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Show Miss Myrtle Henderson Library Hour Speaker The colorful "History of the Drama In Utah", was the book reviewed last Sunday evening by Miss Myrtle Henderson, drama instructor in-structor of the Dixie junior college col-lege fo rthe Library Hour. This book is the thesis written by Miss Henderson for her degree when she graduated from the Northwestern North-western University, Chicago, and is the first authenticated study of this phase of L. D. S. recreational life. The material was assembled with the desire to enlist reverence rever-ence and respect of Utahns as well as others for those pioneers who sponsored the drama, literature, liter-ature, music and other cultural activities ac-tivities in Utah. Though not written writ-ten primarily for publication, Miss Henderson acceded to the urging of her instructors at Northwestern, Northwest-ern, and has thus provided a most interesting study of this phase of Mormon activity, from a different angle to the "Memoirs" by George D. Pyper, or the writings of Alfred Al-fred Lambourne, both of whom were closely associated with the old Salt Lake theatre for many years. Tracing the growth of dramatic activity of the church from early Nauvoo days, when Joseph Smith, the L. D. S. prophet, sponsored the organization, and such men as Brigham Young, George A. Smith and Erastus Snow and other leaders lead-ers were of the casts directed by Thomas A. Lyon, down through the history of the early organization organiz-ation in Utah and the old Bowery productions, the old Social hall, and eventual erection of the Salt Lake theatre, and its colorful story, Miss Henderson has provided pro-vided a book very interesting to all who have pioneer ancestry, and especially to those who love the thespian arts. In her study are included pictures pic-tures of the buildings, names of plays and players, hand bills and other vital material, naming Brig-ham Brig-ham Young as the recognized father of the "Little Theatre In America", and evidences of the cultural value of this recreation |