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THE NEW YORKER
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The Good Bad Showman

erally tolerant, but that it does not easily forgive thing we feel quite sure: if we ever run out of things those who are trying to uplift it and those who are to say, just for the fun of saying them, we expect breaking their necks to give it what it wants. to close up this little playhouse and go to work. ܀ Broadway almost died a few years ago, with this particular kind of broken neck. It was rescued, as you may remember, by some little groups of undis- tinguished people who quit aiming to please and aimed to play instead. The Theater Guild is one result of those experiments.

Charges that we have stolen the name of the maga- zine from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the signature of one of our important departments from a collar concern, the title of this department from Robert C. Benchley, one of our departments from F. P. A., and several letters and telegrams from Dubuque will be answered later. + We may not do as much for the magazine world. We don't know that we're aiming to. But of one The lewyorker