North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-07
... Salt Lake Cor. Of the Bo ston Journal.
BrSghau YOumg's Theatre,

cait Lake COr OF tne boston journal
Brigham Young's Theatre.
Brigham Young owns theatre which
cost, it is said, 100000, and which has
yielded large revenue. 1t is we'll built
cdiice, nearly as large as the Boston thea.
ire, with parquet and circle, dress circle,
family circle, and gallery. Gentiles are
consigned to the dress circle, though saints
also sit there. Climbing the narrow stair
way we find ourselves in the dress circle,
occupying front seat, giving us good
position to study the audience. We are
not there to see the play, but the people.
The curtain is still down and the audience
are taking their seats. The parquet is
arranged with slips, like those in a church
At the right hand side. in the parque,
circle is Brigham's family pew-distin.
guished from all others by its red plush OF
damask upholstery. In the right hand
side of the parquet is q rocking chair
which Brigham sometimes occupies when
he wishes to be on familiar footing with
the Saints.
The light in the building is rather dim,
gas not having been introduced to Salt
Lake, coal oil being used instead but there
is light enough for US to study the counte-
nances of those around us. On seats ad-
joining ours are two young girls, fresh,
fair, rosy checked, accompanied by 1t
young man we'll dressed-Gentiles, !
suppose, from remark dropped now and
then. At our right hand ia woman with
a baby in her arms, three other children
BY her side. Beyond her another woman
with baby, and great strapping fellow
with red whiskers by her side. Behind us
are three registering fellows from the
mines of Montana, ogling the girls in the
parquet. They are Gentle wolves. e.
der Williams cautioned the girls last
Sunday to beware of those who come in
sleeps clothing to lead them away from
the church and down to perdition. These
wolves do sometimes carry off the fairest
lambs of the flock. Some of the girls
prefer the undivided love of hardy, good
looking young Gentle, to the fortieth or
fftieth part of withered old apostle.
Two seats distant is another baby. The
mother is wrinklcd and careworn. We
can see lines Of care and suffering across
her forehead and in her sunken checks, as
if time had been turning deep furrows,
and his plowshare had gone down into the
sub soil, and cut the heartstrings. Not
her alone. We see the same joyless cast
of countenance on every female face. Ar
fists, who with pen and pencil print char.
acters, who can read the joys and sorrows
OF life in the lines of the human face,
should come to Salt Lake City. They
would find it one vast studio-every wO-
man subject. "Dead Affections would
DC an appropriate title to the picture.
Stifled, rather. These women have never
known what it is to love, or to be loved.
They know only sacrifice. They are slaves
in bondage to the church and the devil
Mt the same time. They are ground to
powder between two mighty mill stones
the upper one religious idea, the lower
one the lewdness and lust of hard hearted
men. Heaven and hell are together
brought into action, crushing out human
affections, and the highest and holiest in.
stincts Of the soul.
But there is the man who runs the mill
the head of the church-presiden and
rcvelator-in a private box by the side of
the stage. lie is portly; his hair is nicely
brushed. He wears white vest, black
coat, kid gloves puts an opera
glass to his eye, and looks over to the gal.
cry containing us Gentiles, to see who is
here. lie has broad forehead, a large
nose, and whiskcrs turning white. Abili.
", decision, simplicity, shrewdness, and
good and bad elements of
plainly marked in his
Apostle Wells, a tall, thin,
spare man, nearly AS old as Brigham, is
BY his side.
In Bri sham's family circle we see two
IF his concubines and twenty. two of his
but three Of them girls.
One of the women is past the prime Of
iie-plain cOuntenance, plainly dressed.
She is sad-sad when others laugh. The
play is ''the Somnambulist," Tut the com.
c scenes which set the crowd laughing
brings no smile to her face. At the nd
If the seat is one OF the favoritc cOncu.
Dnes, woman of thirty, pale, thoughtful,
with an intellectual cast of countccance.
with book in hand, which she reads be-
.ween the scenes. She has large, lustrous
eyes, dark brown hair, jewels on her fin
gers, and mother Of pearl opera glass in
her hand. She is elegantly dressed
wears u costly fur cape. Did not know
hat they were Brigham's concubines,
should set them down as teachers of
girls boarding school, who had come with
heir classes to enjoy the evening.
1t was motley andience-saints, sim
ners and Indians. Far up in the gallery
see three of the Ute tribe, in moccasins
md blankets, gazing with imperturab!c
gravity upon the scene.