Guide to the Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection
Collection Number FTP Playscript Raidoscript 001
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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University
Collection number: FTP Playscript Raidoscript 001
Title: Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection
Physical Characteristics: This collection comprises 24 cubic feet or 36 linear feet.
Language: English

Scope and Content Information

The Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection in Special Collections & Archives at GMU contains over 200 copied playscripts and radioscripts, written and performed in the 1930s for the Federal Theatre Project. Also included is a collection of 62 copied Federal Theatre programs, handbills given to the audience at the beginning of a production. There is also a copy of The Flexible Stage, a book by Emmet Lavery about the history of the Federal Theatre Project. And there are the works of several noted authors in the collection, including Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Arent, and Langston Hughes.

Biographical/Historical Information

The Federal Theatre Project was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided employment for large numbers of artists, writers, and performers during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Federal Theatre began in 1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during the Depression. Jobs were provided for many people, including actors, playwrights, scene designers, scene builders, seamstresses, lighting experts, ushers, box-office men, and stagehands.

Like many New Deal programs implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Federal Theatre Project was intended not only to benefit its participants, but also to enrich the condition of the nation. Theater was a distinguished part of American popular culture, but the economic downturn of the Depression had bankrupted the entire theater industry. As the theater houses closed down, the nation was left without an outlet for theatrical creativity. According to Hallie Flanagan, this hurt the nation as much as it hurt the theater industry - indeed, the nation was their audience and the theater could provide entertaining distractions from the effects of Depression as well as offer commentary on present conditions.

But it was not enough to simply return to the pre-Depression concept of theater. In the first meeting her staff Flanagan expressed her willingness to follow Roosevelt's experimental approach to public policy: "In a changing world, a world of experiment, the stage too must experiment - with ideas, with the psychological relationship of men and women, with color and light.... The theatre must grow up."

Flanagan pursued her ideal of developing the relationship between the Federal Theatre and the federal government: "Any theatre sponsored by the government of the United States should do no plays of a cheap, trivial, outworn or vulgar nature, but only such plays as the Government can stand proudly behind in a planned theatrical program, national in scope, regional in emphasis, and American in democratic attitude." To Flanagan, it was imperative that this new theater should be progressive and experimental, yet within a patriotic and informative framework.

The productions that best embodied Flanagan's views on theater were the Living Newspapers. These hard-hitting, poignant plays dealt with contemporary factual material, dramatizing issues such as housing, agriculture, labor, and destitution. Always ending on an upbeat note, Living Newspapers underscored the importance of hard work and morality in overcoming difficult times. Living Newspaper titles include: Triple A Plowed Under, Injunction Granted, One Third of a Nation, and Spirocheta.

The Federal Theatre was noted for employing black Americans at a time when the Federal Government did not actively protect the rights of minorities. The "Negro Theater" (as it was called in the 1930s) was an established industry before the Depression, and it greatly contributed to the success of the Federal Theatre Project. Some of the most spectacular productions were put on by black theater professionals, for example: Macbeth, Haiti, Turpentine, Run Little Chillun, and The Trial of Dr. Beck.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically by playscripts (21 cubic feet) and raidoscripts (3 cubic feet).

Contents List

• Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection
• Playscripts
• Federal Theatre Project Programs A-Z Folder 1
  Box 1
  Adelante, Battle Hymn, Beyond the Horizon, Big Blow, Black Empire, Both Your Houses, Children's Autum Festival, Class of '29, Cradle Will Rock, Dance of Death, The Devil Passes, Dr. Faustus, Emperor's New Clothes, Fantacy 1929, Frankie and Jonny, Fly Away Home, Green Grow the Lilacs, Hell Bent for Heaven, Help Yourself, Horse Eats Hat, How Long Brethren, Doris Humphrey-Charles Weidman Dance Program, It Can't Happen Here, Jonny Johnson, Judgement Day, Justice, Like Falling Leaves, The Lonely Man, Long Voyage Home, Madame X, The Man-The Tree, Merchant of Venice, The Milky Way, Night Must Fall, O Say Can You Sing, One Sunday Afternoon, One-Third of a Nation, Outward Bound, Pinocchio, Power, Prologue to Glory, Persuit of Happiness, Ready!Aim!Fire!, Redemption, Revolt of the Beavers, Sing for Your Supper, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Spirochete, Story of Ferdinand, Sun and I, Sun Rises in the West, Swing Parade, Taming of the Shrew, Theatre of the Southwest, Trojan Incident, Twelfth Night, Twilight of the Theatre, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Young Choreographers Laboratory, Young Tramps
• $595 F.O.B. Folder 2
  Box 1
  by George H. Corey
• $595 F.O.B. Folder 3
  Box 1
  by George H. Corey
• 1935 January 1938 Folder 4
  Box 1
  by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper Play
• The Abyss Folder 5
  Box 1
  by John Wiley; Suggested by a Story of Edgar Allen Poe's
• The Affairs of a Professor Folder 6
  Box 1
  by Virginia Yetes
• Altars of Steel Folder 7
  Box 1
  by Thomas Hall-Rogers
• Altars of Steel Folder 8
  Box 1
  by Thomas Hall-Rogers
• America February 1936 Folder 9
  Box 1
  A Peace Pageant for All Grades; The Catholic School Journal
• America, America! 1934 Folder 10
  Box 1
  by Alfred Kreymborg; A Mass Recital
• Angelo Herndon Jones Folder 11
  Box 1
  by Langston Hughes; A One-Act Play of Negro Life
• As Thousands Jeer Folder 12
  Box 1
  by Ben Heck and Eugene O'Heel; With a smirk at Irving Berlin and Moss Hart
• The Bad Man Folder 13
  Box 1
  by Porter Emerson Brown
• The Ballad of Davy Crockett Folder 14
  Box 1
  by H. R. Hays
• Barge Incident Folder 15
  Box 1
  
• Barge Incident Folder 16
  Box 1
  by Herb Meadow
• Barge Incident Folder 17
  Box 1
  by Herb Meadow; A Waterfront Tragedy; play reader reports
• Battle Hymn 1936 Folder 18
  Box 1
  by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold
• Beauty and the Beast Folder 19
  Box 1
  by Mary Dirnberger; Dramatized from the familiar fairy tale
• Beyond Tomorrow Folder 20
  Box 1
  by John W. Dunn; A play of early Oklahoma life
• Big Blow November 15, 1938 Folder 21
  Box 1
  by Theodore Pratt; Dramatized from the Novel by Theodore Pratt
• Big White Fog Folder 22
  Box 1
  by Theodore Ward; A Negro Tragedy
• Black Empire 1932 Folder 23
  Box 1
  by Christine Ames and Clarke Painter; A Drama
• Blue-Eyed Black Boy Folder 24
  Box 1
  
• Booker T. Washington Folder 25
  Box 1
  
• Brer Rabbit December 1937 Folder 26
  Box 1
  by Ruth Comfort Mitchel and Alfred Allen
• Can You Hear Their Voices? 1931 Folder 27
  Box 1
  by Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford; A play of our time; Based on a story by Whittaker Chambers
• The Case of Philip Lawrence Folder 28
  Box 1
  by Geo. McEnlee
• The Chameleon Folder 29
  Box 1
  by German List Arzubide; Adapted from a story by Anton Chekhov; Translated by Angel Flores
• Cheat and Swing Folder 30
  Box 1
  by John Woodworth; A legend... about Belle Starr, Queen of the desperadoes
• Chisbaohoyo, the Sweetheart of the Corn Folder 31
  Box 1
  by John W. Dunn
• A Christmas Carol December 1937 Folder 32
  Box 1
  by Charles Dickens; Dialogue arranged for Marionetts and Hand Puppets by Alma M. Shaw
• Cinda Folder 33
  Box 1
  by H. Jack Bates; A Negro Folk Play
• Cinderella Folder 34
  Box 1
  by Rose Carlyn
• Class of '29 1936 Folder 35
  Box 1
  by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings
• Class of '29 1936 Folder 36
  Box 1
  by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings
• The Common Glory Folder 37
  Box 1
  by Paul Green; Music by Kurt Weill; A Legend of American Life
• The Constitution Folder 0
  Box 2
  by A. Callen, M. Worthington, and I. Reuben
• The Constitutional Convention March 1938 Folder 1
  Box 2
  by Oliver Haserodt
• The Cradle Will Rock June 15, 1937 Folder 2
  Box 2
  by Marc Blitzstein
• Created Equal Folder 3
  Box 2
  by John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle
• Created Equal Folder 4
  Box 2
  by John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle
• The Danites in the Sierras Folder 5
  Box 2
  by Joaquin Miller
• Dark Harvest Folder 6
  Box 2
  by Arnold Sundgaard; A History
• Day in Darkness 1936 Folder 7
  Box 2
  by George Foss
• Death Comes Creepin' in the Room Folder 8
  Box 2
  by Grant Moss
• The Devil Passes Folder 9
  Box 2
  by Benn W. Levy; A Religious Comedy
• Dirt 1937 Folder 10
  Box 2
  by Don Farran and Ruth Stewart; A Living Newspaper Play
• Double Door Folder 11
  Box 2
  by Elizabeth McFadden
• Down in Egypt's land 1933 Folder 12
  Box 2
  by Charlotte Kohler
• Dramatist Guild Contest Play #523 Folder 13
  Box 2
  
• Ethiopia [?] Folder 14
  Box 2
  
• Ethiopia March 1968 Folder 15
  Box 2
  by Arthur Arent; Th First "Living Newspaper"; from Educational Theatre Journal, v. 10, # 1; Introduction by Dan Isaac
• Everyman Folder 16
  Box 2
  
• Everywhere I Roam Folder 17
  Box 2
  by Will T. Goodwin; Working Script
• The Flexible Stage Folder 18
  Box 2
  by Emmet Lavery; "This book is a postscript to the history of Federal Theatre as recorded by Hallie Flanagan in Arena, published in December, 1940 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. It carries on where Arena leaves off and should, consequently, be read as a companion volume to Mrs. Flanagan's book."
• Frederick Douglass Folder 19
  Box 2
  by Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Frederick Douglass Folder 20
  Box 2
  by Georgia Douglas Johnson
• G.A.R. of the W.P.A. Folder 21
  Box 2
  
• The Girl of the Golden West Folder 22
  Box 2
  
• Go Down Moses Folder 23
  Box 2
  by Theodore Browne; Based on the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
• Granny Maumee Folder 24
  Box 2
  by Ridgely Torrence; A Play for the Negro Theatre
• The Grasshopper Folder 25
  Box 2
  by Howard Koch; A Comedy of Recent Times
• A Great American Folder 26
  Box 2
  by Anna Friedman; A Roosevelt Play
• The Great American Folder 27
  Box 2
  by Gertrude Worthington Jeffries
• The Great American Drama Folder 28
  Box 2
  
• Haiti Folder 29
  Box 2
  
• Haiti March 2, 1938 Folder 30
  Box 2
  
• Hell's Half Acre 1938 Folder 1
  Box 3
  by Abram Hill
• Hymn to the Rising Sun Folder 2
  Box 3
  by Paul Green
• If Ye Break Faith November 16, 1938 Folder 3
  Box 3
  by Maria M. Coxe
• Injunction Granted 1938 Folder 4
  Box 3
  by the Editorial Staff of the Living Newspaper
• Injunction Granted 1938 Folder 5
  Box 3
  by the Editorial Staff of the Living Newspaper
• Injunction Granted 1938 Folder 6
  Box 3
  by the Editorial Staff of the Living Newspaper
• Israel in the Kitchen July 1934 Folder 7
  Box 3
  by Noah Elstein
• It Can't Happen Here September 18, 1936 Folder 8
  Box 3
  by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• It Can't Happen Here September 18, 1936 Folder 9
  Box 3
  by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• It Can't Happen Here September 18, 1936 Folder 10
  Box 3
  by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• It Can't Happen Here September 18, 1936 Folder 11
  Box 3
  by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the novel by Sinclair Lewis; #1 Script
• Jefferson Davis Folder 12
  Box 3
  by John McGee
• Jericho 1936 Folder 13
  Box 3
  by H. L. Fishel
• Jericho 1936 Folder 14
  Box 3
  by H. L. Fishel
• John Henry: Steel Driving Man Folder 15
  Box 3
  by Frank B. Wells; Tracking Down a Negro Legend, a Saga
• Juba Folder 16
  Box 3
  by Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy
• Juba Folder 17
  Box 3
  by Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy
• King Cotton Folder 18
  Box 3
  The Living Newspaper Presents
• King Cotton Folder 19
  Box 3
  The Living Newspaper Presents
• Land Grant 1939 Folder 20
  Box 3
  by T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale
• Land Grant 1939 Folder 21
  Box 3
  by T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale
• Liberty Deferred Folder 22
  Box 3
  
• Liberty Deferred Folder 1
  Box 4
  
• Liberty Deferred Folder 2
  Box 4
  
• Life and Death of an American Folder 3
  Box 4
  by George Sklar
• Little Black Sambo Folder 4
  Box 4
  by C. B. Chorpenning
• Living Newspaper Follies Folder 5
  Box 4
  by Lawrence and Sylvia Martin
• Living Newspaper Follies Folder 6
  Box 4
  by Lawrence and Sylvia Martin
• Lucy Stone Folder 7
  Box 4
  by Maud Wood Park
• Lysistrata of Aristophanes Folder 8
  Box 4
  by Theodore Browne; An "African Version"
• Macbeth Folder 9
  Box 4
  by William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by Orson Welles; Complete Working Script
• Macbeth April 14, 1936 Folder 10
  Box 4
  by William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by Orson Welles; Complete Working Script
• Medicine Show May 11, 1939 Folder 11
  Box 4
  
• Medicine Show 1986 Folder 12
  Box 4
  by Oscar Saul
• Men at Work Folder 13
  Box 4
  A Pageant of the New Deal
• The Mikado Folder 14
  Box 4
  by W. S. Gilbert; The Town of Titifu
• Miles Gloriosus Folder 15
  Box 4
  by Plautus; translated by Clarence P. Bill
• Milk Folder 16
  Box 4
  
• Miracle at Verdun Folder 17
  Box 4
  by Hans Chlumberg
• Mrs Lincoln Folder 18
  Box 4
  by Ramon Romero; An Historical Play
• My Country Right or Left 1937 Folder 19
  Box 4
  by Muriel Fox, Marie Reed, Suzette Telenga, and Jane Whitbread; A Musical Satire
• The Natural Man Folder 20
  Box 4
  by Theodore Brown; Based on the Legend of John Henry
• The New Deal Folder 21
  Box 4
  
• New Deal Prospectors Folder 22
  Box 4
  
• Ninety-Seven Cents December 15, 1937 Folder 23
  Box 4
  by students of Commonwealth College; Commonwealth College Fortnightly
• Ohio Doom Folder 24
  Box 4
  by Harold Igo.
• One Third of a Nation July 29, 1938 Folder 25
  Box 4
  by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper about Housing
• Pan America Folder 26
  Box 4
  by Grace H. Swift; A Pageant
• Panyared March 14, 1939 Folder 1
  Box 5
  by Hughes Allison
• Pinocchio Folder 2
  Box 5
  adapted by Yasha Frank
• Poor Little Consumer Folder 3
  Box 5
  by Robert Russell
• Power Folder 4
  Box 5
  Living Newspaper
• Precious Land Folder 5
  Box 5
  by Robert Whitehand
• Private Hicks Folder 6
  Box 5
  by Albert Maltz; Anti-Fascist Play
• Processional Folder 7
  Box 5
  by John Howard Lawson
• Professor Mamlock Folder 8
  Box 5
  by Friedrich Wolf
• The Prompter November 1936 Folder 9
  Box 5
  
• The Prophecy 1933 Folder 10
  Box 5
  by Claudia Hatch
• The Red Land Folder 11
  Box 5
  by Robert Sturgis
• Return to Death Folder 12
  Box 5
  by P. Washington Porter; A Tragedy of Negro Life
• The Revolt of the Beavers Folder 13
  Box 5
  
• The Rise of Silas Lapham Folder 14
  Box 5
  
• Rivers Flood Folder 15
  Box 5
  by Richard Oliver; A Living Newspaper Play
• The Rubber Gods Folder 16
  Box 5
  by Margaret Lesueur and Momodu Johnson; a Drama of Native Africa
• Run Little Chillun Folder 17
  Box 5
  by Hall Johnson; Across the River
• Run Little Chillun Folder 18
  Box 5
  by Hall Johnson; Across the River
• Russia Folder 19
  Box 5
  Living Newspaper
• Saleslady Folder 20
  Box 5
  by Upton Sinclair; A Little Play for the White Collar Folks
• Scenes from our Times Folder 21
  Box 5
  by Christobel Morley Cordell
• See America First Folder 22
  Box 5
  by Phyllis Clare Flannery; A Farce Satire
• See How They Run Folder 23
  Box 5
  Dramatist Guild Contest Play #60
• See How They Run Folder 24
  Box 5
  by George Savage
• She Canna Perish 1933 Folder 25
  Box 5
  by Florence Clothier; A Play of the Labrador Coast
• She Stoops to Conquer Folder 26
  Box 5
  by Oliver Goldsmith; The Mistakes of a Night
• Sing for Your Supper Folder 27
  Box 5
  
• Sit Down Sister! June 1937 Folder 28
  Box 5
  by Fall River
• The Sky Will Be Lit Up 1933 Folder 29
  Box 5
  by Janet Hartman and Hallie Flanagan
• Snickering Horses Folder 30
  Box 5
  by Jo Basshe
• So It Didn't Work Folder 31
  Box 5
  Joseph Lawrence; A Comedy
• The Song Story of Our Nation Folder 32
  Box 5
  by Grace Welsh Lutgen
• The South Folder 1
  Box 6
  
• The South Folder 2
  Box 6
  
• Spanish Grant November 1938 Folder 3
  Box 6
  by Eugene Deaderick, Cyrilla P. Lindner, Max Mansbach, Lorin Raker; A Living Newspaper
• Spirochete 1938 Folder 4
  Box 6
  by Arnold Sundgaard; A History
• Star Spangled Folder 5
  Box 6
  by Robert Ardrey; A Comedy
• Stars and Bars Folder 6
  Box 6
  by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play
• Stars and Bars Folder 7
  Box 6
  by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play
• Stars and Bars Folder 8
  Box 6
  by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play
• St. Louis Woman Folder 9
  Box 6
  by Countee Cullen and Arna Bontempa
• Steel Folder 10
  Box 6
  
• Straphanger Folder 11
  Box 6
  by Otis Chatfield-Taylor
• Sweet Land Folder 12
  Box 6
  
• Sweet Land Folder 13
  Box 6
  
• Tapestry in Linen July 1937 Folder 14
  Box 6
  by Shotwell Callvert; a Musical Drama
• Tapestry in Linen July 1937 Folder 15
  Box 6
  by Shotwell Callvert; a Musical Drama
• The Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper Folder 16
  Box 6
  by David Pinsky; A Grotesque Comedy
• The Ten Million Folder 17
  Box 6
  by William Dorsey Blake; A Living Newspaper Play
• Theodore Roosevelt Folder 18
  Box 6
  by Florine Schwartz; A Play for Children
• Theodore Roosevelt - A Great Soldier Folder 19
  Box 6
  by Anna M. Lutkenhaus
• They Too Arise Folder 20
  Box 6
  by Arthur A. Miller
• They Too Arise Folder 21
  Box 6
  by Arthur A. Miller
• They Too Arise Folder 22
  Box 6
  by Arthur A. Miller
• Three-Cornered Moon Folder 23
  Box 6
  by Gertrude Tonkonogy
• Timber! Folder 24
  Box 6
  by Myrtly Mary Moss and Burke Ormsby; A play on deforestation and reforestation
• A Time to Remember 1937 Folder 25
  Box 6
  by Marie Baumer; from the novel by Leane Zugsmith
• The Torch Folder 26
  Box 6
  by John Broome
• The Tower Beyond Tragedy Folder 27
  Box 6
  by Robinson Jeffers; A Play in Poetic Form
• Townsend Goes to Town 1939 Folder 28
  Box 6
  by George Murray and David Pelts; A Living Newspaper on Pensions
• Treasure island Folder 29
  Box 6
  by Jules Eckert Goodman
• The Trial of Dr. Beck December 1938 Folder 1
  Box 7
  by Hughes Allison
• Trilogy in Black Folder 2
  Box 7
  by Ward Courtney; The Moon is Steel; Carnival for Bolt; North
• Triple A Plowed Under Folder 3
  Box 7
  
• Trojan Incident Folder 4
  Box 7
  Based on homer and Euripides
• Troll Hill 1933 Folder 5
  Box 7
  by Eleanor Phelps
• Troubled Island Folder 6
  Box 7
  by Langston Hughes
• Turpentine 1935 Folder 7
  Box 7
  by J. A. Smith and P. Morell; A folk drama of the Florida Pine woods
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Folder 8
  Box 7
  Life Among the Lowly
• Unto Such Glory Folder 9
  Box 7
  
• Utopia, Ltd. 1935 Folder 10
  Box 7
  by Eden White; A Rollicking Comedy
• Waiting for Lefty Folder 11
  Box 7
  
• Waiting for Lefty Folder 12
  Box 7
  Play Reader Report
• War Folder 13
  Box 7
  
• War and Taxes Folder 14
  Box 7
  Living Newspaper
• War and Taxes Folder 15
  Box 7
  Living Newspaper
• Water and Wine 1933 Folder 16
  Box 7
  by Frances Gordon Strunsky
• We Live and Laugh Revue 1937 Folder 17
  Box 7
  translated from the Yiddish by Julius Schmerler and Isidore Edelman
• We the people Folder 18
  Box 7
  by Elmer Rice
• Will Shakespeare Folder 19
  Box 7
  by Clemence Dane
• The Women of Destiny 1933 Folder 20
  Box 7
  by Samuel Jesse Warshawsky
• The Wreck 1933 Folder 21
  Box 7
  by Molly Day Thacher
• Radioscripts
• 13 - 15 Minute Plays March 1939 Folder 1
  Box 8
  
• American Troubadour hour Folder 2
  Box 8
  
• The Banshee August 24, 1938 Folder 3
  Box 8
  by Maxine Schiel; Mystery Dramas
• The Case of the Girl with the Dark Eyes October 18, 1938 Folder 4
  Box 8
  by John Fleming; Mystery Dramas
• The Case of the Skeleton Hands August 10, 1938 Folder 5
  Box 8
  by John Fleming; Mystery Dramas
• Caves of Aladdin September 20, 1938 Folder 6
  Box 8
  by John Fleming; Mystery Dramas
• Clock on the Mantel September 27, 1938 Folder 7
  Box 8
  by Jack Barefield; Mystery Dramas
• The Duchess of Padua November 9, 1937 Folder 8
  Box 8
  by Oscar Wilde; adapted by Donald Macfarlane; Oscar Wilde Cycle
• An Enemy of the People July 13, 1937 Folder 9
  Box 8
  by Hendrik Ibsen; adapted by Harry Goldsmith; Ibsen Cycle
• Ghosts September 21, 1937 Folder 10
  box 8
  by Hendrik Ibsen; Ibsen Cycle
• The Importance of Being Earnest October 5, 1937 Folder 11
  Box 8
  by Oscar Wilde; adapted by Donald Macfarlane; Oscar Wilde Cycle
• John Gabriel Borkman July 27, 1937 Folder 12
  Box 8
  by Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Harry Goldsmith; Ibsen Cycle
• Lefty Peroni August 3, 1938 Folder 13
  Box 8
  by Georgia Backus; Mystery Dramas
• Little Eyolf August 31, 1937 Folder 14
  Box 8
  by Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Donald Macfarlane; Ibsen Cycle
• The Living Dead Man September 13, 1938 Folder 15
  Box 8
  by Maxine Schiel; Mystery Dramas
• The Lonely Man January 19, 1939 Folder 16
  Box 8
  by Howard Koch; adapted by Lawrence Levey; Federal Theatre of the Air
• A Matter of Mirrors October 11, 1938 Folder 17
  Box 8
  by Ben Hawthorne; Mystery Dramas
• A Mystery of Mountain Manor October 25, 1938 Folder 18
  Box 8
  by John Fleming; Mystery Dramas
• Pillars of Society August 17, 1937 Folder 19
  Box 8
  by Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Charles Crumpton; Ibsen Cycle
• Salome November 23, 1937 Folder 20
  Box 8
  adapted by Lewis W. Moyer; Oscar Wilde Cycle
• Treasure Island of 1939 1939 Folder 21
  Box 8
  Audition Program
• Who Shall Deny It April 16, 1938 Folder 22
  Box 8
  by Benet Costa
• The Wild Duck July 6, 1937 Folder 23
  Box 8
  by Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Georgia Fawcett; Ibsen Cycle
• The Women of the Day Folder 24
  Box 8
  by Leo Fontaine; A Radio Series