Abstract
AMONG THE MAKERS OF THEATRICAL HISTORY in America during the thirties we are used to including playwrights, directors, acting companies, stars, designers, producers, and even a few critics. The names of writers like Odets, Green, Hellman, Saroyan, and Wilder shine out, and so do those of companies like the Group Theatre, the Theatre Union, the Mercury Theatre, and the protean Federal Theatre Project. Much less well known, if not generally forgotten, are organizations like the New Theatre League and New Theatre magazine. Who remembers that to a certain extent Clifford Odets was discovered by New Theatre? His Waiting for Lefty received the top prize-fifty dollars-in a contest that the magazine sponsored jointly with New Masses. Moreover, when the curtain rose for the first time on that play-at the Civic Repertory Theatre on Sunday evening, January 6, 1935-the performance, by members of the Group Theatre cast of Melvin Levy's Gold Eagle Guy, was for the benefit of New Theatre.
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