PROFIT'S OF A CIRCUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11872, 25 January 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

PROFIT'S OF A CIRCUS.

NEARLY £70,000 BY BAR* 1 NUM AND BAILEY LAST. YEAR. . Everybody loves a circus, and most people are more ox 1 less interested in knowing what: the profits of a circus amount to. Some ... light was thrown on this subject on Decem- . , ber 13 at the annual meeting of Baniura and , Bailey, Limited, the proprietors of the "greatest show on earth." . ' ■ ■ During the past twelve months the circus has been on tour through Austria, . Ger*i many, Holland, and Belgium. The gross re-' ceipts amounted to no less than £296, while the expenses were £228,153. . ' . There was, therefore, the handsome proM | of £68,934 on the year's working, 4 which enabled the directors to pay a dividend o 10 per cent, on the capital of £400,000, to place £30,000 to a suspense account to mee the cost of installing the show in Paris, an to carry forward £12,267 to next year. , ' i, s These figures show that of every sovereign taken at the doors something like 4s oa is clear profit. '• The"figures, however, probably do not re present the full earning power of the circus,; as, owing to the death of the Empress Frederick while th > show was .in Germany# j the assassination of President McKinlej and other causes, fifty performances had to be abandoned. .... . After the circus leaves Paris it is to oe taken on tour in America, as, owing to tna threatened depression of trade, the directors consider it imprudent to reopen in Engl&JW" at presents . -• '■- . -

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