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Show I II i u ....... ;.-fl&r v - ' ' ' ' " " ' ---"::"-----"v"i: war til Vida right studies her sketches in preparations for her column "Yidawright Fashions" which appears in this newspaper every week. Woman of the Week - . . By Emma D. King The lady is a dancer, actress, artist, designer and she can bake a cherry pie! She's Vida Wright, housewife, mother, career woman, designer gifts endowed into one charming person, , You've read her Fashion News in our pages for many months and now let us' read about the writer herself; for she makes as interesting inter-esting a true life story as she makes a beloved neighbor and friend to all. Ogden was her home town; where she was born to William Arthur Wright and Bertha Eccles Wright. As a child her life was eventful for her folks moved east, traveled to Europe, where they lived, for a time, and returned to live in New York. In both places Vida attended school. Later the family returned to Utah and Vida chose the University of Utah for her college years. A talented child, she began her training for a professional career in ballet at the age of ten. She studied with the Italian Maestro, Stefano Mascagno, with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Calif. (Continued on Page 6) Vida Wright and her two children, Vivien and Nicholas Anthony, whom Wrights adopted recently. Woman of the Week (Continued from Page 4) To augment the ballet, and looking to future horizons, extensive training train-ing in drama and piano was also begun. For two years she was a professional pro-fessional dancer in New York, appeared ap-peared in Ziegfield productions and night club performances. Her drama and dancing career were not destined to take the prominent place in her life as it has that of her aunt, the well-known well-known Lila Eccles Brimhall, for she returned to Utah, met and married Grant J. Wright, Three years later the Wrights were headed head-ed east to live in Boston, where 'her husband "was to continue his business education at Harvard School of Business Administration, Administra-tion, Here Vida decided to continue con-tinue her schooling in costume designing, de-signing, a course she had previously previous-ly taken at the University of Utah. After her first year she was awarded a scholarship to complete the two additional years. One of her designs brought her first prize in a contest sponsored by the American Silk Company which gave her the thrill of achievement. She graduated from the New York School of Design. Once again Utah . lured the Wrights homeward and here, Vida, opened her own business "Custom Made Clothes for Ladies," which she ran for eight years. The Wrights have made their home in Holladay for 17 years and have had a family of eight children. chil-dren. And just recently they adopted two orphan children from Greece. This was a natural turn of events for Vida as she had long worked in the foster care for children, chil-dren, and participated with that plan under the County Welfare and the LDS Relief Society for several years. And during these years she has cared for fifteen children ' in her home. With Vida there are perhaps not one of her many talents or gifts placed first in her life but she has made a place for each of them to broaden her role of mother and housewife as she also has done with her church work. She has taken an active place in her church as a counselor in the Primary organization or-ganization where she also was a teacher, as dance director in the MIA and as a work director in the Relief Society. We are pleased to have Vida share her talents with our readers in her weekly column, "Vida-wright" "Vida-wright" and to this charming lady who has done so much we say, "A King's Ransom!" |