Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last season English Playwright J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways flopped badly in Manhattan; this season his I Have Been Here Before flopped worse. Priestley wrote in an English magazine last week: "I have always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of menace in New York, as if something . . . were plotting against the soul...
...show the Broadway critics puffed last season became a flop, none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical praise, Missouri Legend slowly sickened and died. In spite of criticules, Hellzapoppin, consistently puffed by Walter Winchell, quickly rallied, jumped out of bed and took the town. And with qualified reviews, Knickerbocker Holiday has become a success, Kiss the Boys Goodbye a smash...
...Veteran Producer William A. Brady-husband of Actress Grace George, father of Actress Alice Brady-last week announced the formation of a permanent Manhattan stock company reminiscent of the age of Frohman, Daly, Wallack. Plays new & old will be presented each season at intervals of six weeks. First play, opening late this month: G. B. Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
...automobile year, profits had declined as much as 70%, employment had been cut one-third, total production of 2,704,992 units was little more than half 1937's. But even this figure was nearly twice as high as 1932's Depression I low. And by the season's end the glutted used-car market was back to normal and only 90,000 new cars remained unsold, an almost unprecedented cleanout of the nation's 45,000 showrooms...
Meeting what was probably the strongest opposition this season, the Crimson booters came through with a 3 to 1 victory over the Army soccer team Saturday afternoon...