Show - ' -- '111r4C"Fie'44'0'i''''rgq44)Ai""4--''4441'ait4- A gp ! 4 4 i Jack Goodman's Cityview The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June E5 10 1990 Inside and out U of U's Kingsbury Hall remains a mecca r Question: Aside from their obvious affinity for the performing arts what do the Hanya Hohn Dancers Budapest String Quartet Paul Robeson Marian Anderson Yehudi Menuhin Grant Joharmesen and Artur Rubinstein share in common? And John Gielgud Vincent Price John Houseman and Orson Welles? As you may have deduced from the accompanying drawing all the above and many many more such notables played in performed in or trod the boards at Kingsbury Hall An efficient Job of utilizing a list gathered by the indefatigable but recently retired Paul Cracroft Would pretty well fill this entire column It would include other such practitioners of the lively arts as Count Basie Woody Herman and Ella Fitzgerald representing the world of Jazz Sherwood Anderson Thomas Mann Bertrand Russell Theodore Dreiser and Robert Frost representing literature and letters and Drew Pearson Lowell Thomas and Eleanor Roosevelt (as a columnist) appearing for the Fourth ' ' : ' ' ' - ' ' slaseaa' k sta Jack r Goodman - es aasa sa see - ' a: Today visitors faculty and students agree in the main that the architects selected Edward O Anderson and Lorenzo S Young did very well indeed as did the building firm of William J and Vernon W Dean The completed structure was dedicated on May 22 1930 The cost? Just $275000 On first sight this very useful structure its outer walls and columns faced with a light buff colored terra cotta looks rather Grecian or Roman in style especially if you glance rather hastily at its cornices dentils and decorative friezes But a careful scrutiny indicates to the surprise of some visitors that the four portico columns and adjacent are topped with porch motifs handsome Egyptian-styl- e but a bit odd for "name-spendin- Estate Am I correct in thinking the rsity of Utah campus was a livelier place or at least more of a magnet for the thinking public in the days when Kingsbury Hall ranked as our tpwn's own Town Hall? And there was no television no Channel 7 to compete for the attention of folks who considered most Hollywood films (rightly or wrongly) as so much ts such a structure Somehow for those of us a certain n age Kingsbury Hall inside and out has a warmth we've never felt at Pioneer Memorial Theatre The latter is sumptuously furnished as one patron once put it to me "rather like an overdone funeral parlor" One reason for Kingsbury's attractiveness perhaps would be its broad rather battered front steps At intermission time Kingsbury patrons in the days before we were apprised of the dangers of smoking would hasten outside sit or stand on those steps during clement weather and smoke our Chesterfield Camel or Lucky while discussing the evening's performance If rain or snow fellwe could crowd beneath the portico with the pillars providing some shelter from the wind Or if winter weather was really bitter the corridor at the rear of the house was comfortably overcrowded by patrons who seemed little bothered by the haze of smokers who squeezed just inside the doors well-wor- Pal) On May 8th the Utah Symphony played a 50th Anniversary Concert in Kingsbury — which was altogether fitting and proper But it is likewise fitting and proper to remind you that Kingsbury Hall was completed and officially dedicated 10 years earlier than the date of the initial Utah Symphony concert The need for an assembly hall on campus had been obvious as early as 1900 — but then as in more recent times the Utah State Legislature could be a mite niggardly in funding educational structures By 1922 the U's President George Thomas was pleading almost on bended knee for a hall capable of seating 2000 students and takes note of the members of the Board of Regents who pressed hard for the construction of Kingsbury Hall and who thereby gave a substantial boost to the arts in Utah They include Robert H Hinckley Oscar W Carlson Wilson McCarthy James H Wolfe and J William Robinson A radio network executive an educator a railroad president an at- torney a congressman Others who pressed for construction would include Gail Plummer Prof Elbert D Thomas (later a United States Senator) Joseph F Smith of the speech department and Marion Redd of the drama department and in later days Keith Eagan When navigating the steep aisles at Kingsbury or when waiting for the houselights to dim patrons can't help but notice the twin murals alongside the proscenium arch designed and painted by Florence E Ware She did a considerable amount of teaching as well as paintand off thereby ing both leaving her mark on artists of succeeding generations as did Lowell Lees Maurice Abravanel and Bill Christensen in their own fields The murals like many other art works of the period were financed as a federal works project under the WPA headed in Utah in 1936 by Judy Lund Wassmer Each panel 17 feet square is oil on canvas The pair if read from left to right will tell you much concerning the "Evolution of Drama Through the Ages" as viewed in the 1930s If you seek them out you can find African dancers Greek tragedians Chinese and other Oriental performers and even Anglo-Saxon- s engaged in composing and singing ballads of Beowulf The mural panels also take note of painters sculptors and composers equipping them perhaps a mite simplistically with the requisite trade tools — brushes chisels lyres and the like Modern times (of the 1930s) were not neglected by Ware who included Kleig lights movie cameras microphones and suchlike paraphernalia in her panels As is fitting and proper William Shakespeare occupies an especially important spot in the lower central panel but portion of the right-han- d less notable but recognizable busk- - se -- - : '4' - - a a - a A ' - a e tespapaseead I t ":3:! 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