Examines the creation of the 1930 Broadway play "The Green Pastures", which met with critical acclaim, won a Pulitzer Prize, and enjoyed a long and successful run both in New York and on the road and places the play firmly in social context. He sees it as "a well-meaning attempt to present the best of the black soul in a pleasing way to an urbane white audience." A preacher in a small African-American church in Louisiana tells his Sunday school class...

Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.

20 of the best American plays from 1930-1939.