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by John D. Fitzgerald
author of "Papa Married a Mormon"
and "Mamma's Boarding House"
A movement is now under way in Utah
to build a replica of the fabulous
old Salt Lake Theater. If the persons
behind this movement display one percent
of the tenacity, stubbornness, and vision of
the man who built the original theater, the
replica will certainly be built!
There was great consternation among
officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in 1861 when thSir lead
er Brigham Young announced he was go
ing to build a theater in Salt Lake City.
They told him that if the Mormons built
a theater before a temple in which to wor
ship, it would invite the condemnation of
the whole country.
They argued that many Christians be
lieved the theater to be an evil place, and
if the Mormons built one it would bring
censorship from all other religious sects.
And, finally, they said there were no ma
terials with which to build a theater.
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"There is nothing lovely in this world,"
Brigham Young replied, "but the Lord
created it for the good of his children. It
is the abuse and not the use of anything
that constitutes evil."
And so on March 8, 1862, the first the
atrical production was presented in the
Salt Lake Theater. During the first eight
years of its existence, more than 500 plays,
farces, and operas were produced in the
theater, a record unequaled by any Amer
ican theater of that time. Firearms had to
be checked at the box office, and parched
corn, dried apples, and dried peaches took
the place of present-day popcorn.
When the famous midget, General Tom
Thumb, and his family played the theater,
he told Brigham Young: "I can under
stand everything about your religion but
polygamy." The Mormon leader patted the
midget on the head and replied, "Yes, I
know, but you will understand it when
you get as big as I am."
A young Shakespearian actor fell in love
with an actress named Sara Alexander
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Here is a little-known story about Brigham Young, who
brought color and drama to old Salt Lake City.
mon leader told him: "Young man, I've
seen you attempt Richard III and Julius
Caesar with fair success, but I advise you
not to aspire to Alexander."
Brigham Young rarely missed a per
formance at the theater and often was re
sponsible for the show being able to go
on at all. When David McKensie, playing
Uncle Tom, couldn't find his coat during
one performance, Young gave the actor
his own coat to wear and watched the per
formance in his shirt sleeves.
Young averted a panic one evening
when three oil lamps in the footlights
burst into flames. He jumped to the stage
and put out the fire with his hat.
A leading lady, who was a blonde needed
a brunet wig for a part and, after finding
none available in the wardrobe depart
ment, took her problem to Brigham
Young. The Mormon recalled that a young
actor named John McDonald had a beauti
ful head of long black hair which he wore
shoulder length.
Young asked the actor to cut off his
hair so a wig could be made from it and
the show go on. McDonald must have been
a real trouper because he replied, "If the
success of the play depends upon my hair,
Brother Brigham, you shall have it!"
The first time Brigham Young imposed
any censorship on the theater was
during the first professional ballet
to appear in it. Young instructed the man
ager that all ballet skirts must be ankle
length. The manager protested that it
would be impossible for the troupe to
dance, but Young was insistent.
During the first performance, many of
the dancers tripped and fell on the long
skirts. Before the second performance, the
manager cut one inch off the skirts.
When this went unnoticed by Young, the
manager cut off another inch at the next
performance and continued doing this
until, by the final night of the ballet, the
skirts had been shortened to their original
length. Brigham Young had attended
every performance and either hadn't
noticed or pretended he hadn't!
The Salt Lake Theater gave to the world
such playwrights and librettists as Chan
ning Pollock, Edwin Milton Royle, and
Otto Harbach. Annie Adams Kiskadden
was a popular leading lady during the
1870s. One evening when the baby used in
the play, "The Lost Child," became ill,
Mrs. Kiskadden substituted her own baby
daughter for the part. That was how the
famous Maude Adams made her stage
debut at the age of seven months.
Later she appeared in several plays
with her mother, and at nine, she did her
first solo, singing "The Yaller Girl Who
Winked at Me." By the time she was 20,
Maude Adams was playing leading roles in
the theater and went on from there to
world fame and fortune.
Some of the greatest stars on the Ameri
can stage appeared in the Salt Lake
Theatre before it closed: Edwin Booth,
Forbes Robertson, Otis Skinner, Henry
Miller, John Drew, Richard Mansfield,
Cyril Maude, Robert Mantell, George Ar
liss, Sarah Bernhardt, Mary Anderson,
Ada Rehan, Billie Burke, Blanche Bates,
Ethel Barrymore, and others.
Brigham Young was often criticized for
building the theater, but he silenced his
critics for all time when he declared, "I
built the theater to attract the young of
the community and provide amusement
for the boys and girls rather than have
them run all over creation for recreation.
"Upon the stage of a theater can be
represented evil and its consequences,
good and its happy returns and rewards,
the weakness and the follies of man, the
magnanimity of virtue and the greatness
of truth.
"The stage can be made to aid the pulpit
in impressing upon the minds of the com
munity an enlightened sense of a virtuous
life, also a proper horror of the enormity
of sin and dread of its consequences."
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