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Prologue to Glory, San Francisco, 1938. 'Federal Theatre Project - A Division of Works Progress Administration, Announce A Special Limited Engagement Of "Prologue to Glory" by Ellsworth Conkle - seats now selling three weeks in advance - Western Premier...Alcazar Theatre - No Citizen of These United States, Native or in the Making Should Be Permitted to Miss Seeing - "Prologue to Glory" - Burns Mantell [sic]'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances.