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Show LKHl FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH When a Mining Camp Was a Cultural Center Ma? k k - " JZ-- 5- i .. Jan. i on Pack1 for p to WATSON t.jlOSG tlie entries to be written down A in America's l'.m.k of Time for the " ' tear rJ.""' undoubtedly will be this w g"1J rush in tlie w'est." one: "A silFor the hither price of gold and established by governmental dever, cree during the past year, has revived industry, has in almost prostrate caused a hustle of excited activity in many a mining camp and has brought wimse de- more than one "guost town" streets were pitl- Ifshins and linders of the glories that had once been fa the bonanza days. Jciilly has tiiis been true of the state of ko through the tapestry of whose history nd silver thread. Lead-- i iny a g!1'ti Idaho Sprin-- s. lireckenrldge, Fairplay, J Cripple VreeU, Victor, Ouray, Silverton, ("It's day all day In the daytime and lis do night in Creede") and Aspen once liiose are glamorous names. J March the name of Leadville appeared newspaper In the United ;aally every For out of that town came the news that old woman had frozen to Jin a tumble-dowshack on the side of a I Leadville. Her name was Elizabeth Doe and the busy world paused for a moment Somber that she had been the famous and ' l "Baby Doe" Tabor, that a President United States had been a wedding guest to II. A. W, Tabor, a she was married ido bonanza king. And It remembered, too, Jrten.the great Tabor fortune had slipped a their fingers, she had gone back to to spend her last poverty-fe- n ,lle, there mine, years guarding the Matchless had been the source of most of their 'I and from which she never ceased believ-?.- t wealth would come again. the list of those mining camps whose fame en revived recently there should be added I another. It is Central City, 3!e Kingdom capital of the "Little King-dora of Gilpin" and In Gilpin" many respects the greatest the Colorado gold camps. At one time al City was not only "the wildest, roughest lappiest mining camp in Colorado" but It As such It .ji'so one of the very richest. : i save the federal Union by pouring its into the United States treasury when the . ssful prosecution of the Civil war was at Bat despite these facts and the fact that ralCity is sharing with the other gold camps renewed prosperity, a revival of interest in ame and fame is not due to any such ma-- ; reason. The reason is cultural ! For Cen- has an opera house and thereby hangs f3ty most romantic tales In the history of J ittf Central Cty.Coioi'aao '"''" ' ' '-- U- ELMO SCOTT By HOPE you heard ZaSu Pitts when she did "Dulcy" on the radio; it was a relief to hear her and not one of her imitators. Incidentally, she's quite interested in those girls who do impersonations of her; says she's always wanted I k an - it I ' ( ! " A fix- - ..J.M grass-grow- and p.,: and ;r ent TS meii ild mm II i turn, old reasa infteai (ipaiioi low tit ;ht! of eva :arefu2y $ ansva, ill you i liquid can be ir need le, until eironi d Till satires, n. If it est for e most Syrqi i ead ; i theater. of all, consider some of the "back-Id- '' City. In 1858 pros-9- n Jefferson territory the sands of Cherry creek some fst history of Central In what was then led from "& Particles nf mptnl e same o "5 nth vtuvm s.suuu ovtu' stuff In the Pikes Peak precious miles south. The word was carried to a people still suffering from the East "t 1857. i Immediately the great Pikes Within a year more 50,000 fortune seekers had - stampeded the plains to this new El Dondo. t most of them were doomed to disappoint- m me amount of free gold which could be panned out of the xampede to streams of the moun- ?ory Digging' tata country was rel atively small. Most u still locked up In a matrix of quartz. W white L sold Then isheii le en? ratched J BOB !St, W but tin Then I ntment 8, 1859. B aiscovered ellered nmoffll nd ptfW nnmaH Tohn TT Hroir. of gold quartz In a evidences n!lfe 60 miles north aDd west o( Denver-Mountain News of Denver published ira to herald th nt Hi strike lUtnpede for "Gregory's began, Dlgglns" toe hills and vntioco n fi,.f vita the tent t tha ni erThe boom towns, of Black Hawk ""yuie came Into existence and since 7 j) Hit r,i rush was on. nv 5 e. 0 ' .m .,o liolri titi 7li ilbertso. P ed "w ELBJ eamP. 8 miaway between tnem, John Armons and HarrUon the town s,te t0 Include the gave It the name of Central . tblS Dluahrrvnm ... oamn t tompllmetit Indeed, for it was pitched ae with 8ome f Its streets ron- iW IH'tJ his discnvn "oaae "m me guicu wiicir man ltZ Vn Central cn'forthtrt ,f 'aHowever, 1 feU he d ro11 day8-- " th In -Donulatlon and In Im 1 e county of Gl'P,n was ettao Ijiu.'.1" il'IVT inj aizea itoti,! i inri . Damed for Thmas Gilpin, first nor of Colorado, Centre! City vuuuiy eat. t0 "Gregory's fmaia Dlgglns" was on. j "Sflshe, an eastern theatrical rp'Jl' fa mnm Cd the 8ucce8S of Ltta, Adah Monfez durlnS the California nish io .7 ""' Ile decided that there tolden unIty for nlm ,n the new ';nn and .t "' lcu ' wst. But he didn't reach . fa of 1800 when It was too "etrate Kinj,inl yalleys of the . '"Pin." So he opened In rvrv,, th itiit. re no- - Si IK' ' 8now-locke- Mi.: d . "Hachun In 'm ' Nture and nr. was Phllosonhy " r- -- h!hi fl. . oe Starpo,! CM8.Sf,i! 8eaaon of lu Bi central City the -- i Id months in spring nct ""MBS? 4 son 'fv (Barbara little boy, you'll re call), wuo is a little younger. She started ZaSu Pitts. out at the crack of dawn each morning and was on hand when the stores opened, to buy simple frocks and sweuters and suits. And very smart she looked, too, dressed in dark blue her favorite color. She was besieged with offers to do more broadcasts; Ben Iterate, for one, wanted her on his program. She was urged to go on the stage; one remarkably good offer was made for her to do a sketch in a new show but she turned them all down. Wanted to go home to her family. For she's a family woman; children and husband come first, and her career afterward. j 3&' t VIRGINIA VALE to hear one, but somehow she just never has. And I wisb you might know that same ZaSu Pitts; you'd like her so much. She Journeyed to New York to do that broadcast, and spent most of her time shopping for her children her daughter, who Is thlr- n i4x.itfwf taln anil tit,,. 3 io ovie - ... chen. ST A R DUS nr By kfcl Sally Sez '1: 'p X V Nancy Carroll seems to have sidetracked her screen career In favor of night clubs. She Is seen about a lot, looking a bit plump. . Street Once Paved With Silver uoiisneu mmscir in a .uiu Have you heard that early, early morning program on the radio the Milkmen's Matinee? It's very popular, not only with the milkmen, but also at lunch carts, and lots of requests pour In for special numbers. me miini u the Montana theater. The were hungry for entertainment and Latigrishe's venture was immediately successful. His season there lasted for three months. Then he returned to Denver. Itut year after year Langrlshe ame hack to Central City. According to a con chronicler "They give us a change of lui! daily and a satisfying variety each evening. Everything iu the entire range, from tragedy to farce: tonight it will be 'Young I.ochinvar' (with a real horse on the stage) and a trille of English comedy, such as 'She Stoops to Conquer'; tomorrow a stirring melodrama, relieved by a light farce; on Saturday night "Macbeth' or 'Itichard.'" Six months of the year the company played in Denver or visited the mining camps of Montana. Three months were given to Central City and the "Little Kingdom of Gilpiu" and the other three months to other camps George Gulch, Del aware Flats, Buckskin Joe Gulch and Frenchman's Gulch. Hut for all that Central City was a crude "boom town" in the heart of the mountains, difficult of access and inhabited for the most part by miners, there were perhaps 50 families whose education and cultured tastes kept alive the interest of the better type of theatrical productions. They were the main support of the little theater; In fact, they supported it to the extent of 90 consecutive performances every year. A disastrous fire swept Central City in 1S74 and the Montana theater, along with most of the other buildings in the A Fire and place, went up in smoke. But Its Aftermath nre cmilu DOt ki" t,ie inlereat of its citizens iu the fine arts. They conceived the idea of erecting a really fine opera house. Financed by popular subscription, It was finished in the spring of 1878. It was a substantial structure with walls of stone four s -- feet thick. A Denver newspaper of that time describes the interior thus: "The large and comfortable gallery is swung across the rear of the auditorium but not carried down the sides. The floor of the the parquette and dress circle sloj.es gently to of the stage, giving every spectator a clear view It is well lighted and heated, the performers. central chandelier being a counterpart of the one In Central Treshyterian church In Denver. woodThere Is not much 'gingerbread' about the work of the interior, which is 'neat, not gaudy,' In but the frescoing is fine, very fine, as elegant its line as anything In the country. The artist more 'at home' In the appears to have been Is theater than in the church. The centerpiece he an 'open dome' and one can almost Imagine overhead, the at roof sky the U looking through en route to with angry clouds h.irrying by as the railwithout change, Georgetown direct, Is also very curtain road guides say. The drop shown through scene, a lihine fine representing Is fully equipped parted drapery. The great stage hln? is new with handsome new scenery-everytto baseinent-a- n.l roof from about the building, rooms besides there are four elegant dressing multitudinous the for all the necessary space the of profession. properties' hi so milt Besides the opera house tier churches of many and house school square stone was flour shlng denominations, for Centra. City nnd cultural center. Amonji and conditions of society the "Utile Kingdom ot were who arrow'gauge railway was bu it from When a it boomed still more. Denver to Central City, w)jS an (,xperl But ror an u". Even with a ;urc ment that was not alwaya and emote ' 3 the railroad Central uiy e the lies' to persuii-dlfflcult It was sometlm es the to make the ir. t, Into . wer,, tneainvu. w..... 100. 'M in n,,,.,.. rhen mountains. Leadville nan springing up. Slowly bti' In the slate. When pay dirt ever began City Central in from oner:. surely an ex orand Tahnr Tahnr built his of that theater A:.rV.. avisl.no th house in , nty's opera house " 'O s . :: seTr th. Tabor Gran.H,ghnol.;t of any ( ing company t!..-Denver la played City. open-all-nig- .nsimf k Itemeniber Julia Faye, without whom no DeMllle picture was complete In the old days? She recently married a scenario writer, In California. Major Bowes' genial "All right, all right" Is fast becoming a byword all over the country; one of our best football announcers loves to use It. In cidentally, honors are being heaped on the Major so fast that It's hard to keep track of them. Ilecently a new wing of the Keman Hospital for Crippled Children, in Batimore, was dedicated to hllll. Imous Fred MacMarray's rapid climb to the movie heights should encourage every one who wants to go Into the movies. Two r yenrs ago he couldn't get even an extra Job One year ago he 1 worked in "The Glid- Lotta Crabtree. Christine NI1-son, Madame Januschek and of Notables the great Modjeska In fact, virtually every great actor and actress of that periodat one time or another trod the boards In Central City's Opera Moreover it continued to have other house. celebrities as visitors, for the Teller house, built by Senator Henry M. Teller, was one of the most famous hogtelries In the whole country. President Grant stayed there when be came to Colorado and at the time of his visit the citizens of Central City did a spectacular thing. They paved an entire street to the very doors of the hotel with silver bricks In honor of the President's coming. This, of course, was In the days of Central City's greatest glory. But that glory soon began to fade. As other mining camps prospered Central City began to decline. At one time a hundred families moved from Central City to Denver In one group. Eventually the town dwindled away to a town of only a few hundred people. The old opera house was dark now for months and years on end. Mountain rats took it over as their playground. Ownership of the building finally passed to Peter McFarlane, one of the original contractors for the building, who kept It In memory of the splendor that had once been Central City's. Several years ago the heirs of the McFarlane estate decided to present the historic old building to the University of Denver. A group of public spirited Denver citizens decided to restore the opera house and make a living monument of it by reviving the romance of the gold days and by preserving for posterity the best traditions of the American stage. Among them was Allen mural artist, who volTrue, a nationally-knowunteered to restore the Interior decorations of the theater, burled under years of accumulated grime. As a result of the work of this group, the old ..era house has resumed Its former splendors and every summer a play festival Is presented there. For the last four years Central City has again been a center of culture, as expressed in the art of the theater. In 1032 It captured the imagination of the world by presenting Lillian Gish In "Camllle." In Itm "The Merry Widow" was produced there with Gladys Swarthout. Natalie Hall and Richard Bonelll, stars of the Metropolitan opera, taking the leading roles. In 1934 Walter Huston closed the Broadway success. Dodswortb," to plHy the lead In "Othello," sup ported by Nan Sutherland, Helen Freeman and Kenneth McKenna. Last year there was a revue. Centra City Nights," written by Hlchard Ed niond Jones and the music arranged under the conductor of the direction of Frank St. Houston Symphony orchestra and formerly director of the Chicago Grand opera. So while there has been a revival In the ma terial prosperity of most of Colorado's mining 8 r,'vlvul o anothei amps. Ill(, p '"IS a,s" si.rt In one or them. It Is a cultural revival In one th. t was once famed ns a place when-liii;l 118 of i'ie theater nourished In Central old Opera house, Union. f Wcitarn Ntppti uki kadi r PATRONIZING BOMK INDU8TBT. Doubt as to Cloth British archeologlBta are not agreed as to whether the Britons made cloth before the Romans j came to the country, or whether animal skins were regularly worn,, ! - MOTORS - T BELTS PUMPS BELTING & MACHINERY HEADQUARTERS THOMAS ELECTRIC CO. mm f sua, tut iiti cm, tut. tn. im . ! As We Grow Older As a man grows older be can better appreciate the sad position of a small child who finds every thing he wants is just out of reach. Llama Long Domesticated There is no record of the Peru Tian llama ever having lived In a wild state. It is believed to be the oldest domesticated animal. At 400 Utah Oil Refining Service Stations in Utah and Idaho Capture Sun's Energy American forests capture and store as much of the sun's energy each year as Is contained in l,B0O, 000,000 tons of coal. RHEUMATISM Opera House "f ' Roll Call art Cel)trHi If .cl-- l So such stage notables as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson, Emma Abbott, . ' l 1 Central Citys 3 It' all riaht ( lit clou to lha wtl yrovidlac It's Mt yuu 4nm. r.B, IX' twlp UUramntaia htMn to better ax ( that, fartil aatl Cltj I ed Lily," with Claud-ett- e Colbert, the first ' screen work he'd had except for a small part In "Grnnd Old Girl" with May Bob a on. Since then he's been rushed from one picFred ture to another, beMacMurray cause you and I nnd all the people like us liked him. He's played oppo site Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard and Claudette Colbert again, we had our Dickens cycle In pictures (and It Isn't over yet, apparently, for W. C. Fields will probably do "Pickwick Papers"), and now we're In for a round of Kipling, "The Light that Failed," "Kim" and "Captains Courageous" being the first of his stories to reach the screen. And unless Paramount's Gary Cooper plays the hero in the first named of these, there's no Justice ! looks at if "She Married Her Boss" might prove to be Claudette Cot, bert's aters most successful picture; the the big cities have been hold- In Pmpla nafTerinr from KhtumtU, Sciatica, N.uritU, Gout, etc., will Ana prompt rtHtt in H HA LOT Analcaaia Tablet!. 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SALT LAKE CITY will cast Charles Boyer opposite Marlene Dietrich in "Invlta-- , Hon to Happiness." Welcome news to all the Boyer enthusiasts, isn't It? Per haps he'll inspire Marlene to greater heights. to Leslie Howard wants Anita Louise to go to New York to play "Ophelia" to bis "Hamlet" on the stage. Well, ahe'd look too lovely for words, but whether or not she could handle the role is something else again. However, the talented Howard doesn't usually make mistakes, OJDS AND ENDS . . . W alloc Beery is doing exce.rplt from hit pictures on ihe air, and it looks a$ ij Sophie Tucker would do the roles played by Marie Uresilcr . . . When rehearsing for a broadcast, Joan Bennett wore bedroom dippers . . . Under similar circumstances, Joan Crawford worked in her stocking feet . . . All the interviewers arecheerin$ lor Eleanor I'ou etl, because she's so like-M- e . . , Connie Boswell is back on the 'iir, after a long absence, but her sitters aren't , . , The French Academy deco- uted Frank Black fot giving us so many French compositions on the air . . , All he movie companies want Joe Louis, who lefealed Max Baer, t) WcMern Nawnoaiwr t'nlor Vivisection la Old Vivisection can be traced almost to the earliest periods of modlclne and surgery., Ita purpose is three To increase physiological Told: knowledge, to confirm known facta and to give dexterity in operative surgery. Learn Their Father' Trade Some towns ot Switserland depend upon the single industry of woodworking and raaintiu schools In which children learn the fundamentals of their fathers' trade coincident with their general education and take over that trade when they come ot age. Weak Na. IMS W.N.U. Salt Laka Cttf Birds' Spectacle Many birds are provided witn natural spectacles, In a transparent membrane called the third eyelid. The Ivory Pearl The ivory pearl originates as a small pulpstone in the pulp cavity ot the teeth or tusks ot elepfaaata. With the growth ot the aalmai the tone either coalesces with the main wall ot the teeth or rtauatns a separate nnlt. It is golden arewa and because et It and rarity is valued highly la the egg-shape- d inanr |