village. The company will then erect its stage
in the square and after collecting 25 pfennigs
from each of the spectators seated on stools or
benches brought forth from the school, will present a first-class burlesque show or comedy, performed by artists who may have just completed engagements in Berlin. Operating on the same principle, the organization also has about 30 motionpicture trucks which tour the villages, giving them
the latest news reels, dramatic, cultural or political films at a cost of 20 or 30 pfennigs.
 
 The following statistics have been received regarding the sale of theater tickets for the year
1937:
 
Opera and operetta .................3,537,236
Comedies and other plays ...........4,870,769
Variety performances, caberet
shows and other entertainments .....20,642,997
 
 The revenue received from the sale of tickets last
year amounted in all to RM 16,517,000. It has
been learned that except in the case of the theaters
which admit Strength through Joy audiences and themselves 
assume the cost of the performances (and except 
possibly in the case of the People's Theater
in Berlin which seats as many as 3,000 people and
which was taken over at a nominal price from the
emigrated producer Max Reinhardt), the theater performances 
run and managed by Strength through-Joy