 One of the Federal Theatre Project's most popular productions, "Haiti" was seen by some 90,000 people at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem and at Boston's Copley Theatre.In January 1939, with the end of the Federal Theatre Project, Lee gained a role in "Mamba's Daughters", a Broadway success that toured North America and returned to Broadway for another brief run in 1940.Lee took a break from the road tour to make his motion picture debut in "Keep Punching" (1939), a film about boxing.