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TORONTO<br />
Joseph Paul, manager of the Paramount at<br />
Brantford, has been named one of the<br />
three members of a panel which will discuss<br />
"Censorship—Good or Evil" at a meeting February<br />
27 at the Brantford YMCA. Others on<br />
the panel are Thomas Blower, deputy police<br />
chief, and Cyril Sanders, editor of the daily<br />
Brantford Expositor . York, a staffer<br />
of the Toronto Globe and Mail, has been appointed<br />
amusement commentator, succeeding<br />
Alex Barris, now with the Telegram.<br />
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Ginger Rogers is due here February 20 in<br />
advance of "Oh, Men! Oh, Women!" it was<br />
announced by Pete Myers, Canadian general<br />
manager of 20th-Fox . Hamilton and To-<br />
NEWS...<br />
While It's<br />
Hot!<br />
'From,..<br />
HOLLYWOOD<br />
NEW YORK<br />
WASHINGTON<br />
and<br />
ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN<br />
about<br />
PICTURES and PEOPLE<br />
,<br />
You'll Relish<br />
Style in<br />
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Which<br />
It Is Served<br />
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Intensive<br />
ronto theatremen gave a farewell party at<br />
the Royal Connaught Hotel, Hamilton, in<br />
honor of Mel Jolley who resigned as manager<br />
of the Hamilton Century to reside with his<br />
family at Anaheim near Los Angeles, Calif.<br />
The Toronto delegation included Dan Krendel<br />
of Pamou.s Players, Steve McManus of Canadian<br />
Odeon and Jack Fitzgibbons, Theatre<br />
Confections.<br />
Ken Davies of the Odeon at London featured<br />
a one-night engagement of a local<br />
group. Lloyd Wright's Radio Rangers, during<br />
the engagement of "The King and Four<br />
Queens" .<br />
Dickinson of the London<br />
Hyland held "Friendly Persuasion" for a second<br />
week, after a move over from the Odeon<br />
where it played three weeks. "Friendly Persuasion"<br />
stayed for a seventh week at the<br />
Hamilton Century, now managed by Paul<br />
Turnbull, late of the Hamilton Downtown.<br />
The same picture had five weeks at the Capitol,<br />
Peterborough.<br />
in later years .<br />
J. J. Fitzgibbons, Famous Players president,<br />
spent several days in St. Michael's Hospital,<br />
Toronto, for a rest and checkup. Al Troyer,<br />
veteran head office executive of Famous<br />
Players, was in the same hospital for surgery<br />
E. Stewart, 78, owner for many<br />
years of the former Red Mill at Hamilton,<br />
died in St. Peter's Infu'mary after a long<br />
illness. Born in Kincardine, he had managed<br />
trade exhibitions in the Hamilton armories<br />
. . Morris Stein, eastern division<br />
manager of Famous Players, left on a<br />
four-week vacation in Florida. Manager Vic<br />
Nowe conducted a sneak preview of "Full of<br />
Life" at the Toronto Odeon.<br />
Radio Set Sales Up. While<br />
TV Total Slips in Canada<br />
OTTAWA—A Canadian government trade<br />
report for 11 months of 1956 to November 30<br />
shows a consistently downward trend in sales<br />
of television sets but an increase in the absorption<br />
of radio receivers. In the television<br />
field, the number of sales last November<br />
dropped to 61,396 from 112,099 which was the<br />
total for the same month in 1955. For the<br />
January-November period of 1956 total TV<br />
sales were 548,632, compared with 680,445 in<br />
the 11 montlis of the previous year for a drop<br />
of approximately 130,000.<br />
Last November radio sales climbed to 90,517<br />
from the 72,700 total in the 1955 month. The<br />
ll-month sales in 1956 totaled 623,636, compared<br />
with 545,047 in the previous year's<br />
period.<br />
Stag at New Glasgow<br />
NEW GLASGOW, N. S.—Henry McNeil<br />
and Prima Davision have continued as managers<br />
of the Roseland, Academy and Jubilee<br />
theatres and the Highland Drive-In. local<br />
units in the Odeon Garson circuit, following<br />
the retirement of A. I. Garson and the purchase<br />
of his interests in the maritimes by<br />
Odeon. Lionel J. April is Maritime manager<br />
for Odeon.<br />
Calgary Drive-In Leased<br />
CALGARY — Chestermere Drive-In, Ltd..<br />
has taken over management of the Crescent<br />
Theatre on a five-year lease, and it will be<br />
operated in conjunction with the Lakeshore<br />
Drive-In next summer, according to Pi'esident<br />
Paul Hanson.<br />
OTTAWA<br />
jWratinee shows have been dropped, except on<br />
Saturdays and holidays, at the Elmdale,<br />
a local unit of Regional Theatres, Toronto,<br />
of which Ralph Dale is general manager.<br />
Manager Howard Binns of the Elmdale is<br />
featuring the Hollywood contest one night<br />
weekly . "A Lamp Is Heavy" at the<br />
Odeon, Manager Jim Chalmers invited the<br />
nurses of Civic and General hospitals as his<br />
guests for a performance. Dui'ing the run of<br />
the picture, which has a nursing theme, William<br />
Zuro, an artist of nearby Stittsville, had<br />
an exhibition of his paintings in the foyer<br />
and mezzanine.<br />
Manager William Parrent of the O'Brien at<br />
Pembroke turned over the theatre Sunday<br />
night (10) for the first of a series of concertos<br />
by the Canadian Legion band there . . . Visiting<br />
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edmond<br />
Cloutier of Ottawa, was Suzanne Cloutier,<br />
prominent as a film and stage actress in England<br />
and France. She was accompanied by<br />
her husband Peter Ustinov, and their two<br />
children.<br />
After three weeks at the Capitol, "Giant"<br />
moved over to the Regent and Capitol Manager<br />
T. R. Tubman brought in "The Teahouse<br />
of the August Moon." Ernie Warren held<br />
"The Gold Rush" for a third week at the<br />
Little Elgin . height of something or<br />
other occurred at the independent Rialto here<br />
with the featuring of a "delinquent program,"<br />
consisting of "Women Without Names," "The<br />
Night Holds Terror" and "Bad Blonde."<br />
The National Film Board staged a series of<br />
free shows on five nights at the National Research<br />
Council theatre. February 6-14 in cooperation<br />
with the Ottawa Film Council . . .<br />
In observance of the fifth anniversary of the<br />
accession of Queen Elizabeth to the throne,<br />
Manager Jim Chalmers of the Odeon played<br />
the colorful featurette, "Trooping the Color,"<br />
a JARO release.<br />
Associates and Aldrich<br />
Working Five Writers<br />
HOLLYWOOD—With the signing of Teddl<br />
Sherman to develop an original comedy, the<br />
Associates and Aldrich Co. currently has five<br />
writers working on as many ventures. David<br />
Chantler is scripting a story identified as<br />
"Project X"; Robert Condon is working on<br />
"And Two If by Sea," which is slated for<br />
late winter lensing in New York; Oscar Millard<br />
is doing the screenplay for "Until Proven<br />
Guilty," and Halstead Welles is working on<br />
screenplay of John O'Hara's short story, "Now<br />
We Know."<br />
'Moby Dick' at FPC Houses<br />
TORONTO—The FPC combination of nine<br />
local theatres for the Show of the Week featured<br />
"Moby Dick." The nine-unit group of<br />
Nat Taylor's 20th Century Theatres had a<br />
week's whirl with "Odongo." The Fairlawn<br />
and Colony joined with the downtown Odeon<br />
in the presentation of "The King and Four<br />
Queens" while another Odeon combination of<br />
four houses, the Danforth, Humber, Hyland<br />
and Cooksville, enjoyed a second week of<br />
"The Silent World."<br />
RKO's "Run of the Arrow" was produced,<br />
written and directed by Samuel Fuller.<br />
K-4 BOXOFFICE February 16, 1957
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