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28 CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE Gross receipts from this business may be included with any profession under Section 67. 82. Telephone Companies. On each telephone company the license tax shall be one-half of one per cent on the gross receipts of such company. The gross receipts on which percentage is charged shall include all phone service known as mutual, all revenue derived from long distance service, and all moneys derived from the use of the switchboard by local lines, expressly excepting business done between this city and points without the state, and mes- sages sent to or received by the government of the United States or this state or their agents or officers. This license tax shall be assessable and payable in like manner as that of the State. 83. Television Antenna System, Community. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of supplying and selling television coaxial cable service shall pay a license tax of one-half of one per cent of the gross re- ceipts of such person, firm or corporation, based upon receipts from such business during the preceding calendar year. In applying for such license a statement of such receipts shall be submitted to the Commissioner of Revenue. 84. Theatricals. On every theatrical performance or any performance simi- lar thereto, panorama or any public performance or exhibition of any kind there shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for each performance or twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per week of a continuous performance, if said public performance or exhibi- tion be given in a permanent building, and twenty-five dollars ( $25.00) for each day and fifty dollars ( $'50.00) for each week of a continuous performance if said public performance or exhibition be given out-of-doors or in a tent or other tempo- rary structure; provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to apply to performances or exhibitions for chari- table, educational, or benevolent purposes, and with the fur- ther exception of road or tab shows held in conjunction with the usual cinema attraction, where the price of admission for the entire performance does not exceed fifty cents. But on every such performance or exhibition, attendance upon which is solicited by a barker or by public crying in the streets of