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Director Barber's troubles grew more realistic when the stage hands' union declared that its members would not take to the road with Jefferson Davis unless paid the regular union scale of $100 a week instead of FTP's standard $23.86. The play, they declared, was a "commercial proposition," would compete with private theatrical enterprises, tend to lower regular theatrical admission prices with...
...FTP regions, New York City has most actors, most trouble. Originally in charge of the region was Elmer Rice, who wrote Street Scene in 1928. Failing to repeat that phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect...
Jefferson Davis was written by John McGee, FTP regional director for the Southeast. In three acts and twelve scenes, this sombre pageant of the life of the Confederacy's first & only President unfolds with little liveliness but much discretion. Opening on the 75th anniversary of Davis' inaugural at Montgomery, the play's cast numbered 36 minor performers, including a grandniece of Davis named Winifred Davis Crawford, and Actor Guy Standing Jr. The son and namesake of the cinema's Sir Guy Standing had been put on FTP's payroll at the regular $23.86 a week...
Meanwhile a deplorable clerical accident caused Director Barber and his staff their most acute embarrassment of the week. FTP Vaudeville Production 4-A was booked to appear at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, while Production 3-A was to be sent to amuse U. S. soldiers stationed on Governor's Island. Through some stupid blunder, the soldiers, to their great disgust, were offered 4-A, a skit called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called...
...Grieved were Massachusetts FTP officials last week when the selectmen of Plymouth banned a FTP performance of Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge because the play's language was "obscene" and because the play's actors were "hams." FTP deleted offending passages, pushed the show on through its State tour...