CARLTON MOSS (Feb. 1909-August, 1997) One of the persons I contacted after Frances died was Carlton Moss. She mentioned him during our discussion about the film Salt of the Earth. She described him as a brilliant, well-respected black writer and film maker who created his own documentaries for which he was given a budget. He was asked to
In the 1960’s community theater was thriving in L.A. Among them were Ebony Showcase theater on Washington Blvd. (Nick and Edna Stewart); Inner City Cultural Theatre (C. Barnard Jackson); Performing Arts Society in Los Angeles (PASLA), (Vantile Whitfield); Frances William Corner Theatre on Exposition and Frank Silvera’s theatre on La Cienega in Hollywood. I attended performances