In addition, Strength through Joy also hires theaters 
and artists, arranges its own concerts, amateur 
broadcasts, cabaret shows, motion pictures,
fashion shows, community singing, costume festivals, 
and so forth. It also encourages amateur
musicians, painters and sculptors to form groups
for the pursuit of their hobbies. In 1937 the
Office sold over 29 million tickets for evening
entertainments.
 
                  Popular Educational Work                  
 
 Strength through Joy popular educational
work would seem to be one-half "real learning"
and one-half propaganda. As part of the first,
a worker may learn foreign languages, amateur
photography, may take lessons in music, painting
or sculpture for the price of about 40 pfennigs
per hour. As part of the latter (which is called
national political teaching"), he may listen to
lectures on German history, national and World
problems, all taught in the light of present-day
National Socialist doctrine. The popular educational 
work is carried out partly within the factories
themselves (with over 2 million participants in
1937) and partly in "popular educational stations"
(with over a million participants). Teachers are
hired at nominal sums or are recruited from Party