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ce more brooded over the land. The soldiers of the "Nauvoo Legion" had "hung up their un-bruised arms for monuments" and resumed

ohnson's army into Utah, although encamped forty miles from the city, had its effect; it brought in its wake, as an army always does, a lot of camp followers,-hangers-on-a contingent

of '59 they began to resume their usual amusements, and a

began to feel the need of some amusement, and some

order to give vent to his pent up love of the drama, he organized a dramatic company among the soldiers of Camp Floyd. The Sergeant, or "Dick" as he was called, was not only a clever amateur actor but a poet, and something of an artist as well. By his skill in this latter line he soon had the necessary scenery painted

about two hundred persons, and the stage in proportion to the auditorium. It was built of rough pine board

e with them and some "hired help" of the female persuasion, but none of the women of the camp had any experience in theatricals. Several were willing, and even eager to try; so White made a selection and cast a play and put it in rehearsal, but "woe is me!" the women were all such tyros

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nly surmise that a liberal salary was the temptation held out to her. Suffice it to say that Mrs. Tuckett accepted the offer and joined the Camp Floyd Theatre Company, thus making a noticeable weakening of the Social Hall force, and creating a commotion

departure as a lost sheep from the fold. These apprehensions were not unfounded, for Mrs. Tuckett, whether wearied of her Mormon environment, or led away by the unusual attentions shown her

the Mormon actress and took her completely away from her family, friends and church. In some way White severed his connection with the army before the breaking out of the Civil War and

ree of her brothers, Richard, Phillip and Joseph Westwood, figured conspicuously a little later on in the Springville Dramatic company. Her desertion from the ranks of the Social Hall company had created a vacancy they foun

we do not know. She settled in Sacramento where after a time she became Mrs. Ra

husband and children to share the fortunes of the soldier actor Dick White, she subjected herself to a vast amount of severe and apparently just c

th of his Mormon wife, in the dramatic company of John S. Langrishe, who had Mr. C. W. Couldock with him and was trave

White was apprehensive of trouble if he should be discovered by the friends of Mrs. Tuckett, who regarded her peculiar "taking off" almost in the sense of an abduction. Conspicuous among Mrs. Tuckett's friends were the

rcely known. Trusting to these circumstances he hoped to escape recognition, and avoid the storm of abuse he felt sure would be showered on his guilty head; but unfortunately his name was on

rs who he was. The whisper spread about with amazing rapidity and he began to be pointed out as the "r

ouse the curiosity of the company with regard to White's previous experience in Utah. White did not make a second appearance at the theatre. He had cau

acquaintance of a second Salt Lake woman, whom he prevailed upon to join him soon after his departure, and they were married sh

r when he went to play leads for John Maguire at the New Market Theatre. They appeared to be living harmoniously and had four lovely children, two boys and two girls, the el

was during his incumbency of this position that he made the first dramatization of Rider Haggard's "She," and gave it

eaf" and for the last dozen years has been affec