SUNDAY PICTURES BANNED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 17

SUNDAY PICTURES BANNED.

♦ DECISION IN LONDON. (L"NITEI> PRBSS ASSOCIATION —BY TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December sth, 10 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. The question of Sunday cinemas has been thrown into the melting-pot by a 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 if the profits wore given to charities; but the Judges liave now decided .that the Council is usurping jurisdiction, as the performances are expressly forbidden under the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. _ As Mr Justice Swift said, the Council claim was all "bunkum." The action was due to theatrical managers, who object to the discrimination m favour of cinemas. The iudgment threatens charities with the loss of £350,000 annually, contributed as the result of the cinemas opening on Sunday. The Loinds Day Observance Society is delighted _ with the iudgment. The theatre proprietors hope that the outcome wiH be> the introduction into Parliament of a Bill permitting general Sunday entertainments. _____