doi:10.7916/d8-rs95-3y60Oral history interview with Walter Charles Abel, 1959Abel, Walter Charles, 1898-oral historiessound recordingssound recording - nonmusicalActorsMotion picturesTelevisionTheaterAbel, Walter Charles, 1898-Early training with Theatre Guild and Provincetown Playhouse; acting career on Broadway, development of modern theater; Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s; television and its effect on Hollywood; impresssions of John Drew, Mrs. Fiske, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Edmond Jones. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"