Schaffner Players
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Schaffner Players
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The Schaffner Players was a traveling theatre group that performed in the Midwest Opera Houses, in traveling tent shows, and later on the radio for 72 years. The Schaffner Players trace their beginning back to 1851. That was the year when "Yankee" Robinson, the first man in America to tour a dramatic show under a tent, moved to Davenport, Iowa and nearby Rock Island, Illinois. Finding no buildings large enough in which his cast could perform, he built a 1000 seat tent theatre with his own hands,
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Rural entertainment tent show
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaffner_Players
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2023-09-16T05:07:49Z
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