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1. Edith J. R. Isaacs, "Portrait of a Theatre: America-1935," Theatre Arts Monthly 17 (January 1933): 32-42.
2. Kenneth MacGowen, Footlights Across America: Towards a National Theatre (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929), p. 73.
3. Hallie Flanagan, Arena (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1940), p. 13.
4. Willson Whitman, Bread and Circuses: A study of Federal Theatre (New York: Oxford University Press, 1937), p. 107.
5. William F. McDonald, Federal Relief Administration and the Arts (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969), p. 492.
6. Flanagan, Arena, p. 9.
7. Hopkins first contacted Mrs. Flanagan about the problem of unemployed actors in February 1934. She was sailing for England to direct the theater at Dartington Hall and couldn't meet him at the time.
8. Elmer Rice, The Living Theatre (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959), p. 149.
9. Flanagan, Arena, p. 10.
10. Flanagan, Arena, pp. 10, 11.
11. An observation made by Marcella Cisney in an interview, November 17, 1975.
12. Rice, Living Theatre, pp. 150-53.
13. McDonald, Federal Relief Administration and the Arts, p. 502.
14. Ibid., p. 503.
15. Flanagan, Arena, p. 28.
16. McDonald, Federal Relief Administration and the Arts, p. 502.
17. Rice, Living Theatre, p. 156.
18. Flanagan, Arena, pp. 45-46.
19. Rice, Living Theatre, p. 154.
20. McDonald, Federal Relief Administration and the Arts, p. 511.
21. Flanagan, Arena, p. 59.
22. Ibid., p. 66.
23. Flanagan, Arena, p. 59.
24. Jane Mathews, The Federal Theatre 1935-1939: Plays, Relief and Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 80.
25. Interview with H. L. (Bud) Fishel describes the frantic nature of the revisions made by Sinclair Lewis at the Essex House in New York. October 26, 1976.
26. Flanagan, Arena, p. 126.
27. Ibid., p. 72.
28. Flanagan, Arena, p. 75.
29. Flanagan, Arena, p. 199.
30. Ibid., p. 201.
31. Ibid., p. 205.
32. Hallie Flanagan "Prologue to a Season," New York Times, September 12, 1937, Sec. 11, p. 1.
33. Interview with Virginia Farmer, August 11, 1976.
34. Flanagan, Arena, p. 285.
35. Ibid., p. 288.
36. Ibid., p. 323.
37. Ibid., p. 324.
38. Ibid., p. 335.
39. Ibid., p. 347.