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yew er et rr em we Re OF im be ey, vy bP le IRTH OF THE F Your New Odeon Manager rer Col Biltmore Makes Screen Comeback Afte orful 26 Year History et agama Lady Biltmore has had a Lage senior" ago : 7 a =a T. LOVE SEATS be less for adults and stu- -- opti whe - and cent tubes and reflectors," screen t] au 4s ng Lb. on, Oshawa mes Over-sized chairs (love ents, oped that the "splendid com- said another advertisement, Mr, Rom Kadosk! is the proud praencem = od changed "and Joan publisher, C. R. B. Salman, seats) were installed ' a. Today's Odeon movie-house munity spirit" be maintained Twenty-six years of movie | manoger of Oshowo's NEW | ODEON THEATRE, He wos born and roised in Vancouv- er, but efter high school | graduotion, left thet area to | eome to Toronto, her name, Twenty-six years ago the Biltmore theatre was de- scribed as a Bas of ex- quisite beauty". y the doors will open to = newly: reconstructed Odeon theatre. Adolphe Menjou Bennett, The stars and producer Hal E. Roach, sent congratulatory notes to the' first manager, George F'. Law, a 30-year vet- eran of theatrical manage- ment, president of the Odeon The- atres Lid, and vice-president and general manager, Frank Fisher, will be some of the honored guests at the open- ing of the theatre. 'Demolition and reconstruc- tion was our scattered fashion among the staggered seats "for over- size" people in the Biltmore auditorium, "We found that love seats were really used as such and « therefore not incorporated in will have two standard ad- mittance charges: adults -- $1.25 and children up to 15 -- 50 cents, The adult fee for the smoking lounge is an ad- ditional 25 cents for the adult rate. throughout the difficult days ahead "The Biltmore received its name from a restaurant of the same name operated some years before at or near the site, thus perpetuating a name well known by the older history had passed through the doors of the Biltmore movie house and several well known celebrities. "+ British actor, John Mills and his screen writer wife, were invited to the Biltmore while they were in Toronte ithe largest cost, our plans," said Mr, Kadoski. THRIVING CITY The Biltmore theatre prided in wae oo Ae itself on a double feature provements and I hope they showing but the new theatre : a i > (owners) will never regret ren: ga to just one 'good' having selected Oshawa for it is one of Ontario's thriving "People want to see one cities," said Mayor J. C. good movie and not drag out Jackson at the inauguration an evening for hours," said of the theatre. Ron first started with Odeon in Moreh of 1964 and hos since seen much of Ontorio, He first storted as the As- sistant Manoger of the Odeon Humber theatre in Toronto and from there went fo the Odeon Soult Ste, Over 140 Oshawa craftsmen and laborers received. em- ployment from the project and 40 loca! businesses con- amounting to about $65,000," said the new Odeon manager, Rona'd D, Kadoski, Mr. Kadoski said the the- atre is completely carpeted and half of the walls of the auditorium are of walnut arborite and the other half are softened with green-hued visiting Canada for the first time, "George Young," a Holly- wood impersonator who 4:4 to portray Theodore Roose- velt, was visiting an old friend in Cobourg, Ont., when I asked him to visit Oshawa," said Leo "Pop" Osier, man- The King St. lot was pur- chased from T. E. Kaiser by Barett E. Laxer, sae oy of the Biltmore Theatres Ltd., in tripyted services or material December, 100, 'The Demitle trong' ie' cretion atthe Brothers, Toronto contractors Biltmore theatre. were employed, the $10,000 RECONSTRUCTION construction started at Christ- Sandantuniiis Sank tae the generation at least,"' said an Oshawa Times story written for the occasion. 'Mr, Laxer is also associated with a hat concern of the same name," the story said, The Biltmore was consider- ed to be complete in every sense of the word, in beauty, mas, and in face of winter Marie, Hemilton, Kitehen- di rt " the manager, The late att conditions and difficulty in ob- Odeon is approximately $200, drapes @ late attorney general, comfort and utility. Some ®g¢r of the Biltmore at that | | o% North Bey, Owen Sound taining. supplies, was com- 000 and the #0 men employed The interior color scheme of Advertisements for po a G. D. Conant, also congratu- seats contained ear phones time, | and Guelph, pleted by April 11, 1940, 10 are divided 50-50 between the newly constructed build. more theatre in MU seaathas lated the new proprié¢tors and 'for the hard of hearing" and The Biltmore managers show prices were bright note" in the advent of said the attractive building was a welcome addition to a saucer shaped floor en- days short of its goal. J. ©, Anderson, ing is green, gold and dark Oshawa and Toronto workers. browns; the widely - spaced since the theatre's foundation, Ajax Construction, general have been: George F. Law, His first Managerial Post hanced the auditorium. Mayor wos the Odeon Lokeshore . the city's third theatre. Oshawa. nay / members of the city council, contractors for the Odeon staggered seats, a greenish : The exterior was "different Robert Maynard, Willi theotre in New Toronto and leading figures in "the the- theatre, have renovated the gold in the light. Evening prices were: adults Premier F. M. Hepburn with a meteorological tower, Bradley, Deugies Watt, "lan from there the Old Biitmore artical world and officials of "shell" in a little more than The basic colors in the old -- 25° cents, students -- 20 said the Biltmore movie one-piece marquee, brilliant MeKinnon, Pop Osier (since house was a further indica- tion of the city's "most com- cents and children--10 cents. were five 1943) and the ppresent mana | ger, Ronald Kadoski. ' Best Wishes From the . . William Neilson Company Makers of Famous Jersey Milk Chocolate Bar 277 GLADSTONE AVE. illumination with a combina- tion of neon lamps, fluores- Biltmore theatre were gold, | in Oshowe, red and blue. RON KADOSKI Matinee shows the construction crew were a month, being closed since on hand for the Oshawa July 9. 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