Kids are watching Sesame Street and I'm reading up on Will Lee aka Mr. Hooper. AMAZING. Brooklyn-born, Federal Theater Project actor/director, put on shows for GIs, came home and told HUAC to get lost, got blacklisted, came back, became Mr. Hooper in 1969. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/09/obituaries/will-lee-74-was-mr-hooper-on-television-sesame-street.html
Turns out he has archives at @ahcwyo and they look incredible. HE DIRECTED A "COMMUNIST CHILDREN'S PLAY FOR CHILDREN CALLED "STRIKE ME RED" in 1934! https://twitter.com/WYPublicRadio/status/1285343575602089984
Full report from @ahcwyo just gets better and better. WORKERS REPERTORY THEATER! https://ahcwyo.org/2018/04/18/spotlighting-communism-hollywood-in-the-papers-of-sesame-streets-mr-hooper/
PINK SLIPS ON PARADE! (Mr. Hooper, 3rd from left).
@ook_wow & @Schism_Shop this is amazing Wyoming content! Please tell me there is a "20th Century History through the life of Mr. Hooper" course!
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