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Mountain West. Certainly S . U . S . C . has been an asset to Cedar City over the years. The College has helped to preserve and build upon the rich past of the community, improved economic opportunities for local youth, and encouraged the growth of the cultural life of the area. Interestingly, however, the development of t h e a t e r , exemplified now by the nationally recognized Cedar City Shakespeare Festival, has roots which go back f a r beyond the founding of the college h e r e , to the very beginnings of settlement. In the pre-electronic age, when entertainment was a doit-yourself affair, most small towns had musical and dramatic associations. But in Cedar City such activity seems to have gone well beyond the occasional ad hoc production of a play or pageant to enhance a 24th of July celebration. The first theatrical performance in Cedar City, a play with the sinister title "Priestcraft in Danger," was presented in the fall of 1852. As early as 1854 a Cedar Dramatic Association had been formed, supporting a repertory-like theatrical schedule and producing plays which offered a new production every other week for a two-night run during theater season. The program usually began with a drama--the play expressing extravagant emotions and high sentiment. Musical numbers were normally offered between acts and the evening was brought to an end with the performance of a s h o r t farce, "to d r y the t e a r s that rained down our faces a t the tragedies of the drama," as one participant recalled. The plays were normally either highly sentimental or farcical situation comedies and a r e wholly unknown to theater audiences today. They bore such titles as "David and Goliath." the somewhat risque-sounding "Forty Nights in a Bar Room," "Farmer's Daughter, " "Miller and his Men. " "Slasher and Crasher, " and "Box and Cox." Occasionally a Shakespeare play can be seen among the list of those presented, b u t these were r a r e . Theater in Cedar City in the 19th century seems to have been an a r t form almost wholly forgotten and alien to our time. W have unearthed the text of "Box and Cox" to give e you some idea of the style of the period. The play was f i r s t produced in London a t the Royal Lyceum Theatre in November 1847, making i t s way in a surprisingly few years to the unlikely stage of the Cedar City Dramatic Association, probably among the luggage of English Saints called to develop the iron i n d u s t r y . Billed as a one-act farce, the comedy revolves around a confrontation between M r . John Box, a p r i n t e r , and M r . James Cox, a h a t t e r . Noting t h a t the p r i n t e r . Box, works a t n i g h t , Mrs. Bouncer, enterprising landlady, decides to gain double r e n t by letting Box's room to the h a t t e r , Cox, who works days. Both tenants become suspicious of the landlady when they notice coal mysteriously disappearing from their scuttle, clothing out of place, or the smell of tobacco in the room. She deftly covers over these complaints, b u t inevitably the two meet in the room. Both
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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