The inventory was revised and updated by Mark Jensen in January 1997. Upon receiving his doctorate, he directed the theater program at Wisconsin for several years, then became Director of Theater at the University of Minnesota. He was director of the University of Utah's speech and theater department from 1943 to 1964. During this time, he was responsible for the conception and completion of the university's Pioneer Memorial Theater, collaborated with Willam Christensen and Maurice Abravanel in directing the university's Summer Festival series of productions, and brought well-known Broadway actors to University of Utah stages. These are typescripts that include some handwritten stage direction notes.
Scrapbooks regarding Salt Lake City theater activities, ca.
1891 through ca. 1902 and ca. 1927 through ca. 1930, are contained in boxes 6A and 6B. Souvenir programs from the 1960s, newspapers and magazines containing articles on theater events, as well as issues of the Woman's Exponent from 1905 to 1910 and Exponent II from 1978 to 1980, are in box 7. His correspondence from 1932 through 1974 is located in box 21, and news clippings regarding University of Utah theater productions in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as other documents, are in box 22.