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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...possibly produce severe hardship in large areas, but will proportionately benefit others who will get higher prices for their produce as a result of shortages. From the perspective of New York and Chicago, the 1930 farm income, while geographically uneven, appeared likely to average about the same as in previous years. At Des Moines fortnight ago Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board declared...
...productions were routed to play the provinces -an increase of 30 over last year. The Theatre Guild announced that it would present its repertory in ten cities* -three more than the 1929 tour. And although Walter Hampden made known that he would not go on the road as in previous years because of poor business conditions, Funnyman Ed Wynn thought prospects were bright enough to buy Simple Simon (last season's Ziegfeld show in which he appeared) to take on tour...
...season. Findings: 72 theatres with seating capacity for 75,314 people had housed 286 productions. There were 62 musicomedies, 195 legitimate attractions, 29 repertory plays. Based on the theory that 100 performances signifies a hit, 87% of the legitimate shows failed, a mortality rate 2% higher than the previous season. Of musicomedies, 69% failed, 10% more than the year before...
...Gerald Balding try No. i. The situation was not as bad as it sounded because Lacey is brilliant at any position and Guinness had been playing splendidly. Also, the Englishmen were saying that this time they knew they were not outmounted-they had brought along better ponies than any previous British team. On the American side nothing sensational had happened. Five-foot one-inch, 175-lb. Eric Pedley of California had made No. 1 as everyone expected him to-the first westerner to get on an international team. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was at No. 3 where he could...
...realize that since the price range of caskets swings from less than $100 to many thousands, bad years will result in smaller gross sales, smaller profits. When last week National Casket Co. reported profits of $925,000 for the year ended June 30 against $1,518,000 in the previous year, President Philip B. Heinz commented on this fact. But he also suggested an economic relationship which would occur only to the hypersuspicious investor. "Nature would also seem to play some part in it," said he of the smaller earnings, "for almost invariably in any depressed period the mortality rate...