Encyclopedia Dubuque
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Affiliated with the Local History Network of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Iowa Museum Association.
LORAS PLAYERS
LORAS PLAYERS. Iowa's oldest amateur theater group. Founded in 1910, the Players presented their most monumental performance, "Hid Battlements," thirty-six times during the centennial of the ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE for a total audience estimated at 21,000. The production required two hundred seventy costumes and had four hundred twenty roles performed by one hundred thirty six actors.
Perhaps the Players best-known graduate was television and movie star Don AMECHE who, in 1922, starred in The Shepherd in the Distance as a prince.