Boxoffice-January.08.1955

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: protesting
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. . Fred
I PEG Business in Vancouver VANCOUVER
houses in the Foto-Nite
. . . Ernie Diamond opery
night every Wednesday
The main prize recently
r stainless steel cutlery . . .
JinemaScope to play at
linion was "Hell and High
;aifeer now has such good
jreening room that the
ion asked by viewers after
d is. "Is this picture just
r in Cinemascope?" You
the difference with the
screen Saifeer now has.
midnight shows included
e Plain" at the Odeon;
Paris" at the Garrick;
md "Africa Adventure"
aramount's "Three Ring
:. and Warners' "A Star
Airport Drive-In
)itol . . .
een to provide for new
IS . . . "Duel in the Sun"
for its second downtown
lest priced show in town
5 Capitol had no trouble
ar Is Born."
ing of Main street," is
tremendous volume of
sales racked up by the
rland during the festive
offered "mustard" or
hot dogs, there are no
lack of additional choice
i
ions or sauerki'aut. Both
y installed Glenray barines.
operating on the re-
}le—a bun warmer is a
he compact machine. No
red. Hurwitz claims.
( in arms here over the
Saturday matinee fiasco
:-TV station starting its
Idies at 2 p.m. instead of
were virtually
ind exhibitors are writing
the unwarheir
matinee trade. There
t to insist the CBC start
i-me time as weekdays.
iouse Changes
Policy
The Elmwood, a 620-seat
Theatres of Toronto, has
cy starting with the enn
Times" after operating
the Park in joint bookeriod.
The name of the
inged to Elmwood Cinema
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Up as Holiday Ends
VANCOUVER—Downtown busuiess moved
into high gear now that Christmas shopping
Is over. Vancouver theatres were away above
average. Top coin went to "Show Business."
while second position was taken by "Three
Ring Circus" and "Sign of the Pagan." both
tops ill spite of a slow Christmas Day business.
All three continued through the holidays.
(Average Is 100)
Capitol There's No Business Like Show
;20th-Fox)
Business
Smash
Cinema Passion (RKO), The Sponish Main iRKO),
revival
Good
Orpheum Three Ring Circus (Para) Excellent
Porodise Bowery to Bagdad (AA); Renegades
(Col), reissue Good
Plaza and Fraser Destry (U-l) Good
Strand Atheno (MGM) Good
Studio The Belles of Sf. Trinion's (IFD) Good
Vogue Sign of the Pofi^an (U-l) Excellent
Eight First -Runs Hold
At Toronto Houses
TORONTO— Holiday attractions at eight
first run theatres held for a second week,
more or less as expected, with grosses well
above the line. The biggest money-maker
was "Three Rnig Cncus" in its second lap
at the Imperial. "The Purple Plain" grossed
well as a new picture at the Odeon, aided by
an extra midnight showing.
Eglinton, University Young at Heart (WB),
2nd wk. I ID
Hyland— Trouble in the Glen (Rep), 2nd wk 110
Imperiol Three Ring Circus (Para), 2nd wk 140
Loews Deep in My Heart (MGM), 2nd wk 140
Nortown Brigadoon :MGM) 110
Odeon The Purple Plain (JARO) 1 45
Shea's There's No Business Like Show Business
120th-Fox), 2nd wk 1 40
Tivoli, Capitol Rear Window (Para) 110
Towne The Vanishing Prairie (BV), 2nd wk 120
Uptown Sign ot the Pagan (U-l), 2nd wk 120
'Belles' in Toronto
TORONTO—"The Belles of St. Trinians,"
a British comedy, started the post-Christmas
season at the International Cinema in substantial
-style, while Italian pictures were
noted at other art theatres around town.
. . . Safecrackers
/^eorge Brewerton, owner of the east side
Rex, has taken over the suburban Cambie,
a 488-seater, from A. Milan and Pete Junas,
former operators of the Roxy which is now
being used for chmch meetings
spent a lost weekend trying to get
into the safe at the Odeon-Park but were
unable to open the inner doors guarding the
weekend holiday receipts . . . The brother of
Pat Murray, Lux cashier, died in his 43rd
year . Ritchie of the Lux floor staff,
was ill.
.
Bob Foster of the Orpheum was re-elected
president of lATSE B-71 theatre employes
union . . Bill Forward, manager of General
Theatre Supply Co., reports that with the
installation of wide .screen in four more FPCC
. . . Ro.ss Forrester, former
suburban houses, the chain will be 100 per
cent equipped
assistant at the Capitol, has resigned from
the circuit.
.
Steve Rolston, secretary of Canadian Picture
Pioneers, spent the holidays in the
Seattle area Jack Brent of CP Film Delivery
has
. .
bought himself a home in the
south Vancouver area.
Canada Now Second Only
To U. S. in Television
OTTAWA—In a year end statement on the
development of television in Canada since its
beginnings in September 1952, A. D. Dunton,
chairman of the board of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp.. said here that the Dominion
had become the world's second-ranking
TV country. Dunton declared that Canada
was second to the United States in TV program
production, second in the number of
stations and a bare second in television
viewers.
About three-quarters of the population, he
said, was served by 24 stations, seven of which
were owned by the government TV agency,
the CBC, which also controls all broadcasting.
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