A GAY CITY.
WHAT SYDNEY SPENDS IN ENTERTAINMENTS. (From Oub Own Cobhespondent.) SYDNEY, April 29 Of the cup of pleasure Sydney drinks deeply, and apparently docs not count tincost. In Sydney alone, it Is estimated, over £4,000,000 is spent annually on entertainments. This is regarded as & very consor-
vative estimate. Estimating that the eleven theatres and the 147 picture shows in the metropolitan area present at* average of one show to 500 patrons each day, it is found that about 23.009.000 people arc thus entertained in « year. The average daily attendance is probably higher at those shows. Approximately 30,000 mcr and women go to the races each week. hor about 30 weeks in the year, when jazz rules, approximately three-quarters ot a mil lion young men and women patronise the dance halls of the city. This, of iiinurl from all the other sports. ’lhe figures do not moan of course, that each visitor was a different person. They are nnjulflp, admissions to those places.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19783, 7 May 1926, Page 7
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164A GAY CITY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19783, 7 May 1926, Page 7
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