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Show From Providence Editor Leader: - With your permission I will trespass on a small space of your valuable paper. Having heard a great deal said injurious to the character of the people of Providence, I think it but fair that things should be understood in their true light. The people of this place have shown great enterprise in building so fine a hall as they have though it is not entirely completed. This was intended for social entertainments as well as for meetings. Now through the misbehavior of residents of other places who come to our social gatherings, our own people have been blamed and called unfit to associate with. For the amount of amusement given in our hall, the order kept will compare favorably with other places in the territory - Logan excepted. Logan is the best place I ever saw, that you can get your money's worth; all that bothers you is whether you are in a theatre or a menagerie. I attach no blame to the Dramatic Club, for I think if any persons spend their valuable time for nothing, those who compose our dramatic companies do, yet, they must take all the abuse and insult of every sanctimonious hypocrite in the country. Nearly all the trouble we have had in Providence has been with those who have come from other places. I am of the same mind as President Preston, that our young people should have amusement, but that it should be of such a kind that any Latter-day Saint might not feel ashamed to take part in. As I have rented the hall in connection with the Angell Orchestra, for a series of select parties, I am determined that they shall be so conducted that no parents need fear to allow their children to attend or to be present themselves. There has been some trouble in changing hats and overcoats. To avoid such a thing in the future, a cloak room will be provided and a person employed to take charge of the same. Henry Bullock Providence, Dec., 1880. |