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. . On<br />
MONTREAL<br />
TJnited Amusement Corp. soon will start<br />
building in St. Laurent a new cinema<br />
adjoining the Normandie, another UA house<br />
. . . Larry Sheehan, a young and promising<br />
artist, has been promoted from junior clerk<br />
. . .<br />
. .<br />
in the advertising to an artist in the art<br />
and advertising department of United<br />
Amusement Irving Herman, Toronto,<br />
publicity manager for United Artists, conferred<br />
with local Manager Sam Kunitsky .<br />
Jack Kroll. United Artists salesman, became<br />
father of a baby boy named Kenneth Robert.<br />
Kroll now heads a family of four boys and<br />
a girl.<br />
Exhibitors in town: C. Charbonneau, the<br />
Madelon. Cap de la Madeleine; Jean Beauchesne,<br />
the Genty. Gentilly; Leo Desparois,<br />
the Normandie, Ste. Marline, and Mrs. L.<br />
Cyr, the Salle Paroissiale, Cabano . . Sylvia<br />
.<br />
Nusicant is a new stenographer at Empire-<br />
Universal . sales trips were Jo Oupcher,<br />
manager of International Films, to Quebec<br />
City, Que.; Bertrand Frank of Empire-Universal,<br />
in the northern counties, and H. B.<br />
Miller of MOM, in Quebec City , . . Jim<br />
Pearson of 20th-Fox, who has just returned<br />
from Beauce county, reports business there<br />
"very good, indeed."<br />
Privately owned television stations in Canada<br />
can be established only in areas of no<br />
interest to CBC and must carry CBC programs,<br />
Minister of Revenue McCann told<br />
the House of Commons. McCann, who is the<br />
government spokesman on radio and television<br />
matters, said that at present no two<br />
stations would be licensed to serve the same<br />
area. This, it is commented, rules out private<br />
interests in all areas where they could<br />
e.xpect to gain most advertising revenue, as<br />
CBC has, or will have, stations in Montreal,<br />
Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg and Vancouver.<br />
. . .<br />
The Beaubien Theatre in the north end was<br />
visited by burglars early the morning of December<br />
9. Two marauders tied up the night<br />
watchman, Arthur Houle, but failed to open<br />
the safe. They left after ransacking the<br />
office, and Houle managed to free himself<br />
three hours afterwards, and notified the<br />
pohce The Children's Film Library<br />
committee of Canada, reporting on the increased<br />
output of family-type films, made<br />
the following announcement of special interest<br />
in Quebec province where juveniles<br />
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