Theatres

Examples

• The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The day passed most pleasantly away; the morning in bustle and shopping, and the evening at one of the theatres. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His phonographs and his motion pictures have more audiences in a week than all the theatres in America in a year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had seen, amidst Italian cities and scenes, faces like Moore's; he had heard, in Parisian cafés and theatres, voices like his. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He appeared like the forgotten spirit of the time in the theatres, and bade the spectators go home and die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We made the round of the principal theatres, too, with great delight, and saw all the plays that were worth seeing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But, the theatres were all well filled, and the people poured cheerfully out as he passed, and went chatting home. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I have already visited almost all the theatres to-night, answered Ebrington. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Isn’t that the most curious thing you ever saw--better than a play at one of your city theatres, eh? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the little Paris theatres, on the other hand, you will not only hear the people yelling out Ah gredin! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All idea of resort for pleasure, of theatres and festivals had passed away. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Editor: Nita