No.141, Georgiana Taylor Lees, interview by Winnifred Margetts

Transcript (63 pages) of interview by Winnifred Margetts with Utah actress Georgiana Taylor Lees, on January 16, 1986. This interview is no. 141 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. U-395 and U-396Lees (b. 1903) remembers her early life, pioneer heritage, and work in the theater under Maude May Babcock at the University and later in Salt Lake and New York drama groups. She also discusses her marriage to C. Lowell Lees, his many accomplishments including staging the first showing of Promised Valley, following with summer festival productions in the "U" stadium, the beginnings of ballet on campus, and outlines his career in California. Interviewer: Winnifred Margett