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Show With The Genera Authorities George Albert Smith of the Council of the Twelve has a busy week scheduled commenclhg Sunday with the sessions of the New York Stake quarterly conference. He will attend these sessions in company with Elder Levi Edgar Young of the First Council rPRESIDENT of Seventy. On Tuesday he will thtj,- national executive meeting, Boy Scouts of Ameri-- ' ca, and Wednesday the National. Council Meeting. These are both in New York City and on Thursday he will attend the Congress of the National Society, 'Sons" ojf American Revolution, to be held at Harrisburg, Pa. attend ' - Elder Stephen L Richards of the Council of the Twelve, returned to his office and meetings of the general authorities this week from several w'eeks of convalescing following an appendectomy. Elder Albert E. Bowen of the of the Twelve is at present touring the Northern States Mission in company with Pres David I. Stoddard. Council EEADtNGtARAtERSNCAST6rcomrngproductIdfibrTQuaIiTy soon by the Deseret Theater, Elder Harold B..Lee of the Council of the Twelve is scheduled to give the Baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the Carbon Junior College, Thirty-OnSunday, May 14, at 8 30 p m. in Amateurs To Entertain Price, Utah. . e Wards Represented GROUP of amatuer actors actresspg in Salt Tjlke City and vicinity whose inter- ests extend beyon production Tdassist-th- s wards and stakes" of the area with then drama problems and to provide opportunity for many young people to further their artistic ambitions, Is about ready to again nnH Elder Mark E. Pet e rsen of Council- of thrTwelv e and Mrs Petersen-we- re guests )atMRS REBECCA NO ALE AS- Monday eening of the High TER claims forty years of un- Priests Quorum of the Carbon broken service in the Piimaries Stake. The quorum had 70 per of the Church. cent of its membership present. Elder Petersen - reported also that the stake has done 1,100 male names in the Temples, from among the 100, 000 'assign- entertain theater goers. A total of thirty one wards kXRS. Rebecca Noall Asper ed to the priesthood of the fourteen , stakes are repre-- j in Of Church. this number the has the distinction of servPriests has in this newest producdone sented Quorum High ing in the Pumary organizaendowments for 800. tion almost since its beginning tion, Quality Street which will Elder Petersen will fill his be in August, 1878. In May, 1870, presented for One week at the was installed as president first assignment to a stake con- the Lyric; Theater in Salt Lake of the Nineteenth Ward Pri- ference as one of the general It is a romantic comedy mary in theSalt Lake Stake. authorities this coming Sun- City. M.'Barriex. He is James scheduled Asday. to visit by Now, 65 years later, Sister Riverside the Stake is known as conference This an still is acthe group Primary per Elder George F. Richards. worker in this same stake. The Deseret Theater and their Foity years of this long peaims and objectives are sim riod of serv ice, or since she w as High Counselor iliar to those which were pos- sustained as first counselor in Is Selected sessed years ago by a pioneer the Primary stake presidency in 1901, has been continuous CANDY, Utah Henry C. Jor-- s dramatic society known as gensenfornier counselor! ri The Deseret Players, who ancBunbrokert. For 25 "years sponsored local professional Sister Asper sered as presi Mt. Jordan (Utah) Stake presimemas a was sustained for many years in the drama dency, Prident of the Salt Lake Stake ber of the Council Theater. The Lake .of Salt the High and is the nt mary Association, aim of the present group present time a member of the San Francisco (Calif.) Stake. He will bevvelfare director. oL is to bring back as fully as stake board. possible all the activities and Sister Aperhas seen the Pri- the stake. befrom its woik grow mary She-- reealls-Ih- at ginning. early davs no outlines were prepared and that it fell to the CIGNAL honor has come to torious literary conti lbutfiohs -- particularly lot of the presiding officer of The Instructor, organ of the to The each ward to make her own Deseret Sunday School Union, In the field f biography. Some plans and outlines and to orig- with the awarding to its asso- of these include the serials inate plans for instructing the ciate editor, Superintendent children and inteiesting them. Milton Bennion, the 1944 ' rec-- o She - says the officers and g n i t i o n for outstanding teachers studied the Bible and achievement In arts and letBook of Mormon diligently in ters, by the Utah Academy of order that they might give the Arts and Science.-- -children stories to illustrate the Theaward,"presented by the truths they were teaching. -Academy annually, was made As a project the Nineteenth at its yearly meeting SaturWard Primary officers and day, May 6, at the Union Buildteachers made quilts and sold ing (University of Utah camthem, and used the proceeds to pus) In Salt Lake City. A simhelp a poor latter day Saint ilar award for achievement In - woman m the Southern States science is made by the AcadeMission emigfate to Utah. my each year. Sister Asper is the mother of Elder Howard R, Briggs, also five children, Alfred W., Mat- a member of the Deseret Sunthew N., Frank W, and two day School Union Board and a daughters who are dead.-Nefrequent contributor to The to her family she declares that Instructor, won ,the 1943 arts her work in the Primary and letters- recognition. brought her some Superintendent Benions edief her greatest joy and happi- torials,- appearing, monthly In ness. The Instructor, - have won receive praise from far and near. He MILTON BENNION, merlother stimulated also has recognition.. ro9e6 Moy 13,1944 the Primary Worker Has Long Record - . h nlti-ma- te In-th- e -- xt organ-izationha- s StTFel' . . Theater-Goer- s In to be presented --- --- - ; Newest Production opportunities provided by the Fernley, Elmer Kesler, Marformer organization. Tail, jorie JXponeJ..B.arbpra Jacobson, Claire Irvine, diyllis Church. dramaleaders Only ' Tune'-Loley. Y oungster7" parisP-arin good standing ancf with" taken- - by Diane Russon, Maurine Alder, Joy Jarman, tivities can hold official position Ridges, Bonnie Maughan, Gaiy which in The Deseret-TheatStewart, Keith Moore, Marilyn has offices in the M. I. A. of- Don Stoker, and Elbert Dansie. fices at 50 North Main Street. The activities of this drama There are 40 board members group dui ing the past four play who direct activities. They are seasons have allowed participaexperienced ward and stake tion by over 160 young actors drama leaders w ho .are elected and actresses of the Church. Anto membership by the other di- other group of over 400 have rectors. The hoard in turn had an outlet for their lalents elects its presidency of three and ambitions in some phase members and a secretary. Those of play production. presiding today are Donald B. The Deseret Theater is not Alder, Joseph Halgfen and alone concerned With the preBerness Ralins, with Dorothy senting of plays, but is interJacobson as secretary ested in assisting the wards and Starring In the play begin- stakes with their drama probning Tuesday are Mitzi Poulton, lems, in an attempt to raise the Becky Thompson, and Larry quality of all Church drama. To Sutton, with the following han- this end the members of the dling major and minor suppor- board of Deseret Theater, now numbering 40, with several on ting roles: Fae Marjorie Luke, Vera Chadwick, leave of absence to the armed YivianEdman, David Pettigrew, forces, have Instituted study Marjorie Wallin, Donald B. Al- and lecture classes in the art of der, Elaine Thorpe, Jos. J. directing and staging plays. Many benefits have been deCarol Cannon, Joe Halgren, Ann Schubach, Harold Milner, rived by the people appearing in Deseret Theater plays tnd Richard Wilson, Stanley BherrilNeVitlef- -' Don play vvoriCWard and stake directors -- have benefited Paul La Londe, Eddie from the study classes given. Naw abi lily .. and, expression have been given td those vv ho have, played in drama producAnthony W. Ivins by Stan-le- tions. The fnen and women S. ' ivinsy Geoi ge Q. Can' who have . yjorked. backstage non by Joseph J. Cannon, have encountered and overcome Pioneers of Southern Utah, by many problems, theTcnowledge William R. Palmer, and Thomas of which, will aid them, in their, L.Martin's autobiography. ward and stake work. Elder Bennion also supervis The aim of the Deseret es the w riting of Sunday School Theater is to continue to keep lesson manuals and-- teachers stage drama alive in the Church supplements. and community, and In so fartsa In recent months Elder Ben possible, raise the standard of nions articles have also appear- play production within the ed in the Improvement Era, Church, while .maintaining the the Relief Society Magazine, top organization through which and the Utah Education Re- the best talent produced in the view. Church may have expression an Introduction under ideal and near profession- Citizenship, to- Social Ethics, Moral Teachal conditions. ings of the New Testament,? Quality Street, directed New Frontiers for AmerKfkerness Rawlins, assisted by can Youth are books authored Lucille Day, has as other proby Elder Bennion, who suc- duction heads, Donald B. Alder, ceeded Elder George D. Pyper production manager; Edwin H. as generals superintendent, of Lauber, stage manager; Jos. II. Latter-daSaint S u nday Williams, technical- - advisor? Schools1 andaItso as associate Nathan JL Hale,, properties; and editor of The- Instructor, March Dorothy "'Jacobson, business, 1943r- - President Heber J. with theTbalanccTof theJDeseret 2, Grant is editor of The Instrnc- - Theater board serving in these departments! e er 1 Donna-Thornle- y, Rus-se- "Le-Favo- Supt. Bennion Recognized By Academy y -- - , cTf-- r, v, |
