Evan’s Reviews > The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939: Plays, Relief, and Politics > Status Update

Two big reads finished today. This was a solid record of an amazing but fleeting time in American history and arts. Very dry and repetitive, but balanced and informative, and rife with the same philistinism in our politics that have ramped up beyond 11 in our present dismal time.

Good ole Tallulah Bankhead, my heroine, coming in to defend the Federal Theater. I knew I could count on my grand lady. It didn't help but ...

This is very dry, which is why I've nibbled at this for three months, but it is a solid history, and it makes me yearn for being there to see some of these electrifying plays, especially the Orson Welles ones.

Funny how all the male managers can't hack it and Hallie Flanagan appoints a bunch of bad-ass women like herself to run the program across the country.