Children And Sunday Cinemas The COURT of APPEAL-the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Somervell, and Mr. Justice Singleton-yesterday dismissed the appeal of the plaintiffs, Associated Provincial Picture Houses, Limited, against the decision of Mr. Justice Henn Collins dismissing the action by the plaintiffs for a declaration against the defendants, Wednesbury Corporation, to the effect that the limitation in the licence which the corporation granted in respect of perform- ances on Sunday in cinematograph theatres within their area was beyond their power to impose, the limitation being that children under the age of 15 years, whether accompanied byl an adult or not, were to be excluded from Sunday performances. The Act giving the corporation power to grant licences, the Sunday Entertainment Act, 1932, provided by section I (1) that the cor- poration had power to grant licences (notwith- standing any enactment relating to Sunday observance) by which places in their area might be opened on Sunday for the purposes of cinematograph entertainment, the signifcant words being, " subject to such conditions as the authority think fit to impose." The plaintiffs contended that, under that section, not [only rnust tihe corporation act reasonably, but tbat the test of reasonableness was what the Court thouabt reason- able rather than what the corporation thought reasonable. The MASTER of the ROLLS, in a judgment with which LORD JUSTICE SOMERVELL and MR. JUSTICE SINGLETON expressed agreement, said that, so long as a local authority did not either take into consideration matters which were not for them to consider, or arrive at a decision at which no reasonable authority could have arrived, the Court had no power to interfere with their decision. The welfare of children was a matter for a local authority. The Court could not substitute its own view for that of the local authority with regard to the reasonableness of the condition com- plained of. One Court might agree with it and another might not. The appeal failed. CHILDREN AND SUNDAY CINEMAS A VALID CONDITION OF LICENCE