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THERE are many actors and theatrical people generally out of employment now than there have been at any time within the past fifty years at this season of the year. The cause assigned is that managers expect a hard season and will not go on the road. Presidential election season are always bad on account of the political meetings, processions, &c., and this combined with the present dull times, has such an effect upon managers that for every ten companies that were on the road during former seasons only two or three will be out this season, and they will start very late, some waiting until after the elections.