Tories Use Lie Barrage To Kill Federal Arts
OLIVER, BRYCE
Tories Use Lie Barrage To Kill ^Federal Arts Republicrats Fear Liberal Dramas iy IftfCf OUVf» Sewt Commentator at WSTVD, Now York *|»HE second act of "An American Tragedy" is about to • * open...
...Next editions of The Now Leader will entry new exposes by Ray Tonler, a Kcesas nowspaper man, whe has just completed n year's investigotioi of fascist activity...
...are to be kicked off because they are actors and playwrights and producers...
...but he is known to have made several speeches eulogizing- the hooded hoodlums...
...The Committee for Cultural freedom has not denied, either explicitly or implicitly, these facts about the American scene...
...plays by the public has been over thirty million, -mostly in towns and cities where the American people haven't had a chance to see a theatrical presentation in years...
...Max stoatswus Atostnam Harris, Herbert E. Harris, Suzanne LaFoIlette, Milton S. Mayer, Ernest L. Meyer, John Dos Passos...
...It threatens to overwhelm nations where the democratic way of life, with its cultural liberty, im still dominant...
...all are inimical to this country's best interests and should be Investigated...
...Tlieir funds, ttielr or^oiilMfHons( ttsolr propaganda...
...building program was attacked with false witness, to the effect that it was extravagant...
...What hidden animus can motivate such misrepresentation...
...Russia today is—to the extent of a metaphorical fig per cent—the Russia of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Alexander III, the Russto of pogroms, fake trials, the knout and Cossacks, of political police, torture chambers, and firing squads...
...Since the camps shift from season to season, the truck clinics will move as changes are made in tile concentration of the' seme tter farmers through the state...
...FROM time immemorial, those who wanted the world to stand still—with no improvements — have sought to suppress the drama...
...OUT what to being done to Russia Is net necessarily , ** important to us...
...The cost of building the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building in New York was between 85 cents and $1 per cubic foot—twice and more the cost of erecting the World's Fair Building with W.P.A...
...The statement of the Committee for Cultural Fdee-dom says in effect,'' according to The New Republic, "that we have entire liberty in America and that there is none at all in Germany, Italy or Russia...
...Try to get apace in the conservative 76 per cent or so of the American press for the expression of any sort' of radical views, and see what happens to you...
...whose Civil UbsrNsi Committee ts now being hilled by the appropriations committee...
...Behind them lurk dangers not only to a free labor movement but to a free mWare>5...
...but it is certainly not true that this country is the perfect haven of liberty...
...Francis, and Paul...
...In 1S34 Winrod had to beg money to get to Germany, but he returned bedecked in expensive clothes and carrying a checkbook, which, like Hitler's "Mein Kampf," has zone through several editions...
...Woodrum may eat the records with mayonnaise...
...The issue concerns fine doings of pseudo-Socialists in our midst...
...Back in Wichita seven weeks later, dressed in expensive clothes and wielding a mean checkbook, he announced to his staff that be had been right all the time...
...It is one thing to ate now to take a million Americans off the payroll in Novem-sw...
...Leading dramatic crit* of Mew York, the theatre «p>ta...
...It is not, therefore...
...s That was how W.P.A...
...JJut the committee took the word of the disgruntled man with a grudge against W.P.A- instead of the word of the expert...
...World's Fair Building, one of the targets ef the attack, was put up at a cost of 1544,000, equivalent to 43'-2 cents per cubic foot...
...attempt, he ran np SO,000 votes...
...The second and concluding ted ion of Mr...
...While we have been free from governmental coercion, few countries have exerted greater social pressure against variations from the accepted pattern than has the United States...
...so was the World War...
...Just before the election it »as estimated that Winrod was spending more *than $5,000 a week...
...A number of influential me* apposed him, but his defeat has been credited by • many to Ray Runyon, editorial writer for the Kansas City Journal-Post, and to L. M. Birkhead, national director of the Friend* of Democracy...
...labor and finances...
...And does not the G.P.U...
...The accompanying article to the first In e short series by Ferdinand Lundberg, replying to the New Republic, discussing the I** n mm iH ¦ ¦'¦ n#vc--l»ii_m Sjim.1 »mImSm wommrrree s psmtTsem on imporTUsrr potnis...
...If this wasnt as bad as the burning of the books by Hitler's Nazis, Mr...
...The first class testified against W.P.A...
...Today he is stronger than he was ten months ago when the electorate almost put him into the national Senate...
...that for the first time in history the United States has been catching np on the national theatresH>f other countries...
...In December...
...Sometimes the drought—or maybe it's a flood—destroys the wheat, but the politicians thrive, despite the vagaries of nature...
...Going forward to choose its words with nice discretion, The New Republic says that the manifesto of the Committee for Cultural Freedom "implies that Fascism and Communism are both completely incompatible with freedom for the individual...
...Shortly after Hitler came to power, Winrod announced in "The Defender" that he had discovered a group of Jewish conspirators were plotting to overthrow the United States gov-The circulation of Ids magazine skyrocketed from 30,000 to 50,000—then to mere than 100,000...
...In fact, the income tax paid by two important Hollywood people—one star and one producer—would support the W.P-A...
...But his crowning educational triumph was an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity—a little present from a friend who had a lot of them in stock...
...erald Winrod did last that...
...the touching chronicle of Lincoln, "Prologue to Glory," the paly play of the 1987-38 season—W.P.A...
...193...
...The argument against other projects of W.P.A...
...In Russia these ate no civil rights, although the pro-Russian partisans here do much howling about civil rights, wliloh they want preserved only in order to do their work for s foreign master...
...Winrod did not file for the Republican nomination until 1988, but the preceding years were devoted to paring the way...
...Bach one stands before as on his record...
...were made was a false investigation...
...Socialists who are practicing totalitarians and front-line Sgsato for the GJ».U* Not only has the Committee said nothing ageinet Socialist theory, but it includes ta its membership outstanding Socialists...
...There to no evidence to support the thesis that he was a member of the Ku Klux Kian...
...Kansans are justifiably proud of those vast fields of golden wheat, but many would like to forget some of the politicians...
...A survey of~ the situation, taken fa a who)*, would indicate that Hitierism came ss a necessity te the 0«r^ man people...
...To name just a few unquestioned hits, there were the poetic "Murder in a ^Cathedral...
...Then there is Burl Brow der, the ex-Kansan who became Stalin's ambassador fn the United States...
...To be sure, he denied that he was a Jew-hater, employing the l-gotta-friend method...
...To be sure, he was beaten by Clyde Reed, but in defeat he secured more than 60,000 votes, which in Kansas is substantial strength in a four-way race...
...He made speeches throughout the state...
...Federal pro-faetkms...
...Now Cliff Woodrum, the author, is a great fella in his own home town of Roanoke, Va., where his political confmres hsve a great game...
...and Winrod will again be in the news...
...Hs spent more than $4,000 for n sound truck...
...The present crop of prairie politicians it one of tile most spectacular in generations in that it represents the leadership in throe major schools of political thought...
...Daring Iftt fought for the Kansas ft.O.F...
...It is only whan Russian polities are mnjettoti into this country through the agents of tise Comintern that swathe to affected...
...The creation of the Committee for Cultural freedom by such men as Ferdinand Lundberg, its secretary, John Dewey, Hs chairman, and Professor Sidney Hoc*, its BSfHeeel srs-aaher, was the signal for a concerted attack in all publications con-trolled by the Cammanist Party and, of coarse, the literary hatchet men on the fellow-traveler magazines...
...sidtxed, they work effectively to destros^ Anisnisaa democracy...
...the smashing indictment on housing conditions, "One-Third of a Nation...
...The enemies of W.P.A...
...He circularized the old "Doe" Brink-toy mailing list of 160,000 names with tons of propaganda...
...They get $T4 a month, and for tills they are producing Tl 4neu-nsentsti^^iaHtty tojiswe^Jnat why the notion is as it is and why changes are bound to come...
...Jerome, St...
...There are 77,000 people in tills project, engaged in the work of digging out the historical records of the nation...
...After his defeat he did not give up...
...he dieeorered that Baby Lindbergh was killed as a part of a Jewish-Communist plot...
...ox the nation, protested *tt statement and signed their ..Among these were Brooks Mrikpon of the Times, Burns J»»tte of the Daily News, Sid-^l...
...The children h along te the parents In Germany and Italy Jthe church is revered...
...Blood tests of all the camp inhabitants are taken, and inoculate given against the spread of epidemics...
...The careers of the Winrods, both father and son Gerald, have been spotty, to say the least...
...Even in the United States, its beginnings are all too evident—in the emergence of local political dictators, the violation of civil rights, the alarming spread of phobias of hatred directed against racial, religious and political minorities...
...Then, when the Eton tost its power, and his anti-Catholic crusade fell as flat as yesterday "s beer, he was forced te leek about for something else to be aati...
...the classic melodrama, "Dr...
...Eventually the public lost its zest for the pyrotechnics of the fundamentalists, and Winrod joined another crusade—that of anti-Catholicism...
...There sre enough Republicans in Congress to combine with the Wall Street reactionary Democrats is retain the restrictions...
...investigations which took Was late every state...
...The Defender...
...For although The New Republic wan...
...Cliff Woodrum's "American Tragedy7' of 1939 is the hit of tat year with his utility audience kjafklieil m Roanoke...
...was /knocked down, dragged out and a million workers denied the right to work...
...Some have received grants of various sort to carry on their work from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the University of South Carolina, Yale University, the University of Syracuse, and many other educational institutions...
...In 1933 he found it...
...that the Federal Theatre has drawn upon some of the greatest producing genius in the theatre...
...The candidate said he was being financed by the contributions of friends, but those who have tried passing the hat in Kansas suspect that quite a substantial number of those American dollars were naturalised Gorman Reichsmarks...
...bat it will be quite another thing, politically, when that million actually goes off and they ad their three or four million iete&dents begin to feel the pinch of konger...
...that hundreds of actors and actresses, whose only means of livelihood for many months was the W.P.A., have shown their worth so conclusively that they have made hits later on in Broadway plays, Hollywood films and radio networks...
...The suppression of the right of political dissent to Soviet Russia results, to the extent of at least 90 per cent, from the Russian tradition, and not from necessary and valid Socialist theory,'* says The New Republic, which is suddenly and oddly concerned about Socialist theory, although it has never, to my knowledge, been regarded as an organ of the Socialist front in the United States...
...To accuse such persons of having signed the documents that would divert attention from American conditions to some remote Hell is absurd...
...It might give people ideas...
...Especially to It not to be looked upon as a model of Socialises, although it is persistently presented as such a model by its partisans and is apologized for on the ground that It represents a "Socialist experiment...
...o " • e IK his wrHlngs, Waned defended Hitler end Mussohni with enthusiasm...
...Is it theory that is at issue, or practice...
...The reverend had uncovered pay dirt, and no one knew it better than himself...
...was equally mendacious...
...comment that I refer to contained a fair report, it might be above crtietom, even though one would have been obliged in any event to see'seme significance in the withholding of so important a document from readers...
...Travelling health centers, consisting of trucks filled with doctors, nurses, sanitarians, and stores of medical supplies, toft San Francisco recently to visit squatter farmers' camps...
...Faust us...
...But while this charge is true of Fascism, it is certainly not true of the theory of a Socialist commonwealth...
...Jayhawk Fuehrer...
...The enemas ef W.P.A...
...Aft American Tragedy," was applied during the debate over tat killing of the Federal Theatre Project Some of the fakes in that debate are worth the renewing because they were not bought out in the daily, press iispauiaa, Isrrj last week the debate *ai opened with some outright . '^statements by Congressman Wosdrum...
...The Committee's statement concerned itself with terrible farts of our own day...
...FOR a time young Winrod was *¦ employed as a clerk by a public utilities company in Eldorado, Kansas, but during the twenties he escaped the tiresome routine of business by joining William Jennings Bryan and the lesser lights in that comic parade of the anti-Simians...
...Hbw, in the face of this explicit' paragraph" that refers to threatening forces on the American scene, The New Republic can dare place upon the public record the criticisms I have quoted from its pages is more than I can see...
...Sad this editorial...
...When they "commented" an the Committee, aad its proposed fight ogainst all tOtotttCsHoavsm red, brown or Much they "neglected" to print the Committee's statement aad completely chsror r wo ¦¦¦ cofiTenrz...
...lyOfiODY with any respect for facts denies the * ' validity of these observations about the American scene, although one might question the unhistoric representation .of anti-labor violence as "Hitlerism...
...ON August 2, 1938, Winrod was beaten for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate...
...In New York City •Jose, shout 70,000 must go off •J* W.P A. The inofficial title of the bill...
...And America is affected when Comintern agents, affecting to be itaiwnists, come into fuel on with genuine American As n condition of cooperation the panada democratic Moscow agents stipulate a complete stleintl end silence signifies assent about the misdeeds of Communists not only in Russia but all over the werteVijA Spain, in France, to England, in Latin America, and (where it is important to us) in the United States...
...It'a a *— game by which the utility company pays the poll tax for doubt-fat denizens of certain districts mm» ean be counted upon te vote far Cliff and his two sidekicks in the Senate—Carter ("Call Me Cysrtah") Glass and Marse Hair' Flood Byrd, who don't like tae ware-hour law because without it he "kin git the Niggehs f p|aek his fruit orchards for thnost nuthin' tall...
...Worst of all, the investigation upon which the arguments against W.P.A...
...At another time he wrote: They (German Geatitos) came to him (Hitler) like an svaReichsmarks Back Winrod lanche because his political philosophy provided for BJe op-building of the moral standards of the nation...
...First, there is A If M. Landon, who in 1936 wore a sunflower in his lapel and carried the standard ef the Republican Party in his right hand...
...James Rorty, Benjamin Stolberg, Norman Thomas and M. R. Werner...
...In addition, the doctors will treat for simple ailments...
...In other words, one of our most valuable arts is to be • And the ironical part of it is this: The Federal Theatre is the one project on the W.P.A...
...Tories Use Lie Barrage To Kill ^Federal Arts Republicrats Fear Liberal Dramas iy IftfCf OUVf» Sewt Commentator at WSTVD, Now York *|»HE second act of "An American Tragedy" is about to • * open in Washington...
...All that was wrong with the world was the Jew...
...Behind its ideology...
...This is another project adding to the knowledge of our country...
...MOT la many • year bos the Stullnife press • *--* ¦ alaV a ¦ ----------1 -M Ma1 met - — ¦ ¦ hlrsBaueTir MM 0IBtr WOffRrnHBlIT uTM i j MenW¦ T worked overtime to smear a peep which H found ihagsrsui to Its choaces of continuing to convince some of the Aainrirew public that the Comintern was a force for democrecy...
...that over a hundred news plays by fast-coming new anthers have, been produced...
...Testifying against him was Monsignor O'Grady, secretary of the Notional Conference of Charities, an expert in the line...
...Invariably, the statements of those who criticised end lied were unchallenged, while the statements of those who commended the W.P.A...
...provided with the whole manifesto, it did not see fit to publish it, but published instead an editorial comment upon it that took up as much space as would have been required to print the manifesto itself...
...The Capuchin monks have been driven out...
...On the contrary, the - Committee's manifesto declared: "Triumphant in a large sector of the civilized world, the totalitarian idea is winning too dangerous an influence in many other countries...
...Taking the percentage figure as a bit of harmless metaphor, one may concede the validity of the observation made by The New Republic But, seek being the case, Russia cannot be looked upon as a model for American liberals and radicals...
...Although 66 per cent of the productions are still free for the underprivileged groups in schools, hospitals and social settlements, the paid admissions have amounted to over three millions dollars...
...The New Republic admit...
...If Soviet Russia is the Russia of tradition, » it not of domestic American concern that the methods of Soviet Russia are apologised for and rationalized ta our midst by many liberals, and are advocated and even put into practice by Communists T Bow can one stand for civil liberties and at the same time preserve an attitude ef benevolent neutrality toward the agents of Soviet Russia and teward Russian pretensions ? Is there hot an acute danger that In the panic created by the oft-shouted name of Hitler, the liberal etoment will be stampeded into tile arms ef the G.P.U.—as happened in Spain...
...that the attendance at W.P.A...
...Such plays are too vivid...
...The battle in the Senate to restore these jobs should be an epic in American history...
...Hence...
...There are no better MOfi tor ttoif probing work tlioe Unrtod States District Attorney Freak Murphy, who is now setting np n Federal Civil Uhertlci hereon, and Senator Robert laFollettn...
...Among those signers whose work baa done asms to enlighten the country about social noon nurionts are Loses Adamic, Ernest Sutherland Bates, V. F. CaJver-ton, John Chamberiafc,"George S. Counts, John Dewey...
...Son Gerald was born ta Wichita, where he received the best education the local mar school had to offer, after which he was placed in the custody of an itinerant evangelist, who tutored him in the ways of soul-saving (at a profit) for several years...
...And one of the facts is that behind the theory of s benign Socialist commonwealth there exists a brutal Tartar Bonapartism that is cynically falsifying history for the benefit of its ruling clique, that is dragooning intellectuals and manual workers, that is mercilessly framing its servants in caricatures of judicial proceedings, and that is bojdly deceiving its own supporters outside Russia...
...It wUl mean a lot in the political struggle now taking shape...
...Just ptor to the nominations ha spoke weekly ever the "Kansas Chaw" of radio stations...
...lanetoHef ***** Hon see oiid dosprte tftis bols^ Ms flinit politico...
...which is merely confusing Communist Party terminology...
...Woodrum, however, did ** make a retraction...
...1934...
...Another witness against W.P.A, was a ihmn who wevm 'had been able to hold a job in his life— not even a W.P.A...
...for the year...
...There is a growing feeling in Conetea that the nation is turning » tat right, and so far at east, tat Republican and Demoa» iter that their "economies" #to»re a New Deal vietrry VET, when the effects of this •relief bill bason to be ap-saeat, there may be another Jtory to teU...
...The Committee for Cultural Freedom in its statement said nothing whatever about Socialist theory, but much about totalitarian practice under whatever label...
...pressed forward to its destruction without any regard for facts...
...I will mention only one: Mi...
...And so nine thousand on the rolls of the W.PA...
...Norman Thomas...
...A PPARENTLY, the reaetion-aries were afraid to have this documentation made public...
...But this statement, also, needs amplification...
...Go into a Southern textile town or a California fruit town.and preach unionism, and you will see a -prompt instance of Httlerism in action...
...The evidence is circumstantial, to be sure, but many s man has been hanged under circumstances less convincing...
...Also, that DJays by 287 ef the foremost American playwrights have been produced...
...In the meantime his writings were as violently Fascist, as hit-, terly anti-Semitic, as ¦nflhiag which bad appeared to the United States at that time...
...Experts testified against him, bet the committee took the word ef the bankrupt lawyer...
...hippie of the World-Teto-Vtm, Allene Tallmey of Vogue, Mkhtt Gfbbs of the New Yorker, ffn Glassner of Forum, Paul y**ej of Life, Mrs...
...In The Defender," December...
...I'WO classes of witnesses were * heard—one was made up of paid investigators, the other class consisted of governors, mayors and a representative of the National Council of Catholic Charities...
...He then supplemented "The Defender" with The Constitutionalist" and The Bevealkr...
...ifk^&xr fight is expected when some of the restrictive provisions of the House reach tile Senate floor, but the liberals have no / aigh hopes of broadening the bilT, • legislative Soman Holiday rt the expense of the unemployed...
...the Russia, in short, of tradition...
...both the Spanish aad Chinese wars were JoW Inspire il...
...None ef these members has repudiated his life's work...
...THERE were facts sock as * these: That the director of the Federal Theatre, Hallie Flanna-gaa, was the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship on the basis of plays she produced...
...which has actually been decreasing its costs...
...Ganging Up'34 Trip to Berlin Produced Jay hawk Nazi of Kansas Re/cnsmarJcs Seen Behind Winrod Drive for Senate by nor toz/cii THE fertile soil of those much publicized Kansas plains produce two chief commodities—wheat and politicians...
...There was cynical destruction of the historical research work...
...or private enterprise—to receive the coveted four-star mark of the New York Daily News...
...When there, I will make it my sounding board...
...Euphemia !to» fitensellaer Wyatt of the g^pBe World, Kelcey Allen of ** Pairchild Publications, and Www Pollack of the Brooklyn >¦ Br...
...were invariably challenged...
...REICH COHFISCATES CAPUCHIN CLOISTER LONDON.—Toe famous Sals-burg Capuchin .Cloister, revered by devout Catholics since 1602, was confiscated by the Reich this week to be used as a hotel for Nazi youth...
...ably represent "the Russia of tradition...
...The truth of the matter is that the W.P.A...
...Lund-berg'w letter unll be printed in the next issue of The •Veic Leader...
...There are other years coming, and other campaigns...
...WHILE most of the would-be Amuricen fuehrers ten ** ho dismissed as small-time reeheteert cetting to ea the lucrative anti-Semitic market there are millions ef dollars of anti-Jewish money taeee to this country—Reverend Herald Winrod can't bo laughed —or snorted eat of the picture...
...What secret enmity can cause 'The New Republic Jo fling to the winds an honorable reputation ? ]LfANY of the members of the Committee far Cul-'MWm ttnral Freedom are persons who enjoy deserved reputations . for having revealed I anti-democratic tendencies to various parte of the United States...
...It is quite true that there is enormously more freedom, in the political field in the United States than in the three other countries named...
...Rebuttal' — By Ferdinand LundbergT must bare been with profound astonishment aad perhaps a feeling of cynicism that the many signers at the manifesto at the newly formed Committee for Cultural freedom read the editorial "Liberty aad Common Sense" in .The New Republic for May 31, 1939...
...The tragedy is otherwise known U the 1939 Federal Relief Bill...
...With equal validity one might describe anti-labor violence as "Stalinism in action," for in Russia as well as in Germany trades unions have been suppressed and workers have been pressed into service by a regi- 1 men ted Labor Front...
...Among these latter are the centers of the New Republic...
...Ominous shadows of war are gathering in our own land...
...Germany and Italy were el right...
...U. S. fascist is dangerous until he gales elec floral support*.on o ftrol^lr^ oittr-Semitic, pr#*>tOn»cift Cogram...
...It took a great novel and years of agitation to do it, but the State of California, now headed by progressive Governor Olson, is finally acting to prevent the wave of deaths that yearly strike down the migrant farmers through typhoid, smallpox, and similar fatal diseases...
...he published an article from which this is an extract: ta Germany and Italy the home to revered Divorce to frowned open...
...Socialism or the timet J of Socialism that is at issue...
...HE said: "I am now absolutely sure of going to, the United States Senate...
...The trucks have been fashioned to nerve as ambulances ta case Wherever aihuemti ore found to be toe serious for treatment to the rudimentary track clinics, the squatters will be sent to tile Federal Farm Security Administration's medical service for thoroughgoing medical care...
...But the editorial comment was net only demonstrably misleading, but glaringly fates, with i ass art to the manifesto as weti as with taepeer te certain members «f the Committee for Cultural Freedom...
...It was daring this war between fundamentalism and evolution that he established s tiny magazine...
...The most glaring of these was the assertwntfaat not toting!e dramatic critic of note •tiorsed the W.P.A...
...Plays like "One-Third of a Nation" set people to thinking...
...hut his writings speak for themselves...
...Try the same thing in the average schoolroom or pulpit and note the consequences...
...One of the principal witnesses was a bankrupt lawyer, who had looked over a few projects and obligingly condemned them a 11, without even knowing what he was talking about...
...This being so, why should The New Republic gratuitously pick a quarrel with a Committee of distinguished Americans formed to resist the mediate tteaa within our borders of the agents of so benighted a State Does the fact that Russia operates under the screen of an ideology that is different from Germany's make any difference ? Torquemada was a Christian, but dees that put him ina class with St...
...However, history has a nasty way of keeping alive the memories of such char- e acters as prohibition's hatchet woman, Carrie Nation, and "Sock-less Jerry" Simpson, and "Doc" (goat - gland - grafter) Brinkley...
...The word "theory," which 1 have emphasized in the foregoing passage, has geen gratuitously injected into the discussion by The New Republic, creating a wholely false impression about the Committee's position...
...He accused Roosevelt of being a Jew...
...he borrowed a few dollars, with which he bought a new suit of clothes and a ticket to Germany...
...Last, and perhaps not the least important, b tise Reverend Gerald B. Win-rod, who has been aptly dubbed the "Jayhawk Nazi...
...The W.P.A...
...IT would be an unfortunate * mistake to count Winrod out of the picture simply because tost August he did not secure the Republican nomination to the United States Senate...
...It is this emotion, a desire to stop the spread of the information brought to the millions by a national theatre, which caused the reactionaries of Congress to kill off the Federal Theatre...
...had the unmitigated gall to declare that the Federal Theatre had produced nothing worth while...
Vol. 22 • June 1939 • No. 25
