SUNDAY CINEMAS
TO STOP IN LONDON. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, December 5. The question of Sunday cinemas has been thrown into the melting pot by the sensational verdict of the King’s Bench in an action against the London County Council. For twenty years the Council has permitted cinemas to open on Sunday it the profits are given to chanties, but the Judge lias now decided that the Council is usurping jurisdiction in the matter, as the performances are expressly forbidden under the Sunday Obscvance Act of LSD. As Justice Swift said, the County Council's claim was all ■‘bunkum.’ The action was due to the theatrical managers, who object to the discrimination in favour ol the cinemas.
The judgment threatens charities with the loss of £ISOXOO annually contributed as the result ol cinemas on Sunday opening. '
The Lord’s Day Observance Soviet.!’ is delighted with the judgement. The threatre proprietors hone the result will be the introduction into Parliament of a bill permitting general Sunday entertainments.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1930, Page 5
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167SUNDAY CINEMAS Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1930, Page 5
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