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Historic Photo Gallery · 1941 to 1946

1943

In the 1942-43 season, John Barton starred in a tour of Tobacco Road. Based on the record-setting comedy novel by Erskine Caldwell, this play about Georgia sharecroppers was dramatized by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and was made into a film version directed by John Ford in 1941.

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