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This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. DRAMATICS 408 409 I WAS CALLED TO DIXIE and critic for many years. The first manager. after the formal organization was effected. was Franklin B. Woolley; William H. Branch was stage manager and prompter. and Thomas Crane doorkeeper.13 . I~ =after paying the expenses of the plays there was anything left. it was to be "divided among the members of the company according to the labor performed and ability of persons employed. The wages to be set by the casting Committee:'" The St. George Dramatic Association presented its plays with almost consistent regularity during the next few years. From the Diary of Charles L. Walker we get the names and dates of performance for a number of the productions. Walker was an active member of the association and frequently recorded his participation in both rehearsals and presentations. On March 14. 1864. he wrote. " ... at night in the play of Toodles. I played the character of Timothy Toodles. before a dense audience." Presumably he meant a crowded rather than a stupid audience. On July 14.1866. " ... at night I played Capt. O. Scuttle in the Farce of Poor Pillicody at the HaIL" On January 31. "At night witnessed the play of the Jacobite at the Hall. The performers needed considerable prompting to carry them through the play." On July 4. 1867. "At night I played the character of Capt. Bunker in 'Cockneys in California: January 30. 1869. finds him playing The Hypocrite, and Mr. Wopps, "in which I took the parts of Seward in The Hypocrite and 'Chops' in Wopps." A note of pride may be detected in his entry for December 10. 1870: "At work as usual. At night played the character of Harry Hammer in the Golden Farmer. The President [Brigham Young] and Geo. A. [Smith] were present. I felt well and was glad to contribute my mite to their amusement." On September 24. 1870, he recorded that he "witnessed the play of 'The Lady of Lyons.' 'twas rather poorly done." On Tuesday. March 28. he said. "Last Saturday night I played Cousin Joe in the Rough Diamond with Miss Susie Young. Bro Brigham's daughter . . . " Again playing (doubtless with pardonable pride) with the elect. he noted on Friday. May 5. that "I played the character of Valentine Verdict in The Charcoal Burner with Susie Young and Barbara Jones." On February 27. 1875. after first attending a bishop's meeting. he says. "I went to the Theatre. The Pieces were 'Used Up' and 'Rough Diamond· ... He did not say whether he participated in them. but he must have 13Zaidee W. Miles. op. cit. 14"Constitution of the St. George Dramatic Association." Article XIX. done so. for h e rec orded h is atten d ance at rehearsal the night before.15addition to the plays Walker mentions in his diary. there I~thers presented during the first decade or so of the. ?t. were . A . t' n' s existence There were The Brztlsh G e DramatIc SSOCla 10 • B 1 eorg Th Fair of Dandlebury Dodge, The ott e, Sla;~l::~a~~:~'Susa~ (the last about 1876). Between 1878 and an 6 e The Gun Maker of Moscow, Red. Ronald, Leah the 188 ~am In omar the Barbarian, Damon and Pythias, and The Forsa ~n, Rowean 16 In addition to the foregoing which were Carpenber dO b Zaide'e W Miles The Account Book of the St. rem em ere y .• Lab d That G Dramatic Association lists Luke the orer an 4 Neorgea farce as played on January 28. 1871. and February . ose, and Still Waters Run Deep on January 7 and 14 of that 1871. 11 An item in The Utah Pomologist for February 1871 same year. reads. OUR DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION l . last r I'ssue smce ou . had given several . entertainments ' h which were quite successful and interestmg creat~r1l hU(L amusement and relieving the monotony of our u 0 I days Among the most interesting of the plays pUpt on th~ "The Lady of Lyons." "Golden armer. b oar d s were ' B I k "& M ch "Still Waters Run Deep." ' Andy a e.. c. .u credit is due management and actors for their determmed efforts to create continued rational amusement. The appreciation of Joseph E. Johnson. editor an~ publisher of The Utah Pomologist had been expressed in an earher number of his paper. On Saturday evening our theatrical c~rps under Romney gave rendermg of that managemen t 0 f M .P. • S h S highdrawn play Miralda. Mr. Horne playing ehl wap. Mrs Wilkinson Miralda. M. P. Romney Count monte. H Horsley. Pedro. &c..-Considering that ~everal .of the pr~minent parts were taken by those makmg their fir~1 appearance on the board. we consider the parts we played. With the exception of the personatIOn of the . , f . the plays lSCharles L. Walker recorded no more of 1his partIc' P1t I~e~~~ likely that Y stag ed by the association. if he took p~rt In an ~t~heOd~!~a from his record. things that seemed more important tMo 'mMc~tw dlests all of the plays named in 16Zaidee W. MIles. op. CIt. rs. I es 1 this group. S G 11This book is now (l 960) at the t. eorge T emp1e.