Word: projections
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ends in view. One was speed to meet a grim short-term deadline-the fair skies of spring in England, when Hitler may invade Britain. The other was to expand the whole U. S. economy into enormous productivity for the long-term struggle against a possibly victorious Axis -a project that was moving like a big river, so broad that the actual speed of the current was almost imperceptible...
...late Federal Theatre Project was the biggest State-subsidized theatre on record. In four years it spent almost enough money to build a battleship ($46,000,000), employed 13,000 people at its peak, gave 63,600 performances of 1,200 major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding...
Federal Theatre was allowed the widest latitude of any government theatre ever heard of. It got loud approval from most commercial theatre people (just as libraries are approved by booksellers). It grossed $2,000,000 at the box office and at the end of the project its receipts were meeting all expenses-costumes, scenery, lighting, royalties, advertising-except labor. It was killed by Congress in June 1939. Like almost every enterprise, public or private, at the time, Federal Theatre had its radical elements. But an almost Neanderthal illiteracy played a part in Federal Theatre's murder. In the Dies...
Three summers ago, San Francisco's Board of Education asked the WPA Art Project to provide a bas-relief for George Washington High School, on which construction was then beginning. The bas-relief was intended to be the world's biggest frieze: a panel 12 ft. high, 183 ft. long, set in a wall at the end of an athletic field, where spectators could view it. WPA agreed, under a standard arrangement whereby it would furnish the work, the board the cost of materials. The wall and bas-relief were to be poured as one concrete unit...
...section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt it necessary to fire Sculptor Bufano...