January: almanac.(FRONT & CENTER)
American Theatre, January, 2006
85 YEARS AGO (1921) Carol Charming is born in Seattle. She will go on to achieve musical-theatre legend status, appearing in such shows as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! 70 YEARS AGO (1936) Elmer Rice resigns his post as director of the Federal Theatre Project in New York City when the head of the Works Project Administration, Harry Hopkins, bans the first of the proposed Living Newspaper projects.
The theatrical documentary in question, Ethiopia, deals with Mussolini's invasion of the eponymous country. 65 YEARS AGO (1941) Joseph ...
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