35. Colonel Arthur Evansasked the Secretary of State for War if he will state the conditions under which cinema exhibitions, for the benefit of enlisted men, are permitted to be held in camps, particularly on the two days preceding pay day, when there is a shortage of funds, calculated to discourage visits to public cinemas; and if, in view of the scarcity of projectors 168 throughout the country, which would not permit of any serious competition with local public cinemas, he will review the present arrangements, particularly in the case where local cinemas are agreeable to such an arrangement, although such requests are opposed in principle by the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association?
§ Captain MargessonIf, as I assume, my hon. and gallant Friend is referring to the agreement that films hired from the trade for exhibition to the troops should not be shown within two miles of a public cinema, I would refer him to the answer given to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for West Bromwich (Captain Dugdale) on 15th July. No restrictions are, of course, placed on the exhibition of films owned by the War Office or Ministry of Information or of films hired from film libraries available to the general public.