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Theatre: Doldrums

In no recent summer have there been so few plays in Manhattan theatres as the past three months. Last week big-jowled, cigar-chewing William A. Brady, oldtime showman, told Atlantic City Kiwanians that the recumbent theatre business might be helped to its feet by turning half its playhouses into garages. Bridge and radio, gloomed Showman Brady, were responsible. The stage had done too much for U. S. culture, said he, thus to be beggared. Let the nation, remembering its Wartime services, come to the theatre's aid!

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