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Show 4 n i Patricia C. Maughan directs group of mothers and children who will sing on Temple Square Dec. 16, 19 and 20. Primary Pageant Has Cast of 750 Tens of thousands of Temple Square visitors this Christmas season will see pageant with more than 750 cost'-- , umed participants. The new pageant replaces Amahl, And the Night Visitors, which finished its 7th season last year. Written and produced by the General Board of the Primary Association, the pageant will be held in the Tabernacle Dec. 16, 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. Entitled The Light of the World, the pageant features a modem LDS family, on Christmas Eve in their home. Each of the family members tell specifically what the life and message of the Savior means' to them, according to Judith W. Parker, pageant chairman and Primary General Board member. Mrs. LaVero W. Parmley, president of the Primary Association, said the First Presidency gave the Primary the challenge to write and produce a Christmas pageant for presentation in the Tabernacle We are thrilled with the wonderful opportunity it gives the children of the'. Primary," she said. She was attending a special practice performance held in Dec. 2. Harold I. Hansen, producer-directo- r of more than 150 plays and pageants includ-- . n Hill Cumorah paging the eant, will direct the pageant Crawford Gates will conduct the original music written for the pageant. This includes two new choral and orchestral numbers entitled, A Scene of Glory. and The Psalm of tne Savior..' well-know- Among the musical groups performing Primary Childrens Chorus, a mothers chorus with 30 mothers, the Northwest Junior High Chorus, with 200 teenagers and 150 adults in the James Maher Anult Quire Roy Darley, tabernacle organist, will provide a portion of the accompaniment, with a professional brass choir also performing. There is no charge or advance ticket distribution. The general public is invited to each performance, according to Primary officials. will be a 200-voi- Hotel Utah Tells Of Major Facelifting The proposed new north front of the Hotel Utah, which will face the lawn of the new Church Office Building, will enhance the setting to create a beautiful plaza in downtown Salt Lake City, according to hotel and church officials. The hotel wing will have the same ar-- 1 chitectural style as the rest of the building; and instead of fire escapes and chimneys, garbage bins and loading zones, a handsome building and entrance will draw the eye. If one stands midblock on State Street and looks west, a magnificently landscaped rectangular lawn will extend before him toe length of the block, framing the Salt Lake Temple. Entering the hotel from the plaza, visiexhitors will go into a 10,000 square-foo- t bition hall. On the floor directly above will be a ballroom accommodating 1,500 dancers or 1,000 dinner guests. The new hotel front will be on the side of the lawn, and the new church office building will be on the north side. Plans for the landscaping will be unveiled within the next few weeks. south Preliminary plans for the hotel expansion were recently approved by the First Presidency, and construction should begin next summer, said Presiding Bishop Victor L. Browm, who also is president of the Hotel Utah Co. The exhibition hall and ballroom, together with 200 new lodging rooms, will make the Hotel Utah a major convention hotel, said Henry N. (Hank) Aloia, managing director of tne hotel. A San Francisco interior design firm specializing in hotels is helping plan the interior features and appointments, which will maintain the cultural tradition the hotel represents, Mr. Aloia said. The present Skyroom will be converted to luxury lodging rooms, and a new Skyroom will be built on top of the northwest wing, affording the same view of Temple Square and the west part of the city as the present Skyroom, but also affording a view of the State Capitol, the. plaza-law- n and north part of the city. The Kennecott Building across South Temple St. from the hotel had already eliminated the view of the city to the south, Mr. Aloia said. The hotel will appear on the rear, as it does now on the front; and there will also be a new entrance facing Main St. The Coffee Shop, located below the street level on the west side, will be re- modeled and renamed, Mr. Aloia said. tects of Salt Lake City. With construction scheduled to begin in the summer, the expansion and renovation should be complete in 1974, Bishop Brown said,- In addition to the hotel, the Hotel Utah Motor Lodge will also be renovated n a project to begin in the next- - several weeks, Bishop Brown added. The motor lodge, located on West Temple St. across from Temple Square, will be completely refurbished, including new carpets and draperies. The motor lodge, about 15 years old, has larger rooms than is typical of motels. Bishop Brown said the Hotel Utah has enjoyed a reputation as the outstanding hotel in the area for many years. With this new addition, it will be one of the jewels of the entire hotel industry. The whole project is being designed by Robert A. Fowler Associated Archi WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 9, 1972 CHURCH- -3 i |
