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Show - .4.. p0. Aft . as I A ream tit An Artist: , 4 Beautiful Make o City Popular P11orunatce Center 4 small, cost - - the State Mr. 4 I I - ; I - I , -- '" ; Newberrfs , OP ;,4, g I i .:1 P. , li - , 34. ,' !.;--.- ' - prest3.-4o3ept- ',it .. -- -- -1 . , .. - , Tt -, i . -- .. - . , ; 5 'I ." 1 light-gray- life-size- d f . I New-harr- Si - , : .;a .4. 4 Ytr. ni, 4 91114c ,17,T.!,.asaez,kyiicw.cA, , ; 4thoc.,P6- I 7.t ' In his first homel, at top, Joseph Smith, lived among his followers at Nauvoo in The town grew rapidly. Lower left is the home of Orson Hyde, and right. Main and Water Streets aq shown. The brush of Lane K. Newberrj,- 'artist, has recorded these scenes. 1842. - single-hande- lectures.-ind-byartick- 'Illinois will then have a hislug restored by the State of Mitorical landmark,- - said Mr. New. nois as a historical landmark." of outstanding, promiAs part of the plan to publicize berry, the Nauvoo State Park Project. hence. Again thousands of peoMr. Newberry is organizing a pilPie will relive the most dramatic exodus in American history, a grimage to the hettoric city. On mass movement and a feat of orMay 20. two special cars will take Pres. Ralph Budd of the Burling. gantration altrat- without y. parallel in the annala Of'Already through the interest mer vice president of the United of President ,Bryant S. Hinckley States. Rufus Dawes. Chicago of the Northern States Mission. the banker. President Hinckley and a the number of the Middle West's jail at Carthage. where Prophet and his brother. Hyrum Ioutstanding newsmen to Mont- rose. Iowa. Smith. were murdered. now is be will Perry Orer River Just as the sun rises ovfr the majestic "Father.pf the. Waters." the party will be ferried across the river to Nauvoo. Here he day will be spent in visiting his. torte spots. On the site of the ohl Templedemolishod by an incei . ficettrand and by the elf, cliary-ments, Mr. Newberry will recount the story Of Nauvoo. Under the plan discussed by Mr. Newberry with the First Presidency of the Church here this week.. a series of pilgrimages world-bistör- I i TNaüon Park Services forty-sixt- - (Cedar Oty. Utah) As evening drew near they, took Jesus off the cross and lowered the bodies of the two thieves who had died on each side of him. The soldiers and the rabble began to disperse and to trickle down the side of the red sandstone hill. forget, ful that the thieves had not yet been- untied. , Later,, following the same path around the brush and cactuk. came a sad' group of Men bearing a whiteciad body. It was a strange funeral scene. There were no flowers and no coffin; - Even the - mourners wept cautiously so that the soldiers might not see them. At- the bottom of a slope the path turned below the mouth of-red sandstone cave. Here the bearers placed the body asuLecttiovrfullylefL , Pint la ' -- ,v-4- 1537 bin-sid- ) 1; Even; a Forty-eight- - i lif-di- d (ere-Savio-r: - the-egg- 19th Ward Play Set April 11,. 15 the flour'. a four. act play. will he presented by the Nineteenth Ward dramatic society In the Amusement Halt ll)e evenings of April 14, and Cast of the play follows; Olson. Gordon Ugh. Farrell Lish, Rich Bunker, Moines 1Pyans., Kenneth Jones. Clyde Heime. Joe Boyer. lobert king. Howard Lish. Blaine ;Marion Hanks. Gwen EP person. Bern Wilkins and Beulah Olsen. IL John B. Can is three, Tb' e West chapel Is at Fourth $orth Street. , - nineteen-hundred-eig- ht years ago when the original the Zion story. was groaning to Its sorrowful end without the benefit of th orus. pip. organ or spot light. this first- primitive ceremooy must have flourished. Probably at the very time when The Savior cried out tO Mir nth-r- e in the awmy of death. an iri4 tian chieftain. ancestor of the present native raimem aired to New officers today directed ao tivities of the Melody Glee'Clui . a social organization of aingers launched 34 years ago in Taylors' Vile. The new leaders include Ira Cannon, president Mrs. Hazel Paxton vice president, and J. S. Bennion. secretary.- This group will be in charge of the club's reunion in 1939. Elections were held Wednesday- night at the annual re. union of the organization at the unite of Mr. and Mrs. Hyrtmt Bermion Jr.. 133Z West h South Street. Mrs. Bennion. founder of the club. was presented a clock by Dr. Adam S. Bennion as a token of apprecit tion from members of the group. ,Community singing, led by J. Spencer Cornwall. was a feature of the program following the re. union banquet. - question the first an old of revival or the pageant one. in the district stuvotmdin Zion Canyon something which closely resbniblee an Easter pageant has been enacted each spring for many many years, - Officers Named By Taylorsiille Melody Glee Club - ! a IL however whether 1937 marked ,! . t ' - - I d It is a II I Down below, on the black strip road the choir of drew near tha end of a sad lament. Suddenly there was a fanfare cit trumping The choir burst forth with the joyous words. !Ile e is- - risen.' High up on the above the crosses. almost at the point where the Walls of the Great White 'Dimon start their figure of perpendicular flight thecame into the resurrected Jesus view. Spotlights played on him of tones while the powerful deep the pipe organ joined the chorus. In a last Halleluiah; It Was a grand dramatic tints h for the first Zion Easter pageant 1937. and when That was Easter Sunday returns April 17 this spying. thousands of people will gather in Zion National Park to see reenacted a larger and more impressive pageant than the It carrv to Golgotha. On the hill, he is crucified. and ' after his death his body is taken down and removed to a tomb. The last and most effecz. tive scene is the resurrection. Weil Timed The pageant is timed so that darkness begins to fall at the time the body is placed in the tomb. When the trumpets sound. a white robed figure appears high up on the eanyon wall above the crowd. Spotlights play en him. The combined orchestra and 0 choir join in the mighty Hallelujah Chorus from Handers Messiah. A great contributing factor to the splendor and dramatic power of the pageant is the setting. g; 4 te Something about the immensity of Zion. the magnitude of the r white capped hills. the impressive evidence of natures tremendous force. puts one in a frame I of mind to appreciate the story of Him who gave His life that others might live. Action which might seem theatrical if placed on an ordinary stage becomes intensely real and convincing fk against the huge base of Zion Canyon's wails. The spirit that seems to hover over Zion, itself a potent force for --gripping the heart of the tourist, seems to lend itself naturally to the story of the universal. korrow., Credits Nature ,' the credit must not go to nature.Those who staged the pageant were quick to setae the available opportunities for large M,6 effects. Like the artists who-usdrills and dynamite to carve his. 4. toric faces in the granite of a these directors mountainside. spread a bg show over a vast 0., natural stage. From the picture of the Last Supper at the very . bottom of , the canyon, almost on a level the scenes rise with as the story progresses until at the Ateenstion, Chrtst appears three or four hundred feet above Grant Redford, dramatics in,structor of the Branch Agwhere the show began. , , In moving from one scene ricultural College at Cedar City, author and director of In these beautiful surroundings the Zion Easter Pageant will be presented on to another &cress the base of the the Zion Easter Pageant, .a. he will portray the role of Easter Sunday, April 17, at sunset. Spectators will view the colorful presentation .113011.11tail3, the pageant covers an area that is even wider than. it "Christus" in the world-famm- ts the outdoor, spectacle. from the flat in the foreground while action will be carried on in the location from is high. Such spactotts maneuvmav which this picture teas token. become a tures tribute. to ers give an illusion permanent The- - faculty and student body movements which in smaller conpart Of the location- - , The stage-wilthe Great Spirit In an ancient t worship. White present day 43rt to be more than worthy of rise at the foot of Bridge of the Branch Agricultbral fines would seem cramped. some not knowlecize is investiits dual onefeaturet ritual. bearing inheritance. of the highest incomplete, Mountain, One of the very effective touchtege furnish a snucleus around unlike our Easter symbolism. The Starr Iltis Year which the pageant is built. Grant gators know from legends hand-I- t es comes fro untie landscaping peaks in the east rim, near the ed down. and from ceremonies This year the pageant will betvas not. of course. an Easter 11. of the mouth Redford of the Speech Departcanyon. of the area covered by the stage. tiU remaining among the seat. storv at that Platforms are .built for each ment of the 43. A. C. is author gin the Christ cetystiony in' the Christian sense. As the Savior looks from his , tered descendants of the early the not osminemorate-memorable last week. which and director. Donald Olsen and scene at the most Appropriate cross toward the west rim he will tribes. that the spring endeath and reaurrction of the William IL Manning of the Muopens with the triumphal see a mountain very appropriate. cations. Between these run a narmonial 11103t frequently took the of But not all of our inheri. into Jems The Jertralent hillsic Department of the same try IY named. the Altar of Sacrifice. row footpath, and when the form of a dante. The basket meet important dramatic episodes' Lance connected with Easter is on the south the Watchman. school direct the orchestra, and side gets steep, steps carved out concentrated into that fateful H. E. Peteirsen of Cedar Christian, A ,aisable part of the ; dance is typical of the ritual still sandstone are placed On 'against whose age the length of ellOrtt red of found tribes several as in week will be dramatized on a the rabbits and arnanid details such City is the general chairman. To the traits., It is these steps, giv. the tradition of Easter is but as Southwestern United states and comes down to us from and scale. are added the represents-Oye- s these large impressive lug the- appearance of lieving. a momentary, flask-- will Meow. It takes its name from an old paean ritual. winch wa3 of churches. civic bodies. Jesus eats the last supper with been' carved hundreds, of years for time his first the upon held annually to mark the return t the central object a basket r4n. Chambers of Commerce. the his disciplet. 'washes their feet., Christian story of death and by the treed of age and worn ed with seed. of speldg. Park Service and the Union Pa. and foretells his approaching feet, which more than any resaurection.. The new setting many This symbolizes the crops that rifle Railroad. The 1938 Zion JlaTt as the rpautrettion , of as- impressive as the former other jingle 'small detail bring. tragedy. In the gardens of Gethbe are to Easter Pageant promises to be semane. Judas betrays his matChrist gives promise of a new one and has theradvantage of pro., back the illusion of an old world planted and the new life that is to come- from Ahem. life. the o4 ter witti a kiss; The soldiers letting-- As thrist wearily drags viding good' seating facilities and the greatest outdoor spectacle in ceremony da"nof an The dance goes through the and the priests seize Jesus and with its thoughts areas for'the multi--lod-e the West. earth his cross up to' them. thereare e movements- of planting. and borri anew. of new crops. and of taktrhim before Herod who in momenta when the pageant ceas, who coral to a, spiritual. ' Prior to the, pageant proper. oat to Pilate; Mg Worshipful in nature. 'hers turn sends him miracle of growing things, ea to be' a- show- and becomes a the Dixie Junior College of St. that the gods will look doitels The trial before Pilate also- -gives promise of new life. , Alt Cooperate living reality. George., Utah. will present ,an displavs Since the two ceremonies fit with favor and send a bounteous hour of sacred musk . in aooOrdSite Chemed excellent use of mob sctmes for , Only. cooperative effort could harvest. well together imwill 1938 not be ab; a so ance and with the therm of the paThe show Christianity The Roman large pageant produce in its sorted the pagan Thus from two ancient tradl. This part of the program portant. and toward the success geant finding no fault in "Jesus held at the foot of the Greet Easter. lions. one local and primitive. the the direction of 3. W. is under the trim to release him. but dares not White- Throne as was the first. of the coming spectacle Common other universal and marking the one , Instead sr permanent liciateshig Is go against the howling of the lit Cedar- aty. St. McAllister.- - Earl J. Bleak.: and The early pageants in 'and ! acme of Christian idealism. the mo- b- Owist Is turned over to cation- has been. "elected where, George, Parowan.- Springdale.- - Miss Clara Woodhouse.,who coin-po- se in i Zion Easter Pageant descended. "bout Zion had something the music faculty at thecoi ills enemies.'is sontged, and crowds --carr be handled convene H u loan e., Toquerville. and, common with the ancient &piing It promises for the coming sew' given a crows which he- - must-llocketile are- - combinint to 'con. ¬ Mindy- and where the stage of business.aten 1: - 1. P.m. This organization ia . composed who meet week. ly to rehearse choral ?MAC; Al. bert J. SouthevieKis director. Vera Hay Beason if, aCcOMPailt;ts nitta W. PetreSon, soprano.- will , be the soloist Weeinesday eve- ning. The program:. Lully j: Lonely Woods Schubert Serenade Mount Your Horses (based on I Hungarian Dance) .. Brahms The Orpheus Club As We Part ',I ligentrits ,, When I Was Seventeen (SwedI ish Folk Melody) 5 :,. Irr. W. Kramer The Skier Maxwell Rilla W. Peterson. Soprano Beautiful Dreamer i Stephen Foster De Camptown Races Stephen Foster The Orpheus Club Ballade in G Minor .... Chopin Vera Frey Beason. Piano . Calm As the Night Bohm Ay, Av. Ay (Creole Love Song) .... .... Arr. Riegger Broken Melody Sibelius . The Orpheus Club Iris Wolfe Th e Piper of Love Carew Rills W. Peterson, Soprano Cossack Love Song .... Kona .. The Night Wind .... Nortilander Meditation Huhn The Orpheus Club ' BY ALLEN CANNON , Sets Program troxi)--c-- t, I Only A Revival 4 Orpheus Club montith t - s Ancient 'Easter' Festivals Found At Zion Pageant Site s Of i- put-pos- - -- - the-eas- 7 - Logan TaBe IRe,p6tEdt Soon r. .........., . '' -- 1 :mill be made to Nauvoo from Salt Lake City' and otter points durlog tbe year 939. Park establishWith the State ed," explained Mr. Newberry, "pageant and religious services could be held celebrating the memory of the Ploneerk In the grove, where the Prophet, where Brigham ' Young and other memorial programs I of preached. LOGAN. AiiiI could be given. eater the Society Pageant Logan "Nauvoo would then become cast of the the center of historic intereat tamed members of the recently produced sacred dm in the united States," "Another Wit, Tribute ..Lints Newberry matlepag'eant, To Labe K. Newberry can be ness," Thursday night at the LI, attributed the revived Interest Seventh Ward HalL, in Nauvoo as a historic landmark.. gan Honor Author Through his series of paintings on the old city and the "Mormon' In behalf of the cast. the choir Pkineer TraiL hehaticentered nacif, the society, and tional attention on "Mormon" hisa portable iypewriier was pre.tory and enlisted the support of 1 sentec-- to J. Karl Wood. author many prominent Illinois citizens and director of the pageant. a and organizations., appreciation of his, untiring et. of his work, C. J, Butner, briland producing liant art critic of the Chicago forts in writing several pageants which have paity Neive,' has said: "Lane K. turnect attention to Logan as the Newberry is in his way a kit-ta- l MOTTROLId011i. pageant center of a Scott. a Zola, a Jamet lute Appreciation for- the- work--oFenimore Cooper. vics Mr. Wood and his east the chief importance of the picvowed by tures is perhaps historicaLNewdon, A. E. Anderson. and C. W. berry is working with fanatica 4)utnow t Dunn cif the Cache and ..14),gan sincerity, and of Stake presidencies. work and then a conspicuous To Re Repeated art. Consider- - for- voted The members of of Brigham Young's picture In the general aim. home, unaramdusly to present the pap Jessness of art, which accounts so eant again on Saturday. May .14.. when the four stakes of Weber eloquently for so much of its and its it is inspirfatuity futility, County bring more than 1,000 members of the Aaronic priest, ing to note a painter with a a program approaching the hood quorums here to see the grandly epic." production. This pilgrimage .s Another commentator. Eleanor part of the observance of the ally Jewett of the Chicago Daily nual Aaronic Priesthood Day, by News, writes: "Ile has played it the four stakes mentioned. (the historical theme) as on a During the evening Charles cathedral organ with all the stops Bailev presented a vocal solo, 'out.. Again and again. he has were offered by Airs. achieved an astoundingly fine Ireadings IL S. Amussen. and WITIMUnii y led by. Frank H. painting while painting history.' was singing Carried OR Fight Alone Jr.. who directed the Baugh, Almcs-t- d a and at i pageant choir. great financial cost to himself. Prof. J. C. Hogenson, ores'. Mr. Newberry has carried on the dent of the Logan Pageant Sock. work for the preservation of Nau- 4. ety. presided at the ..Lprogrran voo for nearly a score of years-I- v exhibits, by direction of M. it Hovey, exe.-.he has broadcast, the tive secretary of the Logan Pag, story of the Pioneers and their eant Society. epic march across the plains to the Land of Promise in the West. "It seems a linczt providential." commented Pre.,,ait iltrickley who has worked for Mr. Newberry on the 'that a prominent busineSs man and a successful artist like Mr. Newberry should take an interest The Orpheus Club. Salt Lake in Old Nauvoo. which. I am sure, will result in the salvation of ; City's oldest choral society, will h anniver. buildings and convert it into a celebrate Ms great historic landmark." sary by giving a program at the ... Hotel Utah, Wednesday, at 8:15 the'-officer- , 'a ,,- 1001111 o a-tiyo- -- Is,a1-'er- -- , 1933 Pageant In plan includes the conversion of the 220 acres lying within the bend of the Mississippi River in to a State Park. All of the old buildings within this tractthe prigbam Yotmg lime, the Jona'than Home, the wit. son Law Home.' the Word Woodruff Jim. and other shrines of historic interestwill be nehabilitat ed and placed inas they the same conditton Were in 1846, the year of the Exodus. ' The modern buildings will be Purthased and diekoanited. . The ground about them 'will be land- scaped. and Nauvoo made, said Mr. Newberry, beauty spot, a place that hundreds of thou. sands of tourists and pilgrims On religious journeyi will' visit and HMIS-flin- , 9 of ,MI- - (By 'Gail Martini v. Beautiful." a State Park: Xativoo, a his: "the , r City )attvoo, ) torte landmark visited by hundreds of thousdruis of tourists ',,11 in ; ' annually; Nauroo, the 'center of a great religious pilgrimage 1939. the 100th anniversary of its founding by !be Prophet, i ' '''' Joseph Smithall this now seems possible through the coop. 1 eration of the State of Illinois, tiov. Henry Homer, and the i C, 7 JIM, Presidency of the Church. a ,;.....'',',:''''''.----,1' , The dream of an artist and Y,' of the Church. Lane 1 N..; ,i K. Newberry of Chkago, will '' ' I. then be fulfilled. Invited here Bryant aMockley, of 4 t i by l , ' ..; Northern States Mission to the ,, , 1 s ;z0 r , leaders Church confer with - 4 Ire64". ' , - -- - - , aboua his plan. lir. Newberry l'Z'o,,,i..,. '',.,7.7. ''''.'o more historical spot ex., .., .. '. 1 wag told by the First Presiden- 4 Astaba...Ainerica--Withsti:seve- n ......... .1 . cy this week- that the propesa1 Z1,;. ' iittert years after its settlement . t nft , ... 7,,a. ,,,,,, wt,uld have the aprot-si L. .....A. 't i 4 ...1.,... . IL by On l'roottel .,lo5ephSmit.40 the cooperation- of the Church, ,,,r. this lihg:thiS max" was Tina will be fulfilled the e verted by the energy, the skill T ,. Ike' , and the; indomitahle will of a prophetic last entry made lb wheis i 'i ,pe persecuted and exiled people in. Brigham Youngs diary it bloat!. ' '6 to a garden spot. leaving Nauvoct on a cold. r; Soon a Thrtvisg City ., , '4 I tery day in February: Soon it was a thriving city of l' -000 inhabitants twitrt many Leave all as Monument ' heatitiftilColonlat ltmes,',--eacti ':,, 'OP- - 1 .;, 7 Vol- .- hemesk., -, , see in an acre ot grourid with ..i eiards. farms. streets. bridges, ,, 4, wide boulevards.. business hous- -mills. public ball magnifkent ... , ir. I , schools and Its great Temple. ! Temple, and other improvements: I overlooking st we leave as a monument of our i' ; the west's 'greatest metropolis, eeonomY. patriotism. industrY. stood the TemMe. built 121 feet. ''''.! 1011g, fOf feet wide, and 60 feet uprightness of purpose and in, beauti- high of solid ,f tegrity of heart." fully cut limestone. The tower All of the necessary grotio4, : was 200. feet high. - work for the eortversion of old were thirty hewn pil1 has Nouvoo into a state park lars that cost $3000 each. The been done, according to Mr. baptismal font was supported by 12 oxen. There was also ' Newberry. who' left here last EWBERRY L. K. V the Nauvoo liouse, a hotel that . night for Chicago. where he will was being emistructed to rn confer with Gov. Henry Horner. elude 300 rooms.! The pkan.for.rehablitation "Ttio plan has the appnyval of available without any further of I Nauvoo looks forward to the Illinois State Planning Board. legislative enactment. Already, sition bv the Church of theacquisite t theNtate Department---nt-ParkStatelurslreettOffered fcirmerli occupied- 'by gireat I and Public Buildings and the the project 130 acres forming Temple. Here, it Ls proposed. theChurch, which alreadv has puristates chief executive. Governor part of the Vacs chased part of the ground. will Ithe greater needed for the park. The erect Henry Horner, said Mr. a suitable memorial over- Not a great deal of monremainder. with the historic looking the haddings of Old Nau- - 1. ey- will be needed. and that is buildings. can be'secured at a I - APRIL To Build State Park Li ir SATURDAY Do. i .v, . to- CITY en:torialize ij.0:'filiiji:iP's:-:,j0iij::- .111T - LAKE DfLERET 11-1- : ; be-th- - - - drum-tic-effect- Open-emi- fes-tiv- corn-nomi-nal ! - , ' . rr in , :k, ... . |