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Theater

“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich;
But Theatre will make you good.”
―  Terrance Mann

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

― Thornton Wilder

All of Theron’s life he was active in presentations of one kind or another.  He was often asked to give poems or recitations, but it wasn't until he went to the BYC that he started being in plays.  The first year he was there he was in a play called 'The Wrong Mr. Wright' directed by a Mary Carlisle Barber, who later married A. N. Sorensen. About a year later, they started a Drama Club in Hyde Park and began putting on two or three plays a year.  They hired a barber from Logan, Leo Higgins, who was considered to be a professional, to come out and help them. He wouldn't come until everything was memorized and then he would come a couple of times. They paid him for his services, but he was quite famous, and they felt he helped them a lot.

 The play that Theron remembered best, thought the prettiest and liked the most was 'Smiling Through'. The lead was played by Eulalia Lee. They would usually only play one night in Hyde Park and then take their production to a couple of other towns, such as Clarkston and Newton.  They didn't charge much to attend, probably twenty-five cents or thirty-five cents.  They got pretty proficient with the makeup, learning to make realistic beards and moustaches with hair and spirit gum. They even rented a wig once or twice.  The productions took place in the Old Hall that had no dressing rooms, but the men dressed on one side and the women on the other. The curtain rolled up and was covered with advertisements that various businesses would pay to have painted on. There were only two sets of flats, an outside scene and an inside scene.

After moving to Cedar, Theron did at least two very good plays. The first was 'Our Town' and he played the part of the stage manager. It played several times, and was even revived a few years later. Then he played the part of Papa in 'I Remember Mama', which toured through most of Southern Utah and much of Nevada. Lucretia was in this play also and Anne was the assistant director, so it was kind of a family experience.