DescriptionOn-Borrowed-Time-1938 - Frank Conroy (cropped).jpg
English: Photograph of Frank Conroy and child actor Peter Holden [Peter Holden Parkhurst] in the original Broadway production of Paul Osborn's On Borrowed Time, cited for excellence in the theatre by Stage magazine
Caption reads as follows: Because the season brought us On Borrowed Time, a delightful fantasy about an old man and his grandson, and a Mr. Brink, who might have been called Mr. Death, who was forced to stay in an apple tree. Because Dudley Digges was a gloriously profane old man. Because Frank Conroy was an impeccable Mr. Brink. Because it brought us the most genuine child-actor within memory—Peter Holden, who here consorts with his friend Mr. Brink in Central Park. A spring day, a real tree, and a bird flying …
Date
Source
Self scan from Stage magazine from June 1938, Volume 15, Number 9 (page 10)
Author
Stage Publishing Company, Inc.; photograph by Alfredo Valente
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Statement of copyright appears on page two: "Entire contents copyrighted 1938, by STAGE Publishing Company, Inc., 50 East 42nd Street, New York City." June issue was copyrighted in 1938 (page 236) by Stage Publishing Co., Inc.
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)
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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