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London’s Sunday Cinemas ILLEGAL OPENING Claim “All Bunkum” STARTLING JUDGMENT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Rec. December 5, 5 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 Division in an action against the London County Council. For twenty years the council has permitted cinemas to open on Sunday if the profits were given to charities, but the judges have now decided that the council has been usurping its jurisdiction, as performances are expressly forbidden under the Sunday Observance Act of 1780.
As Mr. Justice Swift said, the council’s claim was. all “bunkum-” The action was due to theatrical managers, who object to discrimination in favour of cinemas.
The judgment threatens charities with the loss of £150,000 annually contributed as the result of the cinemas opening on Sunday. The Lord’s Day Observance Society is delighted with the judgment. Theatre proprietors hope the outcome will be the introduction into Parliament of a Bill permitting general Sunday entertainments.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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