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Title: Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Cinema News
Subjects: Motion Pictures Film Industry Trade Magazine nyarc-museumofmodernart
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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res the right to assist in giving them some part of thatentertainment. The objection that actors are raising is that if theatres areopened for seven nights in the week, they (the actors) will be calledupon to give seven nights ^ork for six nights pay. Theatres areopen now six nights in the week, but are actors paid for five nightsonly? Why should they imagine that an extension of time willmean no extension of salary ? The suggestion of the actors is, to my thinking, the flattestinsult they could throw in the faces of their managers. They sayin effect to those managers, You only want to keep your theatresopen for seven nig its because you wish to sweat our labour. Ifmanagers offered a salary and a half for Sunday night the pro^fession would be carrying banners round Trilalgar Squaredemanding Sunday opei ing ! You have not filed up that Annual Subscription Form.You will find it on page 67. THE CINEMA. October, 1912. A Valuable Asset to the Picture Theatre Proprietor. The GAUMONT CHRONO.
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: : A Valuable Asset to the Manufacturer. : :A full knowledge of the Modern Showmans Requirements. GAUMONT Co., Ltd., ,?SS Piccadilly, London, W. Branches LIVERPOOL, BIRMINGHAM, CARDIFF, GLASGOW and NEWCASTLE.Telephone: Gerrard 5966 (four lines). Telegrams: Chronophon, London.J.;::9.8 October, 1912. THE CINEMA. If you want to know what actors really do on Sunday look atthe programmes of the Sunday League concerts This is just thething that the Archbishop of Canterbury does not understandwhen he comes demurely into the arena and declares that it wouldbe dreadful if anybody worked seven days for six days pay. Itwould have been much more interesting if the Archbishop had toldus what he would think of people working seven days for eightdays pay. Does he think people ought to work on Sunday at all,no matter what they get in the way of pay ? Does he or does henot approve of Sunday entertainment labour ? What does the Archbishop think about the large number of specialtrains that are speciall

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