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Help Yourself, Salem, MA, 1937. 'Empire Theatre...Federal Theatre Presents for One Week Only - Help Yourself - A Rollicking Farce by Paul Vulpius - Staged by Arthur Ritchie...Works Progress Administration'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances.