Oral history interview with Paul Eliot Green
name: label: Interviewee
content: Green, Paul, 1894-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Theater Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Authors -- North Carolina -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Green, Paul, 1894-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Paul Eliot Green was a writer with the Federal Theater Project from Chapel Hill, N.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings: (2 hours), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 July 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.green65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Paul Eliot Green conducted 1965 July 13, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art. Green speaks of his background and education; early ventures in writing plays; the history of theater in the South; the Federal Theater Project in the South; writing plays for the Project; the Project's legacy, and his feelings about government support for the arts, and the WPA. He recalls Hallie Flanagan.