SUNDAY THEATRES.
ACTOR-MANAGER'S VIEWS.
"NOT A BLITHERING IDIOT." [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON, Feb. 7. At tho Repertory Players' dinner last Sunday night, Mr. Leslie Henson, tho actor-manager, referred to tho Sunday opening of theatres. "As an actor," he said, "I am not going to play seven nights a week, and as a manager, if I am engaging great artists to do tho hard work, I would bo a blithering idiot if I asked them to play seven nights, I think we should follow the Lord's Day of Observance Society, and take tho text, 'Six days shalt thou labour.' "Moreover, from tho sanitary point of view, entertainment houses in England should be closed one day a week to be aired. If wo do open on Sundays then wo should close on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Fridays, the worst days of the week."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20819, 11 March 1931, Page 12
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