Hospital Sunday: at the entrance to a theatre, the audience are required to surrender their wigs, lipstick, etc. Drawing by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1932.

Edmund Joseph Sullivan

7 October 1932

1 drawing : pencil

Wellcome Collection

The subject appears to be people, characterised as middle-class, attending a Sunday performance in aid of a hospital (as organized by e.g. the Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund) It is implied that regulations have been planned or introduced restricting the nature of public events on Sundays to non-dramatic events solely: the artist imagines the effect of such a regulation on Hospital Sunday events