Johnny Belinda, ca. 1952.
After breaking box-office records in St. John's in 1952, Johnny Belinda, starring Hilary Vernon and Charles Jarrott, did not fare very well the next year in Halifax.

Reproduced by permission of Leslie Yeo. From Leslie Yeo, A Thousand and One First Nights (Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, ©1998) 184.