Uncle Sam Presents: A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939

Tony Buttitta; Barry Witham

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1982

Uncle Sam Presents

A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939

Tony Buttitta and Barry Witham
With contributions by: Harold Clurman and Malcolm Cowley
Illustrator: Don Freeman

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512815047

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About this book

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author / Editor information

Tony Buttitta (1907-2004) left graduate school in th eearly 1930s to start Contempo, a magazine that achieved fame with such contributors as William Faulkner, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, and many other notable authors. He was a correspondent for Variety during World War II and eventually became a top theatrical press agent on Broadway. His published work includes After the Good Gay Times: A Summer with F. Scott Fitzgerald in Asheville, N.C. Barry Witham is Professor Emeritus of Theater History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study and A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow. His essays on the American theater have appeared in a variety of publications, including Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and the Dictionary of American Biography.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Foreword Malcolm Cowley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introduction Harold Clurman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Act One. Hanging the Show August 27, 1935 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Act Two. Curtain Rising, March 1936 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Intermission. November 1936 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Act Three. The Show Goes On, 1937–1938 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Act Four. Ringing Down the Curtain, June 30, 1939 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 20 illus.
Keywords: Film Studies; Media Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: January 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781512815047