Abstract
Abstract This chapter highlights the prominent gay performers in the 1930s. It starts with Eva Le Gallienne, who instituted the revolving-repertory model on Broadway and founded the Civic Repertory Theatre. Meanwhile, Cole Porter has been recognized as one of the most cynical hetero-married gays as his ballads were often obsessed or fatalistic. The chapter also considers the threat of the Wales Padlock Law that was designed to block any depiction of gay life to the public. In response, theatre people have devised ways to skip the law with performances such as Thomas H. Dickinson's Winter Bound (1929) and Mordaunt Shairp's The Green Bay Tree (1933).
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