11 APRIL 1941, Page 12

SUNDAY THEATRES

SIR,—I suspect that many- persons like myself felt vaguely unhappy at the result of the debate on Sunday theatres in the House ei Commons. In this awful struggle for freedom against dictatorship we find directly the House of Commons is given a free vote it decide' in favour of Mr. Martin and the Lord's Day Society, the gloomy spectre of our youth. I saw in the Press recently that Mr. Martin regarded it as an answer to prayer. Well, if this indeed be se am thankful to observe that Mr. Churchill, as ever, was on the side of the angels. It seems a pity in these Anglo-American days we cannot have an "Anglo-Gallup " vote on this subject.—yours