2. "Art War Breaks Out," Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1933. [BACK]

3. George Biddle, letter of May 9, 1933, quoted in Federal Relief Administration and the Arts, by William F. McDonald (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969). [BACK]

4. James Brooks, interview with the author, August 1973. [BACK]

5. For a full account, see Jane de Hart Mathews, The Federal Theatre, 1935 - 1939 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967). [BACK]