The Schaffner Players

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If you can go down in the gutter and bring up a pearl, by all means do so, but don’t go into the gutter just for the sake of sensationalism. Remember the theater is a place of entertainment and not a laboratory. Some purveyors of filth on the stage claim, as a defense, that such things do happen in real life. True! So also do accidents with the bowels happen in real life, but they can hardly be classed as entertainment.[3]

Sound “bally� truck in Mt. Pleasant, 1949


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