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on Macbeth in Harlem with an all Negro cast. It was one of the most interesting performances of Macbeth I ever saw. People went from all over New York and came from all over the country to see it. It was a famous production of Macbeth. I've always felt sure that the great increase in the number of Negro actors that made the legitimate stage came out of that WPA project. The commercial managers discovered how good the Negroes were. Later on they got real jobs. I know that Canada Lee was among those. He's supposed to be a very fine and able actor, and he was purely a WPA product. What- ever acting he'd done before professionally was in the third- rate burlesque joints that were not known to the commercial managers of the upper class theatres.

I say these things because I thought that the whole project was very imaginative. They found work for archaeologists, research workers, historians. The whole research and restoration of St. Augustine was one of the WPA projects, all done by out of work professors, students, archaeologists, and historians working together. The kinds of things they did were really enormous.

However, you always got down to this dead level of the really poor, really depressed, who turned up in the WPA projects without having really much to bless themselves with in the way of talent. I remember that the women's projects