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Show ECONOMY ERA CUTS CROWDS. Theaters Suffering as Result of Careful Care-ful Spending of Public. Xew York. The national economy wave has hit the theaters with a hard slump. The "S. It. O." sign, Is now an unused prop. Of forty-four leading attractions here, sixteen It was learned Saturday, Satur-day, have begun disposing of seats through, cut-rale agencies. Production failures were reported in excess of those of last year. Last week twenty-right twenty-right road shows were closed. An official of-ficial of the Actors' Equity association associa-tion estimated that 80110 actors were out of work in New York. One producer pro-ducer estimated producers' losses in recent weeks at $1,250,000. Careful spending by the public and higher rates on railroads as affecting road eiimpanies, were causes assigned for the slump. |