ARTS LEADERS HAVE TO START LEADING

I mean, Tallulah knew in 1939 that the Federal Theatre Project was probably doomed because the Republicans insisted it was riddled with Communists. yet she went down to Washington, D.C. with a raft of Broadway powerhouses to give a barn-burning speech to the Senate subcommittee, then headed back to New York to give a different kind of performance that night in The Little Foxes.