SHUNNED BY SERVANTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

SHUNNED BY SERVANTS

PROUD TOWN IS HUMBLED COMING OF THE CINEMA l'itv the housewives of Pinner, Middlesex! They live in model houses set in a perfect countryside—but their homes arc servantless. This problem is the one .serpent in a domestic Eden. For Pinner, the largest parish in England, with a population of 30,000, possesses no cinema. Maids take one look at the rustic beauty of Pinner, at its dainty labour-saving homes, then, noting the absence of modern entertainments, toss their heads and seek situations in other places, less rustic, less beautiful perhaps and historic, but offering more inducement for evenings out. It is the old case, of pride aud a fall. Pinner was proud. It was proud of its superior old-world status beside the neighbouring London suburbs springing up like mushrooms around it. It. refused to be modernised, and, as many of its older citizens thought, vulgarised. " There used to be a prejudice against having anything of the kind here," says Mr. J. E Clarke, ex-chairman of the Parish Council. " But young people of today must have a cinema. Those who were once prejudiced realise that, for its own sake, Pinner must conform to modern ways. " So at last the Council is to consider the question of sites. Pinner is resolved to sacrifice a fragment of.its dignity to satisfy its young folk and to remove the stigma of its servantless homes."