ATTACK OF CHARM

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1932, Page 6

ATTACK OF CHARM

actresses visit commons. LONDON, July 4. A number of actresses and producers visited the House of Commons to plead with members, at a meeting, to agree to legislation permitting the opening of theatres on Sundays. Miss Violet Vanbrugh, who wore a yellow costume and fashionable hat, won cheers from members when, appealing to the British sense' of fair play, she urged that theatres should have the same privileges as cinemas. Mdlle. Alice Delysia preferred the French method of appealing to gallantry, and flashed her entrancing smile on the hitherto solemn members, who declared later that such a delightful French accent had never been sunken i’n Parliament anywhere before, and they rather liked it.' Major Proctor unchivalrously asked whether Mdlle. Delysia and Miss Vanbrugh believed in Sunday dog and horse racing and general “Cochranisation” of the Sabbath. Vhis drew a spirited retort from Mr C. B. CocjJiran, the theatrical manager, that he staged nothing more demoralisng on Sunday than McCormack or Kreisler. Mr Cochran added that the Sunday opening of cinemas had made the nation “celluloid-minded.” Miss Nancy Price concluded the case for the theatres, declaring that the stage had mothered the cinema. ‘‘The films take our place and give us carbon copies of our artists,” she said.