The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-03-28
Ask Legislature to Down
Sunday Vaudeville
a Ia Quinn.
AND ACTORS APPLAUD
Other Views Are Held
by Many = Better
Than Blind Pigs.
lFrom Monday 3 AdvertIser.l


ouinn's Sunday theater bill has
given Honolulu its first legislative
thrill. There have been measures be-
fore the senate and house to further
muss up the municipal actj there have
been measures to raise millions on
bonds; there have been bills to increase
taxes; there have been Others that
would, or will, affect every resident Of
the city, but none has excited the at
tention Of all as has the measpre pend
ing to legalize the opening Of the vau-
deville houses on the first day of the
week.
Yesterday in church circles, the ex-
pressed sentiment was all against sun
day shows, Protestant and Roman Cath
Ollie agreeing. With the church disap-
proval of the Quinn measure comes also
the disapproval Of those members OF
the profession whom the representatives
of The Advertiser were able to reach
for interviews. They want their day
off on Sunday.
On the other hand, argument in favor
of the bill was presented by the general
manager Of the Honolulu Amusement
Company, who believes that people are
better off in any one of his shows thar
they are on the Streets where Satar
finds mischief for idle hands to do, tC
saw nothing about idle feet and idle
thirsts. In this opinion the police Off
cials of the city agree, stating tina
their Sunday evenings work in raid
and arrests would be lessened If thos'
who viii not 20 to church had SOM
other place open where they would 60
except street corners and blind pigs
From "a city official came the de
cidedly interesting news that the fail
ure Of the Sunday theater bill in tn
4 house would mean the introduction o
bill TO prevent all Sunday work o.
plantations.
Unanimous Voting.
At the various Protestant churehe
and missions throughout the city yei
terday Quinn Is Sunday theater bill wa
a subject of discussion, and in all, wit
the exception of the Episcopal, resoll
tions against its passage were intrt
duced. These were practically the sam
as the resolution adopted at the Y0nn
Peoples Christian Union conventdo
at the Methodist Church last week, e.
cept that the following paragraph WI
added:
awe do also petition for the passal
Of house bill No. 140, which guarantee
to BARRIERS a Sunday rest.'i
Episcopal Action,
At the Episcopal Cathedral a noti
was read at a meeting of the yestry al
q resolution was passed protestiI
against the passage of the bill andas
ing that the bishop appeal to the nj
of the congregation to write to q
senators and representatives of the
respective districts to vote against t
bill.
Libert Against Bill.
It is the opinion of Bishop LibG
of the Roman Catholic Church that I
theaters shonld not be allowed to op
on Sunday. He said:
fThe general good must be cons
cred, aad not the good Of few--I
whether a few people may make &
more dollars. / am not at all oppoi
to permitting people to have some h
est relaxation Sunday, of course, M
be day of rest for body and soul, a
recreation is relaxation for the mi
but as far as theaters arc concern
that Is, these cheap moving picti
shows--I would say. that they do