To create new productions and perform for audiences in Death Valley Junction.I spent some time in Shoshone, California and saw the sign "Death Valley Junction" pointing down 127 and always though that the name was great and I would love to visit. The Amargosa Opera House and Hotel were named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. Through the efforts of Becket and Williams, She then painted the walls and ceiling of the theatre with elaborate murals ofĬostumed spectators for her performances and added more murals to the Amargosa Hotel. While they renovated the theatre and hotel together, Becket created pantomime dance productions whichįirst opened to the public in February 1968. In August 1967, Becket and Williams took over Corkhill Hall which Becket renamed theĪmargosa Opera House. She saw the theater as a place to fulfill Hall, an abandoned community center and theatre built by the Pacific Borax Company. On this visit, Marta Becket discovered Corkhill Williams came across the Amargosa Hotel, which they had first seen in 1964. While traveling through Death Valley in 1967, Becket and This time she met Tom Williams who became her husband and manager. She developed a repertoire for solo concerts and began touring in 1955. Becket continued with herĪrt work and illustrated Stories of the Great Ballets, by George Balanchine (Doubleday & Co., 1954) and Star Performance, by Walter Terry (Doubleday & Co., 1954). Her next musical role was in Wonderful Town with Rosalind Russell which opened at the Wintergarden Theatre in 1953 for another year long run. She then won a role in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and performed at the Alvin Theatre during its year long run which ended in 1951. Becket also modeled for fashion magazines and did freelance art work. Navy hospitals and theater restaurants, became a member of the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall and then performed Dorothy Duval.ĭuring the Depression, she dropped out of high school to begin a full-time dance career. With her mother to New York where she studied interpretive dance with Ingaborg Tarrup and ballet with Mme. At the age of 12, after her parents divorce, she returned and later to Philadelphia where she studied piano and art. Marta Becket was born in New York City in 1924 and raised there until she was six.
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