It is a hot day to be walking so far. Julia says she wishes they had taken the tram now. Or the trolleybus. And they really should have checked to see what was on rather than just arrive outside the cinema on spec. Elsie, gazes mournfully at the picture scenes outside the Rink Cinema. It looks to her like a western and neither of them likes westerns. Add to that, Julia begins, the main feature is almost halfway through. If they go in now, they will see only half and then must sit through a newsreel, a cartoon, advertisements and an hour-long second feature before they can catch the start of the film. They walk away and go under the railway bridge to the other side of Finsbury Park. There is more than one cinema here Elsie is saying, so let’s try the Astoria.
The Astoria cinema is an impos
