Show ECONOMY ERA CUTS CROWDS Theaters Suffering as s Result of Careful Care ful Spending of Public New York The The national econom economy wave has hit the theaters with a hard slump The S R. R 0 O. O sign is now an unused prop Of four forty leading attractions here ere sixteen it was learned Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day have hae begun disposing of seats seat through rate cut agencies Production failures were ure ere reported in excess of those of last year Last week twenty- twenty eight road shows were closed An official official of of- i of the Actors' Actors Equity association association I tion estimated that a ors were out of work in New York One producer producer producer pro pro- I ducer estimated producers producers' losses In r recent ce t weeks at Careful spending by the pt public and higher rates on railroads as affecting road companies were causes assigned for forthe the slump |