CINEMA BAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1938, Page 17

CINEMA BAN.

NO SUNDAY SHOWS. A CRIME, SAYS DEAN. " TRIUMPH FOB BONDAGE." The Very Rev. Edgar Rogers, Dean of Booking, Essex, who wrote in his parish magazine that the recent decision by poll to close all cinemas in his parish on Sundays was "a crime against the young in the name of God," said to a reporter: "Do "people think I am a lunatic? "My point is simply this: Satan finds mischief for idle hands. '"There is more moral mischief on Sundays than on any other day in the week because people without much background and education have nothing to do. "Rather than they should wander about with nothing to do I would have some organised entertainment for them. "Would I go to the pictures on Sunday? Of course I would, only it happens that I have something else to do." In his article the dean describes the decision as "a triumph for the bondage of the law over the glorious liberty of the gospel and another example of Pro testant intolerance." After his reference to "a crime against the young," he adds: "A haven of refuge from the hot blood and inexperience of their years has been taken away and the moral mischief which has been the outcome of having nowhere to go on Sunday remains unchecked."