Uncle Sam Presents
A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 1982
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-8122-7826-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
20 illus.
2 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-7826-2 (9780812278262)
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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.