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Playhouse marks 20 years of northern Minnesota summer stock
Rowena Deweese recalls the Paul Bunyan Playhouse anniversary as a milestone for one of the oldest professional summer stock companies in Minnesota. The piece highlights founders volunteers and actors from 1951 onward and notes the 1972 season as the 21st.
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Paul Bunyan Playhouse
Minnesota
Margaret Lucan
Earl Grinos
Mary Bauman
Ira Mae Talley
Robert Gaus
Bemidji
Brainerd
Don
Ruttger
New York
John Glas
Paul Bunyan
Leon Kaliher
Marty Wilson
Agnes Bassett
Playhouse
Don Ruttger
Birchmont Beach
Chuck Avery
Gertrude Doolittle
Bill Bramley
Phil Smith
Kay Nolte
Bill McKeregan
Marylou Reed
Sue Kelly
John Gill
Bill Philps
Dick Bassett
Elsie Glas
Roalie Vandersluis
Harold Peters
Marlon Davidson
Bill Gill
Joel
Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn
Patty Bayley
Miss Bayley
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