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...quaintness of nearby Williamsburg, the antebellum allure of Savannah or Charleston's successful new Spoleto Festival. But in 1975, Norfolk acquired some culture: the Virginia Opera Association. The founders were a group of wealthy, energetic women who took over the old 1,800-seat Center Theater, a concrete WPA-era pile blessed only with good acoustics. They pushed ticket sales hard and put on La Boheme. What's more, they played to a full house...
...more expensive to live in than the rest of the country. Consequently, Leary blames the city's racial troubles on underlying class tensions. The street corner troublemakers who fought so tenaciously and blindly defending Southie High (a 1901 structure with a new wing built as one of FDR's WPA projects in the '30s) from black school children saw their neighborhoods' prized possession being "taken" by a threatening, upwardly mobile group...
...idea that what he does is somewhat ridiculous. He recalls how he got into the business: "Well, I wanted to be an actor, so it was the most natural thing in the world that I ended up being a writer. Years ago, there was this thing called the WPA Federal Theater--Orson Welles belonged to it, I belonged to it. I like to think that somewhere Orson Welles is being interviewed and he's saying, 'Yeah, Stan belonged to it.' You couldn't make any money in those days at it, and I had a family to support...
...Muse. Several cities are raising the curtain on a modern form of the Federal Theater Project, which at its height under the WPA in the 1930s employed 12,000 out-of-work actors, directors, playwrights and other stage artists, including Clifford Odets, Orson Welles, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan. The present efforts are also federally financed, under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. In Los Angeles, 71 unemployed artists will be organized into acting, dancing and puppeteering troupes, which will tour the city's parks, schools and centers for the aged. In San Francisco, 113 jobs have been created...
Paterson is a middle-sized city (150,000 pop.), described in the '30s WPA New Jersey State Guide as "one of the few cities in America that came out almost exactly as it was planned." It was founded in 1972 as an industrial community, a site for the factories of the Society for Useful Manufacturers (SUM), one of Alexander Hamilton's corporate schemes to industrialize the newly united colonies. The settlement quickly became a colony of the industrialists who ran SUM--men like Samuel Colt, who produced his first revolvers in Paterson. It was not until 1831 that the town...