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Children's Festival, Week! Los Angeles, 1937. 'Hansel and Gretel; Marionette Circus; Music in Fairyland, Rip van Winkle marionettes; Pinocchio...Saturday Matinees - Hollywood Playhouse, Vine Street near Hollywood Bouldvard...Federal Theatre Project - a Division of the Works Progress Administration'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the US Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theatre workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theatre to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances.