Show THE MORMONS AND THE THEATER I A most mot entertaining took hook John bohn S Lindsay the 1111 actor or ha has turned out In InThe inThe The Mormons md 1111 the Theater In hi hl little work of If pages now nosy to b lit be found fecund on the counters counter of ot the Deseret Dew ret News New Hook Book Store fUore he hi has haa done doni what ninny many another old lId time actor notor Ins him long been eo considering written A s history of af the gait Ball Lake thc theater for that Ills his book really la II I even more than the tho story lory of ot the Mormons I and the tho The Theater Theater ater ter Mr 11 Lindsey writes write In an oy easy end and entertaining Wl way and while his hid chapter chanters contain BO somo mo to the foal them that much of th the matter originally Rp appeared arll In lit the form torm of If newspaper contributions still It Is s all I Interesting and many o of those who love to delve Into literature dealing dOlIng with the doings of tb the Pioneer rs t J jit it J P M 1 will find themselves s as the writer did 11 unable to lay the Uto book hook down until they have hlo finished Its lis perusal The Th opening chapter starts start it at th the fountain head anti and tell tells the story of theatrical anti and amusements In III N MI von d days yn when Jo Joseph ph Smith himself en encouraged the druma and anti fir then a very young man lent countenance to the stage to Ih the extent of ot appearing In III a part In the play of Pizarro The birth of or the drama among Il Pioneers tram from the tho days of ot the tha Bowery Bower the Social und anti theater the circumstances that led to the building of ot the Salt Halt Lika Laka theater And the opening of ot that historic temple of amusements are nil mull inter interestingly interestingly set forth Thenceforward the thu book traces trace the engagement of or nearly every nery actor or e who visited tho the house home from tram Its opening In 1 in 12 1 down to the days when the old stock Block company compan of at which Mr Ir Lindsay was a r went wont ou out of ot exl existence cud and the I 1 L jI I jj Jo v I t wh l J ter |