CINEMAS ON SUNDAYS.
LONDON, June 30. The Sunday Entertainments Bill w£ read for the third time in the House < Commons by 146 votes to 56, after a amendment permitting theatres in an district in which permission had bee given to open on Sunday to stage pla} lad been defeated. During the debate, a new clause wa moved on behalf of the Governmen providing that 5 per cent of the sui earmarked for charity out of tl: profits of Sunday performances shoul be transferred to a cinematograp fund to be established under the dire | tion of the Privy Council for the pu ! pose of encouraging the use and d | velopment of the cinematograph as I means of entertainment and instru l tion.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 494, 1 July 1932, Page 1
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