CINEMAS ON SUNDAYS
APPEAL DISMISSED.
JUDGMENT UNDER ACT OF 1780.
Telegraph— Press Assn,—Copyright. London, Jan. 27.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the London County Council’s appeal against tha King’s Bench decision regarding the opening of cinemas on Sundays. A message of December 4 said: The question of Sunday cinemas has been throw into the melting pot by a sensational verdict of the King's Bench Division in an action against the London County Council. Fop'twenty yearsdhe council has permitted cinemas to open on Sunday if the profit# were given to charities, but the judge# have now decided that the council has been usurping its jurisdiction, as performances are expressly forbidden under the Sunday Observance Act of 1786.
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 entertain, ments.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1931, Page 7
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