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One Third of a Nation is a Living Newspaper play produced by the Federal Theatre Project in 1938. Written by Arthur Arent from research by the editorial staff of the Federal Theatre Project, it focused on the problem of housing in the United States and the growth of slums in New York City.
With Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Myron McCormick, Hiram Sherman. A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family.
One Third of a Nation is a Living Newspaper play produced by the Federal Theatre Project in 1938. Written by Arthur Arent from research by the editorial staff of the Federal Theatre Project, it focused on the problem of housing in the United States and the growth of slums in New York City.
One Third of a Nation is also the title of Arthur Arent’s 1938 play, which emphasized the plight of the poor and was funded by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project. In this painting Guglielmi draws attention to the horrid living conditions during the Great Depression.
A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family.
One Third of a Nation is her record, underscored by the eloquent photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and others, of the shocking plight of millions of unemployed and dispossessed...
...One Third of a Nation is one-third gritty realism, one-third sunny optimism and one-third burgeoning romance. It starts with a decrepit tenement slum teeming with life: kids shouting and hollering and a policeman trying to establish which of them is responsible for breaking a now-gushing fire hydrant, and so on.
