1932: New York’s Palace Theater converts to a cinema as Vaudeville dies

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  • “Room in New York” by Edward Hopper
  • “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” debuts, the first science fiction program on radio
  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • The Dow Jones reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.2