by JULIO MARTINEZ Stock Market Crash of 1929 did not affect the Hollywood film industry, which flourished with the advent of talking pictures. But the early years of the Depression did take a heavy toll on live theater in Los Angeles. In the 1933 edition of Burns Mantle's annual Best Plays, Drama Editor of the LA Times Edwin Schallert observed, "Whether the low ebb has finally been reached in Southern California …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:19PM on July 7, 2016