ON THIS DAY IN NEW YORK THEATER: MAY 24 IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S
By: Samuel L. Leiter (No. 3 in the series) May 24, 2020: This series aims to offer a new column every four or five days, describing shows that opened in New York on a particular calendar day between June 1920 and the end of May 1950. As a result, the days selected are more or less random and may not always have been the most theatrically productive. Late spring was not a particularly active time, as witness t…