English people still go in search of amusement. The Zoo was visited bj 1.084,280 people last. year, lo Brighton West Pier went l,5"0,(K)0 visitors In the kinema business is invested .El/,000,pn0. and IOO.OriO people are employed at 4»00 halls, which were attended last year by 1.050.375,000 people, or a daily of 3.375.000 souls. At an average of <W. nmece this means a total annual exnendi,,™ron picture se.in, of £ 2G,85f1.000 The exact figures concerning the atteiidonices at London theatres and music halls have nnt been obtained.' (There are twenU West End theatres and thirty metropo • fan i«u«i<--hpll«.) It is. however, know" that the weekly sheet of «)* don music-hall runs from - Cl ' s °> toita and that its net revenue, «ccordwff to i« balance-sheets, vonr m and yeai out, runs around .6100,000. No cold is NAZOT-proof. And no cough and cold remedy is so «onomieriM N\7!OT,. Eißhteenpence buys l>o closes more, than three a penny-Aavt. When the ,T. C. Williamson Now English Musical Comedy Comn-w returiw ■* Melbourne later on n>.the'„*«■» *«" in Sydney shortly.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3168, 20 August 1917, Page 6
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