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Show . i ' ... ., ? . . - i . . HE. - I ' v t' f ; M .' . f V-;., c : (j STAGE PLAY THIS WEEKEND : 'Brotlior Origiioiii ; nlavBoQUGf OoHfitu "' Beaver LDS Stake and Beiver County Civic Arts Council will sponsor the one-man one-man production of "Here's Brother Brigham" by James Arrington, in Beaver on July 15, 16, and 17, at the lst-3rd lst-3rd Ward Cultural Hall at 1:30 p.m. Arrington is out to give his audience the real Brigham ' Young, so far as is possible. Besides an unusual facial resemblance, Arrington is built much like the first governor. A few clues of how Brigham talked come from " his letters to his wives. Al- ' though scribes took do his letters .to his children, he wrote to his wives himself, , and much of the documenta- g tion comes from those let- "' ters, as well as diaries and journals. I But the real value in this is not just the entertainment f ... though the show will be entertaining. Arrington hopes to give his audiences a truer and fuller picture of a great man. Arrington will play in two acts. The first will be Brigham Brig-ham Young as the man who crossed the plains, refined and matured by polygamy and persecution. The second half is the governor and church leader; the man who when a woman said that a doctor told her to stop taking snuff "because it hurts the brain", answered, "It won't hurt the brain to take snuff ... no one that has a brain would take snuff." Arrington's production has aroused a great deal of interest. in-terest. "Everybody asks me how many wives he had," he says, "and I have the answer an-swer . . . Brigham 's direct statement." Immediately after the Beaver performances, Arrington Ar-rington will begin a vigorous vigor-ous tour of our nation and Canada, as he portrays a great man to spellbound audiences. au-diences. This will be the only performance inSouth-ern inSouth-ern Utah, so don't miss it. Tickets cost $2.00 per person per-son and are available at the drug stores in Milford or Beaver. |