[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The experience of
a typical working-class district such as Stepney may be of service to those who are still debating the question of what should be done with the Sunday Performances (Regulation) Bill which seeks to legalize the opening and use of places of entertainment on Sundays.
Personally, I am strongly in favour of the measure, although my viewpoint is entirely personal and not necessarily coincident with that of my Council, who, whilst they have expressed no opinion on the present Bill, supported a similar Bill which was introduced in the last Session of Parliament.
I hold that the cinema is a harmless recreative amusement, involving the minimum of labour, and, with a higher standard of production, capable of enabling people to appreciate the more beautiful side of life ; while at the same time of assisting financially the hospitals who so largely depend for their funds upon the Sunday performances.—! am, Sir, &c.,
MIRIAM MOSES, Mayor.
St. George's Town Hall, Cable Street, E.1.
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