All the beginning of business. the actors secured by the original organizers were given an instalment Jot salary.. After that the enterprise was ce-operative. When bt ness was good salaries were paid regularly; when it was not so pro perous, dividends were less frequent,'. When it was decided the ewerprise was no longer worth while a break-up came, and the p sonnel re-issued themselves another performance, or joined with others not in the original cast. more recent years the initiative has [passed from those operating fron: of the foot lights to those, who run the business department. The latter now decide the type of performance snd secure the east. Whether this rise of a new system considered a good thing for the profession, it is apparently the best plan financially.
The management of the Chinese theatre maintains' the old practice lof giving well-known customers credit, and it is possible for a person to go every night for two or months and pay the total charges at the next rottling-up festival. If a man is not favourably known to the manment, cash admission is requir-When an usher begins to realize that some of his old customers have not recently been in their scats as usual, he sends them a programme or two, the idea being to them into their old habit.
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