Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912) . T£L£PHONBSi8695 A 7230 GERHARD. SPECIALISTS SN K3NEMATOGRAPH FILM SERVICES and APPARATUS. 166 & 168, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE. TELEGRAMS-. RUFFOSOOPE, No. 8. Vol. I. SEPTEMBER, 1912. Registered. Price One Post, 2\d. WHY SHOULD WE ? THE CASE FOR THE PICTURE THEATRE IN REGARD TO SUNDAY OPENING. &$•! t ^ ever there was a time when combinationa|J| and unity on the part of the exhibitors of ^JbaJ this country were needed it is to-day. Afterhaving successfully withstood the attacks ofthe parson and the brewer, the showmanssection of the cinematog


Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912) . T£L£PHONBSi8695 A 7230 GERHARD. SPECIALISTS SN K3NEMATOGRAPH FILM SERVICES and APPARATUS. 166 & 168, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE. TELEGRAMS-. RUFFOSOOPE, No. 8. Vol. I. SEPTEMBER, 1912. Registered. Price One Post, 2\d. WHY SHOULD WE ? THE CASE FOR THE PICTURE THEATRE IN REGARD TO SUNDAY OPENING. &$•! t ^ ever there was a time when combinationa|J| and unity on the part of the exhibitors of ^JbaJ this country were needed it is to-day. Afterhaving successfully withstood the attacks ofthe parson and the brewer, the showmanssection of the cinematograph industry finds itselfassailed by the theatrical and the music-hall profession,and for what reason? Simply because those connectedwith the theatre and the variety hall find in the movingpictures the strongest opponent they have had to con-tend with during the whole course of their pictures have come and have conquered; thepublic, surfeited with indifferent variety turns, pro-blem plays of a suggestive character, or musicalcomedy nothing better than a conglomeration of music-hall ditties pieced together with trashy libretto, havefound in the electric theatre, sumptu


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