The Theater: Finish Line

Not in a generation had a Broadway season counted up to so few shows. There were only 52 during 1949-50. The downpour of financial backing available for wartime producing had been cut by production costs to a light drizzle. As almost all shows found it harder to get to Broadway, so the doubtful ones found it harder to linger there until the public could judge them. But it was not wholly a matter for lamentation; rare this season were those exhibits of unutterable drivel that had once turned up every week.

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