Show PLAY PRODUCERS FIND I SEASON OF PROSPERITY YORKS YORK'S present theatrical se season son Is one of oC the l most et prosperous prosperous the theN EW city ever has known In tote tle opinion mot oC a well own manager who nover N has been regarded as 11 optimist Nevertheless this producer who con con- two oC the most prosperous plays In Broadway declined to bring out anything new although Ie has three plays In his saCe which he that he has large amounts of money In prospective pros pros- rEgards so on them I knew that they would capacity audiences aCter the opening If I would not put on these plays plays' now he said There are so many hits night alreadY that It would be to overproduce For that reason I am going to good things until a more opportune time save Ordinarily these rily a season with four or five flye sell outs outs' is regarded as good I there are more than a dozen plays which have sold out right from This begInning year me mention some oC them not all understand but every everyone th about Hip Hip Common Clay rhe Blue Paradise one b rt tl r u I d o g s t n World I T was oC Pleasure amused to see a man from the West Vest go 6 to a n ticket agency in a a. hotel the the theother other day with a typewritten list of New York's Yorks successes successes successes' in his hand which his own stenographer In Denver probably hal had put down at his Dictation He seemed to have eight or ten preferences and he Ie made reservations reserva reserva- for consecutive nights when he could get seats for the plays plas which he wanted s to see He positively declined to consider plays not on his list the way theatregoers come 10 New York nowadays It is useless useless' to attempt to sell them something they do not want They know the values better than many first strange as it ma may seem Conditions are ne not so good on the road but this is largely the fault Cault of oC short sighted managers It Is 18 even more difficult to sell bad plays plas there than thann thanIn In n New York and the No 2 cast fraud doesn't succeed any more Maybe a a. afew few tew musical hits can be presented by nobodies but the public will not take substitutes In plays that require careful acting Motion pictures have done this J I for tor one regard the motion picture theatre as a rood good thing It Is slowly bringing about a a. reorganization In the business of ot the theatre and a a. much needed reorganization at that |