibitors
who visited Pilmrow were Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Robert of St. Jovite, owners of
the Labelle: Guy Bachand, owner of the
Cinema Premier and Cinema Rex, both of
Sherbrooke, and J. A. Theberge, Cinema
Etchemin, St. Romuald.
The appointment of Lyall Stewart as assistant
chief of the commercial division of the
National Film Board was announced by L. W.
Chatwin, director of distribution for NFB.
The post Stewart takes was left vacant by
the appointment of W. S. Jobbins to head the
division. Stewart, 28, joined NFB as district
representative in the Niagara area in 1951
and for the last year has been district representative
in the Ottawa valley.
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'Robe' Seventh Week
Best at Toronto
TORONTO—Only three holdovers were on
local screens but one of them was "The
Robe" in Cinemascope at the Imperial, where
it swept along in its seventh week. In a
comparatively dull week, the pick of the new
pictures appeared to be "All the Brothers
Were Valiant" at Loew's and "Times Gone
By" at the Towne.
(Average Is 100)
Eglinton, University Decameron Nights (RKO)... 105
Hyland—The Snake Pit (20th-Fox) 95
Imperial The Robe (20th-Fox), 7th wk 105
Loew's All the Brothers Were Valiant (MGM)..110
Odeon Sailor of the King (20th-Fox) . .105
Shea's Nortown—The Caddy (Para), 2nd wk 100
Tivoli, Cap. tol— Inferno (20th-Fox) 105
Uptown Veils of Bagdad (U-l) 100
Fifth Week of 'Robe' Holds
Strong in Vancouver
VANCOUVER^"The Robe" continued to
show strength in its fifth and final week at
the Capitol, where it has broken all records
for local theatres. The third week of "The
Captain's Paradise" also held strong.
Capitol—The Robe (20th-Fox), 5th wk Excellent
Orpheum Island in the Sky (WB) Averoge
Paradise China Venture (Col); Combat Squad
(Col)
Good
Plaza and Hastings Veils of Bagdad (U-l) Fair
Strand The Juggler (Col), Strange Affoir
(Col)
Good
Studio The Captain's Paradise (IFD), 3rd wk. . . Good
Vogue All I Desire (U-l) Moderate
VANCOUVER
TlZally Hopp of the
Cinema interrupted his
film showing for a week to play the
"March of Dimes" stage show, which attracted
capacity houses companies
are complaining the way return
of
addresses are placed on film cans being returned
to the exchanges. Company officials
pointed out that the exchange addresses are
written over the old label, which has caused
misdirection and delay in the return of films.
Exhibitors are urged to be careful and use
return labels supplied by the distributors.
More than 750 show people attended the
annual film ball sponsored by the Famous
Players British Columbia Managers Ass'n at
the Commodore Supper club here Sunday,
November 29. Proceeds from the affau- are
used each summer to provide two-week holidays
up-coast for needy children . . . Industry
men are looking forward to the annual
dinner of the Motion Picture Pioneers, which
will be held along with the annual convention
of the group here in January.
Johnny Schuberg:, Canada's oldest theatreman,
is very ill in Hollywood hospital at
New Westminster. He is in his 80s . . . Gordon
Simmons is a new member of the 'Vancouver
Pioneers . . . Al Mitchell, Odeon
supervisor for New Westminster, said "From
Here to Eternity" is the first picture to hold
for two weeks at the Odeon in that city . . .
For "Crazylegs" at the International Cinema,
Wally Hopp, manager, tied in with the 'Vancouver
Lions football club, which now is in
the midst of a drive for 6,500 members.
Three-dimension pictures are playing to
better-than-average business at Dick Lett's
Strand here. Lett said the increased business
is due to a better run of 3-D pictures.
TORONTO !
\X7hen Fred Trebilcock stepped into the
downtown Tivoli as its manager, he was
pleased to note the newly installed panoramic
screen. Similar screens now grace
the Runnymede, managed by Maurice Doyle,
and the Alhambra, another FPC unit where
Mac McCammon presides. Up in north Toronto,
Manager Henry Marshall has a big
screen at the FPC Capitol . G.
Bregman had an unusual and crowded evening
at the Odeon Colony when the Rotary
club staged an auction night for an array
of merchandise to raise an estimated $8,000
for
charity.
Win Barron, editor of the Canadian Paramount
News and exploiteer for Paramount
Film Service, is a commuter by plane between
Toronto and New York. Therefore it
is no surprise that he has been elected the
1954 president of the Toronto Flying club . . .
For weeks. Manager Russ McKibbin of the
big Imperial, where "The Robe" is setting
records, has had a frame out front with a
display for "War of the Worlds" as the next
attraction. "It fills a space," he observed
quietly.
President A. W. Perry of Empire-Universal
left to attend the U-I conference in Hollywood,
during which two Canadian-made features,
"Saskatchewan" and "The Far Country"
were to be screened . . . I. H. Allen,
president of Astral Films, Ltd., and wife are
vacationing in Central and South America.
Before leaving Allen announced the appointment
of Joe Harris as Astral manager at
Winnipeg.
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