The Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 14, 1938

>Last season English Playwright J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways flopped badly in Manhattan; this season his I Have Been Here Before flopped worse. Priestley wrote in an English magazine last week: "I have always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of menace in New York, as if something . . . were plotting against the soul of man."

>No show the Broadway critics puffed last season became a flop, none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical...

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