(A) No theatrical or other exhibition, show, or amusement for the witnessing of which an admission fee is charged to the public except as hereinafter provided, shall be given, exhibited or performed within the city, unless the person owning, leasing, managing, or operating the theater, hall, tent auditorium, opera house, or other place within which the same is produced shall have first obtained a license therefor as hereinafter provided.
(B) For the purposes of this chapter theatricals or other exhibitions, shows, and amusements are divided into two classes, as follows:
(1) First class. Circuses, menageries, operas, operetta, musical comedy, drama, motion pictures, talking pictures, vaudeville or variety exhibitions; not however, including vocal or musical exhibitions of the kind commonly known as concerts.
(2) Second class. All other exhibitions, shows, or amusements.
(‘63 Code, § 5-3-1) Penalty, see § 128.999