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the case. Mere granting of funds to producers, be
they private or public, may allow them to continue
in business, and the bui Iding of Lincaln Centers
may improve the physical conditions for practice
of the arthmay even indeed "preserve the theatre".
But such techniques will preserve theatre for a
declining minority. As an art form the theatre must
then also decline and lose significance. The core
of the problem, and therefore the target of any
community effort, must remain non-economic at its
heart: changes in the cultural tastes of the entire
community, especially of the young.

8. Source for per capita income: New York State Deportment
of Commerce. Source for Broadway Theatre Gross Income:

VARIETY, 1954-61.
9. Source for per capita expenditure: income and population esti.
mates of the New York State Deportment of Commerce.

Source for Broadway seoson ticket prices: VARIETY, 1954-61.
10. ECONOMICS OF THE BROADWAY THEATRE, p. 87.
11. ~, Appendix; pp. 234-54.
12. O. Glen Soxon, THE PLIGHT OF THE LIVING THEATRE IN
THE U. S. (Theotre Arts Council, 1954).
13. Source: American Notional Theatre and Academy

as quoted

in Saxon, THE PLIGHT

FOOTNOTES

14. Source: VARIETY, 1954-61.

1. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., THE PER FORMING ARTS:

15_ Also, the increose recorded for 1955-56 is not correct. We

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS (McGrow-Hill, 1965).

were forced to use our computed overage ticket price figure

2. See, in the meantime, W. J. Baumel and W. G. Bowen,
ON THE PERFORMING ARTS, THE ANATOMY OF THEIR
PROBLEMS (Twentieth Century Fund, 1965).

4. This is particularly' true for bolcony seats for both types
of productions. See my ECONOMICS OF THE BROADWAY
THEATRE, Chapter 3, pp. 69-89.
for

Sources

for

theatre

price

consumer

statistics:

goods

and

VARIETY,

reading

as explained above, dropped for 1955-56 only be-

cause of a decline in the proportion of musicals presented
and not because of an octuol decline in individual prices.
16. "Active Capacity" is based on maximum possible gross
income of shows in operation only. "Dark" or idle theatres

3. (The New School for Sociol Research, 1963).

5. Source

which,

and

1954-62.
recreation

are excluded. Source: VARIETY, June 10, 1959-June 1, 1960.
Four performances were given by all shows except Tenth Man,
which gave only three. Utilization figure is based only on
one-half of the maximum gross fjgure, except for Tenth Man,
which is based on 3/8 of the maximum gross figure for

that show.

indices: U. S. Deportment of Commerce, and U. S. Deportment

of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
6. Source: VARIETY, 1954·61. Gross income figures include
income of Broadway houses on

Iy.

7. Includes New York City and Westchester, Rockland, Nassau
Suffolk Counties.

17. Source:

VARIETY, June

10,

1959-Moy

31,

1961.

Figures

are bosed on maximum gross income and actual gross income
of 011 theatres. The maximum gross income figure of the
previous show is used for idle theatres.

18. Birkenheod, ECONOMICS

. " poge 122.

3,183,558
SEATS
Bernard Cronin, 1 Hillview Crescent,
Orpington, England
Flied Jan. 3, 1961, Ser. No. 80,088
0almJ priority, application Great Britain, Jan. 4, 1960,
28/60
'Claims. (CI. 20-1.126)

Recent Patents
3,1114,591
PROJECTORS, l\fORE PARTICULARLY MOTOR
VEI-lICLE HEADLIGHTS
Pierre Clble, ISO Ave. de Wagram, Paris, France
Flied July 19, 1957, Ser, No, 673,073
Claims priority, appllca.lon France, Nov. 21,1956,
726,051, Patent 1,160,871
2 Claims. (CI. 240-41.35)
. si

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Lf1111 r
1. A light projector comprJSIDg a reflector having the
shape of a J"H?boloid of revolution with a cirCtJlar aperture, said reflector having a focus, a light source at said
focus, said reflector enveloping said lighl source and
collecting to a maximum light flux emitted by said source
to reflect the light flux forwardly through the aperture
to provide illumination, said reflector including a portion
constituting a window whjch permits the pass.1ge therethrough of light, said window having an outline of generally rectangular form with substantial extent in both
dimensions, an outer reflector supporting the first said
reflector therewithin as a self-<:Qntaincd unit, said outer
reflector presenting a relatively large apparent area of
generally rectangular shape narrower in extent than the
aperture of the reflector but laterally projecting therebeyond for reflecting light flux passing through the window
in the inner reflector to increase the range of the projector while the overall size of the projector is restricted
in one dimension to the diameter of the inner reflector,
!laid outer reflector having the shape of a paraboloid of
revolution with a focus coincident with the light source.

fe~ruary

1966

I. A portable seating assembly comprising a rectangular frame having inwardly facing L:shaped side members
and having series of spaced cross members connecting the
lide members; a series of scat units each comprising a
Kaling surface and faldable leg members hingedly secured thereto at cach side; said scat units and foldable
leg members being located within alternate spaces beI~een the cross members; releaSable means on the side
members within the alternate spaces between the cross
members securing the lower ends of the leg members to
the frame side members when the leg members are normally extended; and a like series of footboards within
the remaining spaces pivolally secured at their rear ends
In Ihe cross members at the fronts of their related seat
members; said footboards having foldable supports at
their front ends engaging when extended the cross member al the rear of the next adjacent scat to maintain the
footboard substantially horizontal when the frame is inclined at a predetermined angle to the horiwntal.

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