Several stage directors left New York to go work in Hollywood following:

A. the introduction of sound film.
B. a prolonged strike by New York theater guilds during the early 1930s.
C. the U.S. declaration of war on Germany and Japan.
D. the blacklisting of suspected Communists in American theater.


Answer: A

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