Comments on: “How Many Wives Have You Got?”

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:07:11 +0000

I remembered Mitt’s response but had completely forgotten George’s — thanks for the reminder. Ya gotta have a sense of humor.

By: manaen

manaen — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:45:34 +0000

Remember George Romney’s classical answer during his presidential campaign in 1968:
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“How many wives do you have?”
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“As many as I want — (count to three) — ONE.”
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or his son, Mitt, pointing out during his own presidential campaign that he was the only Republican candidate to have had only one wife.

By: Emily M.

Emily M. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:31:27 +0000

Thanks, Ardis.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:09:03 +0000

Bookslinger, my first husband is still looking for me — he isn’t you, is he? /Bookslinger blushes/

Emily, write to me at AEParshall at AOL dot com anytime.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:34:34 +0000

My answer to “How many wives do you have?” is “I’m still looking for my first.”

By: Emily M.

Emily M. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:06:29 +0000

Ardis, thank you for the offer!
I’m tentatively beginning research for a historical fiction novel I want to write. I am not a historian, so I will need to get my hands on a copy and read the whole thing, as well as find other books that give me a feel for late 1800′s American theater right now. The whole project is kind of nebulous right now, so I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for. Everything from daily operation of how to put on a play back then, to traveling theater groups that visited. I have no idea what details might be useful, because it’s not very fleshed out. But if you’re willing, I may have a few more specific questions for you at some point, because you seem to find the kind of stories I would like to incorporate.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:04:15 +0000

Emily, he’s the very same man. (I found a copy of that history at Sam Weller’s. If you need me to check something in it, just tell me what.)

By: Emily M.

Emily M. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:55:30 +0000

Great story. When my dad was in school, he had a colleague who asked him where his other wives were, when he found out my dad was from Utah. My dad thought he was joking and said “I only brought this one with me. I left the others in Utah.” The other guy laughed, but believed him, because several months later he asked how my dad’s wives back in Utah were doing.

Ardis, is this the same George Pyper who wrote a history of the Salt Lake Theater? I need to find a copy of it soon.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:07:06 +0000

Isn’t Mormon culture funny. We laugh and joke about polygamy. But bristle when a “gentile” laughs and jokes about Mormon polygamy.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:02:12 +0000