Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this rate, before the primary season is over, a terrific toll of cerebration will have been taken among political commentators. But if Franklin Roosevelt is a major issue in State primaries, it is impossible to calculate precisely: 1) how much he affects the results, and 2) how much the results reflect national trends. As far as the personal popularity and political prestige of Franklin Roosevelt are concerned, direct evidence is more important. Last week's most relevant evidence was a release made by FORTUNE of preliminary figures of its forthcoming (July) Survey. Since the FORTUNE Survey predicted...
...Broadway season, like the oyster season, is restricted to months with an r in them. With only one more show, a musical, opening this season and with such hits as Hooray for What! and Of Mice and Men already closed, it was plain last week that few producers were running the risk of theatrical ptomaine. But 1937-38 was eupeptic. No really bad play landed on its feet, though several got passing marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further...
...season's 96 productions, some 50% were flops, however, while 19 shows ran 100 performances or better. The general average of 53.4 performances (as of June 1) creditably topped last season's average...
...Mercury Theatre, which first made headlines with Julius Caesar, the season's most exciting stunt, and thereafter stayed continuously on the front page with The Cradle Will Rock, the season's most original form of entertainment; The Shoemakers' Holiday, the season's most rollicking revival; Heartbreak House, the season's most difficult play to revive. Synonymous with the Mercury Theatre was Actor-Director Orson Welles...
...Freshman baseball team has not had an outstanding season this spring having lost ten games to the three they won. They started out by downing Tome by the tune of 15-5, but they weakened after having been defeated by the B. U. Freshman...