Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting story titled "AgitProp" [TIME, June 17], which tells of the campaign of suppression accorded Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty and of the currently expanding workers' theatre, should be amplified to a certain extent. Your write-up does not mention a rather amazing and in ways amusing "Pittsburgh episode" which is newsworthy as well...
Although outside New York the Odets piece has, in certain sections, been banned, in others its actors jailed, its director kidnapped, the two Pittsburgh presentations have been hailed, applauded and even encouraged. The local "workers' theatre," which presented the piece as the New Theatre in Pittsburgh, is composed of the "shirt-sleeved amateurs" you mention in your article. This group entered the local Drama League Contest-a yearly competition of amateur groups sponsored by conservative Drama League (a stuffy organization of "drama enthusiasts")-won it easily-were awarded the Samuel French Trophy and $50-and next morning got headlines...
...have no explanation for this Pittsburgh "phenomenon." I should hesitate to call Pittsburgh "tolerant" so I refuse to bet very heavily on the reception accorded subsequent Pittsburgh productions of Waiting for Lefty scheduled in the near future...
National Broadcasting Co., Inc. Pittsburgh...
...Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours" was, in 1919, the best-known slogan in the amusement industry. Lewis J. Selznick, a onetime Pittsburgh jewelry salesman, had got his start as a cinema producer six years before by walking into the office...