It does not matter whether there is distress at home, it does not matter whether there is illness or domestic hardship, it does not matter whether one is passing through some temporary or even Permanent Financial Crisis - that money is taken out of the wage packet whether one likes it or not.

Since the time of the buccaneer who founded the nickelodeon at the turn of the century, and since those lovely 1930s-style Odeons were built and were making a great deal of money, the British industry has been in a state of almost Permanent Financial Crisis.