SUNDAY THEATRES.
MOVEMENT IN LONDON.
RIGHT TO OPEN DEMANDED.
(Received Marsh 15. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 14
The opinion that theatres in Britain will never be opened on Sundays was expressed by Sir Gerald du Maurier in an address to a crowded meeting of actors and actresses called to discuss the subject. The general expectation was that the profession generally would bo opposed to Sunday opening, but after a trenchant appeal by the well-known comedian, Mr. Leslie Henson, supported by a trades union delegate, tho meeting by an overwhelming majority carried a resolution that proprietors should have the right to open their theatres on Sundays as long as they closed them on another day so as to a?/oid seven days' work. It was pointed out that £1,000,000 a week is paid by people who attend Sunday cinemas, and it was claimed that tho proprietors of theatres should be equally entitled to cater for Sunday amusement.
The demand was made that theatres should be included in the bill to legalise Sunday cinemas now before the House of Commons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20823, 16 March 1931, Page 9
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