Boxoffice-April.07.1958

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Two Drive-ins in Toronto
Reopened in Late March
TORONTO — Nat Taylors 20th Centui-y
Theatres reopened Uie Northwest and Scarboro
drive-ins here March 27 and A. I. Rosenberg
made a renewed start with the independent
Dufferin March 29. Two other driveins
in the area were still dark.
Nearby Hamilton now has its third slcy
theatre in operation with the reopening of
the Hamilton March 28 by Joe Dydzak, who
had previously started the Clappison in snowy
weather on March 7. The thii-d at Hamilton
is A. I. Rosenberg's Scenic, which opened
March 20. Two others are yet to open there.
TORONTO
\XTith "Peyton Place" rounding out a highly
profitable run at the Imperial where it
is in its sixth week, Manager Russ McKibbin
is campaigning for its successor, "Marjorie
Morningstar" . death of Mike Todd has
added to the local interest in "Around the
World in 80 Days," which has reached the
34-week mark at the Tivoli. Last Saturday
night the theatre was crowded, for instance.
Manager Fred Ti-ebilcock has no word about
the upcoming "South Pacific" . . . The Century
at suburban Oakville, where Howard
Birms is in charge, gave a benefit show for
Mrs. Carmilla Pasut and her two small childi-en.
The husband and father was killed in
an accident while his family was en route
from Italy to Canada.
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Maple Leaf Gardens!, Toronto's huge amusement
and sport center, bought the pipe organ
months ago from Famous Players Shea's,
before it was torn down for a civic square.
Nothing more was heard about the instrument
until last week when news came it had
been rebuilt and would be installed in
Work
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Gardens for the fall and winter
is proceeding on the aii- conditioning system
in the theatre at Stratford which was opened
last year for the annual Shakespearean
Festival. The job will be completed for the
summer. MeanwhUe, arrangements are being
made for the second annual International
Film Festival at Stratford in July.
Dan Krendel at Famous Players head office
has completed plans for the chartered
flight for Toronto barkers to the Variety
International convention in London, leaving
April 19. The 'Variety tent's annual benefit
baseball night June 10 at the Toronto
Stadium will see the Leafs playing Miami
in an International League fixture . . . Hillis
Cass of Canadian MGM moved up from vicepresident
to president, replacing Mark Plottel
of Empire-Universal in the annual elections
at a routine meeting of the Canadian
Motion Picture Distributors Ass'n. Frank
Vaughan of JARO is the new vice-president
and Clare Appel continues as executive director.
Para. Shelves 'Five Pennies'
HOLL'STVOOD — Paramount has indefinitely
postponed "The Five Pennies," Red
Nichols biography which was to star Danny
Kaye, becaiise of the AFM strike against the
major studios. As a result of the musicians'
action, the studio could not pre-record for
the production of the Mel Shavelson-Jack
Rose picture.
VANCOUVER
f^ecil Black, special representative for 20Lh-
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Fox, who had been in Toronto on circuit
business, came up with the cheerful news
that Fox is liaving a record year across
Canada There is talk of starting a
Variety Tent here. Since there are plenty
of oldtime .show folks here, it should prove
a big success hard- ticket run of
"Around the World in 80 Days" at the Stanley
was into its 33rd week, a record here.
Another picture doing .solid business on a
reserved seat basis, with $2 top, was "The
Bolshoi Ballet." It was in its ninth week at
the Odeon Park.
Don Foli, Studio projectionist, became a
grandfather when his son and daughter-inlaw
became parents of twins. Don's son Is a
member of the Vancouver Symphony orchestra
Ernie Gary, a Famous Players manager
. . . in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island for
21 years, died there in his 50th year. He retired
three years ago when the Strand was
closed . . . Gordon
Dalgleish of Cinema Sales
and his wife are away on a combined vacation
and business trip to San Francisco,
Seattle and Portland.
Howard Boothe, former Odeon district
manager, has been elected president of the
British Columbia Automobile Ass'n . . . John
McKim is in charge of tlie Olympia until a
new manager is appointed to replace Warwick
Johnson, who resigned. Johnson has
been visiting Don Barnes, manager of the
Odeon Ti-aU, before sailing for his native
Australia . Letts, manager of the
Strand, was back on the job after a minor
throat operation . 'Veller" broke the
long-run record of the Paramount New
Westminster in its thii'd week.
Rae Waldegrave, Orpheum cashier, left for
Honolulu en route for a thi-ee-month trip
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to her native Australia Graham,
16mm representative at
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the Rank exchange,
is holidaying in the South Seas .
Hosford, 20th-Fox booker, returned from a
vacation .south of the border
Burrell, production manager at Trans-Canada
Films, was on the sick list International
Federation of Film Producers Ass'n
has recognized the film festival to be held
here this summer. About 120 films are expected
from 20 nations. Thus Vancouver
enters competition with San Francisco, which
will stage a film festival, al.so IFFPA-approved,
next fall.
MGM's "Hell Below" Is the story of a .submarine
which sets out to sink the enemy
flagship that led the Pearl Harbor attack.
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