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...measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate a $3,860,000,000, "self-liquidating" public works program on a revolving fund basis outside...
...Called before the Dies Committee to answer charges that the Federal Theatre Project had Communistic leanings, FTP Director Hallie Flanagan was accused of quoting from "a Communist named Marlowe." Patiently she explained that the Communist was Christopher Marlowe...
...White House furnished a makeshift stage, all props except a seltzer bottle (the White House uses club soda). Secret Service men forbade the use of a five-and-ten-cent-store cap pistol. The President roared, particularly at the skit It's Not Cricket to Picket. After watching FTP Plowed Under, a travesty on the Federal Theatre, F. D. R. remarked: "I wish the Senate and House could see this one." After listening to Harold Rome's Call It Un-American with...
...sketch, Little Red School House and a ballet, The General Is Unveiled. Omitted at the White House were Sunday in the Park, Men Awake, and What Good Is Love. Omitted at the Mayflower were political songs and skits, Call It Un-American, Four Little Angels of Peace, Mussolini Handicap. FTP Plowed Under, Public Enemy No. 1, and the dance Doing the Reactionary...
Second in pretentiousness only to its wholesale production of It Can't Happen Here (TIME, Nov. 9) was a 27-scene musical show which the Federal Theatre Project presented in Chicago last week. Titled 0 Say Can You Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most...