{"id":395,"date":"2025-05-12T08:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:43:22","slug":"hallie-flanagan-1935","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/hallie-flanagan-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallie Flanagan (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; max-width: none; color: rgb(20, 20, 19);\"><span style=\"font-family: Raleway, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT<\/strong><br><\/span><font color=\"#141413\" face=\"Helvetica\" size=\"2\"><strong style=\"color: rgb(82, 101, 168); text-transform: uppercase; font-size: large;\">HALLIE FLANAGAN (1935)<\/strong><\/font><\/p><\/span>\n<p style=\"\"><font color=\"#000000\">Hallie Flanagan&nbsp;<\/font><\/p><p style=\"\"><font color=\"#000000\">1889-1969<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Director of the Federal Theater Project, Producer, Playwright, Author, Professor<\/span><\/p><p style=\"\"><font color=\"#000000\">Written and Performed by: Bonnie Zare<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Setting: New York City, an office near Ziegfeld Theatre<\/span><\/p><p style=\"\"><font color=\"#000000\">It is a windy, grayish day in New York, and Hallie Flanagan is arriving for her appointment with Mr. Russell Brown, the booking manager of Ziegfeld Theatre.<\/font><\/p>\n{&#8220;title&#8221;:&#8221;&#8221;,&#8221;content&#8221;:&#8221;<iframe width=\\\"100%\\\" height=\\\"300\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\" frameborder=\\\"no\\\" allow=\\\"autoplay\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2077198520%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-bqm6dWaKI8d&#038;color=%2300aabb&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\\\"><\/iframe><div style=\\\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\\\"><a href=\\\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-17135768\\\" title=\\\"Performing History\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" style=\\\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\\\">Performing History<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-17135768\/hallie-flanagan-zare-version-2\/s-bqm6dWaKI8d\\\" title=\\\"Hallie Flanagan Monologue 1935\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" style=\\\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\\\">Hallie Flanagan Monologue 1935<\/a><\/div>&#8220;}\n\n\n\n\n<span style=\"color:#888888;\"><p>Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule. We\u2019ve got their approval \u2013 and now it\u2019s becoming a reality.&nbsp;<\/p><p>A nation-wide theater will be built, that shall one day be the envy of other countries.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>You watch: our theater is going to cross the land, with each region offering its own play, one brimming up from its own particular geography. Then all the best plays will make their way to New York. It would mean the world if Ziegfeld Theatre could reserve a space in their schedule for us.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Think about it!&nbsp;<\/p><p>[Flirty] If you say yes, Ziegfeld will be talked about across the land. It won\u2019t just be known for Show Boat.<\/p><p>[he looks unconcerned, lighting cigar]&nbsp;<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Mr. Brown, are you fully aware we&#8217;ve got 10,000 show business folks on relief rolls?<\/p><p>Believe me, I can harness major talents &#8211; the best actors, dancers and designers &#8211; I can get Orson Welles! Don\u2019t smile like that \u2013 I most certainly can!<\/p><p>But they will need a proper setting;&nbsp;<\/p><p>they need your regal hall so they can properly be in their glory and will realize this is not some two-bit experiment.&nbsp;<\/p><p><span style=\"white-space: pre; white-space: normal;\">\t<\/span><\/p><p>What do you mean, don&#8217;t &#8220;magic of theatah&#8221; me? Do you really think only motion pictures can lure people to venture out?&nbsp;<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>No, not another dragged out version of Romeo and Juliet.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p>We will have people lining up, ready to cut their teeth on something new, something that mirrors the world around us.<\/p><p>It will be no less than a revelation \u2013 you\u2019ll be wanting us on your marquee. Of course, I know you have to have more details, but will you talk with the others?<\/p><p>Oh, I\u2019m so glad you\u2019ll consider it. Do get back to me as soon as you can.<\/p><p>Thank you.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Believe me, sir, this theater will reshape American life.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p><\/span><p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/perry-bruskin\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); text-align: center;\">\n      Perry Bruskin\n<\/a>&nbsp;<span style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u2022&nbsp;<\/span>\n  \n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/martin-dies\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); text-align: center;\">\n      Martin Dies\n    <\/a>\n    <span style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<\/span>\n  \n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/hallie-flanagan-1935\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); text-align: center;\">\n      Hallie Flanagan (1935)\n    <\/a>\n    <span style=\"text-align: center; 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