SUNDAY CINEMAS
I have travelled in every continent and in Europe, the Americas, North and South, Asia, and everywhere I have found the cinema theatres open on Sunday, even in Sabbatarian Scotland. In England many churches have installed cinema plants, and the result has been in some cases an increase of congregation tenfold. Only in Australasia nave I found these gloomy Sundays. Why is it? Do the Australasians arrogate to themselves the idea of a superior morality, or is it the churches are afraid that their decreasing attendances will slip still further? Why not give the people the liberty of spending their Sunday evenings as they reasonably desire or put the question of Sunday cinemas to the vote of the citizens, as is done in Britain? GLOBE TROTTER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 113, 15 May 1942, Page 4
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128SUNDAY CINEMAS Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 113, 15 May 1942, Page 4
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