Word: working-class
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Theatre of Action), the Artef Players, Theatre Collective, the German Prolit-Buehne. This was the nucleus of the New Theatre League, which in 1932 began publishing a monthly magazine now supported by 15,000 readers. Editor Herbert Kline explained that the League aimed to serve "the needs of working-class audiences for plays unlike the theatrical marshmallows served up on Broadway which deal with problems quite as remote from the workers' lives as peculiar Park Avenue triangles and Hollywood infidelities." While officially professing no political creed, most League member theatres leaned inevitably toward Socialism. Membership was usually composed...