SUNDAY PICTURES
DECLARED ILLEGAL
KING'S BENCH DECISION
ATs T ACT OF 1780
United Press Association—3y Electric Telecraph—Coiiyrlffht. LONDON, 4th December. The question of Sunday cinemas has been thrown into tho melting pert by a sensational verdict'of the King's Bench Division in an actioii against th;o London County Council. For twenty years the council has permitted cinemas to open on Snnday if the profits were given to charities, but the Judges have now decided that the council has been usurping its jurisdiction, as performances arc expressly forbidden under the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. Mr. Justice Swift said that .the council's claim was all "bunkum." The action was due to theatrical managers objecting to discrimination in favour of cinemas. The judgment threatens charities with the loss of £150,000 annually contributed as the result of the cinemas opening on Sunday. The Lord's Day Observance Society is delighted with the judgment. Theatre proprietors hope the outcome will bo the introduction into Parliament of a Bill permitting general Sun-' day entertainments.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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167SUNDAY PICTURES Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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