English Cinemas
Sir,—A statement by your London correspondent in today’s issue is, I submit, rather misleading. He says “New Zealanders who enjoy the comfort of relatively new, or newlyrenovated cinemas, effective temperature control, and clean air’’ do not realise how lucky they are. The hapless Briton’ apparently suffers from “cramped seats, a stuffy, cigarette-laden atmosphere, and grotesque decor. ’ With no wish to denigrate the New Zealand cinema, neither the seating nor the decor seems to me markedly superior, while ‘‘temperature (Jontrol’’ in winter is so effective that only a fur coat and a rug can withstand its purifying iciness. “No. smoking” is an Excellent rule, though its nuisance-abatement is somewhat offset by the rustle of paper and rhythmic chawing with which the -audience is woht to allay the pangs of starvation. An English provincial cinema I used to attend would stand up to comparison with any of its brethren in Christchurch.—Yours, -etc., BOADICEA. February 17, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28823, 18 February 1959, Page 9
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