THE BRITISH SUNDAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1936, Page 6

THE BRITISH SUNDAY

A discussion at the London County Council on a proposal that artists performing in Sunday entertainments should be permitted a certain amount of costume and make-up, produced a singularly interesting speech from the chairman, Mr. Herbert Morrison, on the London Sunday. He agreed that many restrictions were illogical, but he was in. favour Of "putting "a brake on a tendency to go pell-mell for sheer personal enjoyment of the more tinsel sort on Sunday," adding that it was no bad thing that Sunday entertainments should be. in the direction of the artistic and cultural type ratjier than of a mere knock-about show. That, as Mr. Morrison conceded, may not, remarks the "Spectator," be flawless logic . —to quibble about yielding an extra ! inch-seems-;absurd -till-it-is--discovered- ] that enough have been yielded one by one to make an ell—but it is sound sense ail the same, and the council recognised that by rejecting the proposal by an overwhelming majority. But the problem of the London Sunday, or more generally, the British Sunday remains, and more thought might with advantage be given to it. There is everything to be said for the endeavour to raise public entertainment on-that day of the week a little above the average level of the ., others, so long as they are not raised clean above people's heads —of which there is little danger. The Bishop of Croydon and his friends have gone some way towards solving the problem in the matter of films.