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The Farmer Takes a Wife, Salem, MA, 1938. 'Empire Theatre...Home of the Spoken Drama...The Farmer Takes a Wife - A Folk Play of the Erie Canal - by F.B. Elser & Marc Connelly'. 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.