A small club theatre was built atop Rice and Livermore’s Store, leased by W.H. Leighton – called The Temple of Comedy to showcase Mrs. Leighton in three of her most famous characters, Sally Scraggs in ‘Sketches in India’ Betty Saunders in ‘the invincible farce’ of “Fool of the Family”, Angelica in the Yankee farce “A Wife for a Day”. in the comic troupe was also Misses Taylor, Parks, Mesdames Locke and Leslie. — July 20, 1863 —
