Statement of copyright appears on page 2: "Entire contents copyrighted 1939, by STAGE Publishing Company, Inc., 50 East 42nd Street, New York City." The January 1939 issue is the last monthly issue of the magazine. Copyright registration does not appear in 1938 or 1939.

A search has found no copyright renewal for Stage or Stage Publishing Company, or for the magazine's publisher John Hanrahan, in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967. No evidence of copyright renewal for Stage magazine can be found.

• January–June 1962 (1934 issues were originally copyrighted to John Hanrahan)
• July–December 1962 (1934 issues were originally copyrighted to John Hanrahan)
• January–June 1963
• July–December 1963
• 1964
• 1965
• 1966 (page 419)
• 1967; The New York Times reports that the magazine ceased publication in 1939 (see below)

An obituary for publisher John Hanrahan appeared in The New York Times on March 23, 1964, reading in part as follows:

John Hanrahan, a former magazine publisher and pub­lishers' counsel, died Saturday in Sarasota, Fla. He was 76 years old.

Mr. Hanrahan, who had helped put the fledgling New Yorker magazine on a firm financial footing and who had been publisher and editor of the old Stage magazine, retired some 15 years ago. He was policy counsel to The New Yorker from 1923 to 1938.

In 1931 Mr. Hanrahan be­came the publisher of Stage magazine, originally the Theatre Guild magazine. In 1935 he broadened the scope of Stage to include motion pictures, sup­per clubs and other forms of entertainment. The magazine ceased publication in 1939.

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