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Weekly Attendance and Money Spent in Theatres of
Manhattan, Table
From, Michael M. Davis, Jr, The Exploitation
of Pleasure
A Study of Commercial Recreations in New York City
(New York: Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation,
1911, 28.
These statistics provide a good illustration of the
number of people in New York City attending movie, vaudeville, and high-end
theaters.
| Type of theatre |
Average weekly attendance (estimated) |
Average price of seats |
Average amount spent weekly |
Estimated number of children attending weekly |
Average price paid by children |
Average amount spent by children weekly |
| Moving-picture shows (concert and common-show
license) |
900,000 |
.07 |
$63,000.00 |
225,000 |
.05 |
$11,250.00 |
| Low-priced theatres: including those frequently
presenting standard plays, at popular prices; also the vaudeville
and burlesque houses |
701,750 |
.45 |
315,787.50 |
136,596 |
.25 |
34,149.00 |
| High-priced or so-called Standard
Theatres |
158,338 |
1.20 |
190,005.60 |
7,919 |
1.20 |
9,502.80 |
| Totals |
1,760,088 |
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$568,793.10 |
369,515 |
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$54,901.80 |
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