The papers are lamenting that. with one exception, not a single British dramatist of standing, has a play now running in London. They do not offer any explanation, but the reason is probably that they are all writing for the cinemas, which pay very much better. Iadeed, while the actors and actresses are meeting every week to secure a minimum wage, which is 25 per cent. less than what most dustman get now in London, there is neverthe least complaint as to the rates of remuneration paid to cinema" artistes.
Cinemas cannot for the moment:|be erected in most parts of the-country since they are regarded as "Juxury buildings" and_ therefore: under the ban of the Ministry of Health, but the time will come: when they will be as numerous as tea shops—in fact, in streets like Tottenham Court Road, they already are. By that time the cinema proprietors, who are wise: in their generation, will have persuaded the public, not merely that: they can present an attractive entertainment. brt that they are quite useful in helping on national and social propaganda whenever-there is a call for it.
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